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Headlamp Team at KubeCon Europe 2026

Joaquim Rocha
· 3 min read

Headlamp is heading to Amsterdam! KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 runs March 24-26 (with co-located events starting March 22), and we have plenty going on: conference talks, a Maintainer Summit session, a hands-on ContribFest, and our kiosk at the Project Pavilion. Here's the full rundown.

Talks​

This year we have Headlamp-related talks from both core members of the project, and from the wider community.

Title: Leveling up with Radius: Custom Resources and Headlamp Integration for Real-World Workloads
Speakers: Nuno Guedes (Millennium BCP) and Will Tsai (Microsoft)
Date and time: Tuesday, March 24, 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM CET
Room: Forum
Description: Learn how Millennium bcp extended the Radius framework for production workloads with complex dependencies (Datadog monitors, AI models, internal APIs) and built a Headlamp plugin that visualizes the app graph and maps dependencies across cloud platforms.

Title: How To (Not) Fork Headlamp
Speaker: Joaquim Rocha (Amutable)
Date and time: Thursday, March 26, 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CET
Room: E106-108
Description: Should you write a plugin or fork the whole project? This talk walks through Headlamp's architecture and plugin system, covers the trade-offs, and shares practical advice for keeping your customizations maintainable either way.

Title: Ping SRE? I Am the SRE! Awesome Fun I Had Drawing a Zine for Troubleshooting Kubernetes Deployments
Speaker: Rene Dudfield (Microsoft)
Date and time: Wednesday, March 25, 4:45 PM - 5:15 PM CET
Room: Hall 7, Room A
Description: Patterns from troubleshooting Kubernetes issues in the Headlamp community turned into a hand-drawn mini zine for diagnosing deployment problems. Come see how a notebook full of doodles became a 16-page troubleshooting guide, and maybe get inspired to draw your own.

Title: Headlamp: Build Kubernetes Experiences Your Way! (ContribFest)
Speakers: Joaquim Rocha (Amutable) and Santhosh Nagaraj (Microsoft)
Date and time: Wednesday, March 25, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM CET
Room: G107
Description: A hands-on workshop where you'll build a Headlamp plugin with guidance from the maintainers. Whether you're just getting started or already have contributions in flight, this is a great chance to dig in. Bring your laptop!

Co-located: Maintainer Summit​

Title: Does Your Project Want a UI in kubernetes-sigs/headlamp?
Speakers: Rene Dudfield and Santhosh Nagaraj (Microsoft)
Date and time: Sunday, March 22, 11:35 AM - 12:10 PM CET
Room: Forum
Description: Headlamp already has UI plugins for projects like cert-manager, Gateway API, Karpenter, and KEDA. In this Maintainer Summit session, the team invites CNCF project maintainers to collaborate on bringing UI support to even more projects.

Project Pavilion​

Come say hi at our kiosk (P-6B) in the Project Pavilion (Solutions Showcase, Halls 1-5). We'll be there with live demos and happy to chat about anything Headlamp, on Wednesday, March 25: 10:00 AM - 1:30 PM CET.

Also at KubeCon​

Headlamp is also expected to make an appearance in a couple of other sessions:

See You There​

Whether it's at a talk, the ContribFest, or the Project Pavilion, we'd love to connect. See you in Amsterdam!