Diagrid at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026
The CNCF flagship conference.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America is CNCF's flagship conference: four days where adopters, maintainers and technologists from the open source and cloud native communities gather, and where Graduated, Incubating and Sandbox projects all convene in one place.
This year's programme adds an AI Inference + Agentic track covering agentic workflows, GPU scheduling, model serving and observability for production AI, alongside the established platform engineering and security tracks. CNCF-hosted co-located events run all day Monday, November 9.
Why we're there
Dapr is a CNCF Graduated project and Diagrid is the team behind it. We're a Silver sponsor this year.
Most of what the new AI Inference + Agentic track is circling — making agent workloads recoverable, observable and governable on Kubernetes — is the problem Dapr Workflow has been solving for stateful applications for years. We'll be talking about how that carries over, and what changes when the thing you're orchestrating is non-deterministic.
Agenda
All times MST.
Sunday, November 8 — pre-conference
- 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Registration & badge pick-up — 200 South Entrance
Monday, November 9 — co-located events
- 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Registration & badge pick-up
- 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM
CNCF-hosted full-day events, all-access pass required — Agentics Day: MCP + Agents, ArgoCon, BackstageCon, Cloud Native AI + Inference Day, Observability Day, Open Source SecurityCon, Platform Engineering Day
- 9:00 AM – 12:25 PM
Half-day events — CiliumCon, FluxCon
- 1:25 PM – 5:30 PM
Half-day events — Kubernetes on Edge Day, OpenTofu Day
- 9:00 AM – 3:23 PM
Project Lightning Talks — Hyatt Regency, Level 4, Regency BD
- 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM
OpenShift Commons Gathering, hosted by Red Hat — off-site at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center, separate registration
- 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
VM on Kubernetes Day, hosted by Portworx — off-site at the Salt Lake Marriott Downtown, separate registration
Tuesday, November 10 — Day 1
- 7:30 AM
Registration & badge pick-up
- 9:00 AM
Welcome and opening remarks — Jonathan Bryce, Chris Aniszczyk — Salt Palace, Hall DE
- 9:35 AM – 10:45 AM
Keynotes, including "The Harness Is the New Runtime" — Idit Levine & Keith Babo, Solo.io
- 10:45 AM
Coffee break — Solutions Showcase opens, 10:45 AM to 5:15 PM
- 11:30 AM
Breakouts begin across AI Inference + Agentic, Platform Engineering, Security, Observability, Operations + Performance, Connectivity and Data Processing + Storage, plus the Maintainer Track, tutorials and Contribfest
- 12:50 PM – 2:50 PM
Lunch
- 2:50 PM
Afternoon breakouts, maintainer track and Contribfest sessions
Wednesday, November 11 & Thursday, November 12
Keynotes, breakouts and the Solutions Showcase continue across both days.
Sessions are recorded and posted to the CNCF YouTube channel within two weeks.
Times and rooms are subject to change.
