On Wednesday November 19th 2025 we’re hosting HOPE
(HCS Open Platform Experience): a day full of open source, connection and knowledge sharing.
Are you ready to delve into the latest technical developments in the field of Platform Engineering?
Connect with like-minded engineers, explore bold ideas and see how open technologies are shaping the future!
Don’t miss out! We HOPE to see you there. Pictures of last year:
With HOPE, we aim to be more than an event: we want to spark awareness, compassion, and real change. A moment that lifts barriers, connects hearts, by supporting Enable Nederland, a wonderful good cause that empowers children to live without limits. Check below for more info!
✨ Dive into a day of learning, sharing, and building — together.
🎯 Save the date: November 19, 2025
Explore. Connect. Innovate.
Be part of the movement. Be part of HOPE.
Check this 70-second video preview of what to expect this year:
First floor map. The rooms are highlighted when hovering over the text.
Professor of Innovation & Technology | Entrepreneur | Former Professional Speed Skater
Topic: The Future of Technological Breakthroughs
Ben van der Burg combines an impressive career in top-level sports with a passion for digital innovation and technology. With over 20 years of experience in both academia and industry, he inspires audiences with insights on innovation, AI, and the human side of technology. Expect a dynamic keynote full of energy, challenges, and inspiration!
Topic: Hold That Thought: Making Containers Persistent
Containers are fast, agile, and scalable — but ephemeral by nature. Containers revolutionized agility and scale but brought new challenges like persistency. This session traces the journey from the dominance of virtual machines, to the rise of containers, and now to VMs running inside containers. Along the way, we’ll explore the birth of the Container Storage Interface (CSI) and how modern solutions like Portworx Enterprise enables enterprise-grade persistence, availability, and mobility for today’s hybrid workloads.
Topic: Belastingdienst: The Road to DevOps and OpenShift
A five-year journey from siloed teams and shared responsibilities to a DevOps-driven culture empowered by OpenShift. This talk shares the challenges and lessons from a team that took initiative in adopting DevOps practices and applying OpenShift in ways that best fit their needs at the time. Our focus was on discovering how to effectively work with OpenShift as consumers, exploring cloud-native development practices and shaping our own delivery workflows. Throughout this journey, we collaborated closely with the Cloud Platform Enabling Team (CPET) to align with platform capabilities and ensure smooth integration.
Topic: Securing the software supply chain @ Bol.
With an ever increasing reliance on 3rd party packages and supply chain attacks regularly making headlines, supply chain security is yet another security challenge organizations face. In this session Zahra Deghan Pour (Bol.) and Feike Wierda (HCS Company) will take you through the entire journey of securing the software supply chain at Bol.
Topic: Securing the software supply chain @ Bol.
With an ever increasing reliance on 3rd party packages and supply chain attacks regularly making headlines, supply chain security is yet another security challenge organizations face. In this session Zahra Deghan Pour (Bol.) and Feike Wierda (HCS Company) will take you through the entire journey of securing the software supply chain at Bol.
Topic: Modernizing your CI/CD pipelines with Dagger.io
CI/CD pipelines can be a struggle to develop and maintain. What if you can treat your pipeline like another application and use your favorite programming language. Interact with your pipelines interactively for fast feedback. Use advanced caching to speed up repetitive tasks. In this session I will share all these possibilities and more on why Dagger.io can help you modernize your CI/CD pipelines. Demo included.
Topic: "We have a platform. It’s running. Everyone’s enthusiastic. Right? So… now what?"
In this session, we’ll explore the questions every platform owner faces sooner or later. How mature is our IT platform, really? Is it well-organized? Is it future-proof? Are people truly as satisfied as we think? And are we getting the full potential out of it? We’ll introduce a maturity model that not only delivers insights, but also sparks the conversations that matter. About strength, growth potential, and direction. Because measuring is useful – but understanding is what really drives progress.
Topic: Officially open source
Daan will take you along the implementation of an open source office/collaboration stack that was POCced at government client. DAWO stands for Digitally Autonomous Workplace Overheid (Government), or DAWG in English 😉. He will go into • The process of reanimating old hardware to run it. • The amateur-hour stuff that cost a bunch of time if only he knew in advance • What it takes to run the open source version of it (DAWN, mainly based on SUSE and other European software) yourself. He will attempt to speak manager, but engineering questions are more than welcome. Most will probably be answered with skill-issue.
Disclaimer: By purchasing a ticket and attending this event, you agree that your email address may be shared with event sponsors and partners for relevant updates and promotions. You also acknowledge that photographs and videos taken during the event may be used by the organizers for future promotional purposes. If you have any concerns about this, please contact us at: events@hcs-company.com
What would HOPE 2025 be without our awesome sponsors? A special thanks to our sponsors for making HOPE possible. You’ll get a chance to network with our sponsors at the booths or see them shine at the talks and workshops.
Just like the open source community we find it important to help other communities were we can. That’s why, all proceeds from HOPE will go to Enable Nederland, a wonderful foundation that provides mobility aids and adaptive equipment, giving children the freedom to move, play, and fully participate in life. Like us, Enable Nederland believes in the power of inclusion. With the right support, every child can discover independence, joy and opportunity. Every child deserves that chance — and we’re proud to support that mission with HOPE.
Meervaart theatre
Address: Meer en Vaart 300, 1068 LE Amsterdam (google maps)
Website: www.meervaart.nl
Telephone: 020 410 7777
Public Transport: Tram/Bus stop Osdorpplein Oost, Amsterdam (Navigate)
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