KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026: Your Week in Salt Lake City

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This November, the cloud native community is heading to Salt Lake City.

From November 9–12, 2026, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America will bring together adopters and technologists from across open source and cloud native communities for four days of collaboration, learning, and innovation.

As CNCF’s flagship conference, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon is an opportunity to hear from the people building and using cloud native technologies, connect with communities across the CNCF ecosystem, and explore the technologies and ideas shaping the future of cloud native computing and AI infrastructure.

With the schedule now available, it’s time to start planning your week.

Monday: Connect with the cloud native community

Monday, November 9 is dedicated to pre-event programming, including CNCF-hosted co-located events and Project Lightning Talks.

The CNCF-hosted co-located program spans a wide range of communities and technologies, including Agentics Day: MCP + Agents, ArgoCon, BackstageCon, CiliumCon, Cloud Native AI + Inference Day, FluxCon, Kubernetes on Edge Day, Observability Day, Open Source SecurityCon, OpenTofu Day, and Platform Engineering Day.

It’s a chance to spend focused time with communities working on everything from GitOps, developer platforms, networking, observability, and security to AI, inference, edge computing, and infrastructure as code.

Project Lightning Talks are also on the Monday schedule, offering short sessions focused on projects and technologies from across the cloud native ecosystem.

If you want access to all CNCF-hosted co-located events, make sure you select an All-Access Pass when registering. The KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Only Pass does not include the CNCF-hosted co-located events, although it does include access to Monday’s Project Lightning Talks.

Tuesday: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon begins

The main conference gets underway on Tuesday, November 10 with keynotes, breakout sessions, the Solutions Showcase, Maintainer Track sessions, and opportunities to participate directly in project communities.

Maintainer Track sessions are an important part of the program. They give attendees opportunities to hear directly from the people working on Kubernetes and CNCF projects about current developments, technical challenges, roadmaps, and ways to get involved.

Tuesday’s schedule includes Maintainer Track sessions covering areas such as Kubernetes autoscaling, device management, security, authentication and authorization, developer experience, Helm, Cortex, Flux, Kyverno, KubeVirt, infrastructure, operational resilience, and more.

There are also ContribFest sessions throughout the conference. These are hands-on sessions where attendees can work alongside project maintainers and community members.

Tuesday includes ContribFests for Harbor, OpenTelemetry, Podman, and other communities, with some sessions explicitly welcoming new or first-time contributors.

If you’ve been looking for a way to move from using cloud native technology to contributing to it, this is a great place to start.

Tuesday evening also brings the community together for #KubeCrawl + #CloudNativeFest in the Solutions Showcase from 6:00–7:30 PM.

Wednesday: Learn from the ecosystem

Wednesday begins with keynotes before another full day of breakout sessions, Maintainer Tracks, ContribFests, and the Solutions Showcase.

Across the program, attendees can explore the breadth of challenges facing cloud native practitioners today.

That includes familiar areas such as Kubernetes operations, networking, security, observability, storage, scheduling, developer experience, multi-cluster management, and platform engineering, alongside a growing focus on AI workloads and infrastructure.

The schedule reflects how these areas increasingly intersect.

For example, Maintainer Track sessions explore topics including AI-aware networking in Kubernetes, infrastructure for AI workloads, GPU and other specialized device support, AI/ML workload orchestration, and how established cloud native projects are evolving as new AI use cases emerge.

At the same time, there is plenty for attendees focused on the core challenges of building and operating cloud native systems. Maintainer sessions cover projects and communities including OpenCost, Harbor, Vitess, Cilium, etcd, Linkerd, Karmada, Dragonfly, Kubernetes SIGs and many others.

This breadth is one of the reasons to build your agenda ahead of time: there are many different paths through KubeCon + CloudNativeCon depending on the technologies you use, the problems you are trying to solve, and the communities you want to meet.

Thursday: One more day to learn, and get involved

Thursday opens with another morning of keynotes, followed by breakout sessions, Maintainer Tracks, and ContribFests.

Maintainer Track sessions on Thursday cover communities and projects including Kubernetes SIG Storage, containerd, SPIFFE, Kubernetes WG Batch, Rook, SIG Multicluster, Open Policy Agent, minikube, Falco, and more.

There are also further opportunities for hands-on community participation. Thursday’s program includes ContribFest sessions for Argo CD and Meshery, among others.

That means there are opportunities right through the final day to meet maintainers, learn how projects work, share experiences, and contribute.

Why attend in person?

All breakout and keynote session recordings will be made publicly available on the CNCF YouTube channel after the event, and the published schedule states that recordings will be available within two weeks.

So why register and attend in Salt Lake City?

Because KubeCon + CloudNativeCon is about more than watching sessions.

Being there gives you the opportunity to participate in ContribFests, ask maintainers questions, meet contributors and end users, explore the Solutions Showcase, and have conversations with people facing many of the same technical and organizational challenges as you.

It’s the difference between watching a project update later and being in the room with its maintainers.

It’s the chance to hear an idea in a session and continue the conversation afterwards.

And it’s an opportunity to find a community, discover a project, or make a contribution that could continue long after the conference ends.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 does not have a virtual component. While breakout and keynote recordings will be made available afterwards, the in-person community experiences happen in Salt Lake City.

AI meets cloud native

Another reason to pay attention to this year’s program is the growing intersection between cloud native and AI infrastructure.

The official event description itself highlights the future of both cloud native computing and AI infrastructure, and that connection can be seen throughout the schedule.

Monday includes both Agentics Day: MCP + Agents and Cloud Native AI + Inference Day. Elsewhere in the program, sessions explore topics such as AI-aware networking, GPU and specialized device management, AI/ML workload orchestration, agent observability, AI workloads on cloud native infrastructure, and the ways AI is affecting open source development and security.

But AI is one part of a much broader cloud native program.

Kubernetes, security, networking, observability, GitOps, platform engineering, storage, policy, developer experience, infrastructure, and open source project development all remain central to the week.

That combination makes Salt Lake City an opportunity to learn about what cloud native teams are working on today while also exploring the technologies and use cases that are beginning to shape what comes next.

Plan your week now

With four days of programming, it pays to plan ahead.

The online schedule lets you search sessions and speakers, filter the program, and build a personal agenda. Seating for sessions is first come, first served, so reviewing the schedule before arriving can help you make the most of your time.

When registering, it’s also worth considering which experience you want.

An All-Access Pass includes the CNCF-hosted co-located events on Monday, November 9, as well as the three days of the main conference, including keynotes, breakouts, and the Solutions Showcase.

A KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Only Pass includes the three main conference days and Monday’s Project Lightning Talks, but does not include access to the CNCF-hosted co-located events.

Whichever path you choose, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America is an opportunity to learn directly from the people building and operating cloud native technologies, discover what’s happening across the ecosystem, and participate in the communities moving cloud native forward.

Join us November 9–12, 2026 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Register, explore the schedule, and start planning your KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America week.

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