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Conferences

Where WAF++ shows up — talks, workshops, and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions at leading cloud native and developer conferences. Come find us.

4 upcoming EU & USA Talks · Workshops · BoFs
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UPCOMING

Upcoming conferences featuring WAF++

Sessions, workshops, and community meetups. Click a card to find out more about the event.

PlatformCon Day London
PlatformCon Day London
23. Juni 2026 London, UK

The in-person day of PlatformCon — Europe's platform engineering community gathering in London. Deep-dive sessions on internal developer platforms, golden paths, and platform maturity. WAF++ joins with a talk and workshop on scoring platform readiness across cloud providers.

Artem Speaker & Workshop Host
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WeAreDevelopers World Congress
WeAreDevelopers World Congress
8.–10. Juli 2026 Berlin, Germany

One of Europe's largest developer conferences — 15,000+ attendees across tracks on cloud, AI, DevOps, security, and software architecture. WAF++ brings its developer experience pillar and assessment tooling to a broader engineering audience.

ContainerDays Hamburg 2026
ContainerDays Hamburg 2026
2.–4. September 2026 Hamburg, Germany

The cloud native experience conference in Hamburg — container-focused sessions on Kubernetes, observability, GitOps, and platform engineering. WAF++ presents its open governance model and scoring framework to the container community.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026
9.–12. November 2026 Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

The North American edition of the CNCF's flagship event — one of the world's largest open source gatherings. WAF++ brings its vendor-neutral assessment framework and community governance model to the global cloud native audience.

PAST EVENTS

Where WAF++ has been

Previous conferences where WAF++ was present — the community roots.

Cloud Native Conference 2026
Cloud Native Conference 2026
13. Mai 2026 Frankfurt, Germany

The leading German cloud native conference — and the home turf of WAF++. The full core team returns with a joint session on the future of hybrid and multi-cloud architecture assessment.

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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026
23.–26. März 2026 Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The flagship cloud native event by the CNCF — bringing together thousands of practitioners, contributors, and maintainers around Kubernetes, observability, security, and platform engineering. WAF++ is present with a talk and a hands-on workshop on vendor-neutral cloud architecture assessment.

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Cloud Native Conference 2025
Cloud Native Conference 2025
28. Mai 2025 Frankfurt, Germany

The founding moment of WAF++. Four talks by the core team — on IDP failures, cloud native security, microservice migration, and platform engineering maturity — sparked the idea to build a vendor-neutral, community-driven assessment framework.

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SPEAKERS

WAF++ speakers at upcoming events

The people representing WAF++ at conferences — click a profile to learn more.

Artem Lajko
Artem Lajko
Head Platform Engineering

Er ist Autor von Implementing GitOps with Kubernetes, Mitgründer von connectii.io und arbeitet als IT-Freelancer für verschiedene Verlage.

Tim Urlaub
Tim Urlaub
Lead Platform Engineer

Seine Leidenschaft ist es, Lösungen zu entwickeln, die es Entwicklern und (internen) Kunden ermöglichen, produktiver zu sein.

GET INVOLVED

Meet us & contribute

Our focus is open source: content, reviews, working groups, and in-person exchange at conferences. Every format is an entry point.

Sessions & BoFs

Find us at talks and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions — share real challenges, hear how others use WAF++, and shape the roadmap together.

Workshops

Hands-on sessions covering maturity models, scoring, and practical assessment — framework theory turned into engineering practice.

GitHub

Issues, PRs, and RFCs — everything happens in the open. Share use cases, propose criteria, review patterns. No minimum contribution size.

Contribute on GitHub →
Community formats
Conference talks
Framework concepts · Real case studies
Birds of a Feather
Open discussion · Community input
Workshops
Scoring · Maturity models · Assessment
Roadmap & RFC sessions
Shape what gets built next · Open to all
No invite required. Every session is open to anyone interested in cloud architecture.
SEE YOU THERE

Come talk to us.

Find us at the next event, open a GitHub Discussion, or just follow along. WAF++ is built in public — and the community is always open.

GitHub → Community & governance RFC tracker