Cloud Foundry Summit 2026: Full Schedule

21- 22 September | Heidelberg, Germany
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09:00 CEST

Opening Remarks - Chris Clark, Linux Foundation

Monday September 21, 2026 09:00 - 09:10 CEST

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Chris Clark

Senior Program Manager, Linux Foundation

Monday September 21, 2026 09:00 - 09:10 CEST
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09:10 CEST

CF API V2 - The Endgame - Stephan Merker, SAP SE

Monday September 21, 2026 09:10 - 09:20 CEST

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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 operators and platform teams need to plan around.

From there, I'll focus on what you can do right now. I'll cover the tooling available for foundation operators to detect and manage remaining CF API v2 traffic — so you can identify stragglers before the removal catches your users off guard — and share the migration signals we watched at SAP.

The talk closes with real lessons from SAP's own deprecation experience: which integrations surprised us, what a v2-to-v3 migration looks like in practice, and what we wish we had known earlier.

Speakers

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
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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

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`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 end-to-end and integration tests in CI against a real Cloud Foundry deployment.

Speakers

Ralf Pannemans

Developer, SAP

20 years as developer with SAP

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
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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

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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 discuss financial considerations, risk trade-offs, and the strategic goal of increasing engineering autonomy.

The How (Platform Engineering):
A deep dive into executing the migration: rebuilding the platform using cf-deployment, redesigning operational workflows, handling upgrades, and managing day-2 operations. We'll share practical lessons, pitfalls, and tooling choices.

The Future:
How this move unlocked innovation, improved flexibility, and shaped Rabobank’s platform roadmap.
Attendees will leave with a real-world success story, actionable insights, and confidence to evaluate or pursue their own move to OSS Cloud Foundry.

Speakers

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.

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
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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

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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 components, building ARM64 stemcells with BOSH agent integration, native compilation of runC with seccomp on Graviton, and handling Ruby gem installation for Cloud Controller and BOSH Director on aarch64.

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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 →

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
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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

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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 end-of-life SDKs blocking upgrades. What looked stable was becoming fragile.

Attempts to replace it led nowhere, until a casual conversation after CF Day North America 2025 sparked a new idea: what if we took inspiration from how BOSH handles blobstores? The answer wasn’t another library, but a different approach.

That idea evolved through community collaboration, from a proof of concept to an RFC and ultimately storage-cli, enabling a safe migration path.

In this talk, we share what it took to make that shift in production, what changed in performance and stability.

Attendees will learn how working groups and the community can collaborate to replace deeply embedded dependencies and turn shared ideas into production-safe solutions.

We didn't just replace fog. We cleared it.

Speakers

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 →

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
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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

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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 pipelines like GitHub Actions.

Once the prototypes are live, Maurice will pull back the curtain to demonstrate how all of these different tools ultimately communicate with the exact same Cloud Controller API, which the attendees can easily interact with using cf curl. To truly demystify the platform's magic, Maurice will break down a standard cf push into its individual lifecycle phases (creating the app record, uploading the package, staging with buildpacks, and starting the droplet). Finally, Maurice will show the attendees how to execute and rerun these distinct steps in complete isolation using granular CLI commands and direct API calls, giving them total control over their deployments.

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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
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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

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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 marketing, and show the organization that Cloud Foundry is, indeed, worth sticking with. In this talk, I'll go over what has worked and not worked in our community to accomplish these goals.

Speakers

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
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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

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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 "it's open source" - more confusion. You attempt "it helps developers run their apps" - but what's an app? Each answer opens more questions, and before you know it, you've lost your audience.

This talk is my attempt to fix that. We'll explore analogies to explain: What is "the cloud" and what is a cloud platform? What do developers do and why do they need such a platform? Why would a company like SAP use this - and why build it together with others as open source?

This is not a technical introduction to Cloud Foundry - we have those. This is about the social challenge of communicating your work to people who will never touch a terminal. You'll leave with concrete stories you can use - whether explaining your job to your kids, your parents, or the curious stranger next to you on the bus.

Speakers

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
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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

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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 processing.

This isn't about replacing the big AI providers. It's about the workloads that belong on the platform you already run.

Kubernetes solved this years ago. Cloud Foundry has stayed CPU-only. So we wondered what it would actually take to change that, and started building.

The honest answer is: a lot. GPU support reaches into the BOSH stemcell, the NVIDIA driver and Container Device Interface, garden-runc and the OCI spec, Diego's auctioneer and cell rep, the CAPI process model, and finally the CLI and app manifest. Almost every layer of CF has something to say about it.

This talk walks through what we built, what surprised us, and the questions we still don't have answers to.

Speakers

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.

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
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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

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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, trustworthy, relevant to the deployed version, and safe to act on.
This talk shows how to design a Retrieval-Augmented Generation knowledge layer specifically for CF and BOSH operations. We will cover what to index, how to attach useful metadata such as component, release version, stemcell, foundation, date, source type, and trust level, and how to combine keyword and vector retrieval for version-sensitive questions. We will also discuss guardrails for common failure modes, including stale release notes, duplicated docs, missing environment context, and hallucinated security or upgrade claims.
Attendees will leave with a practical reference architecture for making CF/BOSH knowledge more searchable, reusable, auditable, and useful during upgrade planning, CVE analysis, and incident investigation.

Speakers

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.

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
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09:00 CEST

Welcome Back

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

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

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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
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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.

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Wayne E Seguin

CEO, FiveTwenty Inc

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

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Benjamin Guttmann

Senior Dev Ops, anynines

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

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Nick Kuhn

Application Marketing Engineer, Broadcom

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

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Ruben Koster

Upstream contributor - Cloud Foundry, Rabobank

Cloud Foundry TOC Member

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