OSS + ELC EU 2026: Full Schedule

7-9 October, 2026
Prague, Czechia
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14:25 CEST

Sponsored Session: Your Dev Environment Is Probably Slowing You Down - Ben Potter, Coder

Wednesday October 7, 2026 14:25 - 15:05 CEST

South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)

Every developer has felt it: a fresh clone that takes hours to get running, a build that only works on one machine, or a setup that's impossible for a teammate - or an AI agent - to reproduce.

As projects grow, developer environments become infrastructure in their own right. Get them wrong, and onboarding slows, builds become fragile, and "works on my machine" never really goes away.

This talk explores the patterns behind development environments that scale - from solo open source projects to large mono and multirepos. We'll look at reproducible environment definitions, dependency caching, ephemeral versus persistent environments, and where tooling should replace documentation.

You'll also learn how high-performing teams measure developer experience with metrics like time-to-first-commit and onboarding time, rather than intuition, and why the best developer platforms succeed by making the right path the easiest one.

AI agents are now consumers of your development environment too. If a new contributor can't get started quickly, neither can an agent.

Whether you maintain an open source project or build software at enterprise scale, you'll leave with practical ideas for creating faster, more reproducible development workflows that developers actually want to use.

Speakers

Ben Potter

Head of Dev Rel and Open Source, Coder

Ben helps engineering teams build secure cloud development environments for both developers and AI agents. A Linux tinkerer who has been building on remote machines since his teens, Ben is passionate about improving developer experience and making cloud-based development the new... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2026 14:25 - 15:05 CEST
South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)

Open AI & Data

15:35 CEST

Sponsored Session: Kubernetes Is the AI OS. Here's the Open Source Stack Running on Top of It - Jonathan Bryce, The Linux Foundation & Daniel Krook, CNCF

Wednesday October 7, 2026 15:35 - 16:15 CEST

South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)

Kubernetes has become the AI operating system (82% of container users run it in production and 66% use it for AI inference) but the real challenge is scaling inference, not training. Every prompt and every agent call runs inference, and standard Kubernetes routing is blind to the KV cache state and token dynamics that determine whether you hit your SLOs. This session covers the open stack the CNCF community is coalescing around to fix that: HAMi (now Incubating) for fractional GPU virtualization and hard accelerator isolation, Inference Gateway (GA) for model-aware traffic routing, llm-d (new CNCF Sandbox project) for cache and load-aware distributed inference, KServe (Incubating) for multi-model serving, and the KAR (Kubernetes AI Conformance Requirements) program now spanning 31 certified platforms. We’ll also cover four trends shaping the next 12 months of cloud native AI.

Speakers

Daniel Krook

Senior Director of Developer Experience, CNCF

Daniel Krook is the Senior Director of Developer Experience at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (part of the Linux Foundation), where he and his team support the maintainers, contributors, and users across 225+ hosted open source projects. Previously a Principal Cloud Architect... Read More →

Jonathan Bryce

Executive Director, Cloud and Infrastructure, The Linux Foundation

Jonathan Bryce is the Executive Director of Cloud & Infrastructure at the Linux Foundation, where he leads both the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and the OpenInfra Foundation—two of the largest and most influential open source communities in the world. With over... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2026 15:35 - 16:15 CEST
South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)

Cloud & Orchestration

17:25 CEST

Your Network Is Already a Compute Platform. Time To Treat It Like One - Eleni Grosdouli & Josh Halley, Cisco

Wednesday October 7, 2026 17:25 - 18:05 CEST

South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)

Network switches and routers are no longer passive packet forwarders. They have been running containers for some time already. But managing them still requires separate tools, CLIs, and workflows, and that creates real operational friction.

Virtual Kubelet eliminates this. Network devices become Kubernetes nodes. Workloads are provisioned with standard kubectl commands. Device configuration is declared as Kubernetes resources with continuous drift detection. Telemetry flows through OpenTelemetry to any OTLP-compatible backend.

This session demonstrates how to converge network and platform operations into a single control plane. We will demonstrate live provisioning of network devices and show how the CNCF ecosystem enables observability, security, and policy enforcement for edge deployments.

Speakers

Eleni Grosdouli

DevOps Consulting Engineer, Cisco Systems

Eleni is your go-to DevOps and GitOps expert, passionate about networking, security, and endpoint management. As a DevOps Consulting Engineer at Cisco Systems, she brings hands-on experience across diverse technical domains. A lifelong learner, Eleni loves experimenting with cutting-edge... Read More →

Josh Halley

Principal Architect, Cisco

Josh Halley, is a Principal Architect and published technical author, in the office of the CTO at Cisco,
focused on next generation technologies and technical transformation for some
of Cisco’s largest global customers. His main focus today is in the domains of AI Operations, leading and supporting multiple teams in their generation of Agentic AI systems to support todays and tomorrows future technologies use cases... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2026 17:25 - 18:05 CEST
South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)

Cloud & Orchestration

Audience Experience Level Any

OSS + ELC EU 2026

14:25 CEST

Ben Potter

15:35 CEST

Daniel Krook

Jonathan Bryce

17:25 CEST

Eleni Grosdouli

Josh Halley

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