 Welcome, so welcome to the cafe. I think that you have water under your chair, but the real coffee is back there. It can be our little secret Okay, wonderful. So welcome welcome I'd love to have each of you introduce yourselves and talk about what you're working on as it pertains to cloud native within your organization Perfect Hi, it's so great to be here again My name is Sabine and I'm a product manager at Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation So we are a subsidiary company of Mercedes-Benz and as tech innovators We are a part of you know the future of ability and everything that's transforming around automotive at the moment especially for Mercedes-Benz Yeah, hi everyone, and thank you so much for the for the invitation My name is Casper Nissen. I work as a lead platform architect at Lunar. Lunar is a modern bank in the Nordics And we really try to be the platform for our customers to engage with all the finances Besides that, I'm also a CNTF ambassador. So shout out to the ambassadors down there And I really try to build the community in the Nordics as well, so yeah Well, first of all, thank you for having me here. Thank you CNTF, you know It is my birthday this week. I'm celebrating it. I can't imagine of a better gift than being here on this stage My name is Sejou Petain. I'm the head of the office of Alliance Direct You probably all know Alliance, the best company insurance company in the world Alliance Direct is the digital entity responsible for delivering the same excellence and trust into the digital world Hi, I'm Yuichi Nakamura from Hitachi I am leading OSS strategy and Contribution in Hitachi. Hitachi is Providing social innovation product and service across the world and using the cloud native technologies and we are also a Platinum member of the Linux Foundation Recently, we joined CNTF as a gold member and nice to meet you to the cloud native community Wonderful. Wonderful. Thank you so much So are y'all ready to spill the tea? Let's go So Sabine one question I have for you was What does it take to actually stay up-to-date? Does how does the CNTF help in terms of staying up to date on everything going on within the community? And how is that applicable to Mercedes Benz? Yeah, you know staying up-to-date for me also means that you have a shorter time to market and what we have figured out is that The time from actually having an idea until putting it into production until it actually delivers value for our users and customers Is shortened by you know embracing the cloud native ecosystem and being a part of it Being a part of it is actually Very important for us because we not only use cloud native technology, but we are also Actively contributing back. This is very important to us You might have heard about our FOSS manifest already and it states a first a FOSS first Preferred strategy and that gives us the ability in the time to actually Contribute and be a part and we learn so much from that because as you know, you have a few beg loop there you get feedback from developers who might have a different skill level and Who are from different companies and that actually helps to you know broaden your horizon and you know be an active part of the community Community approach is something that I like a lot because it can break boundaries And we have seen that it actually breaks the boundaries in such a big company as Mercedes-Benz with all the subsidiary companies You know collaborating and being a community together helps a lot Especially also if you have you know development and operations teams So yeah, that is that is something that is very important for us And it helps us to stay up-to-date also on a personal and the skill level Lovely, it's wonderful to hear how you're able to leverage the community and you don't feel that need to kind of you know Be on your own or be in isolation. It's true. We just aren't able to develop in a vacuum. Absolutely. Yeah, wonderful. Awesome Casper, I've got a question for you In what ways has cloud native helped you better work with users and customers and get things done at Lunar? Yeah, so so we we adopted Kubernetes back in in 2017 and before that we saw a lot of you know Slowdown and deployments because of a lot of dependencies between teams and things were just getting slow And we are not really delivering value to our customers. I think it took too long So so we embarked on a journey to basically unlock velocity by adopting Kubernetes and adopting cloud native in general and just making sure that our developers were able to deploy stuff independently from each other and Take full autonomy or be autonomous and and take 360 ownership of their services and their domain So that was really the goal and we are now at a point where we have a platform that helps our developers be secure compliant Provide same defaults and just make them focus on what is really important Which is for them to build features for our customers That is really where I think cloud native and Kubernetes really comes in and that helps a lot for our customers because we can make sure that our Developers are really focusing on providing value to the customers rather than configuring Infrastructure or setting up a database or whatever it might be So we are really paving the path for developers to to make them productive and in the end It's we are here for our users, right or customers. So yeah amazing amazing. Yeah, hopefully no cashing issues with the bank Sir I'd love to ask you that same question How has cloud native help kind of shape all the ons and the way that you interact with your customer base? Yeah, well to best answer this question. I will have to tell you a short story very short promise Two years ago when I has the right to embark on the journey of becoming digital and bitter Well, we asked ourselves several questions. It was like what are we? What do we want to become? Are we consumers? Are we creators? The answer was simple. We want to create we want to build a unique digital experience for our customers How? The key for us was to fully own our digital future we call that digital sovereignty and the key to achieve digital sovereignty is Basically having two ingredients now a first one would be focusing on people an organization and on the people really Every developer every engineer has on daily basis a choice to make do I consume or do I create? The answer to this question has a deep impact on one's career on Organization real that are free implication to consider first implication would be on security and operation an organization Secures and operates best digital asset that it owns simple the second implication It's our innovation the magic happens at the intersection between digital excellence and customer insight the third implication has to do with talent as always and it's quite simple simple and creative Organizations attract creative people to summarize alias the right. It's on a journey of becoming digital unbeatable The key to this is to achieve digital sovereignty and the gateway to get to the digital sovereignty Is by being part of a free open source cloud native community? cncf amazing amazing I love getting to hear how people are able to jump in and get involved a little bit more quickly when it comes to Open source in general You don't have to start at zero you can actually you know, maybe go to 30 or 60 exactly a wheelie exciting Eachie as a new member my question for you is what kind of opportunities and challenges Do you see as it pertains to working within the cncf community? Yes? I think authentication and authorization will be important Because the critical system like banking and government system shifting to cloud and Standards for authentication and authorization protocols Very actively developed in SDOs like of ID foundation and final alliance However catching up such protocols Is not so active in cloud native community Last week key clock and joined the cncf as an incubating project for that area and And we want to collaborate with key clock community To catch up such protocols and we'd like to contribute to cloud native community this afternoon Key clock community have a maintainer track We would like to Discuss about authentication and authorization This could become amazing amazing. Thank you so much Yeah, we're very excited to have you as a new member and really excited to see what comes of the community now I know we could sit here all day in in talk and kind of go through things and Mercedes has actually been wonderful to Donate some cars here today. So there are a whole bunch of Mercedes Benz cars placed around the venue Definitely recommend that you come and chat with us come and find us on that front And we would love to chat with you further in person. So with that I'd like to thank all of you for coming out here today for sharing all of your stories with us and With that we'd love to hand it off. Thank you. Thank you everybody. Thank you