​🎉 CNCF Vancouver + Fortinet

​Call for Papers (CFP)📝

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​Event description 🎫

​​Join us at Northeastern University for our first event of the year, it will be an evening packed with networking, learning, and fun, hosted by Cloud Native Vancouver 🇨🇦, an official CNCF community group.

​Details
📝 Date: Monday Feb 23th, 2026, at 5:00 PM 🕠

​​📍 Venue: Northeastern University - Vancouver

​This event is the perfect opportunity to dive into the world of cloud-native technologies while mingling with fellow tech enthusiasts.

​Who should attend 🧑🏻‍🤝🏻‍🧑🏻

• ​Software Developers

• ​Cloud Engineers

• ​Product Managers

• ​IT Professionals

• ​Students interested in Cloud Native driven architecture.

​Agenda 📖

• ​​5:00 – 5:30 PM → Guest arrival. Volunteers will guide you to the room. Free food & drinks 🍲 — feel free to start eating and networking as soon as you arrive!

• ​​5:30 – 5:35 PM → Host introduction and sponsors shoutout.

• ​​5:35 – 6:05 PM → CNAPP - Protecting Your application from code to cloud by Fortinet

• ​​6:05 – 6:35 PM → What Makes AI Agents Different?

• ​​6:40 – 6:55 PM → Unlocking Network-Aware Scheduling with Topograph

• ​​7:00 - 7:35 PM → This Spot is Available Apply Here

• ​​7:35 – 8:10 PM → Extended networking in the venue.

​Organizing Team

​Sponsors

​​We want to thank our sponsors who support us. This event's proud sponsors are:

​Thanks to Fortinet for sponsoring our event in this opportunity!

​Venue Host and Partners:

​​Venue: Northeastern University ​​​🎓: Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experiential lifelong learning. With 13 campuses across the U.S., U.K., and Canada, over 320,000 alumni, and more than 3,800 partners worldwide, the global university network serves as a platform for scaling ideas, talent, and solutions.
Located in the heart of downtown, the Vancouver campus offers a wide range of master’s-level tech degrees, including pathway programs that allow students with non-STEM backgrounds to pursue a graduate degree in tech.

​Partner: CNCF is the open source, vendor-neutral hub of cloud native computing, hosting projects like Kubernetes and Prometheus to make cloud native universal and sustainable.

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​Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity to connect, learn, and have a blast. See you there! 🚀

​Contact us

​If you are interested in becoming an sponsor, or partner for an event just reach out to our email [email protected]

​Venue Rules

​Bikes, scooters and pets are not permitted on Convergence. We do not have a storage area and have a strict no pet policy on campus. Service dogs must be clearly identified with a service vest or something similar. If any of these apply to you, please make the necessary arrangements beforehand.

​Agreements

• ​​​​​By signing up to this event, you agree to be added to the Cloud Native Vancouver Luma newsletter (you can opt out at anytime).

• ​You also agree that any photos taken at events may be used by Cloud Native Vancouver for marketing purposes.

• ​You also agree that we might share your contact information with our venue sponsor and sponsors.