2026-02-03, 11:25–12:15, D.Aud
Panel discussion about Souverign Computing / Building a European Cloud ..
Kris Buytaert is a long time Devops and Open Source Expert and Engineering Leader. He's one of instigators of the devops movement, working for Inuits.eu / o11y.eu
He started more than one conference series and lost count on how many times he spoke at other events. He spends most of his time working on bridging the gap between developers and operations , while warning people not to make the mistakes he made. He builds infrastructures that can survive the 10th floor test, or a datacenter fire, while actively promoting the devops idea !
He hasn't blogged for a while but people still point out the title of his blog. Titled "Everything is a Freaking DNS Problem" ,it can be found at http://www.krisbuytaert.be/blog/
Marcel Kornegoor obtained his Master of Arts degree in Sound and Music Technology back in 2008 and has been a (huge) nerd for most of his life, but will probably deny it when confronted. Nowadays, he works as director of training at the Dutch open source and Linux specialist AT Computing. Being a technology-addict for around 20 years, Marcel provides training courses, talks and writes about cloud technology, DevOps, and other IT and open source related subjects that concern him. Most recently, he started to explore the world of yak shaving.
Nach dem Fall der Mauer, Anfang der 90er im Osten kompiliert.
Compilied in the early 90s, shortly after the wall came down, in eastern Germany.
Today I work in the IT of a company for mobility by steel on steel, to spend it for metalic music and traveling in the far north. Suomi on kaunis maa. :D
Frank Louwers is a tech entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience building and breaking infrastructure. He co-founded Krane Labs, where he does cloud-native strategy and managed Kubernetes for organizations ditching legacy hosting. Before that, he built Openminds — a managed hosting company with its own datacenter rooms, fiber, and lots of heavy metal 🤘
When he's not running clusters or explaining DNS to people who didn't ask, he works as a fractional CTO for startups and advises VCs on technical due diligence. He has strong opinions about European digital sovereignty, which explains why he's on this panel.
He blogs occasionally at https://frank.be and is based in Ghent.
Koen de Jonge is a long time Open Source advocate and works in IT
Infrastructure since 1995. He is one of the founders and still the
director of ProcoliX, a hosting and IT infrastructure provider in the
Netherlands. Recent events have lead ProcoliX, which is a stewardship
company since 2024, to grow very fast due to it's independence from Big
Tech and USA owned multinationals. By march 2026 ProcoliX will no longer
use any non European suppliers, thus making it fully "EU Sovereign".
Koen likes, debian, ansible, nixos, proxmox, icinga, zfs and linstor and
1000's of other open source software packages. Koen is also very fond of
hackerspaces, -camps and lives by the slogan "be excellent to each
other". You can find him on the Fediverse: @koen@procolix.social