KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2027

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s conference for Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies, featuring tutorials and keynotes from industry leaders.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2027 in New Orleans

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America moves to New Orleans, Louisiana for November 8–11, 2027. The Linux Foundation, which runs the conference for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), has published the city and dates; the venue has not been named yet.

What it is

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon is the CNCF's flagship conference. The organiser describes it as bringing together adopters and technologists from open source and cloud native communities, with CNCF Graduated, Incubating and Sandbox projects meeting for four days of collaboration and learning on cloud native computing and AI infrastructure. The audience is maintainers, platform teams, AI infrastructure engineers and end users running Kubernetes and related projects in production.

How the week is laid out

• Co-located events first. At the 2026 conference in Salt Lake City, the Monday was given to CNCF-hosted co-located events such as Cloud Native AI + Inference Day and Agentics Day, followed by three days of keynotes and sessions. The organiser's All-Access pass covered both the Monday co-located day and the three main days.
• Programme themes. The 2026 programme covered GPU scheduling, model serving, inference routing, AI gateways, networking, storage, observability, security, platform engineering and maintainer sessions.
• Sponsorship. Diamond sponsorships for 2027 are allocated by lottery; the organiser's page sets a February 26, 2027 drawing.

Other KubeCon events

CNCF lists KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe for March 15–18, 2027 in Barcelona, Spain, ahead of the New Orleans conference.