Add blog for Istio at KubeCon EU 2025 (#16345)

* Add blog for Istio at KubeCon NA

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content/en/blog/2025/kubecon-eu/index.md

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+---
+title: "Istio at KubeCon Europe, See you soon in London!"
+description: Celebrate Istio at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025.
+publishdate: 2025-03-25
+attribution: "Faseela K, for the Istio Steering Committee"
+social_image: kubecon-eu.png
+keywords: [Istio Day,Istio,conference,KubeCon,CloudNativeCon]
+---
+
+{{< image width="75%"
+    link="./kubecon-eu.png"
+    alt="KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, April 1-4, 2025, London. #KubeCon"
+    >}}
+
+An amazing lineup of Istio activities awaits you in London at [KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)!
+
+- Join for the [Istio Project Meeting](https://sched.co/1uSO5) hosted at the [Maintainer Summit](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/features-add-ons/maintainer-summit/).
+{{< image width="75%"
+    link="./maintainer-summit.png"
+    alt="Maintainer Summit, March 31, 2025, London. #CNmaintainersummit"
+    >}}
+- Come to the [Istio Day](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/co-located-events/istio-day/) co-located event.
+{{< image width="75%"
+    link="./istio-day.png"
+    alt="IstioDay, April 1, 2025, London. #istioday"
+    >}}
+- Attend the Istio Maintainers' Track session: [Istio: The Past, Present and Future of the Project and Community](https://sched.co/1tczp)
+- Drop by the Istio Contribfest session: [A Beginner’s Guide to Contributing to Istio - Hands-on Development and Contribution Workshop](https://sched.co/1hoyI)
+
+- Add the following KubeCon sessions to your schedule, all of which have an Istio flavor:
+    - [Project Lightning Talk: What's New in Istio?](https://sched.co/1tcvB)
+    - [Sponsored Demo: Bringing Agentic AI to Cloud Native - Introducing kagent](https://sched.co/1x0Gh)
+    - ["Izzy Saves the Birthday" - A Story-Driven Live Demo Exploring the Magic of Service Mesh](https://sched.co/1txFn)
+    - [Trino and Data Governance on Kubernetes](https://sched.co/1txF1)
+    - [Journey at the New York Times: Is Sidecar-Less Service Mesh Disappearing Into Infrastructure?](https://sched.co/1txEX)
+    - [Lightning Talk: High Availability With '503: Unavailable'](https://sched.co/1txCk)
+
+- Have a chat with maintainers and users at the Istio kiosk in the Project Pavilion throughout the event.
+- We also have the Istio Phippy book signing event organized alongside the `Izzy Saves the Birthday` session. Do join the talk and grab a free, signed copy of the book from the authors!
+
+Follow us on [X](https://x.com/istiomesh), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/istio/) or [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/istio.io) to get live updates from the event. See you soon!