Hitachi to Showcase Latest Initiatives on Security Required for the AI Era and Cloud Native Technologies for Core Business Operations at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026

Hitachi's OSS Technical Expertise Recognized with Record Three Presentations by a Japanese Company

February 25, 2026
Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd. (“Hitachi”) will present its latest initiatives on security required for the AI era and cloud native technologies supporting core business operations at "KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026" (“this event”), held in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from Monday, March 23 to Thursday, March 26. This event is the flagship conference hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (“CNCF”), a non-profit organization globally leading the development and adoption of cloud native technologies. Among numerous submissions from around the world, Hitachi secured 3 presentations*¹, a record for a Japanese company for this event, which brings together cloud native engineers and user companies.

Hitachi's presentations will introduce the latest OSS technology applications within cloud native technologies evolving as foundational technologies for AI utilization. These include enterprise-grade security, transaction processing suitable for core business operations, and integrated management and migration of virtual machines and containers. Additionally, at the co-located event "KeycloakCon Europe" (held on Monday, March 23), Hitachi will present the latest technologies for Keycloak—a critical OSS for cloud security—and the Model Context Protocol (MCP)^*2, which enables secure and standardized connections between AI agents and external systems.

As a participating member of the CNCF, Hitachi contributes to the organization's operations by providing members to the Governing Board^*3 and the Tech Lead of the TAG Security and Compliance^*4. Hitachi also drives OSS promotion activities and feature development. Specifically, as a maintainer for Keycloak, Hitachi contributes to the development of major features. For details on Hitachi's CNCF activities, please refer to the following:

Hitachi Cloud: the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Activities (Japanese only)

*1 According to the CNCF KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 Transparency Report, the speaker acceptance rate for the event was 11%. (Total submissions: 2,947; Accepted: 325)

*2 An open protocol for standardizing connections between LLM applications and external data sources or tools

*3 Announcement: "Head of Hitachi OSPO becomes a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation Governing Board" (February 28, 2025)

*4 Announcement: "Hitachi Employee Appointed as Initial Tech Lead of CNCF TAG Security and Compliance" (August 7, 2025)

Hitachi Presentations at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026

Date/Time	Presentation Type/Title/Overview	Presenters
Mar 26 Thu. 11:00-	Presentation Type: Security SPIFFE Meets OAuth: Federated Identity for Cloud Native Workloads This session demonstrates implementation patterns for federated identity combining SPIFFE^5 authentication and OAuth^6 authorization, which are increasingly important in cloud native environments leveraging AI. We explain how to implement secure authentication and authorization across multiple trust domains in cloud native environments.	Tech Lead of "TAG Security and Compliance" Yoshiyuki Tabata
Mar 26 Thu. 11:00-	Session Type: Data Processing + Storage Beyond Stateless: Distributed Transactions with Autoscaling and Consistency on Kubernetes This session introduces a distributed transaction approach ensuring the consistency of critical data updates in financial transactions while enabling autoscaling^7 on Kubernetes^8, based on real-world examples. By integrating a transaction monitor with auto-scaler, we explain an architecture that enables efficient resource allocation while retaining ACID properties^*9 even for stateless business applications that do not retain historical states.	Jumpei Nishitani
Mar 26 Thu. 12:25-	Session Type: Solutions Showcase, Cloud Native Theater Cloud Native Theater \| KubeVirt Summit: Achieving 10× Faster VM Migration to KubeVirt with Storage Offload in Forklift This session explains how the storage offload acceleration feature—an extension of Forklift, an open-source toolkit for migrating large-scale production virtual machines (VMs) from VMware environments to KubeVirt^*10—enables VM migration up to 10 times faster than traditional methods.	Ryosuke Tatsumi

Date/Time

Presentation Type/Title/Overview

Presenters

Mar 26 Thu.
11:00-

Presentation Type: Security
SPIFFE Meets OAuth: Federated Identity for Cloud Native Workloads

This session demonstrates implementation patterns for federated identity combining SPIFFE^*5 authentication and OAuth^*6 authorization, which are increasingly important in cloud native environments leveraging AI. We explain how to implement secure authentication and authorization across multiple trust domains in cloud native environments.

Tech Lead of "TAG Security and Compliance"

Yoshiyuki Tabata

Mar 26 Thu.
11:00-

Session Type: Data Processing + Storage
Beyond Stateless: Distributed Transactions with Autoscaling and Consistency on Kubernetes

This session introduces a distributed transaction approach ensuring the consistency of critical data updates in financial transactions while enabling autoscaling^*7 on Kubernetes^*8, based on real-world examples. By integrating a transaction monitor with auto-scaler, we explain an architecture that enables efficient resource allocation while retaining ACID properties^*9 even for stateless business applications that do not retain historical states.

Jumpei Nishitani

Mar 26 Thu.
12:25-

Session Type: Solutions Showcase, Cloud Native Theater
Cloud Native Theater | KubeVirt Summit: Achieving 10× Faster VM Migration to KubeVirt with Storage Offload in Forklift

This session explains how the storage offload acceleration feature—an extension of Forklift, an open-source toolkit for migrating large-scale production virtual machines (VMs) from VMware environments to KubeVirt^*10—enables VM migration up to 10 times faster than traditional methods.

Ryosuke Tatsumi

*5 SPIFFE (Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone): Workload-to-workload authentication framework for cloud native environments and microservices architectures.

*6 OAuth (Open Authorization): Authorization framework enabling clients to access resources without sharing credentials like passwords

*7 A mechanism that automatically scales resources up or down in response to fluctuations in the load of applications and services

*8 An open-source container orchestration platform for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications

*9 The four properties—A (Atomicity), C (Consistency), I (Isolation), D (Durability)—that guarantee the reliability and consistency of database transactions

*10 An OSS project for managing and running virtual machines (VMs) on Kubernetes

Hitachi Group Presentations at KeycloakCon Europe (Co-located Event)

Date/Time	Presentation Type/Title/Overview	Presenters
Mar 23 Mon. 10:40-	Presentation Type: KeycloakCon, Keycloak and AI Model Context Protocol (MCP) Authorization for Enterprise Use Cases with Keycloak This session explains how to apply MCP authorization to achieve enhanced governance through centralized management of data access control when utilizing data for enterprise AI agents. Also introduces how to implement authorization using Keycloak.	Yutaka Obuchi (Hitachi)
Mar 23 Mon. 10:15-	Session Type: KeycloakCon Sponsored Keynote: Building the Future of AI-Ready Identity with Keycloak Hitachi deploys Keycloak across diverse sectors including finance, public services, industry, and social infrastructure, advancing open standards within OAuth and OpenID Connect. Recently, we have also participated in MCP standardization efforts. This keynote will highlight our history of contributions and showcase our latest use cases in the emerging field of agentic AI.	Atul Ram (Hitachi Vantara LLC)

Date/Time

Presentation Type/Title/Overview

Presenters

Mar 23 Mon.
10:40-

Presentation Type: KeycloakCon, Keycloak and AI
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Authorization for Enterprise Use Cases with Keycloak

This session explains how to apply MCP authorization to achieve enhanced governance through centralized management of data access control when utilizing data for enterprise AI agents. Also introduces how to implement authorization using Keycloak.

Yutaka Obuchi
(Hitachi)

Mar 23 Mon.
10:15-

Session Type: KeycloakCon
Sponsored Keynote: Building the Future of AI-Ready Identity with Keycloak

Hitachi deploys Keycloak across diverse sectors including finance, public services, industry, and social infrastructure, advancing open standards within OAuth and OpenID Connect. Recently, we have also participated in MCP standardization efforts. This keynote will highlight our history of contributions and showcase our latest use cases in the emerging field of agentic AI.

Atul Ram
(Hitachi Vantara LLC)

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026

Date & Location: March 23 (Mon) - 26 (Thu), 2026 @ Amsterdam, Netherlands
Organizer: Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Event Details
Co-located Event: KeycloakCon Europe (Monday, March 23)

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