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21- 22 September | Heidelberg, Germany
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Monday, September 21
 

08:00 CEST

Registration & Badge Pick-Up
Monday September 21, 2026 08:00 - 14:30 CEST
Foyer

Monday September 21, 2026 08:00 - 14:30 CEST
Foyer
  Breaks + Meals + Special Events

09:00 CEST

Opening Remarks - Chris Clark, Linux Foundation
Monday September 21, 2026 09:00 - 09:10 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2

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Chris Clark

Senior Program Manager, Linux Foundation
Monday September 21, 2026 09:00 - 09:10 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  Session Presentation

09:10 CEST

CF API V2 - The Endgame - Stephan Merker, SAP SE
Monday September 21, 2026 09:10 - 09:20 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
The clock is ticking. CF API v2 has been deprecated since 2021, and with Phase 3 of RFC-0032 on the horizon — the permanent removal of v2 — there is no more runway for "we'll deal with this later." In this talk, I'll walk through where we stand in the three-phase CF API v2 end-of-life plan: what has already shipped, the state of v2 usage across CFF community projects, and the concrete dates...
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Stephan Merker

Development Expert, SAP SE
Stephan works at SAP and has been active in the Cloud Foundry community for the past 11+ years. He is a tech lead of one of the teams responsible for operating some of the biggest Cloud Foundry deployments world-wide. Stephan is a member of the Cloud Foundry Technical Oversight Committee... Read More →
Monday September 21, 2026 09:10 - 09:20 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  Session Presentation

09:20 CEST

App Runtime Deployments Working Group Update - Jochen Ehret, SAP SE
Monday September 21, 2026 09:20 - 09:30 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
The App Runtime Deployments (ARD) Working Group provides a reference Cloud Foundry deployment that can be consumed by CF community users, contributors, and commercial vendors. The CF Runtime can be installed, validated and operated on different infrastructures with different features enabled. Here is a summary of what the working group has achieved since beginning of 2025. One major milestone...
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Jochen Ehret

DevOps Engineer, SAP SE
DevOps engineer at SAP SE since 2008.
Monday September 21, 2026 09:20 - 09:30 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  Working Group Update

09:30 CEST

Scaling Pipeline - Fabian Kittel, anynines
Monday September 21, 2026 09:30 - 09:35 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
Abstract: How do you reduce Cloud Foundry infrastructure costs during idle periods without pain on Monday morning? Especially, sandbox/qa platforms may not be needed in full measure over the weekend or between testing phases. This talk covers the do’s and don’ts of automated scaling. Outline & Takeaways: Which components can be easily scaled, and what should be prevented? What needs to be...
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Fabian Kittel

DevOps, anynines
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Monday September 21, 2026 09:30 - 09:35 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  Lighting Talk

09:35 CEST

Cloud Foundry on Kubernetes — a Closer Look - Ralf Pannemans & Pavel Busko, SAP SE
Monday September 21, 2026 09:35 - 10:00 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
`k8s-garden-client` and `k8s-policy-agent` allow existing Cloud Foundry components to run on Kubernetes. In this talk, we will explain how these components work and introduce the ideas behind them. We will also show how `kind-deployment` leverages this to start a Cloud Foundry environment on your local machine using kind. Beyond local development, the same approach can be used to run full...
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Ralf Pannemans

Developer, SAP
20 years as developer with SAP
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Pavel Busko

CF Core Developer, SAP SE
I have over a decade of experience in software development and SRE. I currently work at SAP on Cloud Foundry Core development, with a focus on bringing Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes closer together.
Monday September 21, 2026 09:35 - 10:00 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  Session Presentation

10:00 CEST

Shaping Our Platform Future: Rabobank’s Shift To OSS Cloud Foundry - Jochem Siegel & René Dollevoet, Rabobank
Monday September 21, 2026 10:00 - 10:25 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
What happens when you move from a commercial Cloud Foundry distribution back to upstream open source? In this duo talk, Rabobank shares its journey migrating from VMware Tanzu to OSS Cloud Foundry (cf-deployment). We present two complementary perspectives: The Why (Management): How rising costs, vendor constraints, and the need for greater platform ownership drove the decision. We’ll...
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Jochem Siegel

Senior Engineering Manager/Chapter Lead/Agile Specialist, Rabobank
Experienced Software Development Manager with a track record in large-scale IT environments. As Senior Tech Lead at Rabobank, he drives platform excellence and helps engineering teams thrive through strong leadership, agile practices, and a product-first mindset.
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René Dollevoet

Platform Engineer, Rabobank
Platform Engineer at Rabobank, part of the team responsible for the bank’s Cloud Foundry platform. He focuses on automation, reliability, observability, and platform operations at scale, enabling development teams to build and run applications efficiently. Passionate about cloud-native... Read More →
Monday September 21, 2026 10:00 - 10:25 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  Session Presentation

10:25 CEST

Morning Break
Monday September 21, 2026 10:25 - 10:55 CEST
Foyer

Monday September 21, 2026 10:25 - 10:55 CEST
Foyer
  Breaks + Meals + Special Events

10:55 CEST

Cloud Foundry's Journey To ARM64 on AWS Graviton - Sachin Vighe, Amazon Web Services & Kris Nielander, AWS Professional Services
Monday September 21, 2026 10:55 - 11:20 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
Cloud Foundry's open-source platform has been built exclusively for x86_64, leaving operators unable to leverage the cost and performance benefits of ARM64 processors. This technical deep-dive covers migrating the CF stack — BOSH, Diego, Garden-runC, Gorouter, Cloud Controller, UAA, and Loggregator — to AWS Graviton with zero upstream code changes. We will discuss cross-compiling 30 Go-based...
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Sachin Vighe

Senior DevOps/Cloud Architect, Amazon Web Services
With over 20 years of rich and diversified experience in Information Technology, I am recognized for my expertise in leading large-scale digital transformations and implementing cloud solutions. My core competency lies in architecting and designing scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant... Read More →
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Kris Nielander

Sr. Delivery Consultant, AWS Professional Services
Kris Nielander is a Senior Delivery Consultant at AWS Professional Services from the Netherlands. He specializes in cloud security and workload modernisation; supporting customers migrate to AWS Graviton to drive price-performance objectives and lower carbon emissions. Kris previously... Read More →
Monday September 21, 2026 10:55 - 11:20 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  Session Presentation

11:20 CEST

What Is Next With the CF CLI Plugin Infrastructure - Norman Abramovitz, FiveTwenty Inc & Xiujiao Gao, FiveTwenty Inc.
Monday September 21, 2026 11:20 - 11:30 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
The CF CLI plugin infrastructure has not really changed since CF CLI V6. The CAPI V3 forced the real code change. Out of this effort came multiple solutions. For CF CLI V9, we are looking to redo and modernize the plugin interface. This session will present a few solutions as we progress through this process.
Speakers
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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 →
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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 →
Monday September 21, 2026 11:20 - 11:30 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  Working Group Update

11:30 CEST

Clearing the Fog: Replacing a Critical Cloud Foundry Dependency Without Breaking Production - Katharina Przybill & Serdar Özer, SAP SE
Monday September 21, 2026 11:30 - 11:40 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
Replacing a core dependency in Cloud Foundry sounds straightforward, until you realize it sits at the center of app pushes, staging, and blobstore operations. For years, Cloud Controller relied on the fog libraries to interact with blobstores. And like real fog, it worked until clarity mattered. Beneath the surface, it had become a liability: unmaintained dependencies, custom forks, and...
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Katharina Przybill

Developer, SAP SE
Katharina Przybill is an engineer at SAP working on Cloud Foundry, focusing on the CF API and Cloud Controller. She contributes to the evolution and reliability of core platform components, including work on CAPI and related releases, and is an active member of the Cloud Foundry community... Read More →
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Serdar Özer

Developer, SAP SE
Serdar Özer is an engineer at SAP working on Cloud Foundry, with a focus on the CF API and Cloud Controller NG.  His background spans AI systems, platform engineering, and large-scale backend infrastructure. He contributes to  core platform components and is an active participant... Read More →
Monday September 21, 2026 11:30 - 11:40 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  Session Presentation

11:40 CEST

Beyond App Usage Events: Sampling-Based App Memory Metering in CF - Josua Geiger, SAP SE
Monday September 21, 2026 11:40 - 11:45 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
Accurately metering reserved application memory can be essential for billing. Traditionally, Cloud Foundry application memory metering solutions have relied on application usage events. This session introduces an alternative approach to reserved application memory metering based on periodic sampling rather than application usage events. We will discuss the motivation behind it, explain how the...
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Josua Geiger

Senior Developer, SAP SE
SAP SE, Senior Developer
Monday September 21, 2026 11:40 - 11:45 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  Lighting Talk

11:45 CEST

Deconstructing CF Push: Rapid Prototyping and V3 API for Beginners - Maurice Brinkmann, Schwarz Digits Cloud GmbH & Co. KG
Monday September 21, 2026 11:45 - 12:10 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
Cloud Foundry makes deploying apps incredibly fast, but what actually happens when typing cf push? In this 25-minute session designed for beginners, Maurice will guide the attendees through the best ways to rapidly prototype and deploy applications. Maurice will showcase the most effective methods to get code running quickly, comparing the standard CF CLI, the visual Stratos UI, and modern CI/CD...
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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 →
Monday September 21, 2026 11:45 - 12:10 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  Session Presentation

12:10 CEST

Making and Maintaining the Case To Stay on Cloud Foundry - Michael Coté, Tanzu
Monday September 21, 2026 12:10 - 12:35 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
Each year I encounter the same question: how do we convince people to keep using Cloud Foundry? The Cloud Foundry platforms have been running fine for a decade or more, the application developers are happy, and yet there is a constant pull to new platforms. Let's talk about how we can show people that Cloud Foundry has long since solved their platform needs, manage the ongoing internal community...
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Michael Coté

Senior Member of Technical Staff, Tanzu
Michael Coté studies how large organizations improve how they build software to run and grow their business. His books Changing Mindsets, Monolithic Transformation, and The Business Bottleneck cover these topics. He’s been an industry analyst at RedMonk and 451 Research, done corporate... Read More →
Monday September 21, 2026 12:10 - 12:35 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  Session Presentation

12:35 CEST

Attendee Lunch
Monday September 21, 2026 12:35 - 13:50 CEST
Foyer

Monday September 21, 2026 12:35 - 13:50 CEST
Foyer
  Breaks + Meals + Special Events

13:50 CEST

App Runtime Interfaces Working Group Update - Stephan Merker, SAP SE
Monday September 21, 2026 13:50 - 14:00 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
This session presents new and exciting features brought to Cloud Foundry by the App Runtime Interfaces working group. The working group covers Cloud Controller, CF CLI and clients, Buildpacks, Autoscaler and MultiApps. You will hear about CAPI performance improvements, service binding credential rotation, the next cflinuxfs5 stack with buildpacks and more. Finally, I will give an outlook about...
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Stephan Merker

Development Expert, SAP SE
Stephan works at SAP and has been active in the Cloud Foundry community for the past 11+ years. He is a tech lead of one of the teams responsible for operating some of the biggest Cloud Foundry deployments world-wide. Stephan is a member of the Cloud Foundry Technical Oversight Committee... Read More →
Monday September 21, 2026 13:50 - 14:00 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  Working Group Update

14:00 CEST

How To Explain Cloud Foundry To Your Kids (and Other Non-Techies) - Philipp Thun, SAP SE
Monday September 21, 2026 14:00 - 14:10 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
After 11 years working on Cloud Foundry, I still struggle to explain what I do. When meeting new people, I mumble something about "cloud platforms" and watch eyes glaze over. With my own kids (9 and 11), I haven't even tried. The problem is that "what do you do?" has many layers. Saying "I work at SAP" doesn't explain anything. So you try "I work on a cloud platform" - blank stares. You add...
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Philipp Thun

Software Development Expert, SAP SE
Philipp Thun is a Software Development Expert at SAP SE, where he has been working since 2003. Since 2015, he has been actively involved in Cloud Foundry. He is an approver in the App Runtime Interfaces and App Runtime Deployment working groups, and a top committer to Cloud Controller... Read More →
Monday September 21, 2026 14:00 - 14:10 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  Session Presentation

14:10 CEST

More Than a Platform: A Song for Cloud Foundry - Xiujiao Gao, FiveTwenty Inc.
Monday September 21, 2026 14:10 - 14:15 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
Over the years, Cloud Foundry has been more than just a platform to me. It has shaped how I think about developer experience, platform engineering, operational excellence, organizational culture, business strategy, and the relationship between developers and operators. Like many people in this community, I have spent countless hours building, migrating, operating, upgrading, troubleshooting, and...
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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 →
Monday September 21, 2026 14:10 - 14:15 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  Lighting Talk

14:15 CEST

Your Prompts, Your Platform: GPU Workloads in Cloud Foundry - Johannes Haass & Pascal Zimmermann, SAP
Monday September 21, 2026 14:15 - 14:40 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
AI workloads usually leave the platform. A prompt goes out to OpenAI or Anthropic, an answer comes back. That works for most cases, but not all of them: sensitive data that can't leave the building, token bills that grow faster than the value, private clouds with no path to the public internet. And plenty of GPU work isn't even chat-shaped, think local inference, embeddings, image and video...
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Johannes Haass

Software Engineer, SAP
Johannes is an experienced software engineer with 11+ years at SAP and 6+ years in Cloud Foundry. He actively contributes to Cloud Controller and participates in the ARI working group. Outside work, he enjoys photography and bouldering.
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Pascal Zimmermann

Software Engineer, SAP
- Lecture at the University since 2020 (Multiple tech talks to different audience and mostly related to databases and software development)
- Internal tech talks on various topics as part of the software development and cloud engineering
Monday September 21, 2026 14:15 - 14:40 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  Session Presentation

14:40 CEST

Building a Trusted RAG Knowledge Layer for Cloud Foundry and BOSH Operations - Haochen Hu & Wayne E Seguin, FiveTwenty Inc
Monday September 21, 2026 14:40 - 15:05 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
Cloud Foundry and BOSH operators depend on a large body of operational knowledge: cf-deployment release notes, BOSH releases, component repositories, upgrade guides, job specs, CVEs, GitHub issues, historical incidents, runbooks, and environment-specific customizations. During upgrades and incidents, the hard part is rarely finding one document; it is knowing which sources are current,...
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Haochen Hu

Senior Cloud Engineer, FiveTwenty Inc
Dr. Haochen Hu obtained PhD in the field of mobile cloud computing, with a robust background in cutting-edge research, cloud computing, AI, wireless sensing, and software development.
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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.
Monday September 21, 2026 14:40 - 15:05 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  Session Presentation

15:05 CEST

Afternoon Break
Monday September 21, 2026 15:05 - 15:35 CEST
Foyer

Monday September 21, 2026 15:05 - 15:35 CEST
Foyer
  Breaks + Meals + Special Events

15:35 CEST

Open Discussion - How Can We Market Cloud Foundry Better?
Monday September 21, 2026 15:35 - 17:00 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2

Monday September 21, 2026 15:35 - 17:00 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  Open Discussion

17:30 CEST

Evening Reception
Monday September 21, 2026 17:30 - 19:30 CEST
TBA

Monday September 21, 2026 17:30 - 19:30 CEST
TBA
  Breaks + Meals + Special Events
 
Tuesday, September 22
 

08:30 CEST

Registration & Badge Pick-Up
Tuesday September 22, 2026 08:30 - 15:30 CEST
Foyer

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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
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...
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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 →
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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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
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...
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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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  Lighting Talk

09:20 CEST

Concourse Working Group Update - Taylor Silva, Pixel Air IO
Tuesday September 22, 2026 09:20 - 09:30 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
Update on the Concourse working group, covering the upcoming roadmap and recent changes to Concourse in the past year.
Speakers
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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...
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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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
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...
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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 →
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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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
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...
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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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  Session Presentation

10:10 CEST

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

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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
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...
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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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
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...
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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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
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...
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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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
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...
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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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
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...
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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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
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...
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Benjamin Guttmann

Senior Dev Ops, anynines
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Tuesday September 22, 2026 11:35 - 11:45 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
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...
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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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
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...
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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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  Session Presentation

12:15 CEST

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

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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
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...
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Ruben Koster

Upstream contributor - Cloud Foundry, Rabobank
Cloud Foundry TOC Member
Tuesday September 22, 2026 13:30 - 13:40 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
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...
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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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
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...
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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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  Lighting Talk

13:50 CEST

Cloud Foundry Powers Agentic Development at Broadcom - Nick Kuhn, Broadcom
Tuesday September 22, 2026 13:50 - 14:00 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
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...
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Speakers
avatar for Nick Kuhn

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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
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
avatar for Norman Abramovitz

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 →
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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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
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...
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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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
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:...
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avatar for Ruben Koster

Ruben Koster

Upstream contributor - Cloud Foundry, Rabobank
Cloud Foundry TOC Member
Tuesday September 22, 2026 14:35 - 15:00 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  Session Presentation

15:00 CEST

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

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
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2

Tuesday September 22, 2026 15:30 - 16:55 CEST
Friedrich Hegel 1 + 2
  Open Discussion
 
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