Cloud Native AI Summit — Melbourne · October 28–29, 2026
Speakers
World-class engineers, architects, and practitioners from across the cloud-native and AI ecosystem.
Liz Fong-Jones
Technical Fellow · Honeycomb
Making Production Legible to Agents: Lessons from Building an Observability MCP
Keynote
Frank Fan
Principal Container Solution Architect · AWS
Agentic Platform Engineering on Kubernetes — From Design to Operations with AI in the Loop
Talk
Diana Omuoyo
Global Technical Specialist - Observability · Splunk
Logs, Metrics, Traces... and Models: The Evolution of Observability
Talk
Hrittik Roy
Software Engineer | CNCF Ambassador · vCluster
Conformance for Inference: How We Reduced Bad Deploys on a GPU Platform
Talk
Emma Tordsson
Principal Technologist - Platform and AI
The Best Agent No One Uses - Why enterprise AI adoption fails upstream of your code
Talk
Everett Toews
Helping organisations establish or mature a modern AI engineering capability. · Deloitte
Unlearn with AI Evals
Talk
Rob Kenefeck
CNCF Ambassador, Kubestronaut, and Field CTO @ ControlPlane · ControlPlane
Trusting Agents With Your Secrets: What OpenBao Taught Us About Agentic Identity
Talk
Kanchana Wickremasinghe
VP & Field CTO · WSO2
Achieving Sovereign AI with an Open Source Stack
Talk
Aditya Joshi
Senior Software Engineer@Walmart | CNCF Kubestronaut · Walmart
Give Your AI Agents a Sandbox: Running Untrusted Agent Code Safely on Kubernetes
Talk
Akshay Adsul
Solo.io APAC Lead CS Engineering · Solo.io
Why can't I have more tokens Rob? Using agentgateway to keep your AI usage under control.
Talk
Kasun Talwatta
Solo.io, Principal Solutions Architect · Solo.io
Why can't I have more tokens Rob? Using agentgateway to keep your AI usage under control.
Talk
Santhoshkumar Anandakrishnan
Lead Cloud Architect · Skyline Technology Aus Pty ltd
Securing Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS): Network Policies, Private Clusters & Pod Security
Talk
Thiago Shimada Ramos
Sovereign AI & Platform Architect · EnclaveAI Studio
Securing Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS): Network Policies, Private Clusters & Pod Security
Talk
Anupam Phoghat
Founding Director · Core-X
Agentic SRE: Moving from Alerting to Autonomous Remediation in Day-2 Operations
Talk
BMK Lakshminarayanan
Transformation Architect · SECTION6
Who's Accountable When the Agent Gets It Wrong? Governance, risk and the accountability gap in the agentic enterprise
Talk
Charlotte Fleming
Researcher, Developer Relations · Octopus Deploy
Mandatory or Optional: What the Data Says About Platform Adoption
Talk
Jeff Ishar
Solutions Architect · Okta
"On Behalf of Whom?" How to Safely Propagate Identity in Multi-Agent Workflows
Talk
Jeffrey Aven
Co-founder · StackQL Studios
AI native platform engineering: building the platform when agents are the primary consumer
Talk
Renaldi Gondosubroto
Director · Cloudetica Solutions
The Build Passed and the Model Failed
Talk
Sonia Cuff
Cloud Advocate · Microsoft
Who ordered all these tokens? Managing your AI costs.
Talk
Danny Tran
Senior Software Engineer · NAB
How to keep APIs safe in the age of AI
Talk
Liam Byrne
Software Engineer · Tetrate
How to keep APIs safe in the age of AI
Talk
More speakers to be announced soon.