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Hans Kristian Flaatten and CNCF Bright New World

Cloud Native Aarhus

Apr 23, 2:30 – 6:00 PM (UTC)

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About this event

AGENDA

16:30: Doors open

17:00: Welcome by Cloud Native Aarhus

17:10: Welcome by our host OK

17:15: Adventures of Building a Platform as a Service for the Government by Hans Kristian Flaatten, Platform Engineer at NAV

18:00: Break with food

18:30: Panel Discussion with local community members about the new trends in the world of CNCF

19:30: Networking

20:00: Doors close


Talk

Adventures of Building a Platform as a Service for the Government by Hans Kristian Flaatten, Platform Engineer at NAV

Who said that Government Tech has to be boring? In Norway the largest administration has been using Kubernetes for over 7 years! StatefulSets had just been introduced (alpha) and RBAC was still in beta. During this time we moved from quarterly releases to thousands of continuous releases each week across our fleet of cloud native applications!

Could we replicate the success we had at NAV for other agencies? Could we provide them with a fully managed platform as a service to let them focus on building new and innovative services for their users and not reinventing the wheel by building yet another platform?

In this session Hans Kristian will share their experience building and operating one of the largest platforms of its kind in Norway providing a fully fledged application development platform for more than a 100 product teams. And how they set an ambitious goal of being able to provide their platform as a service to other agencies.


Bio:

Hans Kristian Flaatten is a CNCF Abassasor, Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Cloud, Grafana Champion and a Platform Engineer at the Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration (NAV) working on Nais - a platform built to increase development speed by providing the best experience to build, run and operate applications.


Panel Discussion

As KubeCon EU just finalized, we will take a moment to discuss the exciting new trends and ideas the event has left us. 
The panel will consist of 3-4 local community members, who has been to KubeCon EU, and they will share their reflections on whatever the audiences will throw at them.

If you are going to KubeCon and want to share your thoughts on this years trends please reach out to us.


Panel members:

Lucy Sweet works as Platform Engineer at Uber, pretends she knows stuff about Kubernetes and likes to fly planes and learn new human languages in her spare time.
Mikkel Mørk Hegnhøj work as Head of Product at Fermyon. Has been building cloud services for the last 10 years, while following trends in cloud and have been part of incubating and contributing to CNCF projects over the years.

TBA...

Speaker

  • Hans Kristian Flaatten

    NAV

    Platform Engineer

Panelists

  • Lucy Sweet

    Uber

    Platform Engineer

  • Mikkel Mørk Hegnhøj

    Fermyon

    Head of Developer Relations

When

When

Wednesday, April 23, 2025
2:30 PM – 6:00 PM (UTC)

Organizers

  • Kasper Borg Nissen

    Dash0

    Lead Organizer

  • Rasmus Steiniche

    Neurospace

    Lead Organizer

  • Ophelia Zhang Dalsgaard

    Danske Bank

    Modernization and Engineering Lead

  • Henrik Høegh

    VELUX

    Digital Platform Owner

  • Henrik Løvborg

    Red Hat

    Tech Sales Lead Denmark

  • Stefan Daugaard

    Eficode

    Senior DevOps Consultant

  • Ryan Gough

    JYSK

    Senior IT Operations Specialist / Platform at JYSK

  • Kasper Tygesen

    OK a.m.b.a.

    Chief Solutions Architect

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