Cloud Native Brussels - March 2026

Date

March 5th, 2026 - Doors open at 18:30

This meetup takes place just a couple of weeks before KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in Amsterdam. It’s the right moment to connect locally, align on plans, exchange ideas, and coordinate with those who are attending. If you are going to KubeCon, this is your opportunity to meet other community members from Belgium and represent the local ecosystem together.

Location

Cantersteen 10, 1000 Brussels, Ring Twice office, B Central (right at Brussels Central Station)

Our amazing friends at Ring Twice are hosting us at their office in the very center of Brussels, inside B Central — just at the train station.

Talks

European sovereign cloud by Eddy Truyen

Join us for a talk by Eddy Truyen (DistriNet, KU Leuven) on what “European sovereign cloud” really means in practice—data sovereignty (kept in Europe), operational sovereignty (control under a specific jurisdiction), and technical sovereignty (European/open-source stacks)—and how to turn today’s political debate into an engineering discipline: “sovereign-by-design” threat modeling, compliance/security checks in CI/CD, and policy-enforced sovereign operations across hybrid/edge environments, including a clear comparison between the European Commission’s Cloud Sovereignty Framework and the Eurostack Industry Initiative “Buy European” approach.

Eddy Truyen is a research expert at the DistriNet research group, within the KU Leuven Computer Science Department. After obtaining his PhD in 2004, he continued his research journey as a postdoctoral researcher at the Computer Science Department and DistriNet. In 2009, he obtained a permanent position at IMinds-DistriNet as a research expert in middleware. His main research activities are in the area of dependable and adaptive middleware for cloud-native applications, with a focus on continuous deployment, cost-efficient resource management and network security. 

AI Security Monitoring: Detecting Threats Against Production ML Systems by Samuel Desseaux

As organizations rush to deploy AI/ML models in production, security monitoring of these workloads remains an afterthought. Traditional observability stacks weren’t designed to detect adversarial attacks, model drift exploitation, prompt injection, or data poisoning ,leaving a critical blind spot in your security posture.

In this talk, we’ll explore how to extend your existing cloud-native observability stack to monitor AI workloads for security threats. We’ll cover:

• The emerging threat landscape targeting production ML systems (model evasion, data exfiltration, supply chain attacks on model artifacts)

• How to leverage open-source tools (VictoriaMetrics, OpenTelemetry, Falco) to build a security monitoring pipeline for AI inference and training workloads

• Practical detection patterns: anomalous inference latency, unusual token distributions, model API abuse, and resource hijacking

• A live demo of a Kubernetes-native AI security monitoring stack detecting real-time threats Whether you’re running LLMs, computer vision models, or classical ML in production, this session will give you actionable strategies to secure your AI infrastructure without vendor lock-in

Samuel Desseaux, fractional CTO and trainer, founder of Erythix (FR) and Aureonis (BE), VictoriaMetrics and Elastic Partner, specializing in observability and AI security for companies

Food & Drinks

Food and drinks will be provided during the event.

If your company would like to gain visibility within the Belgian cloud-native community and support this CNCF meetup, we are open to additional sponsors. Sponsorship is a good opportunity to:

• Be visible in front of local Kubernetes and cloud-native practitioners

• Connect with engineers attending KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe

• Support the growth of the Belgian CNCF ecosystem

If you’re interested in sponsoring, please reach out to contact@mauromorales.com

Capacity

This event is currently capped at 20 seats due to room size.

If tickets sell out, please register on the waiting list. If there is enough demand, we will try to secure a larger room.

Code of Conduct

This meetup follows the CNCF Code of Conduct. We are committed to providing a welcoming, safe, and inclusive environment for everyone, regardless of background or experience level.

Harassment, discrimination, or inappropriate behavior will not be tolerated.

If you experience or witness behavior that violates the Code of Conduct, please contact the organizers directly during the event.

Full Code of Conduct: https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/main/code-of-conduct.md