HIGH-SIGNAL EVENT FOR REAL PLATFORM DECISIONS

Hear unfiltered platform stories.

Join practitioner-led sessions.

Gather ideas you can apply to your own platform.

24 September, 9am - 5pm

Attend the full-day conference in Atelier Lihotzky, Frankfurt am Main

Pre-Conference Dinner

Start the conversations that continue on stage the next day

23 September, 6 - 10pm

Atelier Lihotzky, Frankfurt am Main

SPEAKERS

meshcloud Con ’26 brings together practitioners working on Sovereign Platform Engineering. In interactive formats, they share how they navigate multi-cloud autonomy and exchange real-world lessons from teams shaping Europe’s digital future.

While the main program is held in English, some of the talks will be presented in German.

HARALD JOOS

Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund

Europas digitale Souveränität stärken: Chancen, Risiken und Strategien jenseits von Schwarz-Weiß-Diskussionen (DE)

This session breaks down the three pillars of sovereignty – Private, Public, and Sovereign Cloud – and how to steer them. Discover how to use open standards and KPIs to build a resilient, multi-cloud stack that safeguards Europe’s digital autonomy

ANDRE FELLIPE

SUSE

From Cloud to Ground: Extending a Cloud GitOps Workflow to On-premises Kubernetes

How to extend cloud-native GitOps to on-premises data centers? This talk explores abstracting bare-metal infrastructure using Rancher and Terraform to provide a unified developer experience. Discover how to standardize security and RBAC across hybrid environments while maintaining velocity.

DAVID STERZ

Why Europe’s Cloud Market Should Be Sovereign and Decentralised

This session explores why Europe’s digital future depends on a distributed cloud ecosystem rather than centralized hyperscalers. The talk provides a comparative analysis of key initiatives (including IPCEI-CIS, Sovereign Cloud Stack, and SECA) while highlighting the benefits for open-source contributors and companies.

BENJAMIN
FLAVEN-STEIN

Markant

Impacting DevEx, Costs, and Sovereignty with an Internal Developer Platform

High complexity and rising costs demand a smarter approach to DevOps. This session breaks down the creation of an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) centered on the "Thinnest Valuable Platform" (TVP). Optimize DevEx and digital sovereignty across hybrid clouds without overloading teams.

MANUEL
ZAPF

codecentric

Bare Metal Platform Engineering with Harvester and Rancher

This talk explores how a private cloud platform built with Harvester and Rancher enabled consistent operations across virtual machines and containers while improving standardisation and infrastructure utilisation. Discover the architectural decisions, trade-offs, and practical lessons learned from running real workloads at scale.

MAX KÖRBÄCHER

Liquid Reply

We Need to Evolve Our Platforms to Support Agentic AI

Autonomous agents break traditional platform engineering by generating their own logic and thriving on unpredictable workloads. While Kubernetes remains the baseline, supporting these AI agents requires a completely new infrastructure blueprint. This session explores the technical pillars of an agentic runtime, from kernel-level sandboxing to cognitive memory fabrics and fractional GPU scheduling. Discover why static RBAC must give way to Intent-Based Access Control (IBAC) to secure the "Somehow" Era.

MICK BECKER, MARKUS VON STRUENSEE

EDEKA IT

Platform on Platform: How EDEKA IT Scales Through Decentralized Self-Service

How do you scale when your organization triples in size and accelerates its cloud migration without growing the platform team? This session explores how EDEKA IT evolved from manual ticketing bottlenecks to a decentralized self-service platform model. What started as an effort to improve cloud access grew into a foundation that enabled other expert teams to provide their own services through the same platform. Join Mick and Markus to learn how EDEKA IT is balancing developer autonomy, governance, and scale across a growing organization.

SOVEREIGN PLATFORM ENGINEERING

Sovereign Platform Engineering is the central theme of meshcloud Con ’26. It explores how organizations design, build, and operate platform architectures that enable autonomy, control, and scalability in increasingly complex multi-cloud environments.

To make this topic tangible, the conference is structured into two complementary tracks combining talks and workshops:

Platform Technology

This track covers how platforms are built and operated in practice, including:

AI Platforms
Agentic AI
Internal Developer Platforms & Golden Paths
GitOps Security and Landing Zones
Automation & Developer Self-Service
Multi-Cloud Implementations
Kubernetes
Observability

Business & Strategy

This track explores how platform teams create value and scale impact across organizations, including topics such as:

Sovereign Clouds
Platform Organizations
Platform as a Product
Platform vision and ownership
FinOps & Cost Management
Developer Experience

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What you'll get from meshcloud Con '26

Keynotes grounded in real experience

Speakers kick off the day with insights from building and running platforms in practice

Workshops that go beyond theory

Hands-on discussions and deep dives into real platform obstacles — with space to ask, challenge, and contribute

Decisions you take back to your team

Leave with concrete ideas, patterns, and approaches you can apply in enterprise environment

Meaningful conversations with peers

Exchange ideas with platform teams, speakers, and experts — without the noise of large-scale events

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