KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 runs from Monday, November 9, to Thursday, November 12, 2026, at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Monday is reserved for co-located events and Project Lightning Talks; keynotes, breakout sessions and the Solutions Showcase fill Tuesday to Thursday, and content starts at 9:00 AM Mountain Standard Time (16:00 UTC) each day.

The official FAQ says the event has no virtual component, and no livestream is advertised; recordings are due on the CNCF YouTube channel within two weeks.

Dates, venue and passes

  • Dates: November 9 to 12, 2026, with pre-event programming on November 9 and the main conference on November 10 to 12.
  • Venue: Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City (keynotes in Hall DE, Solutions Showcase in Halls A-C and 1-5), with Project Lightning Talks at the Hyatt Regency.
  • Time zone: the official schedule lists times in MST (UTC-7), as US daylight saving time ends on November 1, 2026.
  • Passes: the late rates on the registration page apply until November 12. All-Access costs $2,278 (corporate), $1,278 (individual) or $275 (academic); the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Only pass costs $1,899, $899 or $200 in the same categories. Salt Lake City sales tax of 8.45% comes on top, and there are no day passes.

KubeCon 2026 schedule by day (MST)

Monday, November 9: co-located events

CNCF-hosted co-located events require an All-Access pass. Seven run from 9:00 AM to about 5:30 PM: Agentics Day: MCP + Agents, ArgoCon, BackstageCon, Cloud Native AI + Inference Day, Observability Day, Open Source SecurityCon and Platform Engineering Day. CiliumCon and FluxCon are morning half-days, while OpenTofu Day and Kubernetes on Edge Day take the afternoon. Rooms and talks are on the co-located schedule.

Project Lightning Talks, which the KubeCon-only pass also covers, run from 9:30 AM to about 4:41 PM.

Tuesday, November 10

  • Keynotes: 9:00 to 10:45 AM
  • Solutions Showcase: 10:45 AM to 5:15 PM
  • #KubeCrawl + #CloudNativeFest in the showcase halls: 6:00 to 7:30 PM

Wednesday, November 11

  • Keynotes: 9:00 to 10:36 AM
  • Solutions Showcase: 10:30 AM to 5:00 PM

Thursday, November 12

  • Keynotes: 9:00 to 10:30 AM
  • Solutions Showcase: 10:30 AM to 2:00 PM
  • Breakouts: from 11:00 AM; the conference wraps up in the afternoon

Keynote start time in other time zones

Each keynote block starts at 9:00 AM MST, which is:

  • 8:00 AM PST on the US West Coast
  • 11:00 AM EST on the US East Coast
  • 16:00 UTC, or 4:00 PM in London
  • 5:00 PM CET in Berlin and Paris
  • 9:30 PM IST in India
  • 1:00 AM in Tokyo and 3:00 AM in Sydney the following day

The blocks end at 17:45 UTC on Tuesday, 17:36 UTC on Wednesday and 17:30 UTC on Thursday.

Is there a KubeCon livestream?

The official pages do not offer one, since the FAQ says the event has no virtual component. Instead, all sessions will be uploaded to the CNCF YouTube channel within two weeks of the event, which points to about November 26 if that timeline holds. Captioning will be available for keynotes and breakouts, and the online schedule can be switched from MST to any other time zone.

What to watch for

Session times below are in MST.

  • Kubeflow: CNCF lists the project as graduated since July 24, 2026. A Thursday keynote at 9:12 AM celebrates the graduation, and a maintainer talk on Wednesday at 3:10 PM covers how the project got there.
  • Helm 3: the Helm project committed to Helm 3 security fixes until November 11, 2026, the Wednesday of KubeCon week. The maintainer session "Breaking up Is Hard, but the Future Is with Helm 4" is on Tuesday at 3:40 PM.
  • Gateway API after Ingress NGINX: best-effort maintenance of Ingress NGINX ended in March 2026, with no further releases or security fixes. Sessions include a Gateway API project update (Wednesday, 3:10 PM) and "Four Resources, One Object: Surviving Gateway API After Ingress NGINX" (Thursday, 11:00 AM). Our Ingress NGINX migration guide lists the cluster checks to run first.
  • Kubernetes v1.38: the SIG Release schedule puts KubeCon in week 11 of the cycle, with code freeze on November 16 (AoE) and the release planned for December 16, 2026. Version 1.34 reached end of life on October 27.

Many keynote titles focus on AI and agents, such as "The Identity Crisis: Who is the AI Agent in Your Cluster?" on Tuesday. Follow our Conferences section for event coverage and Platforms for Kubernetes news.

Frequently asked questions

When and where is KubeCon North America 2026?

November 9 to 12, 2026, at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, with co-located events on November 9.

Can I watch the KubeCon 2026 keynotes online?

There is no virtual pass and no advertised livestream. CNCF says keynote and breakout recordings will appear on its YouTube channel within two weeks of the event.

Which pass covers the co-located events?

Only the All-Access pass includes the CNCF-hosted co-located events on November 9. The KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Only pass covers the three main days plus the Project Lightning Talks.