ITQonnect Days & ITQon! 2026: Full Schedule

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13:30 CEST

Friday September 25, 2026 13:30 - 13:50 CEST

Limited Capacity seats available

In this demo, you'll explore how Kargo transforms your artifact journey from dev to production through declarative, auditable promotions. See real-time pipeline orchestration, automated verification, and intelligent stage progression in action.

Speakers

Menno Sanders

Cloud Native Engineer, ITQ

Menno Sanders, 35 years old! Married and 2 kids who are discovering the world. I'm a happy man, with lots of fun topics to talk about. Always in for new tooling and curious to see what it can do! Hope to talk to you soon!

Friday September 25, 2026 13:30 - 13:50 CEST
(6) Lobby 1 ITQ Hotel

Demo Session, Demo Session - 15 minutes

Audience All Tech ITQers
Subject Demo Session
Area Cloud Native, CI/CD, Kargo

13:30 CEST

Bring Your Own Agent - We’ll Bring the Cluster(s)

FILLING

Friday September 25, 2026 13:30 - 14:15 CEST

(4) Levante 1

Limited Capacity filling up

This keynote explores the rapid evolution of the AI agent ecosystem. It details the shift toward agentic workflows supported by the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and the standardization of reusable agent "Skills." The session emphasizes that as AI agents transition from experimental tools to enterprise-grade assets, there is a critical requirement for robust, secure infrastructure.
By introducing concepts like OpenClaw and secure sandboxing—specifically leveraging Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat AI—the session outlines a defense-in-depth strategy for managing autonomous agents at scale, drawing parallels between the current agent revolution and the historical maturation of Linux and container orchestration.

Speakers

Natale Vinto

Technical Director, Hybrid Platforms, Red Hat

Natale Vinto is a Technical Director, Global at Red Hat, focused on Hybrid Platforms and Enterprise AI. With over a decade of experience in IT and ICT, his background includes telecommunications, DevSecOps, Linux and AI. Previously, Natale was a Director of Developer Advocacy, Solutions... Read More →

Friday September 25, 2026 13:30 - 14:15 CEST
(4) Levante 1 ITQ Hotel

common, Breakout Session - 40 minutes

Audience All Tech ITQers
Subject Partner Session
Area AI, Cloud Native
global Y

13:55 CEST

the platform engineer is dead, long live the platform engineer

FULL

Friday September 25, 2026 13:55 - 14:15 CEST

(6) Lobby 1

Limited Capacity full
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It started as a "let's see how far this goes." It didn't stop where I expected.
This is the story of how I rebuilt my homelab — from vSphere 7 to vSphere 9.1 with VKS — on a single 4-CPU, 64GB Supermicro box, almost entirely with the help of Claude Code. From bare metal to a cloud-native platform running FluxCD, Concourse CI, HashiCorp Vault, cert-manager, platform pipelines: built, deployed, and maintained with AI as a hands-on collaborator, not just an autocomplete.
A live look at what changes when AI moves from "helping you write code" to "helping you run infrastructure" — and a starting point for the conversation about where that leaves platform engineers.

Speakers

Bart Lievers

Consultant, ITQ Consultancy B.V.

A modern apps platform consultant. Passionate about platform-as-a-product concept. Fiddling around with VCF 9.1 VKS on my homelab and using Claude AI to assist and implement solutions to mimic a platform-as-a-product environment on 64 GB.
A proud husband and a proud father of tw... Read More →

Friday September 25, 2026 13:55 - 14:15 CEST
(6) Lobby 1 ITQ Hotel

Demo Session, Demo Session - 15 minutes

Company Tech Level 100
Audience CTO Office, All Tech ITQers
Subject Demo Session
Area Homelab, Cloud Native, VKS

16:25 CEST

Cloud-native Virtualization

Friday September 25, 2026 16:25 - 17:10 CEST

(2) Garbi 1

I want to talk about the differences between traditional (VMware) and cloud-native (Kubevirt) virtualization. In doing so, I want to show the WoW, the skills, the use case, and possibly the actual implementation. I especially want to give our VMware people a behind-the-scenes look, as this is often still a blind spot.

This is not a session to convince people of KubeVirt, but primarily to show how cool it is in a Cloud-Native environment.

Speakers

Wessel Hulleman

Cloud-native Consultant, ITQ

Friday September 25, 2026 16:25 - 17:10 CEST
(2) Garbi 1 ITQ hotel

Technical Breakout, Breakout Session - 40 minutes

Company Tech Level 200
Audience All Tech ITQers
Subject Technical Session
Area Cloud Native

ITQonnect Days & ITQon! 2026

13:30 CEST

Menno Sanders

13:30 CEST

Natale Vinto

13:55 CEST

Bart Lievers

16:25 CEST

Wessel Hulleman

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