KCD Suisse Romande 2025 at CERN – Community, Cloud Native, and Two Great Days in Geneva

The first Kubernetes Community Days Suisse Romande took place on December 4-5, 2025 – and what a venue: CERN Science Gateway in Geneva. A place where science meets innovation made the perfect backdrop for the local cloud native community to come together, share ideas, learn, and collaborate.
VSHN was proud to be Silver Sponsor of the KCD.

Around 300 participants from Switzerland and beyond gathered for two days filled with workshops, sessions, hallway talks, and a whole lot of Kubernetes energy. The atmosphere was fantastic – friendly, curious, and buzzing with exchange. Exactly what KCDs should be about.

Workshops, Talks and Great People

Day 1 kicked off with three parallel hands-on workshops, followed by CERN and LHC tours for those lucky enough to grab a spot. The combination of technology and the magic of CERN definitely created excitement early on.

Day 2 continued with even more workshops – and later the stage belonged to the speakers. Nearly 50 sessions touched on Kubernetes, platform engineering, open source tooling, DevOps culture, security, AI topics and more. Talks were held in French and English, highlighting the multilingual and open nature of the Swiss tech scene.

Among the featured speakers were well-known community voices including:

• Jessie Frazelle – Zoo.dev
• Sarah Novotny – Kosai / Operant AI
• Mauricio Salatino – LearnK8s
• Aurélie Vache – OVHcloud
• Engin Diri – Pulumi
• Shérine Khoury – Red Hat
• Luc Juggery – Exoscale
• Kasper Nissen – Lunar

But beyond names and sessions, what stood out most were conversations in the corridors, shared learnings, and genuine collaboration. Networking at events like this is where ideas turn into projects.

Why Events like KCD Matter

KCDs are community-driven by design – organized for practitioners and by practitioners, supported by CNCF. They create a space where we meet as peers, share solutions, discuss challenges, and grow together. For us at VSHN, this is exactly the spirit we believe in.

Cloud native is evolving fast – platforms, automation, developer experience, sovereignty, and AI are changing how we build and operate software. Meeting the community in person helps everyone stay ahead and shape what’s next. Aarno and Pierre were very happy to meet so many interested people.

See You Again in 2026

A huge thank you to the Cloud Native Suisse Romande organizers, all speakers, sponsors, and every participant we met at the booth.
We loved the conversations, the exchange, and the energy inside CERN.

Already looking forward to next year!

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