November 10, 2025
Atlanta, Georgia
#BackstageCon
BackstageCon is a one-day conference focused on all things Backstage: an open framework for building developer portals. At BackstageCon, we’ll provide a vendor-neutral space for collaboration and learning centered on improving developer experience and effectiveness through open source technologies.
The event is vendor-neutral and organized by members of the Backstage community.
This event is one of our KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America CNCF-hosted Co-located Events. In-person attendees have the option to register for an All-Access In-Person KubeCon + CloudNativeCon pass that will include entry to ALL CNCF-hosted co-located events + KubeCon + CloudNativeCon.
Contact sponsor@cncf.io to secure your sponsorship today! Signed contracts must be received by September 24, 2025.
Submit a proposal to speak! Submissions are being accepted through Monday, June 30, 2025. (11:59 PM EDT)
Click above to submit a proposal to speak at BackstageCon, or one of the other CNCF-hosted Co-located events.
BackstageCon topics include:
- The future of Backstage in open source
- Lessons learned from standing up, deploying, and driving Backstage adoption, etc.
- Transforming developer experience, streamlining developer workflow, doing more with less using Backstage
- Technical deep dives on Backstage topics (customizing, scaling, securing, plugin development, etc.)
Submission Types:
- Presentation: 25 minutes with 1 or 2 speakers presenting on a topic
- Panel Discussion: 35 minutes of discussion amongst 3 to 5 speakers (In an effort to promote speaker diversity, CNCF does not accept submissions with all-male panels, and three different organizations must be represented).
- Lightning Talk: A brief 10 minute presentation with a maximum of 1 speaker