Keynote: The Cloud Native Feedback Loop... Karena Angell, Katie Gamanji, Chad Beaudin & Ahmed Bebars

Don't miss out! Join us at our next KubeCon + CloudNativeCon events in Mumbai, India (18-19 June, 2026), Yokohama, Japan (29-30 July, 2026), and Shanghai, China (8-9 September, 2026). Connect with our current graduated, incubating, and sandbox projects as the community gathers to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing. Learn more at https://kubecon.io Keynote: The Cloud Native Feedback Loop: How End Users and Developers Drive CNCF Projects Forward - Karena Angell, Red Hat; Katie Gamanji, Apple; Chad Beaudin, Boeing Software Factory; Ahmed Bebars, The New York Times How do today’s reference architectures become real, production platforms built on CNCF projects that evolve, mature, and earn long-term trust? In this joint keynote, the CNCF End User Technical Advisory Board (TAB) and Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) cover the development and adoption perspectives, mapping reference architectures and real-world production needs to the project lifecycle decisions that shape the CNCF ecosystem. Along the way, they connect this technical and governance journey to the data and tools that support smarter decisions at scale, including LFX and LF Insights, showing how contributor health, adoption signals, and ecosystem metrics increasingly guide both end-user platform strategy and project stewardship.