KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America heads to Salt Lake City from November 9 to 12. Co-located events fill the first day and the main conference runs November 10 to 12. It’s in-person only, and it’s the main gathering of the open-source cloud infrastructure world.
Kubernetes is grown up now, and the program shows it. The big topics are AI infrastructure on cloud-native stacks, inference at scale, platform engineering, security, observability and GitOps. The people on stage are maintainers and the engineers who run these systems in production.
Two co-located days stand out this year. Agentics Day: MCP + Agents covers the plumbing for AI agents, and Cloud Native AI + Inference Day deals with getting models served cheaply and reliably on Kubernetes. Both topics barely existed on the KubeCon agenda two years ago.
Organized by the CNCF under the Linux Foundation, KubeCon is where the projects that run most of the world’s cloud workloads set their direction. If your team runs Kubernetes, someone from it should be there.