Kubernetes Automation Day North America
A practitioner-led day on making Kubernetes smarter: automation, platform engineering, FinOps, and production lessons from the field. KubeAuto Day NA is co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2026
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Featured Speakers
Kelsey Hightower
Vishakha Sadhwani
Bret Fisher
Justin Garrison
Kubernetes Automation Day North America
Kubernetes Automation Day North America is co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 in Salt Lake City. It is a community-run event for the cloud native crowd: Kubernetes, platform engineering, automation, FinOps, and everything around the ecosystem. Whether you run clusters in production, build internal platforms, or are just getting into cloud native, come connect with practitioners and peers before the main KubeCon days kick off.
KubeAuto Day is free to attend and built by practitioners for practitioners: real production stories, automation deep dives, and time to meet the people behind the clusters.
Talks
Keynotes and technical sessions from practitioners on Kubernetes automation, platform engineering and FinOps.
Networking
Connect with experts, maintainers and practitioners from the CNCF ecosystem.
After Party
Join our happy hour with food and drinks to close the day.
Agenda
All details will be updated as more details come in.
11:00 AM
Registration & Welcome Coffee
11:30 AM
Kelsey Hightower
12:00 PM
Vishakha Sadhwani
12:30 PM
1:00 PM
Coffee-break
1:30 PM
Bret Fisher
2:00 PM
2:30 PM
Justin Garrison
3:30 PM
Lunch
3:45 PM
4:15 PM
Pablo Fredrikson
4:45 PM
5:00 PM
7:00 PM
Networking, Drinks & Snacks
Clark Planetarium
Sponsors
Sponsors for KubeAuto Day North America are TBD. Interested in supporting this edition?
Interested in sponsoring this edition? Write to us and we will share the sponsorship options.
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