KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe

Abby Bangser

Abby is a Principal Engineer at Syntasso delivering Kratix, an open-source cloud-native framework for building internal platforms on Kubernetes. Her keen interest in supporting internal development comes from over a decade of experience in consulting and product delivery roles across platform, site reliability, and quality engineering.

Ahmed Bebars

As a Principal Engineer on the Developer Platforms mission at The New York Times, I specialize in Cloud Infrastructure technologies, focusing on developing robust and scalable Kubernetes-based solutions. My primary focus is crafting a secure runtime environment that empowers service teams to deploy their applications swiftly and efficiently. This platform stands as a testament to rapid application development, underpinned by a commitment to security and adherence to industry best practices.

Baptiste Assmann

Baptiste Assmann is Director of Product at HAProxy Technologies. He spent his career on networking and high performance architecture. Today, he plays a key role on HAProxy’s ecosystem evolution: from bare metal to Kubernetes and from load balancing to advanced security at scale and always looking forward for what’s next!

Baptiste Assmann

Baptiste Assmann is Director of Product at HAProxy Technologies. He spent his career on networking and high performance architecture. Today, he plays a key role on HAProxy’s ecosystem evolution: from bare metal to Kubernetes and from load balancing to advanced security at scale and always looking forward for what’s next!

Brian Stevens

Brian Stevens is Red Hat’s Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for AI at where he drives the company’s vision for an open, hybrid AI future. His work empowers enterprises to build and deploy intelligent applications anywhere, from the datacenter to the edge. As Red Hat’s CTO of Engineering (2001-2014), Brian was central to the company’s initial growth and the expansion of its portfolio into cloud, middleware, and virtualization technologies.

Cara Delia

Cara Delia is the Manager of the AI Community Architecture team within Red Hat’s Open Source & AI Program Office at where she leads the upstream strategy for Red Hat’s contributions to open source AI communities. Her work focuses on building sustainable, collaborative ecosystems that accelerate innovation across the AI landscape. Cara has been an active contributor across multiple Linux Foundation initiatives, including the CNCF Environmental Sustainability TAG, Kubeflow, FINOS, and the PyTorch community, helping shape open, community-driven approaches to AI development and governance.

Chad Beaudin

Chad is the Chief Engineer for the Boeing Software Factory and a Technical Fellow. In these roles he drives the technical vision for how software is developed by thousands of engineers utilizing cloud native methodologies in a variety of highly regulated environments. As a DevOps enthusiast at he promotes the sharing of best practices around CI/CD.

Chris Aniszczyk

Chris Aniszczyk is an open source executive and engineer with a passion for building a better world through open collaboration. He’s currently a CTO at the Linux Foundation focused on developer relations and running the Open Container Initiative (OCI) / Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Furthermore, he’s a partner at Capital Factory where he focuses on mentoring, advising and investing in open source and infrastructure focused startups.

Chris Holmes

Chris Holmes is a leading figure in the open-source and cloud-native geospatial community, with over 20 years of experience building standards, software, and developer communities that shape how geospatial data is shared and accessed globally. He is VP of Product, Strategy & Partnerships and a Planet Fellow at Planet Labs, and an Industry Fellow at Taylor Geospatial Engine.

Conference Sessions

Mar 24 at 2026, 9:00 AM | Hall 12

Erin A. Boyd

Passionate leader driven to deliver innovation solutions to complex business problems. Kubernetes contributor at CNCF SIG Storage lead and open source believer.

Fabian Steinbach

Fabian is a Software Architect working at ZEISS. Since spring 2020 Fabian focuses on building and running software using Dapr.
He focuses on cloud engineering and building platforms