​🎉 CNCF Vancouver + Grafana and Friends

​Call for Papers (CFP)📝

​If you are interested in hosting, speaking or sponsoring any of our events please reach out by creating a Github issue in our meetup repository 🫰🏻

​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: September 10th, 2025, 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 → Karpenter, what did you do? — Niko Smeds @ Grafana Labs - Talk

• ​6:05 – 6:35 PM → Building a Streaming Data Source for Grafana — Calvin Zhang @ Timeplus - Talk

• ​6:35 – 7:05 PM → Deploying Applications to AKS Using Azure DevOps Pipelines — Adetokunbo Temitayo @ Planview - Talk

• ​7:05 – 7:15 PM → Open Q&A + short break.

• ​7:15 – 7:55 PM → Extended networking in the venue.

• ​7:55 – 8:00 PM → Wrap up 🥂

• ​8:20 PM – ♾️ → Off-site Networking Event (5 min walk from the venue).

​Organizing Team

​Sponsors

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

​Thanks to GrafanaLabs.com for sponsoring our event in this opportunity!

​Venue Host and Partners:

​​Venue: Northeastern University ​​​🎓: Northeastern University is a worldwide research institution renowned for its emphasis on experiential and lifelong learning.

​Partner: CaterDash who gladly helped us catering the food for this event. Y'all are amazing!

​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.

​Register on our CNCF community page to be added to our newsletter.

​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.