Cloud Native Back to the Future - The Road Ahead

Explore the future of cloud native computing in this keynote presentation delivered by Jeremy Rickard, Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft, and Alex Chircop, Chief Architect at Akamai. Discover how the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is evolving as it celebrates its 10th anniversary, now hosting over 200 projects across the cloud native landscape. Learn about the emerging challenges and opportunities facing the community, including security, sustainability, complexity management, and new workloads like AI inference and agents. Examine how new projects are addressing emerging workloads, their impact on security hygiene within the ecosystem, and how existing projects are adapting to meet new realities. Understand the CNCF's evolution to support the next generation of computing as the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) highlights opportunities to shape future applications. Gain insights into how the cloud native community will power the age of AI, intelligent systems, and beyond while ensuring the ecosystem continues to thrive through this transformative period.