Lightning Talk: 10 Years of Building Platforms in the Public Sector - Hans Kristian Flaatten

This talk features Hans Kristian Flaatten from the Norwegian Government, who discusses a decade of building platforms within the public sector. He traces the journey that began with Kubernetes' initial release and the collaboration between two Norwegian agencies, which has since evolved into a network of 84 organizations and nearly 3000 members dedicated to platform engineering. Flaatten presents insights from the first State of Platform Maturity in the Public Sector report, highlighting strong container and cloud adoption, and previews findings from the upcoming 2026 report that outline key trends and improvements in public sector platform engineering.