StrimziCon 2025 - VIRTUAL

Jun 4, 12:00 – 5:00 PM (UTC)

Virtual Project Events (Hosted by CNCF)

StrimziCon is an event for developers, DevOps engineers, and solution architects who want to learn about Strimzi and event streaming.

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About this event

StrimziCon is an event for developers, DevOps engineers, and solution architects who want to learn about Strimzi and event streaming. Strimzi is an operator for running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes. This event will bring together the Strimzi community, and you will learn from experts and users about use cases, best practices, and their experience using Strimzi in their organizations. If you are working with cloud-native technologies, and you are looking for how to deal with data in motion in a cloud-based environment, don’t miss the opportunity.

StrimziCon 2025 VIRTUAL topics include:

Core Strimzi: Deep dive into a specific component or feature.

Case Studies: Provide an overview of a use case or review of a real life Strimzi deployment, highlighting difficulties, lessons learned, and key takeaways.

Integrations: Explore how Strimzi integrates with other CNCF projects, such as OpenTelemetry, KEDA and more.

Operations: Share insights into what it takes to run Strimzi and maintain cluster in production.

Speakers

  • Paolo Patierno

    Red Hat

    Senior Principal Software Engineer

  • Kate Stanley

    Red Hat

    Principal Software Engineer

  • Björn Löfroth

    Irori AB

    Kafka Solution Ninja

  • Thomas Cooper

    Red Hat

    Senior Principal Software Engineer

  • Mingdi Mao

    Apple

    Senior Software Engineer

  • Chongling Zhu

    Apple

    Software Engineer

  • Haochen Li

    Apple

    Software Engineer

  • Aswin A

    IBM

    Staff Engineer

  • Neel Shah

    Middleware.io

    Developer Advocate

  • Federico Valeri

    Red Hat

    Senior Software Engineer

  • Owen Corrigan

    Red Hat

    Software Engineer

  • Mickael Maison

    Red Hat

    Senior Principal Software Engineer

  • Gantigmaa Selenge

    Red Hat

    Senior Software Engineer

Moderators

  • Paolo Patierno

    Red Hat

    Senior Principal Software Engineer

  • Kate Stanley

    Red Hat

    Principal Software Engineer

Judges

  • Paolo Patierno

    Red Hat

    Senior Principal Software Engineer

  • Kate Stanley

    Red Hat

    Principal Software Engineer

  • Yaodong Yang

    Apple

    Staff Software Engineer

  • Colt McNealy

    LittleHorse Enterprises

    Founder and CEO

  • Dale Lane

    IBM

    Chief Architect

  • Daniel Mulder

    Axual

    Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer

  • Gantigmaa Selenge

    Red Hat

    Senior Software Engineer

  • Maros Orsak

    Red Hat

    Senior Software Quality Engineer

When

When

Wednesday, June 4, 2025
12:00 PM – 5:00 PM (UTC)

Agenda

12:00 PMKeynote: Strimzi past, present and future (Kate Stanley & Paolo Patierno @ Red Hat)
12:30 PMPhased upgrades of Strimzi managed Kafka fleets (Thomas Cooper @ Red Hat)
1:10 PMStretching Strimzi: Exploring Multi-Cluster Kafka for High Availability (Aswin A @ IBM)
1:50 PMStrimzi & OpenTelemetry: Building End-to-End Observability for Kafka on Kubernetes (Neel Shah @ Middleware.io)
2:30 PMWhen GitOps goes wrong, and other challenges for Strimzi platform teams (Björn Löfroth @ Irori AB)
3:10 PMImproving Kafka monitoring with native Prometheus Metrics Reporter (Owen Corrigan, Federico Valeri, Mickael Maison @ Red Hat)
3:50 PMCost Efficient Network for Strimzi Kafka Operator (Haochen Li, Mingdi Mao, Chongling Zhu @ Apple)
4:30 PMManaging a Kafka cluster in KRaft mode with Strimzi (Gantigmaa Selenge @ Red Hat)

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