Cloud Native Bangladesh held the country’s first full-day, in-person cloud-native conference at Krishibid Institution Bangladesh in Dhaka, drawing over 300 cloud-native practitioners, DevOps engineers, site reliability engineers, architects and students who came to learn, share and make new connections. The event was supported by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and began with an opening address by Audra Montenegro, the CNCF community and outreach manager, who encouraged local teams to build on open source tools and join the global community. CNCF ambassadors Md Arif Hossen and Zaynul Abedin Miah spoke about how people can contribute to open source projects and help grow the local ecosystem, and the programme was hosted by Jasim Alam, a co-organiser from Cloud Native Bangladesh. A lively panel discussion titled Cloud-Native in Bangladesh: Adoption vs Real Impact, moderated by Amir Hossain from BJIT, looked at whether using cloud native tools is changing business for the better and how teams can measure real benefits. Speakers and panelists shared clear examples of how cloud-native design can make apps more reliable, scale when traffic grows and cut the time teams spend on manual work. The technical sessions included talks by international and local experts on cloud architecture, security and scalability, and these talks used plain language so students and newcomers could follow the main ideas. A special Women in Tech session highlighted the need for more diversity in the tech community and celebrated women who lead projects and teach others. One hands-on workshop called Secure Software Delivery with GitOps taught practical steps for safe and repeatable deployments, and it was led by Md Amdadul Bari from BracIT and Md Nasir Uddin from TechnoNext so participants could try the tools during the session. Organisers arranged time for networking so startups, employers and students could talk about jobs, project ideas and ways to work together on future pilots. Sponsors and partners from the local and international tech scene stepped forward to support the day, and their backing helped make the event low cost and open to many learners and practitioners. Attendees said they left with new skills, clear next steps and contact details for people who can help with future projects and hiring. Leaders from Cloud Native Bangladesh said they plan to run follow-up workshops, more hands-on labs and community meetups so lessons from the conference can turn into real practice at local firms and universities. The summit showed that when people share simple tools, teach one another and test ideas together, it helps the whole tech community grow, build useful software and create better job chances for students and juniors who are ready to join the cloud-native world. Organisers also plan mentorship programs and small grants to help pilot projects grow.
