# KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America — Schedule

Machine-readable mirror of the schedule page. Generated 2026-10-01.

- Source: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/co-located-events/sponsor-hosted-co-located-schedule/
- Sessions: 10 across 3 days
- Times are the event's local times, exactly as published. Timing and rooms are subject to change.
- Each session links back to the schedule page, which opens that session's details.

## Tracks

- Sponsor-hosted Co-located Events (10)

## Sunday, November 8, 2026

### 9:00 AM–6:00 PM · Agent Rush Hackathon Hosted by Vultr | SEPARATE REGISTRATION REQUIRED

- Room: Off-Site Location
- Track: Sponsor-hosted Co-located Events
- Link: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/co-located-events/sponsor-hosted-co-located-schedule/?id=1344383
- Website: https://lablab.ai/ai-hackathons/vultr-hackathon
- Location Map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/nit2L3acKd2Zu6sYA

Please note that this is an off-site Sponsor-hosted Co-located event.

Build AI agents that do real work, safely sandboxed on Vultr. The Vultr: Agent Rush Hackathon is a free, hybrid hackathon hosted on lablab.ai, bringing together developers, builders, and AI enthusiasts to design agents that go beyond demos and take meaningful, autonomous action.

The online build phase runs from 3 to 8 November 2026, giving teams five days to prototype, test, and refine their projects using Vultr's cloud infrastructure. On 8 November, the event concludes with an on-site phase where approved participants can showcase their work live in front of judges and peers. (Travel and accommodation are not covered.)
Whether you're an experienced engineer or just getting started with agentic AI, Agent Rush is a chance to learn, collaborate, and ship something real while connecting with a global community of innovators.

For questions regarding this event, please contact: community@lablab.ai

## Monday, November 9, 2026

### 8:00 AM–6:00 PM · Microsoft Azure Day with Kubernetes | SEPARATE REGISTRATION REQUIRED

- Room: Off-Site Location
- Track: Sponsor-hosted Co-located Events
- Link: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/co-located-events/sponsor-hosted-co-located-schedule/?id=1341814
- Website: https://aka.ms/AKSDaySLC
- Location Map: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Salt+Lake+City+Marriott+City+Center/@40.764351,-111.8911377,17z/data=!4m9!3m8!1s0x8752f50e3f7cfce1:0x91c02647cb40f017!5m2!4m1!1i2!8m2!3d40.764347!4d-111.8885574!16s%2Fg%2F1thw_y37?entry=tts&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDkyMi4wIPu8ASoASAFQAw%3D%3D&skid=642daeed-2fb8-4e58-a672-959743edc2ee

Azure Day with Kubernetes is a free, in-person technical event designed to help you confidently build, operate, and scale modern and AI applications on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Whether you are just beginning your Kubernetes journey, running Kubernetes at scale, or accelerating AI-driven development and workloads, this immersive day delivers practical, real-world guidance straight from Microsoft product and engineering experts. Come ready to engage, share, and connect with others building the future of Kubernetes on Azure.

Who should attend:
• Developers building cloud-native or AI-powered applications and agents
• Platform and IT professionals responsible for running Kubernetes in production
• Architects and technical decision-makers shaping their organization’s Azure and AKS strategy

There is no cost to attend, but pre-registration is required. Walk-ins will not be accepted day of.

For questions regarding this event, please contact: aksday@microsoft.com

### 8:00 AM–3:00 PM · OpenShift Commons Gathering Hosted by Red Hat | SEPARATE REGISTRATION REQUIRED

- Room: Off-Site Location
- Track: Sponsor-hosted Co-located Events
- Link: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/co-located-events/sponsor-hosted-co-located-schedule/?id=1309278

Please note that this is an off-site Sponsor-hosted Co-located event.

Location: Hilton Salt Lake City Center | 255 South West Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84101

Join us in Salt Lake City for a no-cost, in-person OpenShift Commons Gathering alongside KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America. This event brings together the global OpenShift community-including users, contributors, partners, and Red Hat experts-to share knowledge, build connections, and learn from real production experiences.

Hear practitioner-driven talks on app modernization, developer productivity, AI/LLM workloads, supply chain security, VM migration, GitOps, edge, and scaling OpenShift across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Expect practical insights you can bring back to your team.

For questions regarding this event, please contact: events@redhat.com

### 8:30 AM–4:30 PM · NVIDIA DSX OS AI Inference and Contributor Workshop | SEPARATE REGISTRATION REQUIRED

- Room: Off-Site Location
- Track: Sponsor-hosted Co-located Events
- Link: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/co-located-events/sponsor-hosted-co-located-schedule/?id=1345255
- Website: https://events.nvidia.com/dsx-os-inference-workshop?i=VoaWk7NCsyTWCjoWTN8bTyqk6gsDzRsj
- Location Map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/6CunVUULrjYJT6kdA

Please note that this is an off-site Sponsor-hosted Co-located event.

Morning: AI Inference Technical Deep Dive
Technical sessions and live demonstrations covering deployment, load testing, scaling, and platform operations. The morning program does not include individual attendee labs.

Afternoon: DSX OS Contributor Workshop
A hands-on working session where participants collaborate with maintainers, work directly in open-source repositories, and begin or advance a contribution.

To learn more and Register: https://events.nvidia.com/dsx-os-inference-workshop?i=VoaWk7NCsyTWCjoWTN8bTyqk6gsDzRsj

For questions regarding this event, please contact: tnadler@nvidia.com

### 9:00 AM–3:00 PM · Hands-On with Apple Open Source Tooling Hosted by Apple | SEPARATE REGISTRATION REQUIRED

- Room: Off-Site Location
- Track: Sponsor-hosted Co-located Events
- Link: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/co-located-events/sponsor-hosted-co-located-schedule/?id=1339971
- Website: https://s.apple.com/dr0i6H2GM7
- Location Map: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Utah+Museum+of+Contemporary+Art/@40.7683501,-111.8973103,16z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x8752f50640f09e71:0xb9773cedf80c8d30!8m2!3d40.7683461!4d-111.8947354!16s%2Fg%2F11b8_pfyp2?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDkxNi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Join Apple engineers to explore two cloud-native open source tools: Pkl for type-safe configuration as code, and Container for building and running Linux containers on Mac. Connect directly with project maintainers and get hands-on experience with these tools.

We will host two sessions as part of this workshop series. Please register for each session separately:

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM - Using Pkl to tame your configuration web
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM - Lunch Break (food provided)
01:00 PM - 02:30 PM - Container Install Meetup

To learn more please visit https://s.apple.com/dr0i6H2GM7
For questions regarding this event, please contact: karenchu@apple.com

Please note that this is an off-site Sponsor-hosted Co-located event.

### 10:30 AM–7:00 PM · KubeAuto Day North America with Kelsey Hightower Hosted by Cast AI | SEPARATE REGISTRATION REQUIRED

- Room: Off-Site Location
- Track: Sponsor-hosted Co-located Events
- Link: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/co-located-events/sponsor-hosted-co-located-schedule/?id=1336214
- Website: https://kubeauto.day/north-america

Location: Clark Planetarium, 110 South 400 West Salt Lake City, UT 84101

Kubernetes doesn't run itself, no matter what the marketing says. Kubernetes Automation Day is a practitioner-led day on making Kubernetes smarter: automation, platform engineering, FinOps, and lessons from the field, not conference-slide theory.
Kelsey Hightower delivers the keynote in Salt Lake City. You've probably watched his talks. Now you can argue with him in person over coffee, the day before KubeCon kicks off.
Also speaking: Bret Fisher (course instructor, YouTuber, podcaster), Pablo Fredrikson (Principal Engineer, Bitso), and Justin Garrison (Field CTO, Sidero Labs).
Enjoy talks and hands-on workshops all day, under the dome at the Clark Planetarium. You'll compare notes with SREs, DevOps leads, and platform folks who deal with the same headaches you do, comparing notes on what actually works.
If you're tired of fighting the same fire every week, spend the day with us before KubeCon starts.
To learn more, please visit https://kubeauto.day/north-america
For questions regarding this event, please contact: olga@cast.ai

Please note that this is an off-site Sponsor-hosted Co-located event.

### 12:00 PM–5:30 PM · Distributed SQL Summit Hosted by YugabyteDB | SEPARATE REGISTRATION REQUIRED

- Room: Off-Site Location
- Track: Sponsor-hosted Co-located Events
- Link: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/co-located-events/sponsor-hosted-co-located-schedule/?id=1328916
- Website: https://events.ringcentral.com/events/distributed-sql-summit-salt-lake-city-2026/registration

Location: Gallivan Center | 50 E 200 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84111

Please note that this is an off-site Sponsor-hosted Co-located event.

Salt Lake City is about to have a moment. Pull up for DSS Day — starting with a lunchtime rave to get the community in one room before we get down to business. Full Send Sessions, live demos, zero fluff. The Receipts, straight from real customer deployments. Good food, better conversations, and a community that's actually building the future of PostgreSQL-compatible databases.

To learn more, please visit: https://events.ringcentral.com/events/distributed-sql-summit-salt-lake-city-2026/registration
For questions regarding this event, please contact: events@yugabyte.com

### 12:00 PM–4:00 PM · VM on Kubernetes Day Hosted by Portworx by Everpure | SEPARATE REGISTRATION REQUIRED

- Room: Off-Site Location
- Track: Sponsor-hosted Co-located Events
- Link: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/co-located-events/sponsor-hosted-co-located-schedule/?id=1309279

Please note that this is an off-site Sponsor-hosted Co-located event.

Location: Salt Lake Marriott Downtown at City Creek | 75 S W Temple St, Salt Lake City, UT 84101

Virtualization is moving to Kubernetes, and the question is no longer whether VMs belong there, but how to run them well. VM on Kubernetes Day North America 2026 explores how KubeVirt brings virtual machines onto the same platform as your cloud-native and AI workloads, so legacy apps come along without being left behind and without platform sprawl. Join platform engineers, VMware admins, developers, and other practicioners for real-world migration stories, unified storage and Day 2 strategies, and a hands-on look at running your own VMs on Kubernetes.

For questions regarding this event, please contact: ttung@everpuredata.com

### 2:00 PM–5:00 PM · Discovering and Securing AI Agents in Kubernetes Hosted by Tigera | SEPARATE REGISTRATION REQUIRED

- Room: Off-Site Location
- Track: Sponsor-hosted Co-located Events
- Link: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/co-located-events/sponsor-hosted-co-located-schedule/?id=1328984

Please note that this is an off-site Sponsor-hosted Co-located event.

Location: Le Méridien Salt Lake City Downtown, Address: 131 S 300 W, Salt Lake City, UT 84101| Room: Triumph Salon I

Governing autonomous AI agents is no longer a design problem — it’s an operational one. Agents are running in production clusters today, calling tools over MCP, invoking each other, and reaching external model providers.

This session is built entirely on what we’ve seen in real environments - both in Kubernetes and beyond. Tigera CTO Peter Kelly walk the path we’ve watched every team take, in order. Discovery first, because agents arrive through application teams rather than platform teams. Through to registration with identity, because a Kubernetes service account tells you which pod made a call but nothing about which agent, acting for whom, with what authority. Then governance - expressing intent as policy at the level of tools and data rather than IPs and ports, and running it in observation mode long enough to trust it before anything gets enforced.

It’s architecture-first and deliberately vendor-neutral: the goal is a mental model you can apply to whatever you’re building on.

For questions regarding this event, please contact: eunice@tigera.io

## Wednesday, November 11, 2026

### 7:00 PM–12:00 AM · 🧩 Save Phippy: The Cloud Native Escape Room Hosted by Teleport | SEPARATE REGISTRATION REQUIRED

- Room: Off-Site Location
- Track: Sponsor-hosted Co-located Events
- Link: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/co-located-events/sponsor-hosted-co-located-schedule/?id=1340051
- Website: https://tinyurl.com/yayeujd2
- Location Map: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Edison+House/@40.7617551,-111.8989095,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x8752f5a91f112ad5:0xb9bcf1b4eec7f6d2!8m2!3d40.7617511!4d-111.8963346!16s%2Fg%2F11fsy9332x?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDkxNi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Please note that this is an off-site Sponsor-hosted Co-located event.

Buoyant, Teleport, and Merge Forward are hosting a Cloud Native Escape Room Party — food, drinks, DJ, prizes — 7pm Wednesday, November 11th at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA.

Phippy's been kube-napped again, this time to the salt flats near Salt Lake City. Linky (Linkerd's lobster) and Pam (Teleport's robot) need cluster detectives.

Solve one challenge first to earn your entry code. On-site, teams of 3-4 debug a real Kubernetes cluster; each solve unlocks the next room. Skip the puzzles? Two solves gets you to the main floor — bar, catering, DJ. First 3 teams to save Phippy win prizes.

No Linkerd or Teleport experience needed, just kubectl basics. One laptop per team.

To learn more please visit: https://tinyurl.com/yayeujd2
For questions regarding this event, please contact: marketing@buoyant.io