Conferences.

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

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Upcoming events
EU & USA
Where we show up
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Talks · Workshops · BoFs
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Speakers

Upcoming conferences.

Sessions, workshops, and community meetups. Open an event to learn more.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026

9–12 November 2026 · Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

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

Cloud Native Conference 2027

Cloud Native Conference 2027

12–13 May 2027 · Central Germany

Two days of cloud native practice in Central Germany. All four members of Wombat's core team speak at this edition.

Where Wombat has been.

Previous conferences where Wombat was present, the community roots.

Cloud Computing Conference (CCX)
29–30 September 2026 · Heidelberg, Germany

The German-speaking cloud computing community gathers in Heidelberg for two days of architecture, security, governance, and platform engineering. Sascha joins CCX to present Wombat and the open, vendor-neutral approach to proving cloud architecture quality.

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

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

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WeAreDevelopers World Congress
8–10 July 2026 · Berlin, Germany

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

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PlatformCon Day London
23 June 2026 · London, UK

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

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Cloud Native Conference 2026
13 May 2026 · Frankfurt, Germany

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

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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026
23–26 March 2026 · Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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

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Cloud Native Conference 2025
28 May 2025 · Frankfurt, Germany

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

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Wombat speakers.

The people who represent Wombat at conferences, on stage and in the hallway track.

Artem Lajko
Head Platform Engineering

He is the author of Implementing GitOps with Kubernetes, co-founder of connectii.io, and works as an IT freelancer for various publishers.

Sascha Lewandowski
Cloud Architect

With extensive experience in IT security, he contributes significantly to the development of innovative cloud solutions.

Sebastian Meyer
Bereichsleiter Agile Entwicklung

He now accompanies development from a management perspective and has a strong interest in not being dependent on a single vendor.

Tim Urlaub
Lead Platform Engineer

His passion is developing solutions that enable developers and (internal) customers to be more productive.

Meet us & contribute.

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

Attend & connect

Find us at talks and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions. Share real challenges, hear how others use Wombat, and shape the roadmap together.

Workshops

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

Contribute on GitHub

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

Community formats

Conference talks
Framework concepts · Real case studies
Birds of a Feather
Open discussion · Community input
Workshops
Scoring · Maturity models · Assessment
Roadmap & RFC sessions
Shape what gets built next · Open to all

No invite required. Every session is open to anyone interested in cloud architecture.

Come talk to us.

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