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Cloud Native AI Summit

Melbourne

October 28–29, 2026

Cloud Native AI Summit is an independent, enterprise-focused conference contributing to the convergence of cloud-native foundations and AI.

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Cloud Native AI Summit Melbourne
OCT
28–29
2026

Melbourne · Australia

Asia–Pacific

October 28–29, 2026

Two days of cloud native, platform engineering, AI infrastructure, and developer experience — landing for the first time in Melbourne. A welcoming, vendor-neutral gathering of practitioners from across Australia, New Zealand, and the wider Asia-Pacific region.

  • Two-day flagship conference
  • Keynotes & deep-dive talks
  • Hallway track + community evening
  • Diversity scholarships
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Speakers

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Agenda

Two days in Melbourne

Day 1

Wednesday, October 28

  1. Mehdi Medjaoui

    Opening Remarks

    Room 109+110

  2. Su JellaFOST Keynote

    Beyond the Pilot: Leading the Autonomous Enterprise in the Agentic Era

    Room 109+110

  3. Coffee Break / Networking / Expo Partners Village

  5. Derric Gilling

    Know Your Agents, Control Their Actions: Governing the Identity, Behavior, and Spend of Production AI

    Room 106

  9. Lunch / API Secure Welcome Coffee / Networking / Expo

  12. Everett Toews

    Unlearn with AI Evals

    Room 106

  14. TBA

    Room 106

  15. Coffee Break / Networking / Expo

  18. Close of Day 1

Day 2

Thursday, October 29

  1. Welcome Breakfast in Partners Village

  2. Opening Remarks

  4. Rebecca Ye

    AI SDLC At Scale - From Cloud Agent Spaces To Headless Agents Next To Repos

    Room 106

  5. Coffee Break / Networking / Expo

  7. Danny Tran & Liam Byrne

    How to keep APIs safe in the age of AI

    Room 106

  10. Lunch / API Secure Welcome Coffee / Networking / Expo

  12. Renaldi Gondosubroto

    The Build Passed and the Model Failed

    Room 106

  15. Close of Day 2

  16. Coffee Break / Networking / Expo

The agenda is subject to change. Times, speakers, and sessions may be updated before the event.

Call for Speakers · Melbourne

Become a Speaker.

Share your experience, lessons, and real-world challenges with a community of practitioners building the next generation of cloud native systems. We're looking for practical, honest talks—from deep technical dives to stories from the field—that help others learn and build better.

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Topics

  • AI Systems & Agentic Workloads
  • Developer Experience & Delivery
  • Platforms & Internal Tooling
  • Operations, Reliability & Performance
  • Observability & Insights
  • Security & Trust
  • Networking, Edge & Service Mesh
  • Data Systems & Storage
  • Foundations & Getting Started
  • Community, Business & Lessons Learned
  • Research & Frontier Topics
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre

Venue

Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre

1 Convention Centre Pl, South Wharf, Melbourne

The Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) is one of Australia's premier event venues, situated on the banks of the Yarra River in South Wharf. With state-of-the-art audiovisual infrastructure, flexible multi-hall spaces, and world-class facilities, MCEC provides the perfect stage for a flagship cloud native conference. It sits just minutes from the Melbourne CBD, easily accessible by tram, train, or ferry.

  • World-class AV & technical infrastructure
  • Flexible multi-hall configuration
  • Riverfront location, Melbourne CBD
  • 5-min walk from Southern Cross Station
  • On-site catering & networking spaces
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Audience

Who should attend?

Cloud Native AI Summit attendees

Cloud Native AI Summit is an independent, enterprise-focused and vendor-neutral conference contributing to the convergence of cloud-native foundations and AI in production. Join us in a welcoming environment where you can expand your knowledge on cutting-edge innovations and industry best practices. Discover the transformative power of Cloud Native technologies, explore software development strategies, delve into DevOps principles, Microservices, Service Mesh, Continuous Delivery, Containers technologies, automating IT operations, Testing, Security and more. Immerse yourself in this exceptional opportunity to learn, collaborate, and grow.

At the Cloud Native AI Summit (CNS), you can expect to connect with a diverse array of attendees from private organizations of all sizes, government entities, and educational institutions. The event serves as a meeting ground for professionals from various sectors, fostering valuable networking opportunities and knowledge sharing. You will have the chance to engage with industry leaders, experts, and like-minded individuals who share a passion for Cloud technologies and its transformative potential. Whether you're seeking partnerships, collaborations, or simply expanding your professional network, CNS provides the ideal platform to meet and interact with a wide range of attendees.

At the event, you will meet

  • Leaders of application development / Platform Owners
  • Developers / Engineers
  • Systems Admins
  • DevOps professionals
  • Architects
  • CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, Executive and Above
  • Academics & researchers
  • Press and analysts engaged with the future of software development using cloud technologies

Hosted by FOST

A federation of conferences.

FOST is a premier federation of IT and software events dedicated to the architects, builders, developers, CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, and visionaries shaping the next decade of computing. We aren't just looking at what's “new”—we are deep-diving into the foundational shifts that will define the industry.

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