Meet Crossplane in Amsterdam for KubeCon EU 2026!
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe is back in Amsterdam, and so are we. This year's edition is shaping up to be one of the most exciting yet for the Crossplane community, featuring end-user stories from major financial institutions and global tech companies, from API-driven infrastructure to self-healing platforms.
Whether you're just getting started with Crossplane, running it in production, or curious about where the project is headed, there's a session (or five) in this schedule with your name on it.
Find Us at the Project Pavilion
Stop by the Crossplane kiosk in the CNCF Project Pavilion (Kiosk #P-16) during Solutions Showcase hours:
- Tuesday, March 24: 10:45–19:00 CET
- Wednesday, March 25: 10:30–17:00 CET
- Thursday, March 26: 10:30–14:00 CET
Come ask questions, see demos of the latest work from the Crossplane community, and connect directly with Crossplane maintainers and community members. If you've been curious about where the project is headed, this is the place to find out.
Crossplane Sessions at KubeCon EU 2026
Start Here: The Crossplane Project Intro and Deep Dive
Crossplane: The Cloud Native Framework for Platform Engineering
Tuesday, March 24 | 15:15 – 15:45 CET | Amtrium 1+2
Jared Watts & Adam Wolfe Gordon, Upbound
New to Crossplane or want to catch up on the latest? This is the session to start with. Jared and Adam, two of Crossplane's core maintainers, will introduce the project, walk through key features, and share what's coming next. Expect demos and walkthroughs of current functionality, real-world use cases, and an interactive opportunity to engage directly with the maintainers. Whether you're at KubeCon to evaluate Crossplane for the first time or you've been building with it for years, this session covers something for everyone.
End-User Stories: Crossplane in Production
API-Driven Infrastructure as Code: Kubernetes APIs as the Contract Bridge Between Teams
Tuesday, March 24 | 11:15 – 11:45 CET | Hall 7, Room C
Florian Hopfensperger, Allianz Technology & Yury Tsarev, Upbound
How does one of the largest technology companies in insurance manage infrastructure across teams at scale? Florian and Yury will share how Allianz Technology is using Kubernetes APIs as the contract layer between platform and application teams, and what it looks like to treat your infrastructure as an API in a large enterprise. If you're navigating the organizational and technical challenges of API-driven infrastructure as code, or just getting started with it, this talk is for you.
From Alert Fatigue to Self-Healing: Building AI-Enabled Control Planes in Banking
Tuesday, March 24 | 16:15 – 16:45 CET | Hall 8, Room D
Nuno Guedes, Millennium bcp & Yury Tsarev, Upbound
Nuno and Yury will walk through how Millennium bcp is moving from reactive alert management toward proactive, AI-enabled, self-healing infrastructure. This is a real-world look at what it takes to build AI-enabled control planes in a highly regulated industry, and what Crossplane makes possible at the foundation.
From GitOps to AIOps: Evolving RBI's Kubernetes Platform with Crossplane and Sharded Kargo
Wednesday, March 25 | 11:00 – 11:30 CET | Forum
Gabor Horvath & Ewald Überall, Raiffeisen Bank International
Another major European financial institution sharing their Crossplane journey at KubeCon. Gabor and Ewald will share how Raiffeisen Bank International is evolving their Kubernetes platform from GitOps patterns toward AIOps, with Crossplane as the control plane backbone, and what Sharded Kargo brings to that picture.
From Projects to Products: The Sociotechnical Journey Behind Sony's Internal Cloud Platform
Wednesday, March 25 | 11:45 – 12:15 CET | Forum
Eugenia Bergman & Hagen Tonnies, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Platform engineering is as much a people and organizational challenge as a technical one. Eugenia and Hagen from Sony Interactive Entertainment will walk through how they transformed their internal cloud platform from a collection of projects into a real product, covering the cultural, structural, and technical shifts that made it possible. If you're on a platform team navigating the "projects to products" transition, this one is worth blocking out time for at KubeCon.
Invisible Guardrails: Enabling Developer Velocity With a Secure Platform
Wednesday, March 25 | 15:00 – 15:30 CET | Hall 8, Room F
James Elías Sigurðarson & Vignir Hafsteinsson, Asana
The best platform guardrails are the ones developers don't notice, until they realize they've been shipping fast without breaking things. The Asana team will show how they've built security and compliance into their platform in a way that accelerates developer velocity rather than blocking it. A must-see for anyone at KubeCon trying to balance governance with a great developer experience.
AI Meets Platform Engineering
Choose Your Own Adventure: AI Meets Internal Developer Platform Tuesday, March 24 | 15:15 – 15:45 CET | Hall 7, Room A
Whitney Lee, Datadog & Viktor Farcic, Upbound
Whitney and Viktor are back at KubeCon with an interactive format exploring what happens when AI becomes an interface layer for your internal developer platform. Expect real demos and a conversation about how AI agents can interact with and through control planes built on Crossplane.
More Crossplane Across the Week
Before KubeCon: Cloud Native Rejekts (Saturday, March 21)
Achieving Platform Engineering Multi-Tenancy with kcp and Crossplane
Cloud Native Rejekts | Saturday, March 21 | 17:00 CET | Room 2
Simon Bein, Kubermatic & Lovro Sviben, Upbound
The unofficial start to KubeCon week happens at Cloud Native Rejekts. Lovro Sviben, a Crossplane contributor, will be presenting on multi-tenancy in platform engineering using kcp and Crossplane. If you're arriving early for the weekend, this is a great way to kick off the conversations that will continue all week.
Project Lightning Talk (Monday, March 23)
Project Lightning Talk: What Can Crossplane Actually Do? A Real World Field Guide
Monday, March 23 | 12:27 - 12:32 CET | Elicium 2
Jonasz Łasut-Balcerzak, Baloise
Five minutes, one practitioner, real-world use cases. Jonasz will give a field guide to what Crossplane can actually do.
Platform Engineering Day (Monday, March 23)
The GitOps Paradox: Why Your Devs Need an API You Don't Want to Build
Monday, March 23 | 15:55 - 16:20 CET | Hall 8 | Room F
Simon Koudijs, ConfigButler
Simon makes the case for why developer-friendly APIs are the missing piece in most GitOps setups, and what it actually takes to build one that your teams will use.
Backend-First IDP: A Production Roadmap With Argo CD, Crossplane, and OPA
Monday, March 23 | 15:20 – 15:45 CET | Hall 8 | Room G
Abhinav Sharma, KodeKloud & Aditya Soni, Sailpoint
A practical production roadmap for building an internal developer platform using Argo CD, Crossplane, and OPA together, with real lessons from teams who've done it.
Party with the Crossplane Community
After a full day at KubeCon, come unwind with the Crossplane and Kubernetes community on Wednesday, March 25, at 6:00 PM. Upbound is hosting an evening for practitioners, contributors, and cloud-native builders at The Upside Down Amsterdam, an immersive museum just a 3-minute walk from RAI Amsterdam, featuring 25+ interactive rooms, optical illusions, and an LED light ball pit.
Free for KubeCon attendees, but spots are limited; come early. Register here.
See You in Amsterdam
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe runs March 23 – 26. The Crossplane community will be present before day zero, starting at Cloud Native Rejekts on the weekend, through Platform Engineering Day on Monday, all the way to the main conference and our community party on Wednesday evening.
Whether you're stopping by the Project Pavilion kiosk, catching talks throughout the week, or joining us at The Upside Down on Wednesday night, we can’t wait to meet you.
Come find us, ask hard questions, share what you're building, and help us figure out together what platform engineering looks like in 2026 and beyond.