Wouter is particularly passionate about CICD and everything that involves automation in the tech industry. In the past years, he worked in different countries on projects that involve automating Kubernetes workloads while at the same time speeding up and standardizing the landscape in ING. In his free time, you can occasionally find him on a split-board touring the Romanian mountains

Christoph Held, Cloud Architect at Allianz, is a big enthusiast of Open Source and Kubernetes in particular. His journey with Kubernetes began in 2014 when he became a full-time contributor and took on the leadership of the Dashboard project. Today, in his role at Allianz, Christoph plays a vital part in guiding the company on their cloud journey, leveraging his expertise to build large-scale clusters and DevOps solutions.