Sponsor

Sponsorship sales are now closed for this event. Thank you to all of our sponsors for your support. Please consider sponsoring upcoming CNCF-hosted events.

Join our community at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in Paris, France from 19 – 22 March 2024. Engage, network, and collaborate with peers and like-minded people in the cloud native community. Sponsoring this event allows you to gain valuable mindshare of a targeted audience while engaging with 10,000+ developers, architects, and technical leaders onsite. Together we will shape the future of the rapidly evolving cloud native ecosystem.

• Engage with the industry’s top developers, end users, and vendors – including the world’s largest public cloud and enterprise software companies as well as hundreds of innovative startups.
• Inform and educate the cloud native community about your organization’s products, services, open source strategies, and cloud native direction.
• Take advantage of a professionally-organized conference run by a neutral nonprofit where content is curated by the community.
• Meet with developers and operations experts ranging from startup CTOs to corporate developers to senior technology executives from all over the world.
• Associate your brand with one of the fastest-growing technology communities.
• Support and engage with the ecosystem and the community that is the engine driving some of the highest velocity open source projects in the industry.
• Join CNCF’s hosted projects such as Argo, containerd, CoreDNS, cri-o, Envoy, etcd, Fluentd, Flux, Harbor, Helm, Istio, Jaeger, Kubernetes, Linkerd, Open Policy Agent, Prometheus, Rook, SPIFFE, SPIRE, TiKV, TUF, Vitess, and many more – and help bring cloud native project communities together. 
• Give back to the open source community. CNCF reinvests profits from our events to directly support CNCF’s hosted projects.

For full event recaps and additional attendee demographics, see our transparency reports for previous KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe events.

What is the value of participating in this event?
We believe everyone will find value in joining us for the high-quality content that is expected from a KubeCon + CloudNativeCon event. Our open source communities inspire us to be resilient – to adapt and thrive with speed and consideration, immersed in the goal of bringing together a distributed group of people from around the globe. It’s in the DNA of the open source community to connect, learn and collaborate, therefore, what better place to do so than one of the premier open source developer conferences in the world?

When will access to the sponsor portal (ERC) be provided? 
We are looking to provide access to confirmed sponsors by early December so you can get started on planning your deliverables. Our sponsor services team will be in touch with updates as we get closer to the event. 

What information will be provided in the leads report that sponsors receive? 
Included in sponsor reports are the names, job titles, company names, email addresses, and physical work addresses (if provided) of all attendees who got their name badge scanned at the sponsor’s onsite booth. Phone numbers will not be shared. More information on lead reporting will be provided in the sponsor portal.

Will a breakdown of attendees be provided to sponsors?
We will share a list of attending companies with all sponsors twice prior to the event. This list will include the company names only but no contact information. After the event, all sponsors will receive a detailed transparency report with overall attendee statistics and demographics, event highlights, and media coverage. Attendee contact information will not be shared.

What is your policy for sharing attendee information?
The Linux Foundation’s data protection and privacy policy is part of our general terms and conditions that all registrants must accept before they can complete their registration. This includes the registrant’s confirmation that they understand their data will be shared with the sponsor if they have their name badge scanned at an onsite sponsor booth or visit a sponsor’s virtual booth. All Linux Foundation events are GDPR compliant. For more information, please see The Linux Foundation’s Privacy Policy. 

Who should I contact with further questions?
Please email sponsor@cncf.io to discuss sponsorship opportunities.