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Keep Cloud Native Moving: Building Japan’s Platform for Open Innovation – Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director, Cloud and Infrastructure, The Linux Foundation & Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, Cloud and Infrastructure, The Linux Foundation
Cloud native has become the operating model for modern software, but AI is redefining what comes next. As organizations build sovereign AI platforms, deploy inference at scale, and introduce autonomous agents into production, the demands on cloud native infrastructure are rapidly scaling. From Kubernetes and platform engineering to observability, networking, and distributed systems, the cloud native ecosystem is becoming the foundation for trustworthy AI.
Japan offers a unique perspective on this transformation. With nearly one million cloud native developers and an infrastructure strategy that blends on-premises systems, hybrid cloud, and cloud native technologies, Japanese organizations are demonstrating that there is no single path to modernization. As AI adoption accelerates, these strengths position Japan to help shape the next generation of intelligent infrastructure.
In this keynote, Jonathan Bryce and Chris Aniszczyk will explore how the CNCF community is enabling the next wave of AI infrastructure, why open source collaboration matters more than ever, and how every developer, from first-time contributors to experienced maintainers, can help keep cloud native moving.
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