Apr 14
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Don't miss out! Join us at our next KubeCon + CloudNativeCon events in Mumbai, India (18-19 June, 2026), Yokohama, Japan (29-30 July, 2026), and Shanghai, China (8-9 September, 2026). Connect with our current graduated, incubating, and sandbox projects as the community gathers to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing. Learn more at https://kubecon.io Panel: Platform Resilience, Built on Belonging - Diana Todea, VictoriaMetrics; Stéphane Este-Gracias, ITQ; Or Navon, Friends of Dorothy; Milad Vafaeifard, DHHWG Behind every high-impact Internal Developer Platform (IDP) lies a socio-technical system, but many platform teams struggle not with YAML or APIs but with attracting and retaining the right talent. A vast pool of skilled engineers hesitate to apply because they don't feel they belong, leaving organizations unknowingly missing out on innovation. This panel brings together members of Merge Forward - a CNCF initiative uniting community groups across disability, gender, neuro- and speech diversity - to explore how designing for belonging drives measurable business outcomes: stronger Developer Experience (DevEx), higher platform adoption, greater retention, and ROI. Through stories from platform engineers, attendees will learn how empathy, accessibility, and allyship accelerate team performance and maturity - turning cultural health into a core metric of business success. Because in platform engineering, resilience isn't just built into systems - it's built between people.