Overview
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 is the flagship conference of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, organized by The Linux Foundation. The event focuses on the open infrastructure behind production AI and the wider cloud native ecosystem. It brings together maintainers, platform teams, AI infrastructure engineers, and end users who work on the hardest production problems across Kubernetes, cloud native technologies, and AI. The page highlights topics such as scheduling GPUs, serving models, operating agent workloads, securing systems, controlling cost, and building reliable platforms at scale.
Dates and venue
The conference runs for four days, from November 9 to 12, 2026, in Salt Lake City, Utah. The main venue is the Salt Palace Convention Center at 90 South West Temple. Sessions are spread across several rooms and levels, including Hall DE and the Grand Ballroom on Level 1, rooms 251 A-C on Level 2, and the Regency Ballroom B at the Hyatt Regency. The Solutions Showcase and Demo Theater areas host additional sessions.
Format
Attendees can register for an All-Access pass, which begins on Monday with either Cloud Native AI + Inference Day or Agentics Day. The following three days cover AI, platform engineering, operations, observability, security, and maintainer sessions. The formats include keynotes, technical talks, panels, live demonstrations, Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions, demo theater presentations, and solutions showcase sessions. The page reports more than 400 sessions, more than 9,000 attendees, and more than 2,100 participating organizations.
Agenda highlights
On Tuesday, November 10, the opening remarks run from 9:00 AM to 9:30 AM in Hall DE, followed by talks on Agent Substrate, which is a project for running large numbers of agents on Kubernetes, and a session on Kubernetes solutions for agent-shaped problems. On Wednesday, November 11, sessions include the open sourcing of Uber's Michelangelo AI platform, a live session titled Kubernetes The Hard Way, a talk on the future of Kubernetes eviction and node lifecycle, and a preview of Apple's container framework with a related BoF. On Thursday, November 12, the schedule includes a Kubeflow graduation keynote, a panel on the scheduling stack with speakers from Google, Anthropic, Anyscale, and CERN, and a session on the TAG Workloads Foundation.
Speakers
The keynote and session speakers listed on the page include Jaana Dogan (Google), Viv Keswani (Uber), Lucy Sweet (Anthropic), Tim Hockin (Google), Jonathan Bryce (The Linux Foundation), Chris Aniszczyk (The Linux Foundation), Idit Levine (Solo.io), Jeff Hoffman (Oracle), Robert Nishihara (Anyscale), Jorge Palma (Microsoft), Warren Barkley (NVIDIA), Shaun Hopper and Phong Nguyen (Meta), Jessica Forrester (Red Hat), Jago Macleod (Google), Marlow Warnicke (NVIDIA), Michael Amundson and Jim Beyers (CVS Health), Yodar Shafrir (ScaleOps), Brandon Schoen (Heroku), Vara Bonthu (AWS), Kathryn Baldauf (Apple), and Bassam Tabbara (Upbound).
Who should attend
The page indicates that the conference is aimed at platform teams, AI infrastructure engineers, Kubernetes and cloud native maintainers, and end users running production workloads. Sessions cover topics relevant to GPU scheduling, model serving, inference routing, AI gateways, networking, storage, observability, security, and agent infrastructure.
