Kubernetes on Edge Day Europe 2026
2026-03-23
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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as the organisers put it
Kubernetes on Edge Day Europe 2026 has officially wrapped! Thank you to all the attendees who joined us. Watch keynotes and all breakout sessions on the CNCF YouTube Channel.
who it's for
edge engineers, kubernetes operators, site reliability engineers, platform engineers, robotics engineers, embedded developers, security engineers
topics
OpenTelemetry collector optimization; tail-based sampling strategies; lossless batching to disk; LLM gateway routing for robots; Neo4j 3D scene graph; vAccel GPU offload from ESP32; Akri device discovery and inventory; OCI firmware images and OTA; SLSA provenance and cosign signing; k8gb global service load balancing; stateless secret-less registry (Harbor Satellite)
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | Mars Toktonaliev | 03m |
Half-day schedule runs until lunchtime with sessions ending before a lunch window from 11:00 to 13:30, an open coffee session after lunch and an event… | ||
| Feeding the Cloud: Designing Data-Driven Robotics Systems | Nina Polshakova, Aaron Ray | 33m |
Demonstration builds a 3D scene graph stored in Neo4j, routes LLM calls through agent gateway, and records traces and costs with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus… | ||
| Making Observability Work at the Edge | Julia Furst Morgado, Graziano Casto | 25m |
Edge proof observability uses an ultra‑optimized OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib DaemonSet (tuned for K3s/MicroK8s) plus Fluent Bit on-device, applying… | ||
| Edge AI in Practice: Lessons from Producti... | Saad Malik | 06m |
Edge AI deployments face tight budgets, talent gaps, and new attack surfaces; a recent State of Kubernetes survey finds 10% fully deployed production Edge AI… | ||
| Edge AI: Because the Cloud is Too Slow... | Said Ouissal | 05m |
ZEDEDA describes running cloud-native workloads and AI at the far edge with an open-source EVE OS (LF Edge) that supports virtual machines, Docker, and… | ||
| IoT Compute Unleashed: Transparent Offload From ESP32 To Edge Clusters | Anastassios Nanos, Charalampos Mainas | 25m |
ESP32 microcontrollers remotely run full YOLOv11 inference by offloading to a GPU-backed Kubernetes node using vAccel and a Twirp transport, dropping per-frame… | ||
| Proving Trust: Signed Supply Chains and Verifiable Deployments at the Edge | Sheldon Lo-A-Njoe, Nicolas Ferrao | 25m |
Demonstrates a reproducible, SLSA-aligned pipeline that produces signed images and attestations, uses cosign/SignServer to attach SLSA provenance, and anchors… | ||
| Building Unified Global Load Balancing for the Edge With k8gb | Bradley Andersen, Yury Tsarev | 23m |
k8gb is a CNCF Sandbox global service load balancer implemented as a Kubernetes CRD using CRD and GitOps workflows, embedded CoreDNS gossip and ExternalDNS for… | ||
| ⚡Lightning Talk: Beyond ImagePullBackOff: A Stateless, Secret-less Distributed Registry for Edge Workloads | Prasanth Baskar | 09m |
Harbor Satellite runs as a single binary on edge clusters to replace per-node pullSecrets and avoid long ImagePullBackOff stalls, using SPIFFE/SPIRE for… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Unikernels Vs Containers Vs VMs | Ram Iyengar | 11m |
Compares VMs, microVMs and containers against unikernels using boot time, memory footprint and developer experience as axes, citing Firecracker, Hyperlight and… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Mars Toktonaliev | 01m |
Kubernetes on Edge Day announces a North America edition in November, with CFP opens April–May and an invitation to submit IoT or edge-related talks… | ||
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