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Edgecase 2025
The Multiverse Saga
September 23rd, Rijtuigenloods Amersfoort (NL)
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Edgecase
Where Kubernetes & Cloud Native Minds Meet
As the largest Kubernetes event in the Netherlands, Edgecase is where Cloud Native experts, Engineers, and IT professionals come together for a full day of inspiring talks, hands-on workshops, and meaningful connections.
This edition, we journey into The Multiverse Saga: a theme that explores the infinite dimensions of cloud native innovation, strategy, and scale. Expect surprising connections, parallel perspectives, and a deeper look into the evolving Kubernetes landscape.
New in 2025: a dedicated C-level track under the TrueFullstaq banner. Tailored for CTOs, CIOs, and other executives, this invite-only program dives deep into digital sovereignty. Real-world use cases. Smart infrastructure. Strategic insights that matter.
If you demand more than surface-level, this is your event!
Proud Edgecase 2025 Partners
Main stage speakers
Bart Farrell
Your host
The one and only Bart Farrell will once again bring his unmatched energy as our charismatic host for an unforgettable Edgecase experience — and this year promises even more.
Gerrit Tamboer
Your other host
Gerrit is Chief Evangelist at TrueFullstaq and a CNCF Ambassador with deep expertise in cloud native technologies and Kubernetes.
Justin Garrison
Head of Product at Sidero Labs
Lessons I Learned Building and Shipping Disney+
Everyone has a plan until they get 10 million sign-ups in a day. Products need demand, and infrastructure has to plan accordingly. Let's look at what worked—and what didn't—when a plan meets reality. A tail as old as [epoch] time that we have to live happily ever after with or learn to let it go.
Brandt Keller
Software Engineer at Defense Unicorns
Bridging the Last‑Mile Divide with Cloud‑Native Airgaps
An engineer obsessed with bringing cloud native best practices to places the cloud can’t always reach? Meet Brandt Keller! At EdgeCase 2025, he'll share how a ‘cloud native-airgap’ mindset flips traditional delivery on its head, hardening the software supply chain, shrinking operational toil, and empowering mission-critical systems to thrive whether they’re in a data center, a desert, or on the deck of a ship.
Wieneke Keller
CTO at Aurea Imaging
Kubernetes on a Tractor: Precision Farming Powered by K3s, Python, and TensorRT at the Far Edge
Increasing populations and decreasing prices are driving farmers to be leaner and more efficient than ever before - and that means it's innovate, or hang up the overalls and find a new job. Recent years have seen the rise of precision farming, combining cutting-edge technologies with traditional agricultural know-how to increase per-hectare yields and cut costs. However, these are highly challenging applications to build and make work effectively - dirty outdoor datasets, poor connectivity, limited compute, and many other factors combine to make this a domain not for the faint of heart. In our talk, we'll go over some of the main challenges in the space, and how Aurea Imaging has leveraged cloud-native tools and thinking to solve them and massively boost development velocity vs. more "traditional" approaches.
Sebastian Lenartowicz
Software Engineer at Aurea Imaging
Kubernetes on a Tractor: Precision Farming Powered by K3s, Python, and TensorRT at the Far Edge
Increasing populations and decreasing prices are driving farmers to be leaner and more efficient than ever before - and that means it's innovate, or hang up the overalls and find a new job. Recent years have seen the rise of precision farming, combining cutting-edge technologies with traditional agricultural know-how to increase per-hectare yields and cut costs. However, these are highly challenging applications to build and make work effectively - dirty outdoor datasets, poor connectivity, limited compute, and many other factors combine to make this a domain not for the faint of heart. In our talk, we'll go over some of the main challenges in the space, and how Aurea Imaging has leveraged cloud-native tools and thinking to solve them and massively boost development velocity vs. more "traditional" approaches.
Emanuela Zaccone
Staff Product Manager at Sysdig
The AI Trifecta: Securing, Using, and Defending with AI
Modern attackers don’t wait. They’re fast, stealthy, and willing to experiment. The AI-powered security shift has accelerated our arms race as we face scale and unpredictability at machine speed. This year's emergent trend: threat actors exploiting CI/CD pipelines and moving through cloud workloads before you can blink with some help from AI.
In this session Emanuela will guide you through the 2025 cloud threat landscape, revealing where attackers are going next and how runtime security has become a non-negotiable pillar of any modern defense.
She'll also share insights into the AI security trifecta, offering practical recommendations on how to: secure the AI being adopted, integrate AI into your security operations, and defend against AI-powered threats.
Denis Maligin
Sr. Sales Engineer at Chainguard
Taming Vulnerability Chaos Across the Multiverse of Kubernetes and Edge
As Kubernetes has evolved, we’ve seen multiple “timelines” emerge: the original path of large-scale Platform Engineering, and a divergent path where Kubernetes powers constrained Edge environments. Each universe has its own challenges, yet one problem spans them all - vulnerability chaos in container supply chains.
In this talk, we’ll explore how mutable tags, bloated base images, and metadata-driven scanners create unpredictable risks across environments. We’ll look at why traditional patch cycles lead to persistent CVE debt, and how these challenges play out differently in datacenter versus edge deployments.
Most importantly, we’ll discuss proven strategies to bring order to this chaos: reproducible builds, digest-based deployments, minimal images with smaller attack surfaces, and the use of SBOMs and signed provenance for compliance. Through a live demo, we’ll compare common public images with hardened alternatives, showing how teams can eliminate CVE noise, improve pull performance, and build supply chains that are truly verifiable.
Whether you’re operating at scale in the datacenter or pushing workloads to the edge, you’ll walk away with practical techniques to secure your container supply chain and tame vulnerability chaos across the Kubernetes multiverse.
Dan Acristinii
Product Manager Edge Foundations at Roche
Navigating the Healthcare Multiverse: How Roche United Cloud and Edge with a Platform Engineering Saga
Dan Acristinii is a Global Product Manager for Kubernetes Edge Infrastructure at Roche. With a background in business, finance, and economics, he combines financial insights with technical expertise in coding and cloud-native solutions. Dan specializes in driving innovation and operational excellence in complex environments, delivering engaging presentations that bridge business strategy with advanced Kubernetes infrastructure solutions.
Niyazi Erdoğan
Experience Lead Edge Foundations at Roche
Navigating the Healthcare Multiverse: How Roche United Cloud and Edge with a Platform Engineering Saga
Niyazi Erdoğan is an Experience Lead for Edge Foundations and Senior DevOps Engineer at Roche. Passionate about User Experience Design, he views UX as the fundamental core of meaningful technology solutions rather than just a process. Niyazi leads experience initiatives for edge foundations, ensuring complex technical solutions remain user-centered and accessible in our increasingly connected technological landscape.
Erwin de Keijzer
Principal Consultant at TrueFullstaq
Erwin's Beefs
It’s 2025, we have had more than enough time to adapt to modern software engineering practices. "Erwin's beefs" is about the times that it doesn’t happen and how modern practices can make our lives so much easier.
In 2025, we shouldn’t:
- Deploy the LGTM stack and call it done on observability.
- Develop an application and hand it over to an operations team to handle it from there.
- Jenkins
And I’ll tell you what we should do!
Unlock the Multiverse: dive into our breakout sessions
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Breakouts round 1
10:45 - 11:30 AM
- canceled - Ensuring Data Resilience with PostgreSQL Cluster Replication Using CloudNativePG - with Jonathan Gonzalez, EDB
Unfortunately, this breakout session will not take place because Jonathan's flight has been cancelled.
High availability and fault tolerance are critical in modern, cloud-native database deployments. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll explore how to achieve robust data replication across multiple Kubernetes clusters using CloudNativePG, a CNCF project. Attendees will learn how to create, restore, and promote replica clusters, ensuring data consistency and service continuity in the face of failure.
We'll demonstrate real-world scenarios using the Barman plugin for backup and recovery operations. The session will conclude with time for advanced troubleshooting techniques and Q&A.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with PostgreSQL and prior experience with the CloudNativePG operator is recommended.
Kubernetes on the Edge Made Easy with Talos Linux and Omni - with Tim Jones and Justin Garrison, Sidero Labs
Kubernetes gives you a unified API for managing workloads. Talos Linux extends that same promise all the way to the hardware layer, providing you with a single-purpose, self-healing foundation for powerful infrastructure. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll see how Talos Linux and Omni replace the complexity of traditional operating systems with infrastructure you can query, upgrade, and reconcile with minimal effort, at any scale.
We’ll start by bootstrapping a cluster that’s “boot-from-that-endpoint” easy, and bring it under Omni’s centralized management. With Omni, you’ll get real-time liveness reports, logs, access control, and encrypted communication out of the box, making it simple to see exactly what’s running and where. We’ll deploy applications to the edge, explore air-gapped and hybrid scenarios, and show how to scale the same architecture across data centers, on-prem, and cloud.
By the end, you’ll have a working edge deployment, a clear view of its health, and a practical path to running Kubernetes anywhere.
Kiro: The Future of AI-Powered Development - From Prototype to Production - with Alex Dimitrov, AWS
This presentation introduces Kiro, an AI-powered IDE that bridges the gap between rapid prototyping and production-ready software through spec-driven development. By converting prompts into structured requirements, designs, and sequenced implementation tasks, Kiro helps teams ship faster without sacrificing quality. Learn how your organization can accelerate delivery while maintaining engineering excellence.
The Multiverse Saga: Cloud Native Meets Infrastructure: How Dell Automation Platform and Dell Private Cloud Shape the Future - with Laura Dragan, Dell Technologies
Dell Private Cloud, powered by Dell Automation Platform, provides a modern, automated private cloud solution designed for today’s dynamic IT environments. This solution is designed for enterprise workloads, containers, Kubernetes, AI, and edge deployments. Through automation and robust support, Dell Private Cloud empowers enterprises to achieve agility, consistency, and operational efficiency, transforming private cloud operations into a secure, repeatable, and future-ready foundation.
Breakouts round 2
3:15 - 4:00 PM
Deep Dive: Single-Node Kubernetes at the Far Edge - with Wieneke Keller and Sebastian Lenartowicz, Aurea Imaging
Kubernetes for far-edge applications is increasing in popularity, but remains a relatively small and unknown niche with many unsolved problems and poorly-explored challenges. Aurea Imaging brings this cutting-edge approach to the world of agriculture, building single-node Kubernetes clusters that function as cloud-connected sensor peripherals for farm tractors. Join us as we take a deep dive into the current challenges, technical architecture, and future of both our use case and Kubernetes-on-edge more broadly.
Simplify Kubernetes Workloads with Karpenter and Amazon EKS Auto Mode - with Nadim Mansour, AWS
This presentation will demonstrate how Karpenter's intelligent node provisioning capabilities, combined with EKS Auto Mode's comprehensive management features, significantly simplify cluster operations by automating resource scaling, reducing operational overhead, and optimizing infrastructure costs.
Inside the Incident Room: A Hands-On Cloud Attack & Defense Workshop - with Marcel Claassen, Sysdig
Cloud attacks strike in minutes, not days. To defend effectively, real-time response is critical. In this 60-minute, instructor-led workshop, you’ll step into the incident room to experience both sides of an attack - executing a fast-moving cloud breach, then pivoting to defense.
You’ll analyze the impact, uncover attacker tactics, and practice proven techniques to cut noise, accelerate detection, and strengthen your security posture.
From Dockerfiles to Zero-CVE: Building Secure Containers Across the Multiverse - with Denis Maligin and Julian Klodzinski, Chainguard
Containers have become the foundation of modern software delivery, but the way we build them still leaves organizations drowning in vulnerability noise. In this workshop, we’ll walk through how different approaches to image building - from single Dockerfiles to multi-stage builds - impact security and size. Using a simple Go application, we’ll compare container images built on Debian, Alpine, and Wolfi (Chainguard’s first community Linux (un)distribution), then scan them live with tools like Grype and Trivy to see how vulnerability counts differ in practice.
The results are clear: traditional bases carry CVE baggage, while Wolfi consistently delivers Zero-CVE images by design. But trusted base images are only the beginning - we’ll close by exploring the broader software supply chain, where risks from unverified language libraries (Java, Python, etc.) can undermine even the most secure foundation.
Attendees will leave with a practical understanding of how image build choices impact vulnerability exposure, and why true supply chain security requires both trusted, zero-CVE images and end-to-end integrity.
Tech Café: hop on the wagon
At TrueFullstaq, we run bi-monthly Tech Café sessions where colleagues share real-world challenges and solutions in an informal setting. This year, we’re bringing the concept to Edgecase!
Join us for interactive discussions on topics like air-gapped infrastructure, scaling startup environments, and distributed image caching — all with a true café vibe (including snacks, of course).
10:30 - 11:00 AM
Merijn Keppel
So you are skeer and want to utilize fast nvme storage? Your sleepless digital buddy has your back! I’ll go over how I used kubebuilder to build an operator that allowed us to switch from expensive GP3 storage to much faster local NVME storage in AWS.
11:00 - 11:30 PM
Philip Laine
Want to speed up your image pulls and save bandwidth? Spegel is a stateless, cluster-local registry mirror designed to keep image traffic inside your cluster, drastically reducing external downloads and improving performance. In this talk, discover how Spegel’s lightweight, efficient caching unlocks new possibilities for edge computing and AI workloads by optimizing storage and network use.
2:00 - 2:30 PM
Jochem Bruijns
From migrating Google Photos to building a SaaS platform based on Immich. How PixelUnion.eu is turning into a rollercoaster—and how we’re solving the scaling puzzles that keep popping up along the ride.
3:30 - 4:00 PM
Wolter Kamphuis
What do you do when you have to deploy to a fully air-gapped environment? The kind of air-gapped environment where there is no internet connection at all? I was challenged to migrate from cloud-only to air-gapped. In this short talk, I explain how Talos and Zarf solve at least a few of the challenges.
Explore, connect & win in the Networking & Activation Zone
Breaking news from the Sysdig team
Signals confirm the GhostShell has been surveilling the Amersfoort area. Intelligence points to strange activity - with whispers of a mysterious drop left behind for you. It's too early to know what exactly… but reports suggest something is incoming.
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