More than 50 meetups and counting: the Cloud Native Computing Switzerland meetup returns on 15 September

VSHN has been organising the Cloud Native Computing Switzerland meetup for nearly a decade now. What started as a small group of people trying to make sense of cloud-native technologies and Kubernetes has grown into one of the largest cloud-native communities in the country: over 3,000 members, more than 50 meetups, and a steady stream of people who show up for the talks and stay for the apéros.

The next edition happens on Tuesday, 15 September 2026 at the VSHNtower in Zürich. Register on Meetup while there is still room.

What the meetup is – and what it is not

The CNC Meetup is a neutral place for the Swiss tech community, not an event for sales pitches. We at VSHN, or other companies, provide the room and the apéro and take care of the logistics. The stage, however, belongs to everyone who has something worthwhile to contribute about running things in production. Our speakers so far have come from startups, banks and universities, from cloud providers and from one-person open-source projects.

Entry is free, everyone is welcome from complete newcomers to CNCF maintainers, and the talks are recorded and published on vshn.tv so the content outlives the evening.

Three talks on Tuesday, 15 September 2026

How to: securing your clusters by Benjamin Koltermann (cenroq AG) takes the attacker’s perspective. Everyone wants secure Kubernetes clusters, hardly anyone really achieves it. Benjamin shows how clusters get compromised despite configurations that look solid on paper, and how you can find those gaps before somebody else does.

Paddelbuch: How Kiro Changed the Game by Chris Bingham, CTO Switzerland at Fujitsu, continues a story he started here in 2024: paddelbuch.ch, a serverless geographic information system for the Swiss paddle sports community. Then Kiro came along, and an unexpected conversation at re:Invent 2025 completely changed its technical foundation.

A swiss, cloud-native alternative to Vercel and Heroku by Christian Blättler (zeitlos.software) goes deep into Lucity, his open-source PaaS built on standard Kubernetes and Helm with one hard constraint: you can eject at any time. No database of its own, no CRDs, the entire state is derived from Kubernetes. Ejecting therefore means downloading a Helm chart instead of running a data migration.

All abstracts and the detailed timetable are on the event page.

Practical details

When: Tuesday, 15 September 2026, 15:00 to 18:00, doors open at 14:30 Where: VSHNtower, Neugasse 6, 8005 Zürich Cost: Free, apéro included Register: on Meetup

Our event space has a limited capacity and the last few editions filled up quite quickly, so better register today. And if you have registered but cannot make it, please cancel your registration. That frees up your slot for someone on the waiting list. The recordings land on vshn.tv afterwards, and we will add them to this post once they are online.

We expect all participants to follow VSHN’s Conference Code of Conduct.

Want to speak or sponsor?

Nearly a decade of meetups only happens because people keep volunteering to stand in front of the room. If you are working on something cloud-native and want to talk about it, or if your company would like to sponsor a future edition: send us your idea at cnc-meetup.ch. We are always looking for interesting talks!