We are very pleased to announce the speakers and sessions for the third edition of StrimziCon! The interest from the community was really high and we received a lot of awesome proposals. The program committee found it really tough to choose among them in order to build an amazing agenda.
Awesome sessions … join StrimziCon!
The conference will take place on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026 (afternoon CEST). The event opens with a keynote from Kate Stanley and Paolo Patierno (IBM, Strimzi maintainers). The keynote is followed by almost 4 hours of breakout sessions with topics covering core Strimzi features, use cases, operations, and integrations.
| Time (CEST) | Session |
|---|---|
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Keynote (Kate Stanley & Paolo Patierno @ IBM) |
| 14:25 - 14:55 | Beyond the Install: Take full ownership of your Strimzi cluster (Jakub Scholz @ Cloudera) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Who Are You? Configuring Kafka Authentication in Strimzi from TLS to Custom Principals (Daniel Mulder @ Axual) |
| 15:35 - 16:05 | Swapping the Engine Mid-Flight: How We Moved Reddit’s Petabyte Scale Kafka Fleet to Kubernetes (Sky Kistler @ Reddit) |
| 16:10 - 16:40 | Disaster Recovery in action with Kafka and Strimzi (Mickael Maison, Gantigmaa Selenge @ IBM) |
| 16:45 - 17:15 | From Running to Operating: Real-World Strimzi in Production (Rajith Attapattu @ Randoli) |
| 17:20 - 17:50 | Building Strimzi MCP Server for Kubernetes: Democratizing Platform Expertise Through LLMs (David Kornel, Jakub Stejskal @ IBM) |
| 17:50 - 18:00 | Closing (Kate Stanley & Paolo Patierno @ IBM) |
For more details about speakers and sessions, see the CNCF event page.
We look forward to seeing you at the conference. Register here. It’s free!