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Edgecase 2026

Edgecase 2026 is the 5th edition of the largest Kubernetes-focused event in the Netherlands, gathering over 400 cloud native professionals, platform engineers, architects, CTOs, and leaders. Hosted by Bart Farrell, the event features advanced platform engineering sessions, discussions on cloud native operations, emerging trends, and digital sovereignty, alon…

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15Speakers
10Sponsors
11On the bill · sessions
19Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at Edgecase, in alphabetical order.
Alessandro Lo Prete
Threat Detection Engineer · Sysdig
Bart Farrell
Head of Content · LearnKube
Constantino Vázquez
Head of Systems Engineering · OpenNebula Systems
Daniëlle Wagemakers
Lead Cybersecurity Technology Specialist · Sogeti
Fabian Schmitt
Platform Engineer · Schwarz Digits Cloud
Gerrit Tamboer
Chief Evangelist · TrueFullstaq
Harke Wijnsma
Practice lead Ops · DUO
Justin Garrison
Head of Product · Sidero Labs
Kris Budde
Product Owner · STACKIT Edge Cloud
Marcel Claassen
Principal Solutions Engineer · Sysdig
Merijn Keppel
Principal Consultant · TrueFullstaq
Rick Brouwer
OPS Specialist + KEDA Maintainer · DUO
Saeid Ashian
Principal Platform Enablement Engineer · Saxo Bank
Shantanu Gattani
SVP, Product · Sysdig
William Rizzo
Global Field CTO + Kairos Maintainer · Mirantis
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
Amazon AWS
Chainguard
Dell EMC
Kube EventsMediapartner
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Solutions
OpenNebula
Sidero
Sidero Labs
Sysdig
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Agenda

Selected from 11 sessions on the bill.
  • 10.00 - 10.40, Mainstage

    Gotta Build 'Em All

    The “starter cluster” has evolved from the simple days of kube-up to powering the largest platforms in the world. Kubernetes is the application interface developers expect, but it …

    Main Track
  • 11.00 - 11.40, Mainstage

    The Dashboard is Dead: Agent-Driven Security on the Platforms You're Building

    For over a decade, cloud security has been a dashboard discipline. That assumption is breaking, and not because a vendor decided so. Like their engineering counterparts, the most …

    Main Track
  • 11.40 - 12.15, Mainstage

    Elastic Kubernetes Needs a Home: Why Infrastructure Is Key

    How OpenNebula helps platform teams deliver elastic, multi-tenant, multi-cluster Kubernetes environments with sovereignty, simplicity, and cost efficiency.

    Main Track
  • 13.30 - 14.00, Security stage

    Gerrit Learns Cloud Native Security - The Final Exam

    Gerrit Tamboer called himself the LeBron James of vibe coding. Then his colleagues hacked his app in under 20 minutes. So he called Marcel Claassen from Sysdig and asked him to fix…

    Cloud Native Security Track
  • 13.30 - 14.05, Mainstage

    Inference at the far Edge. Running LLMs on Immutable Disconnected K8s Nodes

    Most inference scenarios assume a datacenter: gigawatts of power, fat pipes, and an operator who can SSH into any node. The edge breaks all three. You're serving models on hardware…

    Main Track
  • 14.05 - 14.40, Mainstage

    It's Super Effective! The Automation Behind Immutable Edge Kubernetes with Talos + Zarf

    Earlier this year at KubeCon EU, a wild live demo appeared: we deployed and upgraded a Talos Kubernetes cluster in a completely air-gapped environment using Zarf, going from bare m…

    Main Track
  • 14.05 - 14.40, Security stage

    Prompt and Pillage: How an AI Operator Ran a Full Ransomware Campaign on Cloud Infrastructure

    In 2026, the Sysdig Threat Research Team started observing an AI operator targeting popular AI infrastructure with a fully agentic ransomware campaign. We call it JADEPUFFER, and i…

    Cloud Native Security Track
  • 15.15 - 15.55, Mainstage

    Autoscaling with KEDA: From Metrics to Machine Learning

    What if your applications could scale themselves, intelligently, automatically, and ahead of demand? In this session, we explore the world of event-driven autoscaling with KEDA: s…

    Main Track
  • 15.15 - 15.55, Security stage

    You're the Security Team Now: How Platform Teams Are Taking on Cloud Security

    Somewhere in the last few years, platform teams became security teams. They run the admission controllers, patch the base images, own the pipeline everything ships through, and now…

    Cloud Native Security Track
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 19 companies show up, and 2 bet on three roles at once?

Nineteen companies. two are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
2All threespeak · spons · exh
8Sponsoringsponsor only
9Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Sysdig·Sidero Labs

Speakers by seniority

47% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite213%
  • Founder / Owner17%
  • VP-level17%
  • Director / Head of320%
  • Manager / Lead533%
  • Engineer · IC320%

Of 15 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01SysdigSp3V
  2. 02Sidero LabsSp1V
  3. 03AWSSp
  4. 04ChainguardSp
  5. 05Dell EMCSp
  6. 06Kube EventsSp·M
  7. 07Microsoft AzureSp
  8. 08Microsoft SolutionsSp
  9. 09OpenNebulaSp
  10. 10SideroSp
  11. 11DUO2V
  12. 12TrueFullstaq2V
  13. 13LearnKube1V
  14. 14Mirantis1V
Sponsors by tier
mediapartner1
10% of 10
unspecified9
90% of 10
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

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