Cloud Native & Open Source Global Summit
A global online summit for practitioners working across Kubernetes, cloud native engineering, open source AI, developer tools and open source infrastructure.
Date
October 13th, 2026
Location
Global
Format
Virtual
About
About Cloud Native & Open Source Global Summit
The Cloud Native & Open Source Global Summit brings together engineers, maintainers, platform teams and open source contributors from across the world. The summit covers the full breadth of the cloud native and open source ecosystem, from Kubernetes and CNCF tooling to open source AI models, inference infrastructure, developer tooling and open source project governance. It is designed to connect practitioners globally and surface the real work happening inside production environments.
Who Attends
The Audience
- Cloud native engineers and SREs
- Kubernetes administrators and platform engineers
- Open source maintainers and contributors
- Developer tooling builders and advocates
- Engineering leaders in cloud native organisations
- CNCF community members and project contributors
- Platform architects and infrastructure engineers
Programme
Topics we cover
Call for Speakers
We want practitioners on stage, not just presenters.
If you have shipped something, learned something hard, built a platform, led a migration, adopted AI, or made a decision that mattered, that is a talk worth giving. We prioritise specific, honest content over polished pitches.
What we look for
- Real production experience, not theoretical frameworks
- Specific decisions made, not general advice
- What went wrong as well as what worked
- Talks that practitioners can act on
- Speakers from operator and practitioner backgrounds
Ecosystem
Part of the Cloud Native & Open Source ecosystem
This conference is part of the Cloud Native & Open Source ecosystem on Community Stack. The ecosystem runs year-round communities, meetups and events for practitioners in this space.
Communities in this ecosystem
From the community
Talks from previous events
Preventing Silent Interpretation Errors at Scale
Maebh Booth
Senior Engineering Leader, formerly M&S
The Massively Parallel Agent Stack
Peter Bhabra
Member of Technical Staff, Doubleword
Prompt Driven Platforms
Amir Tayabali
Tech Lead, Appvia
Platform as a Product: What Happens When We Treat Security as a User?
Hannah Foxwell
Co-Founder, Bimp
Sponsorship
Reach a focused, practitioner audience
The Cloud Native & Open Source Global Summit reaches a global audience of cloud native engineers, Kubernetes practitioners, open source contributors and platform teams. As a virtual summit, it offers broad international reach across the Cloud Native & Open Source ecosystem.
Audience
Practitioners
Format
Virtual
Location
Global
CFP Status
Open