Cloud & DevOps Events in Zurich

Join us for an evening focused on building trusted cloud architectures — featuring a hands-on resilience workshop, expert talks from AWS, and time to connect with the
community. We’ll explore how organizations can design cloud systems that are resilient, reliable, and sovereign, from implementing resilience patterns on AWS to understanding the difference between resilience and sovereignty in modern cloud architectures. You can join the hands-on workshop, the talk sessions, or — even better — both!

Agenda
15:45 Arrival for the Hands-on Lab
16:00 Hands-on Lab: AWS Resilience Workshop
17:30 Apéro & Networking Break
17:45 Arrival for the Container Meetup
18:00 Welcome & Introduction, Tobias Vonesch, copebit AG
18:05 Design Resilient Workloads on AWS, Michael Schmid, AWS
18:40 Enterprise Claude Code, Built Natively on AWS, Roman Frei, copebit AG
19:05 Digital Sovereignty - Facts beyond the hype: When You Need What, Daniel Caduff, AWS
19:45 Pizza & Beer
20:30 End

Hands-on Lab:
In this afternoon workshop, guided by AWS architects, you'll work hands-on with Karpenter, the open-source autoscaler for Kubernetes. Resilience starts with capacity: if your cluster can't scale when demand changes, your applications can't stay available. You'll see how Karpenter automatically launches just the right compute resources for your cluster's applications, and how to define and manage your autoscaling policies with NodePools. The right nodes at the right time: you work through real scenarios on your own laptop. Based on AWS Workshop Studio.
Please bring your laptop!

Talks + Speakers

Design Resilient Workloads on AWS (Michael Schmid)
To deal with unexpected events, you have to design your workloads to be resilient. To address this, AWS has developed the Resilience Lifecylce Framework. In this session we will review Resilient Software Design Patterns for building resilient applications, such as graceful degradation, static stability, exponential backoff, and circuit breakers.

Enterprise Claude Code, Built Natively on AWS (Roman Frei)
In this talk, Roman Frei, Product Owner at copebit AG, explains how his team built a private backend that lets engineers use AI coding tools like Claude Code while keeping enterprises compliant, guaranteeing EU data residency, full audit trails, and governance, all built entirely with native AWS services.

Digital Sovereignty - Facts beyond the hype (Dani Caduff)
In this talk, Daniel Caduff, Principal Security Assurance DACH at AWS, explains the difference between resilience and sovereignty in modern cloud architectures.

About copebit AG
copebit AG is a Swiss cloud consulting and engineering company focused on transparency, innovation, and long-term partnerships.
With deep expertise in AWS and modern DevOps practices, Copebit helps organizations design, build, and operate secure, scalable cloud solutions.

Let's meet at the CNC meetup on Tuesday, November 17th, 2026, at 15:00 CET.

Location:
Open Systems AG
3rd floor
Räffelstrasse 29
8045 Zürich

Agenda:
14:30 – Door Opening
15:00 – Welcome, Intro, & Announcements
15:05 – Talk 1: tbd (submit your talk proposal via https://cnc-meetup.ch)
15:35 – 5 minutes pause
15:40 – Talk 2: tbd (submit your talk proposal via https://cnc-meetup.ch)
16:10 – 5 minutes pause
16:15 – Talk 3: tbd (submit your talk proposal via https://cnc-meetup.ch)
16:45 – Final words, networking & apéro

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From building a highly available multi-AZ cloud in Switzerland to embedding quality into agile product delivery: two practical talks, experienced speakers, and plenty of networking opportunity. We are very much looking forward to the last DevOps Meetup Zurich of 2026.
Here's what's planned for the evening:
17:30 - 18:00 - Arrival and first drinks
18:00 - 18:45 - How We Build a Multi-AZ Cloud in Switzerland by Matthieu Robin & Mattia Eleuteri
18:45 - 19:30 - Embedding Quality Process in Agile Product Delivery by Geetanjali Bhat
19:30 - 20:30 - Networking, Open Space & More drinks*

How We Build a Multi-AZ Cloud in Switzerland
As a cloud provider, we spent significant time finding a solution to build a multi-AZ IaaS offering. Our goals were to find the best orchestrator, a very high availability system, and a fully secure setup for our customers. We will talk about our journey through different solutions and how we ended up with an Open-Source based stack, with Kubernetes at the core of our IaaS to deliver high availability, security, and resilience.

Matthieu Robin
CEO @ Hidora
Matthieu Robin is a passionate entrepreneur and staunch advocate of DevOps culture. As the CEO of Hidora, he leads companies in adopting cloud and DevOps solutions. He also serves as a volunteer firefighter, showcasing his commitment to community service. Matthieu founded the DevOps Geneva Meetup and DevOpsDays Geneva, fostering collaboration and knowledge-sharing within the DevOps community. He teaches at the Haute Ecole de Gestion, where he instructs the "Service Industrialization" course, sharing his expertise to inspire the next generation of business leaders.

Mattia Eleuteri
Cloud Native Enthusiast @ Hidora
Mattia has been at Hidora for 5 years, starting with monitoring and Elasticsearch. Today, he leads the journey to build a multi-AZ cloud in Switzerland, using Kubernetes as the core of the IaaS to deliver high availability, security, and resilience to Hidora's customers.

Embedding Quality Process in Agile Product Delivery
Quality is said to be built in when using agile delivery approaches, thanks to early and ongoing testing without the formal techniques used in traditional approaches. In interlinked projects, however, applying dedicated quality management processes and techniques helps teams consistently deliver fit-for-purpose agile products. Implementing these techniques has defined a new direction in multiple agile projects. In this session, you will learn how to define quality process techniques within an agile framework, and how to apply them across multiple projects, including scrum-of-scrum setups.

Geetanjali Bhat
Process Solution Specialist
Geetanjali is a dedicated quality specialist focused on quality process implementation across agile environments. She is a certified Project Manager (PMP) and Scrum Master (CSM) with strong expertise in QA management using Agile and SDLC methodologies across domains such as CRM, life sciences, and web applications. She has successfully scaled Scrum into multiple agile teams as a Scrum of Scrum Master. Having worked for product companies like Dell and Microsoft, she has led teams delivering quality software and regularly speaks at conferences on bridging quality challenges in agile project implementations.

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• Catering Sponsor: DevOpsDays Zürich https://www.devopsdays.ch/
• Location Sponsor: Digicomp https://www.digicomp.ch/

* contact us min. 3 days prior to the event if you prefer a vegan option.

DevOps conference in Zurich, Germany