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AI agents are already making decisions inside infrastructure environments, detecting anomalies, correlating root causes, and in some environments remediating without a human in the loop. The gap between the vendor demo and your production system, with its legacy dependencies and blast-radius considerations, is where the real work happens. That gap is what this track is built around.
Share of enterprises expected to run agentic AI as part of IT infrastructure operations, up from under 5% in 2025.
Source: Gartner, Predicts 2026
Engineering leaders who report critical gaps in agentic AI expertise inside their own organisations right now.
Source: Interview Kickstart industry survey, 2026
The automation track, at a glance
David Pazdera, Principal Solution Architect, Azure MVP
Instead of theory, we’ll walk through real patterns and live demos showing how to:
- Build agent-driven operational workflows on top of Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and platform signals
- Combine Azure services + AI agents to automate remediation, scaling decisions, and compliance checks
- Design safe guardrails and governance for autonomous operations- Integrate with existing IaC, GitOps, and platform engineering practicesWe’ll explore where this approach actually works today — and where it breaks.
Ronald Harmsen, Senior engineer
A Kubernetes cluster is not a platform. It is a starting point. This session is a live walkthrough of what those layers look like in practice. We will start from a clean cluster and build up the parts that turn it into something a developer can use safely, with the operational guardrails an IT team can actually defend. I will break a few things on purpose along the way, because the failure modes are usually more instructive than the happy path.
Martin Opedal, Sr. Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft
"Just describe your infrastructure and the AI writes it." We have all heard the pitch.In this session I show how spec-driven development with Speckit and Squad turns Infrastructure as Code from a solo copy-paste-pray workflow into a structured, multi-agent engineering process, with real Terraform and Bicep deploying to real Azure. Live demo and Head-to-head comparison. This is not a "look what AI can do" talk. This is a practical workflow for infrastructure engineers who need to ship reliable, compliant Azure infrastructure at scale and want AI agents to do the heavy lifting without the guesswork.
Peter Arnesen, Azure MVP
Managing cloud infrastructure often means juggling Terraform state files, pipelines, and manual processes—especially when networking, governance, and landing zones are involved.
In this session, you’ll see how Crossplane takes a different approach by using continuous reconciliation through Kubernetes, removing the need to manage state files and making infrastructure behave more like any other declarative system.
Torrey Trahanovsky, Azure Core, Product Manager at Microsoft
See it before you ship it. The New What-If for Deployment Stacks shows exactly what an Azure change adds, updates, or deletes before you apply, live in Bicep and the Azure CLI. Then we go beyond the basics: modules, debugging tooling, and AI-assisted authoring.
Marius Sandbu, Azure AI MVP
In this session, we'll take a hands-on look at how Microsoft's new managed AI agent can assist us with troubleshooting, diagnosing, and understanding why things break in Azure.
Some of the names worth planning your day around
Sr. Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft
Azure Core, Product Manager at Microsoft
Azure AI MVP
Cloud Sovereignty in Practice: MicroHack with Azure, Azure Local, and Azure Arc
Led by Jan Egil Ring and the Microsoft team. A hands-on introduction to designing for digital sovereignty, built for architects and infrastructure professionals who want practical insight without the vendor pitch. Directly relevant if automation and platform decisions in your stack now have to account for sovereignty constraints.
Four things worth the three days
Production-tested automation patterns
What's actually running in other people's environments, not what's in a vendor's demo script.
A governance answer for agentic AI in your stack
What an agent should have access to, how you audit what it did, and who's accountable when it gets something wrong.
Direct access to peers running the same systems
The hallway conversation with someone who's already hit the problem you're about to hit.
A report-back your team will actually use
Concrete patterns tied to sessions you chose in advance, not "it was a good conference."
Cost & logistics
Dates
Oct 13–15, 2026
Masterclasses
Oct 13
Main conference
Oct 14–15
Ticket price
From NOK 11.500
VAT
excl. 25%
Refunds
None, decide once
Travel to venue
Adjacent to Oslo Central Station
Laptop
Bring your own (masterclasses)
Full agenda
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