Building and sustaining open source communities

The seL4 Summit is the annual international summit on the seL4 microkernel and seL4-related technology, tools, infrastructure, products, projects, and people.

Join key customers, project leads, and contributors that make up the gRPC ecosystem for a full day of talks, demos, case studies, and code labs.

​Voice Agents Forum is a one-day event for the teams building and deploying voice agents in production.

OpenSearchCon is the annual conference that brings the OpenSearch community together to learn, connect, and collaborate. Users, administrators, and developers attend to explore solutions to real-world problems, network with peers, and explore the future of search, observability, and security applications.

A global series for developers building real-world agentic AI systems - from MCP and agent protocols to orchestration, infrastructure, & production deployment.

The Second OPI Summit is open to everyone involved in the design, development, integration, marketing, use, or support of DPU/IPUs, related hardware, software, or services. The event will focus on improving further knowledge of DPU/IPUs, with emphasis on ease-of-use, PoC implementation and experimental results.

Open Invention Network will host OIN Connect 2026 — an inaugural invite-only OIN 2.0 community member summit — to bring together the leaders shaping the future of open technologies and the intellectual property strategies that support innovation, collaboration and growth.

Bringing together developers, telecom operators, and academic researchers to advance OCUDU, the carrier-grade, open-source 5g stack already powering real deployments.

The premier event driving the future of open source AI - bringing together pioneers, researchers, and developers to shape what’s next.

A neutral legal forum where leading attorneys from companies leveraging open source solutions can work together to focus on and discuss issues of common interest and concern.

AGNTCon + MCPCon is the flagship annual conference for the open agentic AI ecosystem. The event brings together the builders, contributors, and enterprises working across MCP and the broader landscape of agentic AI systems to share learnings, surface common challenges, and advance open, interoperable approaches to building AI agents at scale.

The premier event connecting leaders in financial services, while spotlighting groundbreaking advancements, delivering insights on best practices, and offering exclusive access to the leaders shaping open source in finance.

The CNCF Maintainer Summit is an exclusive event for the people behind our projects to gather face-to-face, collaborate, and celebrate the projects that make “Cloud Native.” Programming will be focused on sharing best practices, diving into contributing processes, and solving common problems across projects to enrich our great community of maintainers. Interested in learning more? Check out the Maintainer Summit Europe 2026 post-event report.

Agentics Day is a community event exploring the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Join developers to advance the standard for connecting AI to tools and data for richer, safer applications.

ArgoCon is designed to foster collaboration, discussion, and knowledge sharing on the Argo Project, which consists of four projects: Argo CD, Argo Workflows, Argo Rollouts and Argo Events.

BackstageCon is a community-led, vendor-neutral conference for the Backstage framework. Join us to collaborate on improving developer experience and portals through open-source innovation.

CiliumCon explores eBPF-powered networking, security, and observability. Join users and contributors to dive into Cilium, Hubble, and Tetragon for scalable, high-performance cloud-native platforms.

At Cloud Native AI + Inference Day, explore how LLMs, Graph RAGs, and agentic systems are reshaping business. Navigate ethical challenges and scaling hurdles to move AI from development to production.

FluxCon brings together Flux users, contributors, and adopters to share GitOps best practices, success stories, and technical insights on continuous delivery.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities in Salt Lake City, Utah from November 9-12, 2026. Join our CNCF Graduated and Incubating Projects as the community gathers for four days to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing.

Kubernetes on Edge Day invites developers and adopters from across the entire cloud native ecosystem to come together and share their insights and experiences in constructing, enhancing, and improving their edge infrastructure.

Join the CNCF community at Observability Day to explore Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and more. Share real-world insights on scaling, eBPF, and AI observability in an open-source, vendor-neutral forum.

A 1-day event uniting developers, security leaders & open source experts to tackle cloud native security, supply chain, identity, policy & modern security challenges.

Join us for OpenTofu Day 2026—a full day for the IaC community featuring migrations, deep dives, panels, and new use cases. Connect, learn, and contribute.

Platform Engineering Day explores building and scaling Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), focusing on real-world challenges, DevEx, maturity models, case studies, and emerging AI-driven workflows for platform teams.

Where LF members convene to drive digital transformation with open source technologies and learn how to collaboratively manage the largest shared technology investment of our time.

HPSF Conference hosted by the High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF) where the brightest minds in high performance software come together.

AGNTCon + MCPCon is the flagship annual conference for the open agentic AI ecosystem. The event brings together the builders, contributors, and enterprises working across MCP and the broader landscape of agentic AI systems to share learnings, surface common challenges, and advance open, interoperable approaches to building AI agents at scale.

The premier conference for open source developers, technologists and community leaders to collaborate, share information and learn, furthering open source innovation and ensuring a sustainable open source ecosystem.

Where AI leaders, builders, and innovators connect to push the boundaries of open source AI and create the future together.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference brings together adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities in New Orleans, Louisiana from November 8-11, 2026. Be a part of the conversation as CNCF Graduated, Incubating, and Sandbox Projects unite for four days of collaboration, learning, and innovation to drive the future of cloud native computing and AI infrastructure.

Academy Software Foundation’s (ASWF) annual event brings together leaders from the motion picture and media industries to collaborate and discuss the future of open-source software.