KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026
November 9–12, 2026 · Salt Lake City, Utah. Explore the end user talks scheduled for the main conference on November 10–12.
End user talks
83 sessions in End User Programming → End User Talk. All times are MST (UTC−7), local to Salt Lake City. Some sessions overlap; talks in the same time slot run concurrently.
Source: official Sessionize API · Verified October 29, 2026. Times, rooms, and speakers may change; check the live official schedule for updates. Dakota Sullivan, Isaac Wilson Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF Anton Alexander, Scott Adams Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI Vara Bonthu, Ying Xiong, Rainie Li, Damon Cortesi, Padma Aradhyula Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF YoungJoon Jeong, Seol Heo Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Priya Namasivayam Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI Chad Swenson, Sagar Kundral Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 Felipe Araujo, Kaynan Coelho Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE Jeff Spahr Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI Justin O’Leary Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 Muhammed Yunas Chirayath, Ajmal Ali kannu Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE Taylor Thomas, Brooks Townsend Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Regina Voloshin, Dag Bjerre Andersen Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI Rohan Sood, Adrian Ng Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 Vasudev Bongale, Swati Shridhar Nair Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE Andrew Block, Mike Wilson Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF Ankit Goyal, Cong Gu Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Kasper Borg Nissen, Juraci Paixão Kröhling, Joseph Sandoval, Jed Salazar, Alexa Griffith Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI Prathamesh Bhope Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 Evelyn (Chungyu) Chen Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE Tolga Tuncoglu, Herik Webb Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF Pablo Fredrikson Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI Zixuan Feng Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 Matt Dering, Long Nguyen Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE Vijay Samuel, Jing Hu Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF Cellan Hall, Jenny Vega, Karol Szuster Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Qianru Lao, Lu Zhang Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI Alexander Kanevskiy, Sara Qasmi Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 Artur Beznosyuk, Hanhong Gao Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE Youmin Han, Zhuo Zhi Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF Maciek Różacki, Jian Cheung Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI Salt Palace | Level 1 | Halls A-C, Halls 1-5 Salt Palace | Level 1 | Halls A-C, Halls 1-5 Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Lucy Sweet, Sandeep Kanabar Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI Maxime Coquerel Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom CD Vinicius Krischke Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom CD Yashash Lokesh, Sri Harsha Yayi Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE Yiqing Wang, Adam Buran Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF Tom Ingleby, Rian Bogle Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI Shriya Chaitanya Kamat Tarcar Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom CD Oscar Castillo, Jeffry Hernández Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE Sean Corcoran, Erin Walter Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF Sameer Marulkar Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Amy Chen, JJ Jordan Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI Andrey Velichkevich Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE Arthur Vardevanyan, Jennifer Weir Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF David Porter, Evan Sheng Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Carlos Sanchez Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI Michael Bolot, Zaira Shaikh Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF David Gohberg, Marek Pelka Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Ali Aqel Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI Raj Bhensadadia, Prschita Prschita Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 Zachary Schwartz, Yair Temkin Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE Aanchal Khandelwal, Brian Ugie Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF Wojciech Tyczyński, Robert Nishihara, Ricardo Rocha, Kaslin Fields, Decheng Dai Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Michael Kinsley, Yuva Peavler Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI Seth McCombs, Karim Alibhai Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE Michael Rishi Forrester, Whitney Lee Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF Robin Deaconu, Neb Jovanovic Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI Diana Zawadzki, Shijie Sheng Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE Ashok Chandrasekar, Navjot Singh Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF Fatih E. Nar, Andrew Hendrickson Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Eduardo Munari, Fabiano Amaral Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI Jason Stryker Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE Soma Koltai, Ender Demirkaya Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF Dibyo Mukherjee, Tushar More Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Trey Caliva, David Biel Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GITuesday, November 10
Saturated by Design - Maximizing Cluster Allocation in On-Premises Kubernetes
Ask Your Platform: Putting AI to Work Where the Questions Live
Why We Bet the Data Platform on Kubernetes - And How AI Is Changing How We Operate It
What the Docs Don't Tell You: A Telecom's Year Operating Cache-Aware LLM Inference on Kubernetes
When Infrastructure Breaks in Production: How EarnIn Brought Testing to the Full CNCF Stack
Signed, Sealed, Denied: Attestation-Driven Admission with Kyverno + CEL at AT&T
Tracing at Scale: Running a 16 Billion Spans/Hour Pipeline at Nubank
Zero to Maintainer in 45 Days: An AI-Assisted Migration of a CNCF Project's Legacy Frontend
The Operator Calls Are Coming from Inside the Namespace
The SRE Is Not Dead: What AI Taught Us about Missing Context in Kubernetes Incident Response
Kubernetes Anonymous: Confessions of Kubernetes Cargo Cultists
Welcome to Health Check Hell: CRDs, Statuses and Missing Standards
Triaging 1,800 Alerts/Month at $0.33 Each: Verkada's MCP Agent on Nine Production Clusters
The Promises We Keep at Scale: A Contract-Driven Guide to Platform SLOs
Ground Control to Major Tom: We Need your Public Cloud in our Private Cloud
Zero-Gap GPU Execution: Building Secure, Pre-Warmed Pod Runtimes for High-Velocity AI Agents
Agents on the Platform: Four Perspectives on the Conversation We're Already Having in Private
Zero Downtime CNI Migration at Scale: Canal to Cilium Across Hundreds of Production Clusters
Two-Stage OTel Aggregation: Taming Istio Cardinality at 10k-Pod Scale
From Consumers to Contributors: How Growing Open Source Members Transformed Our ML Platform Team
When the Agent Lost Its Patience: Securing Cloud-Native AI Workflows Against Identity Leakage
AI-DDoS: How AI-Generated Contributions Are Breaching OSS Communities, and What We Can Do about It
Wednesday, November 11
Going Cloud Native in Baseball
Edging Closer to AI Assisted Troubleshooting - AI Assisted Dashboard Analysis
Anatomy of an Outage: When Bursty ML Workloads Break the Kubernetes Scheduler
Inside the Inference Load Balancer: Proxy/Controller Patterns for LLM Serving on Kubernetes
Time to Learn New Tricks to Improve Performance on DRA-Managed Devices
Hardening Kubernetes for GovCloud: A 3-Year Journey to FedRAMP Moderate Authorization
Ship Faster, Ship Safer: A K8s-Native Canary Pipeline for Critical Cluster Services
How Anthropic Almost Melted GKE (And the PRs That Saved It)
Kubernetes The Hard Way - Live
Kubernetes Secrets Were a Bad Idea. Now What?
Allocating Kubernetes Idle Per-Instance — Letting Scale Do What Fairness Rules Couldn't
Millions of Events, One Right Order: Financial Data Processing at Intuit
Many Clusters, One GPU Pool: Locality-Aware Scheduling and Data Delivery With Kueue and Dragonfly
Look Before You Leap: Preventing In-Motion K8s Updates in Fleet Robotics
When Agents Talk to Agents: Scaling A2A on Kubernetes Without Drowning in Connections
Observability for LLM Inference on Kubernetes
RBAC as a Platform Capability: Applying Platform Engineering to Kubernetes Access
Binary Version Is Not Behavior: Skip-Level Kubernetes Control Plane Upgrades With KEP-4330
Quota Isn't Enough: Topology Aware Scheduling on Modern GPU Clusters
One Workload to Rule Them All: Workload Aware Scheduling for Distributed AI Training on Kubernetes
Robust CI as a Safety Net: Moving Fast at Scale with AI-Generated GitOps
Pushing beyond the Breaking Point: Linked Runners and TEEs for Frontier AI
Running Secure Agents at Scale
Thursday, November 12
Managing Network Security in Multi-Tenant Environments with Istio and Cilium
What monday.com's 500+ Engineers and AI Agents Have in Common
Autoscaling at Scale with KEDA
Catching Ghosts in the Machine: Hallucination Detection for Observability Agents
From Bearer Tokens to Mesh-Native mTLS: Modernizing Service Identity at Coinbase
From Packets to Paychecks: eBPF-Based Network Cost Attribution at Scale
The Scheduling Stack: Real-World Lessons from Anthropic, Anyscale, Google, and CERN
Follow the GPUs: How a Regulated Fortune 100 Serves Customers When No Single Cloud Has Enough
Running Stateful Analytics on Kubernetes: Lessons from Building a Distributed DuckDB Platform
BurritoBot Said Let's Dance, the Platform Said No
Frameworkless ML Serving: Scaling to Thousands of Models with KEDA, Pub/Sub, and Native K8s
Agents Fail. Workflows Recover. Durable Agent Orchestration with Cadence
From Fine-Tuning to Production: Scaling Agentic AI at Shopify via Inference Perf
From Black-Box to Auditable AI-Grid: A Deterministic Governance Layer with Hybrid Cloud
From Platform Catalog to Conversational Agent: Wiring AI Into Your Internal Developer Platform
The Local AI Renaissance
Splitting the Monolith at Cloudera - Building Fault-Tolerant Workflows with Cadence
From Proxy to Platform: Building a Multi-Tenant AI Gateway
From Vibe to Live: Building for the Real World