Francesco is a Security Professional with 10+ years of working experience and deep technical competence matured on a number of high-end projects for both public and private sector organizations. Francesco had the opportunity of working on a variety of technology stacks in designing and implementing complex security architectures in both the IT and OT spaces, from Cloud to mission-critical/safety-critical/high-assurance infrastructure. Francesco does enjoy to manage teams of highly-skilled Security Professionals, setting and implementing security objectives,strategy and culture.

Passionate about coding from an early age, Fabio has always been fascinated by low-level topics like kernel architecture and memory management, and recently by innovative technologies like Kubernetes and eBPF.

Fabio joined Isovalent in June 2022 eager to contribute to the Cilium project.

When he's not in front of a screen, he likes to ride sports motorbikes and lift weights.

Starting as an Administrator I slowly transformed into the Role of an SRE/Platform Engineer. I started with technologies like Elasticsearch and slowly got into Kubernetes as it became the hot new thing. Nowadays I try to improve the experience of our Kubernetes platform for our customers and users.

Carla has been managing events since 2011. She started with experimental music festivals and eventually ended up in Tech, where she fell in love with its Community. During her career she has produced and run many conferences (yes, also the virtual ones!), meetups, webinars and hackathons.

She currently heads the Content, Events & Community Department at Container Solutions, leading and implementing the content and event strategy around the WTF is Cloud Native brand, the Software Circus community as well as all Container Solutions’ marketing campaigns. She is also one of the co-founders of the Flyless.dev meetup, an OpenUK Ambassador and the current CNCF Marketing Committee Chair.

Carla drinks way too much tea (mainly green), has an unhealthy obsession for Japan and a big passion for art, music, cinema, philosophy and fashion.

Pronoun is She/Her, most of the time.

Jade currently heads up the Marketing team at Container Solutions, a global Cloud Native Transformation consultancy, and the talented team behind 'WTF is Cloud Native?'

She started out in advertising where she built her career over 11 years at some of South Africa's top global agencies, moving to the Netherlands as an integrated Creative Director. She’s judged and won local and international awards and was ranked 3rd top art director across Africa and the Middle East by the Loeries Awards in 2018.

Being a problem solver at heart combined with her passion and determination to add value to people’s lives, her transition from Creative Director to Creative Strategist felt like a natural progression. Jade is passionate about understanding people, identifying human truths, strategically defining them and creatively solving them.

Daniel Oh is a Senior Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat to evangelize developers for building Cloud-Native Microservices and Serverless Functions with Cloud-Native Runtimes(i.e. Quarkus, Spring Boot, Node.js) and OpenShift/Kubernetes. Daniel also continues to contribute to various cloud open-source projects and ecosystems as a CNCF ambassador for accelerating DevOps adoption in enterprises. He's speaking at lots of technical seminars, workshops, and meetups to elaborate on new emerging technologies for enterprise developers & DevOps teams.

Ingegnere informatico, amante dell'arte e del vino, metallara, nerd q.b., attualmente impegnata a potenziare le mie conoscenze di magia DevOps. Costantemente alla ricerca di modi creativi e fuori dagli schemi per affrontare il problem-solving quotidiano (anche se spegnere e riaccendere resta sempre la soluzione migliore).

Engineer and Kubernetes enthusiast. I work as a software developer, always keeping in mind also the final infrastructure. This approach has sparked my interest in the management of the cloud resources hosting the cloud native application. I think that Kubernetes will be the engine for each piece of software in the coming years.

Kunal is empowering communities via open-source and education. He finds passion in teaching and has taught thousands of folks online and in person. He is currently a developer relations manager at Civo, CNCF Ambassador, track chair of the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon student track, Major League Hacking Coach. He is the founder of Kubeworld, Community Classroom, and also started the official Cloud Native Student Community group joined by thousands of students, focussed on getting more young people involved in the ecosystem.