Cloud Native Rejekts 2025 | Cloud Native Rejekts | 29 March 2025 | 116 Pall Mall, 116 Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5ED, UK

This is the b-side conference giving a second chance to the many wonderful, but rejected talks leading to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon.

The event organizing team is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone. Our Code of Conduct defines guidelines and procedures that all participants must follow in order to provide a great conference experience for everyone.

2025 Speakers

Alastair Turner
Kubernetes from the Database Out

Alex Bissessur
Geographically Distributed Clusters: Resilient Distributed Compute on the Edge

Alexander Wert
Myths and Truths about Observability Overhead

Alexon Ferreira de Oliveira
Running Kubernetes on your workstation with Kind and Podman

Alice Gibbons
Simplifying cross-cloud, cross-cluster connectivity with Dapr & Cilium

Antonela Cukurin
Building Air-Gapped Control Planes for a Global Pharma Leader Using Crossplane and ArgoCD

Artem Lajko
Making GenAI CLI Agents Work for Your DevOps Day-to-Day Operations

Ben Hirschberg
The Kubernetes Guardians: A Deep Dive Into Your Security Avengers

Benazir Khan
Welcome to Cloud Native Rejekts Europe 2025!

Carlos Mestre del Pino
The Infinite Hotel: Scaling Multi-Tenant Platforms through a Unified API

Christopher Haar
The Infinite Hotel: Scaling Multi-Tenant Platforms through a Unified API

Clay Baenziger
CRD Data Architecture for Multi-Cluster Kubernetes

Danielle Tal
Microsoft Keynote on Open Source and Community Initiatives

Danilo (Dan) Chiarlone

Divya Mohan
SUSE Closing Keynote on Community Initiatives

Duffie Cooley
What I wish I knew about container security.

Edith Puclla
Kubernetes from the Database Out, Percona Everest

Eric D. Schabell
Mastering Fluent Bit: Ultimate Guide to Integrating Telemetry Pipelines with OpenTelemetry, Chronosphere

Faeka Ansari
The Hidden Brains of Kubernetes: Meet Controllers Powering the Cloud, Kubernetes

Frederic Branczyk
From Milliseconds to Microseconds: Pushing Kubernetes Workloads to the Limit, Polar Signals

Graziano Casto
From DORA to the SPACE and beyond: metrics to drive platform engineering initiatives

Henrik Rexed
The Service Mesh Wars: A New Hope for Kubernetes, Dynatrace

Imma Valls
The Missing Voices: Unearthing the Impact of Survivorship Bias on Women in Cloud Native, Grafana Labs

James Laverack
High-Scale Networking for ML Workloads With Cilium, Isovalent

Jed Salazar
What I wish I knew about container security, Google

Jimmy Zelinskie
From Milliseconds to Microseconds: Pushing Kubernetes Workloads to the Limit, Authzed

Joe Salisbury
The Cluster API Migration Retrospective: Live migrating hundreds of clusters to Cluster API, Giant Swarm

Joe Yostos
API-Driven Security Automation for AKS: Falco Talon meets eBPF-powered Retina, Microsoft

Jussi Nummelin

Koray Oksay
Kyverno Chronicles: A DevSecOps Tale, Kubermatic

Lucas Käldström
End to End Message Authenticity in Cloud Native Systems, Upbound

Luigi Zhou
High-Scale Networking for ML Workloads With Cilium

Mackenzie
SQL injection is a thing of the past… and other lies we tell ourselves, Aikido Security

Manuel Zapf
Simplifying cross-cloud, cross-cluster connectivity with Dapr & Cilium, codecentric

Marcus Noble
Pod Deep Dive: Everything You Didn't Know You Needed to Know, Giant Swarm

Mark Russell
Podman and Podman Desktop: State of the Union, Red Hat

Mengin
Deep Dive into Gateway API BackendTLSPolicy, Traefik Labs

Micah Hausler
End to End Message Authenticity in Cloud Native Systems, AWS

Mikhail Krinkin
Wasm, Envoy, and Hyperlight Walk Into a Pod: No Vulnerabilities Allowed, Microsoft

Moritz Johner
Scaling PDBs: Introducing Multi-Cluster Resilience with x-pdb, Form3

Nic Vermande
The auto-scaling party: VPA, HPA, KEDA, nodes, how do they dance?, Various

Nicolai Ort
Evaluating Global Load Balancing Options for Kubernetes in Practice, DATEV

Nigel Douglas
API-Driven Security Automation for AKS: Falco Talon meets eBPF-powered Retina, Cloudsmith

Nitish Kumar
Introducing the Plugin Support Interface to the Argo CD CLI - Build your custom Plugins now!, Akuity

Paul Power
Scheduling complex deployments across large multi-cluster testbeds, Red Hat

Piotr Jabłoński
Who Secures the Service Mesh? Mind the Gap in Your Mesh, Various

Prerit Munjal
The Wolf of WALL-GPU: Profiling & Tracing Street

Priyanka Saggu
The future of configurability in Kubernetes with Common Expression Language (CEL), SUSE

Péter Megyesi

Qasim Sarfraz
Understanding and Debugging DNS in Kubernetes Clusters, Software Engineer

Ralph Squillace
Welcome to Cloud Native Rejekts Europe 2025!

Robert Sirchia
SUSE Closing Keynote on Community Initiatives, SUSE

Simon Emms
The Beekeepers Guide to Mentoring Engineers, Gitpod

Sreeram Venkitesh
The future of configurability in Kubernetes with Common Expression Language (CEL), DigitalOcean

Stevan Le Meur
Podman and Podman Desktop: State of the Union, Red Hat

Stéphane Este-Gracias
OCI Registry as a Secure and Single Source of Distribution for Your Container Images & Artifacts, Cloud Native Ambassador

Thilo Fromm
Immutable Turtles All the Way Down – Image-Based Kubernetes to power In-Place Updates, Microsoft

Thomas Johnson
From Black Box to Open Book: Leveraging OpenTelemetry for Auto-Documenting Distributed Systems, Multiplayer

Tobias Schneck
Evaluating Global Load Balancing Options for Kubernetes in Practice

Tom Wieczorek
Noisy Neighbors Got You Down? Demystifying Kubernetes QoS and Linux Cgroups, Mirantis

Wojciech Kocjan
Securing AI/ML Workflows: Optimizing Container Images in Kubernetes Environments, Chainguard

Yash Sharma
Multiplayer Kubernetes: GitOps with Friends, DigitalOcean

Yury Tsarev
(No title provided), Upbound

2025 Sponsor

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• Microsoft-Azure