KubeAuto Day North America with Kelsey Hightower

KubeAuto Day North America is co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2026 in Salt Lake City - a free, practitioner-led day on making Kubernetes smarter through automation, platform engineering, and FinOps. Join us right before the main KubeCon days kick off: real production stories from teams running Kubernetes at scale, deep dives into automation and cost optimization, a look at what AI-era workloads mean for your platform — plus great food, drinks, and a room full of people who actually run this stuff. ⚠️ Please note: Your KubeCon badge does not include KubeAuto Day. This is a separate community event with limited capacity. Free to attend, but separate registration on this page is required (approval basis). 🎤 Speakers ⭐ Kelsey Hightower — Technologist (Keynote) 🎙 Vishakha Sadhwani — Sr. Solutions Architect (AI Inference), NVIDIA 🎙 Bret Fisher — Course Instructor, YouTuber, Podcaster 🎙 Justin Garrison — Field CTO, Sidero Labs 🎙 Pablo Fredrikson — Principal Engineer, Bitso 🎙 Caleb Geene — Director, AI & Platform Engineering, Nylas 🎙 Daniel Oh — Senior Principal Developer Advocate, IBM 🎙 Caleb Geene — Director, AI & Platform Engineering, Nylas 🎙 Zilvinas Urbonas — VP of Engineering, Kimchi ✨ Why attend Learn how platform teams cut Kubernetes costs with autoscaling and live migration Hear practitioners from NVIDIA, Nylas, Bitso, IBM, Sidero Labs and the CNCF community Get ahead on AI inference, AI agents, and sustainable platform engineering on K8s Network with th…