Summit @ KubeCon
- Monday, November 9, 2026
- Lake Effect | Salt Lake City
- 7:45 - 10:00 AM MST
Start KubeCon week with the conversations that define what comes next.
Before the announcements, vendors, and conference noise, join The Futurum Group for three focused conversations mapping where AI, cloud native, observability, and platform engineering are converging. The Monday-morning Summit is the opening chapter of a full week of Futurum @ KubeCon programming.
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Format:
Three 25-min panels -
Cost:
Complimentary -
Includes:
Breakfast, Networking
Value Proposition
Context. KubeCon week arrives with a wall of announcements, vendor pitches and hallway rumor. The Futurum Summit gives you the framing first — three focused conversations from the analysts, editors and practitioners defining the story — so the rest of the week has somewhere to land.
Three Editorial Pillars
The conversations that matter before the keynotes.
Panel One – 25 Minutes
The Cloud Native Stack IS the AI Stack
The infrastructure that runs Kubernetes is the same infrastructure now running large-scale training, inference and agentic workloads. What that convergence actually means for architects, operators and buyers this year.
- Kubernetes
- AI Infrastructure
- Architecture
Panel One – 25 Minutes
Observability and Agentic AI
When agents write the code, call the APIs and change production state, observability stops being a dashboard and becomes a control system. What the observability stack has to become — and who is already building it.
- Observability
- Agents
- SRE
Panel One – 25 Minutes
AI, Cloud Native and Platform Engineering 2.0
Platform engineering was defined for a pre-agent world. The next version has to serve human developers and autonomous ones — through the same golden paths. What the leading platform teams are actually building now.
- Platform engineering
- Golden paths
- Internal developer paltforms
Monday, November 9, 2026
A morning built for signal, not noise.
Arrival, breakfast & networking
Full breakfast and drinks. Meet the analysts, editors, speakers and community before the program begins.
Panel 01 — The Cloud Native Stack IS the AI Stack
25-minute panel opens the program.
Panel 02 — Observability and Agentic AI
Short transition, then straight into the next conversation.
Panel 03 — Platform Engineering 2.0
The closing panel of the editorial program.
Cross-panel synthesis & audience Q&A
The threads across all three conversations, and your questions on the record.
Closing networking
Dedicated time to keep the conversations going before the KubeCon show floor opens.
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VENUE
Lake Effect
155 W 200 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84101
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STEPS FROM
Salt Palace Convention Center
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ATTIRE
KubeCon casual
REGISTRATION
Reserve your seat.
Free to attend. Room is limited and this is an early-morning program — please only register if you plan to be there. Waitlist opens automatically once capacity is reached.
- Immediate calendar invitation
- Reminders 1 week, 48 hours and the night before
- Attendance reconfirmation the day prior
- QR-code check-in on arrival
Registration is powered by Luma. Questions? [email protected]
Futurum @ KubeCon
The full lineup. One connected program.
Virtual
THE VIRTUAL RUNWAY
Cloud Native Now 2026
The opening chapter. A virtual event focused on the AI stack, eleven days before KubeCon — qualifying a broad cloud-native audience and setting the thesis the Summit will build on.
You are there
THE ANCHOR EVENT
Futurum Summit @ KubeCon
The intellectual opening bell for KubeCon week. Three 25-minute panels frame the convergence of AI, cloud native infrastructure, observability and platform engineering — before the keynotes begin.
On-site
Technical depth
Tech Field Day at KubeCon
Goes deeper into the technologies, live demonstrations and practitioner questions. Delegate discussions and vendor sessions from the community that has defined independent technical review.
Broadcast
Live from the show floor
Techstrong TV Live at KubeCon
Executive interviews, analyst reaction, news and voices from the event — captured live throughout the week and rolled into a unified on-demand collection on the Techstrong TV network.
Who is in the room
Built for the people shaping the stack.
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CIOs, CTOs & chief architects
Engineering leaders setting direction across cloud, AI and platform strategy.
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Platform, infra, SRE & observability leaders
The teams operating and evolving the systems this program is about.
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AI infrastructure & cloud-native practitioners
Builders working where model workloads meet Kubernetes reality.
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Vendors & ecosystem leaders
Technology providers shaping the platform, observability and AI infrastructure markets.
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CNCF community, analysts & creators
Contributors, analysts, editors and creators covering the cloud-native and AI beat.
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Curated. Not open registration.
Every seat matters. We register for capacity, reconfirm attendance and manage the waitlist actively.
Convened by
The Futurum Group
The editorial program spans the properties that already cover this ground every day — Futurum research and analysis, the Techstrong media network and the Tech Field Day community — with panel-specific coverage rolling out across each publication in the run-up to KubeCon week.
Monday morning. Salt Lake City. The conversations that come first.
Summit @ KubeCon
© 2026 The Futurum Group. All rights reserved.
Futurum Summit @ KubeCon is independently produced by Futurum and is not affiliated with or endorsed by CNCF or The Linux Foundation.
