CiliumCon

Cilium is an open source, widely-used, and highly scalable cloud native networking, observability, and security solution based on the kernel technology eBPF, that connects workloads in Kubernetes and beyond. CiliumCon focuses on how Cilium and its sub-projects Hubble and Tetragon are being developed, deployed, and used across the cloud native landscape to revolutionize cloud native platforms.

At CiliumCon you’ll hear from end users sharing how Cilium, Hubble, and Tetragon unlocked levels of scalability, performance, and security that weren’t possible before and from contributors who will teach you how Cilium is leveraging eBPF to deliver these benefits. From Cilium and eBPF internals to how Cilium, Hubble, and Tetragon are helping businesses achieve their goals, you’ll hear it all at CiliumCon. Dive deep into the world of high-performance networking, transparent security, and scalable observability at CiliumCon!

This event is one of our KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 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 [email protected] to secure your sponsorship today! Signed contracts must be received by 25 January 2027.

Submit a proposal to speak! Submissions are being accepted through Sunday, 18 October 2026.

Click above to submit a proposal to speak at CiliumCon, or one of the other CNCF-hosted Co-located events.

CiliumCon topics include:

• Use Cases: end user stories describing the use of Cilium, Hubble, and Tetragon to overcome challenges, including performance, scale, or operational hurdles
• Technology: talks relating to Cilium’s architecture, including new features, AI/ML networking, and their implementation
• Meshes: how Cilium enables seamless multi and hybrid cloud connectivity, modernizing enterprises, and simplifying day-to-day operations at scale
• Security: network policy, encryption, runtime enforcement, and more on securing your cluster and workloads

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