Syntasso at KubeCon NA 2026: Produce, Consume, and Maintain Better Platforms
We're heading to Salt Lake City for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026! Join Syntasso for three speaking sessions, live platform orchestration demos, and conversations about building platforms that are ready for the age of AI.
From November 9-12, the Syntasso team will be at KubeCon NA, exploring one of the biggest challenges facing platform engineering teams today: how do we build platforms that don't just deliver value on day one, but continue to evolve as technologies, organisations, and developer needs change?
With AI accelerating how quickly teams can create applications and infrastructure, this question has never been more important. Creating resources is becoming easier, but managing them safely, consistently, and at scale remains a challenge.
We'll share our approach to platform orchestration, showing how Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE) helps organisations build reusable platform capabilities, consume them through governed self-service, and maintain them throughout their lifecycle.
Whether you're attending Platform Engineering Day or the main KubeCon conference, we'd love to see you!
Your Platform Isn't Finished When You Ship It
Platform engineering has made enormous progress in helping developers move faster. But there's a difference between building a platform that works today and operating one that keeps delivering value tomorrow.
Platform teams need to make it easy to create new capabilities without introducing unnecessary complexity. Developers and increasingly AI agents need simple, safe ways to consume those capabilities. And organisations need to maintain everything as requirements evolve, security policies change, and underlying technologies are upgraded.
At Syntasso, we believe these challenges are best addressed by thinking about the entire platform lifecycle:
Produce: Turn infrastructure, tools, and workflows into reusable, governed platform capabilities.
Consume: Give developers and AI agents straightforward, self-service access to the capabilities they need.
Maintain: Manage upgrades, policies, and lifecycle changes consistently across environments and platform fleets.
It's a shift from thinking about platforms as something you build and launch to treating them as products that continuously evolve.
And we'll explore this theme throughout KubeCon NA.
Join Our KubeCon Speaking Sessions
We're delighted to have three sessions featuring Syntasso team members and our customers, covering everything from platform engineering in a 300-year-old bank to the future of intent-driven platforms and the power of community.
Platform as a Product in a 300-Year-Old Bank
Monday, November 9 | 2:05 PM | Platform Engineering Day
Abby Bangser (Syntasso) and Joel King (NatWest Group) will share lessons from applying platform-as-a-product thinking inside one of the UK's largest banks.
Discover how platform engineering can help large organisations balance developer autonomy with enterprise governance, and why treating platforms as evolving products matters just as much as the technology underpinning them.
Platform Engineering after the AI Hype: Why IDPs Must Become Intent-Driven
Tuesday, November 10 | 12:20 PM | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon
Daniel Bryant (Syntasso) will explore what happens when AI agents become consumers of internal developer platforms.
Traditional developer portals and ticket-driven workflows were designed primarily for humans. But as AI changes how software is created, platform teams need to rethink how they expose, orchestrate, and govern capabilities.
This session explores why intent-driven interfaces and platform orchestration are becoming increasingly important, and how organisations can enable both humans and AI agents to move faster without compromising control.
The Flywheel Effect: Why Community Is the Ultimate End-User Advantage
Wednesday, November 11 | 9:00 AM | KubeCon Keynote
Abby Bangser (Syntasso) and Phill Morton (The Access Group) will take to the KubeCon keynote stage to explore the value of community in platform engineering.
Building successful platforms isn't simply about delivering technology to developers. It's about creating feedback loops, enabling collaboration, and helping teams contribute to a platform that gets better with every interaction.
We're excited to share how this approach creates lasting value for platform teams and their users.
See Platform Orchestration in Action at Our Booth
Want to see how it all works in practice?
Visit the Syntasso booth for live, interactive demonstrations of Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE) and discover how platform orchestration connects the tools you already use into a cohesive, governed platform.
We'll be happy to discuss your toughest platform engineering challenges, whether you're looking to reduce developer friction, make existing infrastructure available through self-service, support AI-driven workflows, or simplify day-two operations.
You can find us at:
Platform Engineering Day, November 9: Booth PED6
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, November 10-12: Booth 281
And, of course, we'll have plenty of Syntasso swag, games, and prizes!
Pick Up Our O'Reilly Platform as a Product Report
We're also bringing copies of our O'Reilly report, Platform as a Product: How to Design, Operate, and Evolve Internal Developer Platforms.
The report explores how platform teams can apply product thinking to build platforms that meet developer needs, support organisational goals, and remain valuable as technology and requirements evolve.
It's a practical companion to many of the conversations we'll have at KubeCon, especially around building platforms designed for long-term success rather than just initial delivery.
Stop by our booth to pick up a free copy while stocks last. Copies are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Let's Talk Platform Engineering in Salt Lake City!
KubeCon is always one of our favourite opportunities to connect with the cloud native and platform engineering communities. We're especially excited this year to explore how the rise of AI is changing what platform teams need to produce, how capabilities are consumed, and what it takes to maintain everything safely at scale.
Whether you're building your first internal developer platform, scaling an established platform across an enterprise, or exploring how AI agents will interact with your infrastructure, we'd love to hear what you're working on.
Join us in Salt Lake City, November 9-12, at Booth PED6 for Platform Engineering Day or Booth 281 for KubeCon.
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