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Cloud Native Crash Courses for Agentic AI & Platform Engineering

April 30, 2026

Agentic AI for Platform Engineering
Agentic AI isn’t just another trend, it’s reshaping how we build and operate software. Unlike traditional workloads, AI agents are autonomous and nondeterministic by design, interacting with external APIs to execute multi-step tasks and, ideally, adapt to the environment around them. These capabilities unlock powerful new use cases, but they also demand platforms that are scalable, resilient, secure, observable, and fit for autonomy at scale.

At KubeCrash: Agentic AI for Platform Engineering, we come together to cut through the noise and explore how platform teams can prepare their cloud native infrastructure for the new challenges introduced by agentic workflows. Join open source maintainers, AI experts, and platform practitioners as they share actionable insights, real-world stories, and hands-on strategies for building platforms that support agentic AI without sacrificing reliability or developer experience.

Platinum Sponsors

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Sponsors

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Media Sponsors

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Speakers

Mallika Rao

Engineering Manager, Content Systems; Netflix

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Evaline Ju

Senior Software Engineer; IBM

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Keith Mattix

Principal Software Engineer Lead; Microsoft

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Morgan Foster

Senior Principal Engineer, AI Infrastructure, Red Hat; Co-chair, Kubernetes AI Gateway WG

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Chase Pettet

Principal Security Engineer; Life360

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Brittney Istenes

OSS Strategist - AI Change Enablement; Fannie Mae

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Tasha Drew

Director of Product Engineering, AI; Broadcom

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Beatriz Datangel Rodgers

Product Marketing; Root

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Rin Oliver

Product Manager; MacStadium

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Thorsten Hans

Sr. Developer Advocate, Akamai

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Merrin Kurian

Distinguished Engineer; Intuit

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Lena Hall

Senior Director, Developers & AI Engineering; Akamai

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Adriana Villela

OTel End User SIG Maintainer, Principal Developer Advocate, Dynatrace

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Co-Founders & Hosts

Catherine Paganini

Marketing Director, Buoyant; Co-Chair CNCF Merge Forward

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Lisa-Marie Namphy

CNCF Ambassador; Director Developer Relations, Intuit

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Danielle Cook

CNCF Ambassador, Co-chair CNCF Cartografos Group

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Past Speaker Highlights

Sabine Wolz

Senior Product Manager, Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation

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Solomon Hykes

Founder of Docker and Dagger

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Kasper Nissen

Lead Platform Architect, Lunar

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Philipp Hugenroth

Software Engineer, Spotify

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Charity Majors

CTO, Honeycomb

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Ahmed Bebars

Principal Engineer, The New York Times

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Whitney Lee

CNCF Ambassador

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Iris Dyrmishi

Senior Observability Engineer, Miro, CNCF Ambassador

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Alexa Nicole Griffith

Senior Software Engineer, Bloomberg

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Jake Walden

Technical Product Owner, Capital One

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Dima Shevchuk

Staff Software Engineer, Production Engineering; Grammarly

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Lisa Shissler Smith

Director at Women Who Code; Former Engineering Manager at Netflix and Zapier

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Nicol Daňková

Head of SOC (incl. Incident Response & CTI), Henkel

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Kaslin Fields

Manager of Cloud Runtimes Developer Relations, Google; Co-Host Kubernetes Podcast

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Ricardo Torres

Chief Engineer of Open Source & Cloud Native, Boeing

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Christopher Voss

Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft (Xbox)

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