KubeAuto Day Amsterdam, the first event of its kind dedicated to AI-driven Kubernetes automation and autonomous infrastructure, took place at the Amstel Boathouse, drawing 800+ practitioners from leading companies across the cloud-native ecosystem. Sponsor Co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026, the event brought together platform engineering and DevOps teams, ML/MLOps practitioners, and SREs for a full day of production war stories, technical deep dives, and hands-on workshops.
KubeAuto Day Amsterdam, organized by Cast AI, featured 32 speakers representing organizations including DKB, Millennium bcp, Picnic, Google Cloud, Red Hat, ControlPlane, Container Solutions, Qodo, CLASTIX, Stack8s, Civo, and Aethir. The lineup underscored how widely the autonomous operations conversation has spread across the industry.
What the Community Came to Discuss
The day opened with Nana Janashia (TechWorld with Nana) and her talk “DevOps Career in the Age of AI: Is DevOps Still Relevant?”. With over 1.4 million YouTube subscribers, Nana brought a perspective that bridges the gap between the practitioner community and the industry at large.
The day followed with a fireside from Kelsey Hightower, who set the tone with his talk “From ‘The Hard Way’ to ‘The Invisible Way’”, making the case that the goal of a mature platform is to eventually disappear from view entirely, freeing engineers to focus on application logic while infrastructure manages itself.
Production sessions from Michael Walorski (DKB) and Filipe Revez & Pedro Cachaldora (Millennium bcp) grounded the conversation in regulated-industry reality, covering what automation actually looks like inside a bank, and the cost implications of multi-region high availability that rarely make it into architecture diagrams.
The midday Conversation Between CTOs featuring Daniel Gebler (Picnic) and Leon Kuperman (Cast AI) drew one of the day’s strongest audiences, with an unscripted discussion on what automation looks like at scale and where it still falls short.
The AI Panel drew a full room, featuring voices from Civo, TechWorld with Nana, MintyCode, Aethir, and Cast AI, which cut through the hype around AI-driven infrastructure.
All sessions will be available soon, and available to watch on Youtube in the coming weeks.
A Global Movement Was Born
KubeAuto Day Amsterdam was the first event in a global series. The series is now heading to São Paulo on May 27, followed by Mumbai and the US later in the year.
The thread running through the entire series is what the community is calling “complexity shifting down”: the idea that the maturity of autonomous operations isn’t measured by what a system can do, but by how much toil it absorbs. The lineup of speakers at KubeAuto Day Amsterdam, from regulated financial institutions to hyperscaler advocates at Google Cloud and Red Hat, suggests this thesis is resonating well beyond the startup world.
About KubeAuto Day
KubeAuto Day is a global practitioner event series focused on AI-driven Kubernetes automation and autonomous infrastructure. Organized by Cast AI, the series brings together platform engineering teams, DevOps and SRE practitioners, and ML/MLOps engineers at key moments when the cloud-native community converges around the world.
