{"id":135165,"date":"2026-08-10T16:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/135165\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T16:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:53:13","slug":"cncf-reveals-kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america-2026-schedule-adds-new-ai-inference-agentic-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/135165\/","title":{"rendered":"CNCF Reveals KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 Schedule, Adds New AI Inference + Agentic Track"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flagship event returns November 9\u201312 with sessions on production AI, platform engineering and cloud native security<\/p>\n

Key Highlights<\/p>\n

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026\u00a0takes place November 9\u201312 in Salt Lake City, Utah, with the full schedule now live.
\n AI Inference + Agentic\u00a0is a new track focused on Kubernetes, AI inference, agentic workflows, GPU scheduling, model serving and observability for production AI systems.
\n AI track sessions feature projects and tools, including vLLM, KServe, Ray and OpenTelemetry, reflecting how cloud native infrastructure is being used to operationalize AI.
\n Platform Engineering\u00a0sessions explore internal developer platforms, self-service workflows, automation and operational practices that help teams scale software delivery.
\n Security\u00a0sessions address supply chain security, identity, runtime protection, vulnerability management and policy enforcement across cloud native.
\n CNCF-hosted co-located events on Monday, November 9,\u00a0include Cloud Native AI + Inference Day, ArgoCon, BackstageCon, CiliumCon\u00a0and WasmCon.<\/p>\n

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10, 2026 \/PRNewswire\/ — The Cloud Native Computing Foundation\u00ae<\/a>\u00a0(CNCF\u00ae), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced the full schedule<\/a>\u00a0for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026<\/a>, taking place November 9-12 in Salt Lake City, Utah. This year’s program introduces a new AI Inference + Agentic track alongside established platform engineering and security programming, reflecting the growing role of Kubernetes in running production AI systems and operating infrastructure at scale.<\/p>\n

As AI moves beyond experimentation and into production, the focus is turning to the infrastructure required to reliably support inference-heavy and agent-driven workloads at scale. The CNCF Annual Cloud Native Survey<\/a>\u00a0shows that Kubernetes has become a foundational platform for production workloads, with 82% of container users running it in production and 66% of organizations using generative AI workloads relying on it. As AI systems place greater demands on underlying platforms, the need for scalable, production-grade infrastructure and efficient inference has never been more urgent.<\/p>\n

“AI is quickly becoming one of the largest compute workloads the industry has ever seen, and the shift from training models to running them in production is where the real engineering challenge lives now,” said Jonathan Bryce, executive director, CNCF. “Kubernetes wasn’t built for AI, but this community has spent years hardening it for exactly this kind of distributed, always-on workload. This year’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America program brings together the people actually solving that problem in production.”<\/p>\n

Highlights at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 include:<\/p>\n

AI Inference + Agentic<\/p>\n

Running generative AI and agentic systems in production requires rethinking cluster scheduling, GPU utilization and latency limits. The new AI Inference + Agentic\u00a0track delves into practical patterns for orchestrating autonomous agents, optimizing model serving with tools like vLLM<\/a>\u00a0and KServe<\/a>, and implementing dynamic routing and observability across inference pipelines. View the full\u00a0AI Inference + Agentic track here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Session Highlight:<\/p>\n

Platform Engineering<\/p>\n

Platform teams are being asked to make internal platforms more usable, more extensible and easier to operate as cloud native adoption scales, driving interest in projects and practices such as Backstage<\/a>, Argo<\/a>\u00a0and GitOps workflows that can reduce friction without slowing engineering velocity. The Platform Engineering\u00a0track focuses on the internal platforms, automation and operational practices that help teams support software delivery at enterprise scale. View the full Platform Engineering track here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Session Highlight:<\/p>\n

Security<\/p>\n

Distributed, ephemeral, and automated cloud native environments create challenges for managing supply chain security, identity, and runtime protection, leading teams to increasingly adopt eBPF observability, policy enforcement and secure software development practices. The Security\u00a0track covers the practices and controls needed to protect infrastructure across detection, identity and credential management, multi-tenancy, confidential computing and vulnerability management, with attention to technologies such as Cilium<\/a>, eBPF<\/a>\u00a0and OpenTelemetry<\/a>. View the full Security track here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Session Highlight:<\/p>\n

Beyond keynotes, developers will get hands-on experience through technical deep dives, project maintainer workshops, and co-located events covering WebAssembly, eBPF, observability and platform engineering.<\/p>\n

CNCF Hosted Co-Located Events<\/p>\n

CNCF-hosted co-located events<\/a>\u00a0will take place on Monday, November 9, and will offer community-led deep dives into topics including AI, security, observability and platform engineering. Events include ArgoCon<\/a>, BackstageCon<\/a>, Cloud Native AI + Inference Day<\/a>\u00a0and CiliumCon<\/a>. The All-Access Pass<\/a>\u00a0provides attendees with access to any CNCF-hosted co-located event they would like to attend.<\/p>\n

Registration<\/p>\n

Standard registration<\/a>\u00a0for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America is available until Wednesday, September 2, 11:59 p.m. MDT. Attendees can choose between a KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Only Pass or an All-Access Pass.<\/p>\n

Scholarships<\/p>\n

The Dan Kohn scholarship program<\/a>\u00a0provides complimentary registration or travel funding to support community members from underrepresented groups who would not otherwise be able to attend CNCF events. Applications for travel funding<\/a>\u00a0are open through Sunday, September 13, 11:59 p.m. MDT. The registration scholarship program<\/a>\u00a0is accepting applications<\/a>\u00a0until Sunday, October 4, 11:59 p.m. MDT.<\/p>\n

Sponsorship<\/p>\n

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon is made possible with support from our Diamond Sponsors:\u00a0<\/a>AWS<\/a>,\u00a0<\/a>Google Cloud<\/a>,\u00a0<\/a>HAProxy Technologies<\/a>,\u00a0<\/a>Microsoft Azure<\/a>,\u00a0<\/a>Nutanix<\/a>,\u00a0<\/a>Oracle<\/a>,\u00a0<\/a>Red Hat<\/a>,\u00a0<\/a>ScaleOps<\/a>, and\u00a0<\/a>Solo.io<\/a>; Platinum Sponsors:\u00a0<\/a>Akamai<\/a>,\u00a0<\/a>Canonical<\/a>,\u00a0Cast AI<\/a>,\u00a0<\/a>Chainguard<\/a>,\u00a0<\/a>ClickHouse<\/a>,\u00a0<\/a>Crusoe<\/a>,\u00a0<\/a>Dash0<\/a>,\u00a0<\/a>Datadog<\/a>,\u00a0<\/a>Docker<\/a>,\u00a0<\/a>F5<\/a>,\u00a0<\/a>Groundcover<\/a>,\u00a0<\/a>IBM<\/a>, IBM Kubecost<\/a>, Infisical<\/a>. Isovalent at Cisco<\/a>,\u00a0<\/a>company<\/a>, Nebius<\/a>,\u00a0<\/a>PerfectScale by DoiT<\/a>, Port<\/a>,\u00a0<\/a>Portworx by Pure Storage<\/a>,\u00a0<\/a>Postman<\/a>,\u00a0<\/a>Sedai<\/a>,\u00a0Sidero Labs<\/a>,\u00a0<\/a>Splunk, a Cisco company<\/a>,\u00a0<\/a>SUSE<\/a>,\u00a0<\/a>Teleport<\/a>,\u00a0<\/a>Traversal<\/a>,\u00a0<\/a>VMware by Broadcom<\/a>, and\u00a0<\/a>YugabyteDB<\/a>, as well as all of our Gold, Silver, and Start-up & End User\u00a0<\/a>sponsors<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Companies interested in sponsoring KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America should submit a request to [email\u00a0protected]<\/a>\u00a0by Friday, August 14. To learn more, view the sponsorship prospectus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

About Cloud Native Computing Foundation<\/p>\n

Cloud native computing empowers organizations to build and run scalable applications with an open source software stack in public, private, and hybrid clouds. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosts critical components of the global technology infrastructure, including Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy. CNCF brings together the industry’s top developers, end users, and vendors and runs the largest open source developer conferences in the world. Supported by nearly 800 members, including the world’s largest cloud computing and software companies, as well as over 200 innovative startups, CNCF is part of the nonprofit Linux Foundation. For more information, please visit www.cncf.io<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Media Contact
The Linux Foundation
[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

SOURCE Cloud Native Computing Foundation<\/p>\n

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