Thomas Pliakas

Senior Software Architect @ Nokia

Speaker's Bio

Redis is an in-memory database popular for many use cases, such as content caching, session stores, real-time analytics, message broker and data stream needs. Since version 5.0 of Redis a new data structure, Redis Streams, dedicated to managing streams has been introduced. Using Redis Streams, anyone can do a lot more than what was possible with Pub/Sub, Lists or Sorted Sets in the data stream domain. In this all-hands session, we’ll walk you through the basics of how to use Redis Streams, how consumer groups work, and finally show a working application using Go that uses Redis Streams.

Redis is an in-memory database popular for many use cases, such as content caching, session stores, real-time analytics, message broker and data stream needs. Since version 5.0 of Redis a new data structure, Redis Streams, dedicated to managing streams has been introduced. Using Redis Streams, anyone can do a lot more than what was possible with Pub/Sub, Lists or Sorted Sets in the data stream domain. In this all-hands session, we’ll walk you through the basics of how to use Redis Streams, how consumer groups work, and finally show a working application using Go that uses Redis Streams.

2026 Distributed Systems Kubernetes LLM Infrastructure MCP Model Context Protocol Redis Scalability Session Management Streamable HTTP
AI-Native Engineering

Stateless Lies and Distributed Truths: Running MCP at Scale on Kubernetes

Fri 20 Nov 2026 • 13:10 (CET) • Intermediate, Advanced
Auditorium

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has become the de facto standard for connecting Large Language Models to enterprise systems — but what works beautifully on localhost falls apart the moment you introduce Kubernetes, real traffic, and distributed state.
This session covers the three architectural realities every team hits in production: the migration from Server-Sent Events (SSE) to Streamable HTTP and why SSE’s persistent connection model is fundamentally incompatible with cloud-native deployments; Redis-backed distributed session management that survives pod restarts and autoscaling events; and a battle-tested Kubernetes deployment blueprint covering ingress configuration, horizontal pod autoscaling, and transport-layer security hardening.
You’ll leave with concrete patterns and hard-won lessons for running MCP where it actually matters — in production.

Day oppening: Impossible is Nothing

A discussion of building global success and how artificial intelligence is transforming the world.

Closing

Hackathon Final Pitching

Open Award

Panel / Debate discussion

Gold Sponsor Speech