Platform Engineering Day Europe 2026
2026-03-23
Amsterdam, Netherlands
[Platform Engineering Day Europe 2024, Platform Engineering Day Europe 2026]
as the organisers put it
Platform Engineering 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.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Platform Engineering Technical... | Katie Greenley, Chris Plank, Colin Griffin, Atulpriya Sharma | 11m |
Community updates cover concrete work: the platform white paper and maturity model get a V1 polish now and a planned V2 with quarterly updates; the site… | ||
| Who Built This Platform? Alternative Viewpoints on Platform Design - Diana Todea & Elif Samedin | Virginia Diana Todea, Elif Samedin | 25m |
Platform design shows concrete fixes and results: teams replace Terraform/Ansible-as-docs with a single entry deploy flow and diagrams, add preview queries and… | ||
| Why Kubernetes Node OS Still Shapes Pe... | Naadir Jeewa | 05m |
Kernel updates that break every pod happen in real deployments, CNIs like Calico fail on specific cloud drivers about once a year, and silent changes such as… | ||
| Bridging the Local Kubernetes Gap for... | Saiyam Pathak | 06m |
vCluster in Docker (wind) provides a local Kubernetes that actually mirrors platform needs: it gives inbuilt load balancer support, a platform UI and a demoed… | ||
| Rebuilding Platforms for the ADLC - Justin Reock | Justin Reock | 04m |
Platform teams must rebuild for the ADLC by measuring utilization, impact, and cost with the DX AI measurement framework, instrumenting PR throughput, change… | ||
| Creating an IDP for AI Engineering - Max Körbächer | Max Korbacher | 30m |
Argues for an AI internal development platform that extends an existing IDP rather than copying models claims the competitive edge is the platform not the… | ||
| Scaling on Satisfaction: Automated Rollouts Driven by User Feedback - Thomas Vitale & Whitney Lee | Thomas Vitale, Whitney Lee | 24m |
A live platform captures thumbs up/down as correlated OpenTelemetry spans and span events, the Collector’s transform and spanmetrics processors convert those… | ||
| How To Play Support for a Platform Team - Awar Abdulkarim & Roberth Strand | Awar Abdulkarim, Roberth Strand | 25m |
Argues that platform teams need a clear mandate as a contract, explicit division of responsibility, and concrete structure (roadmaps, GitHub issue flows… | ||
| Promotion Failed: How (Not) To Stage Your (Kubernetes) Platform - Nicolai Ort | Nicolai Ort | 24m |
Kubernetes-as-a-Service platforms must treat the platform as Kubernetes plus CSI CNI ingress tooling and the ordering interface, and stage the full dependency… | ||
| The Day 2 Hangover: What To Do After the Platform Party Ends - Cat Morris & Nitish Malhotra | Cat Morris, Nitish Malhotra | 23m |
Company platform grows from ~50–100 curated modules into 200 components through small forks, creating massive ops overhead. Team introduces GitOps (Argo CD… | ||
| We Broke Free From Cloud-Managed Kubernetes... | Kārlis Akots Gribulis, Per Hedegaard Christiansen | 24m |
Saxo Bank migrates from cloud-managed Kubernetes to on-prem using kubeadm + Cluster API on flatcar VMs atop VMware, and reports a compelling cost case… | ||
| A Practical Guide To Inner Sourcing Your IDP - Lian Li | Lian Li | 25m |
Claim: inner sourcing—treating the IDP like an open source project—moves developers from consumers to contributors and improves adoption. Uses the platform… | ||
| Overwhelmed by Scale: How Product Thinking Fixes Platform Teams - Dominik Schmidle | Dominik Schmidle | 25m |
Platform teams that start with Terraform and CI/CD scripts end up drowning in Jira tickets, Dependabot churn and multi-cloud sprawl (AWS, Azure, GCP) unless… | ||
| Build Your Golden Path Construction Playbook: A Maturity-First Implementation App... | tulpriya Sharma | 24m |
Presents a concrete, stepwise method — the Maturity-First Construction Framework — that moves teams from chaotic bash scripts through standardized templates… | ||
| How We Built an Internal Developer Platform and Evolved It Into... | Gang Luo, Kristina Kondrashevich | 26m |
Electrolux Group builds an Internal Developer Platform that automates cloud provisioning with Terraform modules, a YAML-to-Terraform generator called Sama… | ||
| Panel: Platform Engineering to the Rescue - A Practica... | Hannah F, Justin C, Sal K, Erika H, Josh Bressers | 34m |
Practical checklist: generate and attest SBOMs (don’t ship them unsigned), run a 1-hour supply-chain game day to map contacts and playbooks, inventory and… | ||
| Panel: Platform Resilience, Built... | Virginia Diana Todea, Stephane Este-Gracias, Or Navon, Milad Vafaeifard | 34m |
Panel argues belonging equals resilience and gives concrete levers: Merge Forward (CNCF) runs a mentoring program and community hub to boost participation… | ||
| Backend-First IDP: A Production Roadmap With Argo CD, Crossplane, an... | Abhinav Sharma, Aditya Soni | 20m |
Claims a backend-first IDP that uses Argo CD + Crossplane + OPA as the authoritative core, validated on a multi-tenant environment with 100+ services; demo… | ||
| Building Extensible Platforms - Hazel Weakly | Hazel Weakly | 24m |
Argues that extensible platforms succeed by choosing a few narrow protocols (think DNS, TCP, JSON) that evolve slowly, enabling wild diversity above and below… | ||
| Istio in Production: Expected Value, Results, and Effort | Mitch Connors, Golnaz Rouhi | 24m |
GitHub runs Istio across its platform (about 130 clusters, ~250k pods) and a github.com mesh of 21 clusters with ~110k pods, enforcing mTLS and centralized… | ||
| The GitOps Paradox: Why Your Devs Need an API You Don't Want To Build - Simon Koudijs | Simon Koudijs | 26m |
Platform teams expose a small Kubernetes control plane as a typed API-first front door (not a replacement for Git) and use CRDs as the declarative surface; an… | ||
| Scaling Platform-as-a-Product Without Losing Your Mind - Eline Henriksen & Jakub Pawelczak | Eline Henriksen, Jakub Pawelczak | 21m |
Internal platform called Nova reports 87% user satisfaction, 88% tech relevancy, 95% security trust and a 480% spike in DORA metrics after scaling efforts… | ||
| When Platform Engineers Lead FinOps: Driving Reliability and $20M in... | Aditya Sharma, Mohit Kumar | 23m |
Platform engineering drives $20M in 2025 cloud savings while improving reliability across 500+ clusters and 10K+ workloads by combining cost and runtime… | ||
| Lightning Talk: No Portal? No Problem! How We Scaled Our Platform With Just Terr... | Maryam Tavakkoli | 08m |
A platform moves from a single monolithic Terraform state to separated infra and application layers so Terraform Cloud workspaces handle stable infra changes… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Production-Grade AI Isolation: K0s + Kata Containers for Zero-Tru... | Prashant Ramhit | 07m |
k0s plus Kata Containers replace runC to launch a micro‑VM per model, giving true kernel separation and claimed mitigation of past runC CVEs; VM provisioning… | ||
| Lightning Talk: 5 Pitfalls of Building Developer Platforms - Jessica Andersson, Jesande | Jessica Andersson, Jesande | 08m |
DORA names internal platforms as a core capability and the talk lists five concrete failure modes: staffing with ops people who keep doing work instead of… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Lessons from Putting AI in Front of a Platform: Taming the Non-Dete... | Shane Dowling | 09m |
Putting an AI in front of a developer platform yields concrete outcomes: using Claude, FastMCP, and Kratix reveals that giving an agent too much context makes… | ||
| Closing Remarks | 02m | |
The day ends with photos taken earlier and a reminder that recordings available let attendees catch talks missed while moving between rooms, sponsors get… | ||
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