November 9, 2026 | Salt Lake City, Utah
Sponsor-hosted Co-located Events North America 2026 is taking place on November 9.
You must be registered for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 to participate in the sessions. If you have not registered but would like to join us, please go to the event registration page to purchase a registration.
Please note: This schedule is automatically displayed in Mountain Standard Time, MST (UTC-7). The schedule is subject to change and session seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
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: [email protected]
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.
Register now: https://aka.ms/AKSDaySLC
For questions regarding this event, please contact: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
Please note that this is an off-site Sponsor-hosted Co-located event.
Location: Kimpton Monaco Salt Lake City | Floor 2, Paris Ballroom
As organizations move from experimenting with AI agents to production, Kubernetes has emerged as the platform for orchestrating these workloads at scale.
This hands-on workshop explores running AI agents on Amazon EKS:
Building your EKS cluster: right-sizing for GPU workloads, selecting compute for agent execution, and designing for bursty resource profiles.
Security model for agents on EKS: trust and isolation when code generates and executes further code autonomously. How do you bound blast radius and enforce least privilege?
Using agents to manage EKS: how AI agents can operate, troubleshoot, and optimize your Kubernetes infrastructure.
Important: Personal laptop required. Free to attend; KubeCon registration NOT required. Limited seats. Refreshments provided. Prizes to be won!
Learn more: https://aws-experience.com/amer/smb/e/2f291/building-scaling-and-running-secure-agents-on-kubernetes
Contact: [email protected]
Join NVIDIA for technical sessions and live demonstrations covering AI inference deployment, load testing, scaling, and platform operations. The morning session provides live demonstrations covering deployment, load testing, scaling, and platform operations. In the afternoon, participants join a hands-on workshop to collaborate with maintainers, work directly in open-source repositories, and begin or advance a contribution. View the Full Agenda on the NVIDIA Workshop website: https://events.nvidia.com/dsx-os-inference-workshop.
Request to Attend, please visit this link to register: https://events.nvidia.com/dsx-os-inference-workshop.
Please note that this is an off-site Sponsor-hosted Co-located event.
For questions regarding this event, please contact: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
Please note that this is an off-site Sponsor-hosted Co-located event.
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: [email protected]
Please note that this is an off-site Sponsor-hosted Co-located event.
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: [email protected]
Please note that this is an off-site Sponsor-hosted Co-located event.
Location: Le Méridien Salt Lake City Downtown, 131 S 300 W, Salt Lake City, UT 84101
On Kubernetes, pets get names and a human on call at 3 a.m. — cattle get managed by the herd. Your database should be cattle. Join our Day 0 workshop at KubeCon 2026 and get hands-on with stateful workloads done right: go from "why are databases on K8s so hard?" to running a production-grade, self-healing CockroachDB cluster with the GA CockroachDB Kubernetes Operator. Because CockroachDB is symmetric — every node is equal, with no primary to fail over — the Operator manages each node as a CrdbNode custom resource, not a StatefulSet, so any node can be replaced, rescheduled, or lost without ceremony. You'll deploy, scale, break, and recover a distributed SQL cluster live — and watch it heal itself. Designed for platform engineers and SREs who run stateful workloads on Kubernetes.
Instructors: Felipe Gutierrez and Nathan Zamecnik
Date: November 9
Location: Le Meridien SLC
12:00–1:00 PM: Lunch & Registration
1:00–4:00 PM: Workshop
Learn more: https://events.cockroachlabs.com/cockroachlabs-kubecon-workshop
For questions regarding this event, please contact: [email protected]
Please note that this is an off-site Sponsor-hosted Co-located event.
Location: Kimpton Monaco Salt Lake City | Floor 2, Paris Ballroom
Join us for a Hands-On Workshop! Platform teams struggle to balance developer velocity with operational efficiency. Self-service platforms promise faster delivery, but building them requires orchestrating tools, managing complexity, and governance at scale.
In this workshop, you'll build an Internal Developer Platform using Backstage, Argo CD, ACK and kro, and explore Amazon EKS capabilities to simplify deployment and Kubernetes resource management. Deploy polyglot apps, implement progressive delivery, and automate infrastructure while leveraging AI.
Gain practical experience with platform engineering patterns that eliminate bottlenecks and ship faster without sacrificing control.
Important: Personal laptop required. Free to attend; KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America registration NOT required. Limited seats, first come, first seated. Refreshments provided. Prizes to be won.
Learn more: https://aws-experience.com/amer/smb/e/72cc7/accelerate-platform-engineering-on-kubernetes
Contact: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
Please note that this is an off-site Sponsor-hosted Co-located event.
Location: AC Hotel Salt Lake City Downtown, 225 West 200 South
Salt Lake City, UT 84101
Join a live session with AWS and Sonrai Security to see how teams build and run agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore while enabling guardrails. All attendees will receive a limited edition Cotopaxi surprise! After the workshop, we'll keep the fun going with some pints & pool tables next door at Poplar Street Pub!
Learn more: https://sonraisecurity.com/kubecon-agentcore-workshop/
For questions regarding this event, please contact: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
