CNCF Cloud Native Sustainability Month 2026 – Local Meetup Birmingham

Birmingham's node in CNCF's global Cloud Native Sustainability Month: two 45-minute talks on the energy and waste cost of running Kubernetes, then a community Q&A. Published topics are resource optimisation, rightsizing and autoscaling, energy monitoring and carbon estimation, GreenOps and where it meets FinOps, and efficient workload design, with lessons from production environments. Hosted by Cloud Native Birmingham at Bluetel Solutions, who sponsor the venue. Doors 6pm with food and drinks, welcome 6:30, talks at 6:45 and 7:45, Q&A 8:30, close 9:30. Free, capacity 100. Both talks are still open - the call for speakers runs to 15 November - so the line-up does not exist yet. Why go: GreenOps is mostly conference talk, and this is a room of platform engineers and SREs comparing what they actually changed in their own clusters. Best for anyone who owns a Kubernetes bill.