CPH Automate 2026

CPH Automate brings together network engineers, architects, and automation practitioners to share practical experiences from the real world. Expect technical talks, honest war stories, live discussions, and plenty of opportunities to meet others who are building and operating automated networks.

What to expect

• A full day of technical presentations
• Real-world automation stories from production networks
• Practical lessons, successes, and failures
• Networking with fellow automation engineers
• Coffee, lunch, and time for discussions

Agenda for the day

kl. 08:00 - 09:00 Registration and coffee

kl. 09:00 - 09:15 Welcome to CPH Automate

kl. 09:15 - 09:45 What should You Build, When You Can Build Anything? (Damien Garros)

kl. 09:45 - 10:15 Democratizing Network Automation: What we Learned Building an Open Automation Stack (Göran Edin)

kl. 10:15 - 10:45 Transformation Through Community (Andreas Bækdahl and Emil Commerou)

kl. 10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break

kl. 11:15 - 11:45 Bootstrapping a Source of Truth in a Brownfield Environment: Field-Tested Patterns (Constantin VURLI)

kl. 11:45 - 12:15 JSON Freedom or Chaos; How to Trust your Data (Bart Dorlandt)

kl. 12:15 - 12:45 Keeping ~2k IP Pools Filed with Just-in-Time Provisioning (Kristoffer Larsen)

kl. 12:45 - 13:45 Lunch

kl. 13:45 - 14:15 Vibe-ops: Migrating Production Infratructure with an AI agent (Marcus Hoff)

kl. 14:15 - 14:45 Memory Has no ChangeLog (Ahmed Shawky)

kl. 14:45 - 15:15 When Your Source of Truth Isn't Really Yours: Lessons from Cross-Team Integrations (Niclas Skøtt Petersen)

kl. 15:15 - 15:45 Coffee break

kl. 15:45 - 16:15 Shift Left: Building Network Automation That Lasts (Wim Henderickx)

kl. 16:15 - 16:45 Laziness - A Blessing or a Curse? (Urs Baumann)

kl. 16:45 - 17:00 Wrap up and thanks

kl. 18:00 - 20:00 Happy Hour at Green Island (sponsored by nLogic)

Check the Event website for more information: https://cph-automate.network/

We look forward to welcoming the network automation community to Copenhagen this October.