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Join Akamai Cloud at KubeCon North America 2026
Explore how modern teams run on Akamai Cloud
Salt Palace SLC | Booth 132
November 9-12, 2026
Akamai Sessions and Speakers
Tuesday, November 10
Your Peers Are Struggling with LLM Inference on Kubernetes Too. Here’s What the Data Says
3:40–4:10 PM GMT-6
Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency BD
Danielle Cook, Chair & CNCF Ambassador & Director of Product Marketing, Akamai
Demo Theater Session: The Spin Agentic Sandbox: Secure Execution of AI-Generated Code with CNCF Spin and WASI
4:15–4:35 PM GMT-6
Sponsor Demo Theater, Salt Palace
Thorsten Hans, Senior Developer Advocate, Akamai
Wednesday, November 11
Building the Future of Unified Policy-as-Code with Kyverno
2:20–4:20 PM GMT-6
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 A
Cortney Nickerson, CNCF Ambassador & Principal Product Marketing Manager, Akamai
Zero Trust Telemetry: Stopping AI-Powered Poisoning Attacks on Observability Pipelines
4:10–4:40 PM GMT-6
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom DE
Chad Crowell, CNCF Ambassador & Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Akamai
Thursday, November 12
The Most Boring Talk at KubeCon — and the One That Will Save Your Job
11:00 AM–1:00 PM GMT-6
Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency A
Cortney Nickerson, CNCF Ambassador & Principal Product Marketing Manager, Akamai
Debugging the Invisible: Standardizing Kubernetes Networking Expertise
11:00–11:30 AM GMT-6
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C
Chad Crowell, CNCF Ambassador & Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Akamai
Explore TAG Workloads Foundation: Core Runtime, Batch Scheduling, and Moar
1:50–2:20 PM GMT-6
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 A-C
Stephen Rust, Teach Lead/Co-Chair & CNCF Ambassador & Principal Lead Architect, Akamai
Book Signings: Chad Crowell and Will Hegedus
We will have two book signings featuring Akamai’s very own award-winning author and Kubernetes guru Chad Crowell, along with Prometheus expert Will Hegedus, dropping by our booth to give away free signed copies of their books.
More details coming soon!
Visit us at Booth 132
Participate in interactive demos
Learn more about Akamai Cloud (and Security) at our three interactive demo stations.
Custom Akamai swag & giveaways
Grab some limited edition swag, including custom baseball caps and crewneck socks.
Get 20% off your ticket
Use code KCNA26AKAGD20