What I Learned at My First KubeCon + CloudNativeCon as a High School Speaker

A high school student shares their experience presenting a hurricane prediction project at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam. The project combined Kubernetes, kgateway, vLLM, FourCastNet, and a custom CFD model to make hurricane prediction more efficient using inference-aware routing. The post covers the poster session experience, notable conference sessions, the solution showcase, and personal reflections on the open source community.