KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America
Platform engineers, SREs and open-source maintainers building Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure.
- Dates
- Nov 9 to Nov 12, 2026
- Where
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Cost
- Ticket $899 to $1,278. Individual late rate: $899 KubeCon-only, $1,278 All-Access (adds Monday co-located events). Corporate rate $1,899/$2,278. Academic $200/$275. Before 8.45% Utah sales tax.
- Type
- Conference · Paid ticket
- Organizer
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation (Linux Foundation)
- Last checked
- October 23, 2026 against the event’s own site
Official site and registration
Cheaper ways in: Academic pass $200 (KubeCon-only) / $275 (All-Access) for current students and faculty with ID or transcript; scholarship and travel-funding page; 100 free KubeCon-only tickets for Grace Hopper 2026 attendees (email events@cncf.io); group 10% off for 5+.
Speaking opportunities
Has sessions, ask how speakers are chosen
CFP not shown on the page opened.
The field it serves: Technology & Software
- Verified open jobs
- about 106,550
- Typical posted salary
- $163,000 a year (middle half $124,000 to $214,000)
- Entry or early-career level
- 31% of openings
- Employment, year over year
- −4.2% in information, the closest BLS sector
Source: NextChapter job data, jobs verified live in the last 7 days.
Source: NextChapter job data: salary ranges employers posted, midpoint of each range, 1,717 of the newest 5,000 verified open jobs.
Source: NextChapter job data: level read from the full posting, newest 5,000 verified open jobs.
Source: BLS Current Employment Statistics, seasonally adjusted payroll employment, September 2026.
Full Technology & Software snapshot: jobs, pay, layoffs and conferences
Employers at this conference
Exhibitors, sponsors and speakers we have found on the event’s own lists.
- Akamai Sponsoring 2026
- Anthropic Sponsoring 2026
- AWS Sponsoring 2026
- Canonical Sponsoring 2026
- CAST AI Sponsoring 2026
- Chainguard Sponsoring 2026
- ClickHouse Sponsoring 2026
- Crusoe Sponsoring 2026
- Dash0 Sponsoring 2026
- Datadog Sponsoring 2026
- Docker Sponsoring 2026
- F5 Sponsoring 2026
- Google Cloud Sponsoring 2026
- groundcover Sponsoring 2026
- HAProxy Technologies Sponsoring 2026
- IBM Sponsoring 2026
- Infisical Sponsoring 2026
- Isovalent Sponsoring 2026
- Microsoft Azure Sponsoring 2026
- Nebius Sponsoring 2026
- Nutanix Sponsoring 2026
- Oracle Sponsoring 2026
- Port Sponsoring 2026
- Postman Sponsoring 2026
- Red Hat Sponsoring 2026
- ScaleOps Sponsoring 2026
- Sedai Sponsoring 2026
- Solo.io Sponsoring 2026
- Spectro Cloud Sponsoring 2026
- Splunk Sponsoring 2026
- Anthropic Speaking 2026
- Anyscale Speaking 2026
- Apple Speaking 2026
- AWS Speaking 2026
- Broadcom Speaking 2026
- CVS Health Speaking 2026
- Google Speaking 2026
- HAProxy Technologies Speaking 2026
- Hark Speaking 2026
- Heroku Speaking 2026
- Huawei Speaking 2026
- Juicedata Inc. Speaking 2026
- LiveKit Speaking 2026
- Meta Speaking 2026
- Microsoft Speaking 2026
- Nutanix Inc Speaking 2026
- NVIDIA Speaking 2026
- Oracle Speaking 2026
- Red Hat Speaking 2026
- Salesforce Speaking 2026
- ScaleOps Speaking 2026
- Solo.io Speaking 2026
- Syntasso Speaking 2026
- The Linux Foundation Speaking 2026
- Uber Speaking 2026
- Vultr Speaking 2026
Read from the event’s own pages: events.linuxfoundation.org, events.linuxfoundation.org.
Speakers and sessions
Named on the event’s own program. Titles and organizations are as the event lists them.
Keynotes
Abby Bangser
Principal Engineer, Syntasso
Brandon Schoen
Senior Director, Professional Services, Heroku
Chris Aniszczyk
CTO, Cloud and Infrastructure, The Linux Foundation
Deepak Goel
CTO Cloud Native, Nutanix Inc
Dilpreet Bindra
Sr. Director Engineering, VCF Division, Broadcom
Idit Levine
CEO, Solo.io
Jeff Hoffman
OCI VP of Container Services, Oracle
Jessica Forrester
Senior Distinguished Engineer, Red Hat
Jim Beyers
Vice President, CVS Health
Jonathan Bryce
Executive Director, Cloud and Infrastructure, The Linux Foundation
Jorge Palma
Principal PM Lead, Azure Kubernetes Service, Microsoft
Kathryn Baldauf
Software Engineer, Apple
Keith Babo
Chief Product Officer, Solo.io
Kevin Cochrane
CMO, Vultr
Lorenzo Biava
Staff Infrastructure Engineer, LiveKit
Luiz Scheidegger
Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
Michael Amundson
Distinguished Engineer, CVS Health
Robert Nishihara
Co-founder, Anyscale
Shaun Hopper
Production Engineer, Meta
Shiva Nimmagadda
Vice President, Software Engineering, Salesforce
Sunil Arora
Software Engineer, Google
Vara Bonthu
Principal Open Source Specialist SA, AWS
Viv Keswani
Senior Director, Engineering, Uber
Warren Barkley
Vice President of Product Management, NVIDIA
Yodar Shafrir
CEO, ScaleOps
Read from the event’s own pages: events.linuxfoundation.org
Industries and functions
Where it is and who it is for
Held in Salt Lake City, UT. Local jobs, employers, layoffs and other conferences nearby are on the place pages.
Past and planned editions
- 2026: November 9, 2026 to November 12, 2026, Salt Lake City, UT
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