Cloud Foundry Summit 2026

Cloud Foundry Summit 2026

21- 22 September | Heidelberg, Germany
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08:30 CEST

Registration & Badge Pick-Up

Tuesday September 22, 2026 08:30 - 15:30 CEST

Tuesday September 22, 2026 08:30 - 15:30 CEST
Foyer

Breaks + Meals + Special Events

09:00 CEST

Welcome Back

Tuesday September 22, 2026 09:00 - 09:05 CEST

Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2

Tuesday September 22, 2026 09:00 - 09:05 CEST
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Session Presentation

09:05 CEST

Walk Like a Cloud Foundry (Moving IaaSs With No Downtime) - Kevin Rutten & Xiujiao Gao, FiveTwenty Inc.

Tuesday September 22, 2026 09:05 - 09:15 CEST

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Cloud Foundry was built for boring operations. Rolling deploys, canaries, health checks, resurrection, and high availability are part of how the platform works. This talk applies those same ideas to a larger change: moving a live Cloud Foundry foundation from one IaaS to another without application downtime.

We will describe a real migration from an on-prem IaaS to OpenStack. The talk will cover the migration strategy, BOSH and CPI considerations, network and routing changes, foundation sequencing, service constraints, validation points, rollback planning, and the operational choices that kept the platform available throughout the move.

This is not a rebuild story or "The snap migration". It is a walking story: moving the platform in controlled steps while preserving developer experience, application availability, and operator confidence.

Speakers

Kevin Rutten

FiveTwenty - Sr Cloud Engineer, FiveTwenty Inc

From his first 8-bit computer to setting up new Data Centres, Kevin Rutten's passion for technology has guided his career. Starting with Ruby development, he joined Engine Yard, and later Stark & Wayne, where he specialized in BOSh/Cloud Foundry and K8s. Today he works with FiveTwenty... Read More →

Xiujiao Gao

COO, FiveTwenty Inc.

Dr. Xiujiao Gao is Co-Founder and COO of FiveTwenty Inc., bringing more than 15 years of experience in the CF community. Her platform architect background helps her guide clients through both technical decisions and long-term technology investments. She has led teams in BOSH & CF... Read More →

Tuesday September 22, 2026 09:05 - 09:15 CEST
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Session Presentation

09:15 CEST

Setting up a Local Cloud Foundry Playground in Under 10 Minutes - Nicolas Bender, SAP SE

Tuesday September 22, 2026 09:15 - 09:20 CEST

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Getting classic Cloud Foundry running locally with BOSH can be a big challenge for both newcomers and experienced developers. This entry barrier discourages first-time users before they can experience their first cf push, and the complex setup process slows down development and testing workflows for everyone. This lightning talk demonstrates kind-deployment, a containerized alternative that provides the complete Cloud Foundry ecosystem including UAA, Diego, CAPI, and all the familiar components without requiring BOSH or virtual machines.

The approach uses the exact same Cloud Foundry components you already know, simply deployed through a different installation method. In this session, we will walk through setting up this environment and explore practical use cases such as local component development and quick integration testing across a full Cloud Foundry landscape.

Speakers

Nicolas Bender

Software Engineer, SAP SE

I have been at SAP for over 7 years, 2 of which on the Cloud Foundry team exploring new ways to evolve the platform.

Tuesday September 22, 2026 09:15 - 09:20 CEST
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Lighting Talk

09:20 CEST

Concourse Working Group Update - Taylor Silva, Pixel Air IO

Tuesday September 22, 2026 09:20 - 09:30 CEST

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Update on the Concourse working group, covering the upcoming roadmap and recent changes to Concourse in the past year.

Speakers

Taylor Silva

Concourse Maintainer, Pixel Air IO

Maintainer of Concourse CI

Tuesday September 22, 2026 09:20 - 09:30 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2

Working Group Update

09:30 CEST

All Roads Lead To Cloud Foundry: Two Strategies for Continuous Deployment Pipeline Implementation - Susanne Salzmann, SAP

Tuesday September 22, 2026 09:30 - 09:35 CEST

Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2

How do you approach continuous deployment pipelines when your systems have fundamentally different architectures? We recently tackled this question while implementing pipelines for two Cloud Foundry components: App Autoscaler and Application Memory Metering (AMM).

App Autoscaler is a complex, multi-service system with numerous applications and dependencies. AMM is a straightforward single-application service. Despite their architectural differences, both needed continuous deployment pipelines—but the paths we took were quite different.

In this talk, we'll compare the two Python pipeline implementations, exploring how system complexity shapes your deployment strategy, what architectural patterns emerged, and which lessons apply regardless of your system's scale.

Speakers

Susanne Salzmann

Senior Developer, SAP

2005-2009 PhD student at Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf
2010-2011 Postdoc (Carlsberg Foundation) at Aarhus University
2011-2013 Senior Scientist, Technical Support at Schrödinger
2014-2021 Research Scientist at BASF
Since 2022 part of SAP's BTP area

Tuesday September 22, 2026 09:30 - 09:35 CEST
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Lighting Talk

09:35 CEST

Declarative Deployments on Cloud Foundry With MultiApps - Arsalan Khan & Silvestre Zabala, SAP SE

Tuesday September 22, 2026 09:35 - 09:45 CEST

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This talk explores how we achieved a fully declarative deployment model on Cloud Foundry while re-platforming the App Autoscaler from a BOSH deployment to CF-native applications.

BOSH deployments provided reproducible manifests, environment-specific customization through ops files and a clear separation between deployment intent and deployment execution. Recreating those capabilities with standard Cloud Foundry manifests proved challenging for a system composed of multiple services, applications, and dependencies.

In this session, we'll share the lesson learned from modernizing App Autoscaler and how we used Cloud Foundry Foundation Project, MultiApps Controller and the MTA (Multi-Target Application) model to get to a declarative deployment experience for complex Cloud Foundry applications. We will demonstrate how MultiApps and the MTA model helped us manage configurations, coordinate multiple components, and deliver consistent deployments across environments.

Attendees will learn how MultiApps project can simplify the deployment and operation of complex Cloud Foundry applications through declarative configuration, deployment orchestration and consistent environment management.

Speakers

Arsalan Khan

Software Engineer, SAP SE

Software Engineer at SAP focused on cloud platforms and application scalability. Maintainer and approver of the Cloud Foundry Application Autoscaler project. Currently contributing to SAP BTP Cloud Foundry stack delivering automatic application scaling capabilities as part of the... Read More →

Silvestre Zabala

Platform Engineering Manager, SAP SE

Silvestre joined SAP in 2017 and worked on various projects related to the SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry Environment and is currently platform engineering manager for teams taking care of CF Cloud Controller, app-autoscaler and logging and metrics.

Tuesday September 22, 2026 09:35 - 09:45 CEST
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Session Presentation

09:45 CEST

“Duct Tape” That Scales: Making CF Network & Route Policies Human-Friendly - Harry Metske, Rabobank

Tuesday September 22, 2026 09:45 - 10:10 CEST

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Anyone who has tried to manage Cloud Foundry network and route policies via infrastructure-as-code knows the pain: everything revolves around org, space, and app GUIDs, values that are not meant for human consumption.
We built a pragmatic solution, yes, a bit of “duct tape”, that abstracts away GUIDs and allows policies to be defined using familiar org, space, and application names. The result is a simpler, safer, and far more maintainable policy management.
Beyond usability, we also address a key challenge: securely managing network policies between orgs and spaces owned by different teams.
In this talk, we’ll share:

* The design and trade-offs of our approach.
* How we handle cross-org policy ownership safely.
* Lessons learned from running this in production.

Finally, we’ll open the discussion to the broader community: should this kind of “duct tape” evolve into a standard Cloud Foundry capability? What would it take to make that transition, and where should it live in the ecosystem?

Speakers

Harry Metske

Solution Architect, Rabobank

I have been working in IT for almost 40 years, starting in IBM Mainframe systems programming, doing WebSphere Application Server on IBM Mainframe, AIX and Linux, and the last 9 years working as a Solution Architect and Engineer on Cloud Foundry.
I spent most of my time with Rabobank as my employer... Read More →

Tuesday September 22, 2026 09:45 - 10:10 CEST
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Session Presentation

10:10 CEST

Morning Break

Tuesday September 22, 2026 10:10 - 10:40 CEST

Tuesday September 22, 2026 10:10 - 10:40 CEST
Foyer

Breaks + Meals + Special Events

10:40 CEST

A Field Guide To Reliable BOSH CPI Design: Lessons From Six CPIs While Building a Proxmox CPI - Wayne E Seguin, FiveTwenty Inc

Tuesday September 22, 2026 10:40 - 11:05 CEST

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Building a CPI is not only a matter of implementing methods. It is a set of design choices about how BOSH expresses placement, identity, storage, networking, recovery, and operator intent on a specific platform.

We learned this while building a Proxmox VE CPI for Cloud Foundry BOSH. As part of that work, we studied six existing CPIs—AWS, Azure, Google, OpenStack, vSphere, and Alicloud—from their handler code, not just their documentation. We looked for the techniques each CPI uses to preserve the BOSH contract while adapting to its IaaS.

This session distills that work into a practical guide for CPI authors, platform engineers, and BOSH operators. We will compare the concepts every CPI must handle: placement, lifecycle identity, disk and stemcell management, networking, long-running operations, retry boundaries, rollback, hooks, observability, and operator controls.

Proxmox is the case study, but the talk is about CPI design. We will show how platform capabilities shape implementation choices, what belongs in the CPI, what belongs in the platform, and what should remain configurable.

Speakers

Wayne E Seguin

CEO, FiveTwenty Inc

Wayne is always working to build a healthy future for and values healthy respectful relationships most. Creator of RVM & long time OSS contributor. Personally committed to developer enablement & education using cloud platforms & distributed systems.

Tuesday September 22, 2026 10:40 - 11:05 CEST
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Session Presentation

11:05 CEST

WG Update and Plannings From of UAA - Markus Strehle, SAP SE

Tuesday September 22, 2026 11:05 - 11:15 CEST

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The User Account and Authentication (UAA) Server controls the authentication and access in classic Cloudfoundry landscapes. In can also connect external security domains and the internal CF landscape. UAA provides OIDC but also acts as OAuth2 server.

What you can expect:
Present the protocol updates from last talk in CF summit 2024
- OIDC updates to UAA from last 2 year, e.g.
* Spring Boot 4 using OpenSAML 5
* CF Login with a JWT instead of a password
* OAuth 2.1 support
- Planned UAA Updates in the Context of MCP
* RFCs needed to work in MCP environments, e.g. RFC 8414 (Metadata), RFC 7591 (DCR)

Speakers

Markus Strehle

Development Expert, SAP SE

Working since more than 20 years in security area on authentication standards, mainly to support federation protocols , e.g. SAML2.0 and nowadays OIDC.

Tuesday September 22, 2026 11:05 - 11:15 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2

Working Group Update

11:15 CEST

Prometheus BOSH Release V3 - Fabian Kittel, anynines & Benjamin Guttmann, anynines GmbH

Tuesday September 22, 2026 11:15 - 11:20 CEST

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Abstract:
The Prometheus BOSH Release helps set up a powerful monitoring system for Cloud Foundry and beyond. With the Prometheus BOSH Release v31.0.0, Prometheus v3 has been introduced, which brings a major upgrade. Such major upgrades need to be planned in advance and implemented in a way that is applicable to operators to prevent issues and risks, such as data loss. This talk is not about the binary update, but migration design.

Outline & Takeaways:
What changed between Prometheus v2 and v3
How much effort is needed for such a migration (Maintainer / Operator)
How to design such a migration to minimize risks for the operator

Speakers

Fabian Kittel

DevOps, anynines

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Benjamin Guttmann

Senior Dev Ops, anynines

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Tuesday September 22, 2026 11:15 - 11:20 CEST
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Lighting Talk

11:20 CEST

BOSH CPI for STACKIT Open Source Announcement - Maurice Brinkmann, Schwarz Digits Cloud GmbH & Co. KG

Tuesday September 22, 2026 11:20 - 11:25 CEST

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Building a Cloud Provider Interface (CPI) is no quick journey. After a previous attempt to open source the STACKIT BOSH CPI before the last CF Day fell through, Maurice is thrilled to finally announce its official open source release at this Cloud Foundry Summit! In this 5-minute lightning talk, Maurice will quickly show what is implemented and powering Cloud Foundry installations in production for several month now.

Speakers

Maurice Brinkmann

Product Owner STACKIT Cloud Foundry, Schwarz Digits Cloud GmbH & Co. KG

Maurice Brinkmann is the Product Owner for STACKIT Cloud Foundry at Schwarz Digits Cloud, where he has been shaping cloud solutions since 2021. A long-time community member, Maurice has been "cf pushing" apps and attending CF conferences for over a decade. He thrives on driving challenging... Read More →

Tuesday September 22, 2026 11:20 - 11:25 CEST
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Lighting Talk

11:25 CEST

Buildpacks Are Kicking Again! Where Do They Go Next? - Vladimir Pavlov, SAP Labs Bulgaria

Tuesday September 22, 2026 11:25 - 11:35 CEST

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A year ago all classic community buildpack projects looked almost dead: issues, requests, and questions piling up, no new releases happening. Then a small rescue squad came up and revived them. The entire build and release infra was moved to and restarted in the CF Foundation. Not only that but all buildpacks were also implemented to support the new cflinuxfs5 stack. The Java buildpack's implementation was completely revamped and harmonized with all others'.

We look at these milestones, how they were achieved, and what lies ahead, including where help is still needed and welcome.

Speakers

Vladimir Pavlov

Senior Product Manager, SAP Labs Bulgaria

Vladimir is a Senior Product Manager at SAP. He has 25 years of experience with enterprise architectures, distributed systems, cloud platforms, application programming models. He has also served on the Java EE Expert Group and the JCP Executive Committee. His current activities are... Read More →

Tuesday September 22, 2026 11:25 - 11:35 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2

Working Group Update

11:35 CEST

Resurrection of the PHP and Ruby Paketo Buildpacks - Benjamin Guttmann, anynines GmbH

Tuesday September 22, 2026 11:35 - 11:45 CEST

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The Paketo Cloud Native Buildpack Repositories are highly automated to ensure automatic CVE fixes and version bumps, but what happens when the automation gets stuck and no one is responsible to look after it? This talk describes the work that was done to “revive” the Ruby and PHP related Paketo buildpacks after being stuck for up to 2 years to in the end ensure automatic bumps and CVE fixes are happening again.

Speakers

Benjamin Guttmann

Senior Dev Ops, anynines

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Tuesday September 22, 2026 11:35 - 11:45 CEST
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Session Presentation

11:45 CEST

Three Reasons Why Buildpacks Are Best Paired With AI - Ram Iyengar, Cloud Foundry

Tuesday September 22, 2026 11:45 - 11:50 CEST

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In recent years, AI has completely transformed programming. No one writes code anymore. Almost No one. However, What happens after code gets written is still largely governed by traditional software release Paradigms.
A large number of “ Vibe coders” tend to use Netlify or Vercel For deployment. The reason is easy to Decipher. Write your code and hand it off to a sophisticated method of deployment. This is limited by the language and frameworks One can use, In this case, JavaScript.
Which other platform has the capability to take code written in any language or framework and transform that into an immutable artifact, Deployable to staging? You You guessed it, right - Cloud foundry. And the reason it can is because of buildpacks.
In this talk, I intend to cover some of the internals of buildpacks and the developer experience they enable, especially when paired with code generation tools.

Speakers

Ram Iyengar

Chief Evangelist, CF

Ram Iyengar is an engineer by practice and an educator at heart. He was (cf) pushed into technology evangelism along his journey as a developer and hasn’t looked back since! He enjoys helping engineering teams around the world discover new and creative ways to work. He is a proponent... Read More →

Tuesday September 22, 2026 11:45 - 11:50 CEST
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Lighting Talk

11:50 CEST

Cloud Foundry Weekly: Live at CF Summit 2026! - Nick Kuhn, Broadcom

Tuesday September 22, 2026 11:50 - 12:15 CEST

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Join the Cloud Foundry Weekly crew for a show built around real-world Cloud Foundry users and, as we usually do, we're doing it live on stage. We're bringing users and contributors into the same conversation to talk about how their organizations actually run on Cloud Foundry day to day, focusing on the practical stuff rather than the marketing version. We'll close out the show by connecting the dots between the work contributors put in and how it shows up in the real world, powering the systems people rely on every day.
Are you running Cloud Foundry in production? We want to hear your story. Come join us on stage and tell the community how CF works for you.

Speakers

Nick Kuhn

Application Marketing Engineer, Broadcom

Nick Kuhn is an Application Marketing Engineer at Broadcom, working on Tanzu Platform and co-hosting Cloud Foundry Weekly. He's spent years deep in Cloud Foundry — BOSH, Ops Manager tiles, and platform operations — after starting as a VI admin and growing into DevOps, SRE, and... Read More →

Tuesday September 22, 2026 11:50 - 12:15 CEST
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Session Presentation

12:15 CEST

Attendee Lunch

Tuesday September 22, 2026 12:15 - 13:30 CEST

Tuesday September 22, 2026 12:15 - 13:30 CEST
Foyer

Breaks + Meals + Special Events

13:30 CEST

AI Agents on Cloud Foundry: Inside the AI / LLM Working Group - Ruben Koster, Rabobank

Tuesday September 22, 2026 13:30 - 13:40 CEST

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AI agents and LLM-powered workloads are reshaping application architectures—but how should they run on Cloud Foundry?

The Cloud Foundry AI / LLM Working Group was formed to address this challenge. This session shares its progress, early learnings, and emerging direction.

Teams are already introducing agents without clear models for identity, authorization, lifecycle, and governance—leading to fragmentation and operational risk. The working group explores how to make agents first-class platform actors: with identities, space-level permissions, and managed lifecycles.

Topics include:

* Early patterns for running agents alongside applications in CF
* Key challenges in security, orchestration, and operations
* An evolving vision for platform-native AI workloads aligned with CF principles

The session concludes with concrete ways to contribute and help shape the direction.

Discover how the CF ecosystem is evolving to support AI workloads in a secure and operable way.

Speakers

Ruben Koster

Upstream contributor - Cloud Foundry, Rabobank

Cloud Foundry TOC Member

Tuesday September 22, 2026 13:30 - 13:40 CEST
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Working Group Update

13:40 CEST

AI on the Edge: Running a Ternary LLM as a Cloud Foundry App - Maurice Brinkmann, Schwarz Digits Cloud GmbH & Co. KG

Tuesday September 22, 2026 13:40 - 13:45 CEST

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Running Large Language Models typically requires massive, expensive GPU resources—but the landscape is shifting rapidly. In this 5-minute lightning talk, Maurice will demonstrate how to deploy a fully functional AI inference engine directly on Cloud Foundry using standard compute resources.

Maurice will showcase the magic of 1.58-bit ternary models, specifically running Falcon3 Edge via the BitNet framework. The attendees will see how these heavily quantized, low-memory models make it perfectly viable to push an LLM as a standard CF app without melting the underlying infrastructure. Maurice will quickly walk the attendees through the deployment steps, highlight the container footprint, and prove it works with a live, on-platform prompt execution.

Speakers

Maurice Brinkmann

Product Owner STACKIT Cloud Foundry, Schwarz Digits Cloud GmbH & Co. KG

Maurice Brinkmann is the Product Owner for STACKIT Cloud Foundry at Schwarz Digits Cloud, where he has been shaping cloud solutions since 2021. A long-time community member, Maurice has been "cf pushing" apps and attending CF conferences for over a decade. He thrives on driving challenging... Read More →

Tuesday September 22, 2026 13:40 - 13:45 CEST
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Lighting Talk

13:45 CEST

Shifting Left With Coding Agents - Verifying CF Changes Before You Push - Joris Baum, SAP

Tuesday September 22, 2026 13:45 - 13:50 CEST

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CI is where most CF contributors find out their change broke something. By then the context is cold and the feedback loop is long. cf-on-kind already gives us a fast local CF - what's missing is the glue: figuring out which image to rebuild for this change, swapping it into the cluster, and finding a sensible test command for this release.

This lightning talk shows a small portable skill for your coding agent that automates that glue. The agent reads the repo, calls a deterministic redeploy script, picks a test command from the release's conventions, and reports back. It's a few hundred lines of code + Markdown.

The broader point: coding agents are a practical way to shift verification left without replacing existing toolchains.

Speakers

Joris Baum

Software Engineer, SAP, SAP

Joris Baum hacks on Cloud Foundry at SAP — mostly around loggregator and the rest of the observability stack. On the side he occasionally contributes to IETF. Has talked at FOSDEM and PromCon. Interests: developer tooling, ops, and lately what coding agents can do for both.

Tuesday September 22, 2026 13:45 - 13:50 CEST
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Lighting Talk

13:50 CEST

Cloud Foundry Powers Agentic Development at Broadcom - Nick Kuhn, Broadcom

Tuesday September 22, 2026 13:50 - 14:00 CEST

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Cloud Foundry has quietly become the platform powering agentic AI development across Broadcom's engineering org. This is the story of how that happened.
When Broadcom's Global Technology Organization rolled out AI coding assistants to developers, the hard part wasn't the model; it was governance. MCP is still an early, fast-moving standard, not yet enterprise-ready, and giving agents access to internal tools raised real stakes: protecting intellectual property, keeping the software supply chain intact, and preserving data privacy. GTO's first instinct was to lock MCP servers down, but that restriction blocked the very goal of scaling coding assistants across the company. The real problem wasn't whether to allow MCP; it was how to enable it safely.
This talk shows how GTO used Cloud Foundry as the application platform for Model Context Protocol servers: pushing MCP servers as first-class CF apps, fronting them with platform routing and identity, chaining agent functions across internal tools, and gaining the per-server observability needed to tune performance and control costs.

Speakers

Nick Kuhn

Application Marketing Engineer, Broadcom

Nick Kuhn is an Application Marketing Engineer at Broadcom, working on Tanzu Platform and co-hosting Cloud Foundry Weekly. He's spent years deep in Cloud Foundry — BOSH, Ops Manager tiles, and platform operations — after starting as a VI admin and growing into DevOps, SRE, and... Read More →

Tuesday September 22, 2026 13:50 - 14:00 CEST
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Session Presentation

14:00 CEST

Stratos New and Improved, the AI Way - Norman Abramovitz & Xiujiao Gao, FiveTwenty Inc.

Tuesday September 22, 2026 14:00 - 14:10 CEST

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This is the story of how Stratos came back alive after years of package rot. Following the Angular way of upgrading from version to version and making code improvements would take forever. How do you cut in line to get to the latest Angular version?

How did we reshape the Stratos calls to allow upgrades without having to redo the frontend with every change?

Speakers

Norman Abramovitz

Program Manager, FiveTwenty Inc

Norman Abramovitz is currently a Program Director at FiveTwenty Inc. He has decades of computer science experience, mainly in software development. Some of the projects he worked on include secure networking, secure operating systems, relational databases, and medical instrumentation... Read More →

Xiujiao Gao

COO, FiveTwenty Inc.

Dr. Xiujiao Gao is Co-Founder and COO of FiveTwenty Inc., bringing more than 15 years of experience in the CF community. Her platform architect background helps her guide clients through both technical decisions and long-term technology investments. She has led teams in BOSH & CF... Read More →

Tuesday September 22, 2026 14:00 - 14:10 CEST
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Working Group Update

14:10 CEST

Can Cloud Foundry Host AI Agents? Exploring the Art of the Possible - Adib Saikali, Broadcom

Tuesday September 22, 2026 14:10 - 14:35 CEST

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AI agents are becoming operational workloads. Picture a pull-request reviewer powered by an AI coding agent: when a PR opens, it clones the repository, analyzes the changes, runs tests, performs a security review, leaves comments, and disappears. What would it take to run that on Cloud Foundry?

First we need a way to think about it. We introduce a framework for understanding what AI agents need from a platform — a small set of dimensions that let you characterize any agent and reason precisely about the runtime it requires — built from first principles and used to separate the easy requirements from the genuinely hard ones.

With the framework in hand, we put Cloud Foundry to the test against two leading agent technologies: Claude Code and Claude Managed Agents. The analysis stays grounded in working code — a live cf push deploys a Claude Code agent — then turns to what it would take to host the session containers behind a Claude Managed Agents environment.

By the end, attendees will know what AI agents demand from a platform, how Cloud Foundry measures up today, and what is already possible.

Speakers

Adib Saikali

Distinguished Engineer, Broadcom

Adib Saikali is a Distinguished Engineer at Tanzu, focused on helping large enterprises build AI-enabled platforms and applications. His current work centers on AI agent architectures, agentic control loops, API design for autonomous systems, and the governance challenges of moving... Read More →

Tuesday September 22, 2026 14:10 - 14:35 CEST
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Session Presentation

14:35 CEST

RFCs in the Age of GenAI: Lessons From Identity-Aware Routing - Ruben Koster, Rabobank

Tuesday September 22, 2026 14:35 - 15:00 CEST

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RFC055 introduced identity-aware routing to Cloud Foundry, enabling per-domain mTLS and platform-enforced authorization at the route level.

But the more interesting story is how it was created.
This session reflects on shaping a large, cross-cutting RFC as a largely AI-assisted effort—covering both the technical outcome and the contribution process itself.

Topics include:
- The feature: identity-aware domains, route policies, and platform-enforced authorization
- The process: using AI to draft, iterate, and expand a complex RFC spanning multiple components
- What worked well—and what didn’t when collaborating with the community
- Where existing review and working group structures struggled with large, single-author contributions

The session explores how contribution models may need to evolve to better digest AI-accelerated proposals that cut across project boundaries.

A candid look at building features, learning faster, and adapting the Cloud Foundry contribution process for the next wave of contributors.

Speakers

Ruben Koster

Upstream contributor - Cloud Foundry, Rabobank

Cloud Foundry TOC Member

Tuesday September 22, 2026 14:35 - 15:00 CEST
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Session Presentation

15:00 CEST

Afternoon Break

Tuesday September 22, 2026 15:00 - 15:30 CEST

Tuesday September 22, 2026 15:00 - 15:30 CEST
Foyer

Breaks + Meals + Special Events

15:30 CEST

Open Discussion - An Afternoon of AI & Cloud Foundry

Tuesday September 22, 2026 15:30 - 16:55 CEST

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Tuesday September 22, 2026 15:30 - 16:55 CEST
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Open Discussion