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Dates
Nov 9 to Nov 12, 2026
Where
Salt Lake City, UT
Cost
Ticket $899 to $1,278. Individual late rate: $899 KubeCon-only, $1,278 All-Access (adds Monday co-located events). Corporate rate $1,899/$2,278. Academic $200/$275. Before 8.45% Utah sales tax.
Type
Conference · Paid ticket
Organizer
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (Linux Foundation)
Last checked
October 23, 2026 against the event’s own site

Official site and registration

Cheaper ways in: Academic pass $200 (KubeCon-only) / $275 (All-Access) for current students and faculty with ID or transcript; scholarship and travel-funding page; 100 free KubeCon-only tickets for Grace Hopper 2026 attendees (email events@cncf.io); group 10% off for 5+.

Speaking opportunities

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The field it serves: Technology & Software

Verified open jobs
about 67,766

Source: NextChapter job data, jobs verified live in the last 7 days.

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Typical posted salary
$152,000 a year (middle half $114,000 to $200,000)

Source: NextChapter job data: salary ranges employers posted, midpoint of each range, 1,804 of the newest 5,000 verified open jobs.

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Entry or early-career level
30% of openings

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Employment, year over year
−4.2% in information, the closest BLS sector

Source: BLS Current Employment Statistics, seasonally adjusted payroll employment, October 2026.

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Full Technology & Software snapshot: jobs, pay, layoffs and conferences

Employers at this conference

Exhibitors, sponsors and speakers we have found on the event’s own lists.

Read from the event’s own pages: events.linuxfoundation.org, events.linuxfoundation.org.

Speakers and sessions

Named on the event’s own program. Titles and organizations are as the event lists them.

Keynotes

  • Abby Bangser

    Principal Engineer, Syntasso

  • Brandon Schoen

    Senior Director, Professional Services, Heroku

  • Chris Aniszczyk

    CTO, Cloud and Infrastructure, The Linux Foundation

  • Deepak Goel

    CTO Cloud Native, Nutanix Inc

  • Dilpreet Bindra

    Sr. Director Engineering, VCF Division, Broadcom

  • Idit Levine

    CEO, Solo.io

  • Jeff Hoffman

    OCI VP of Container Services, Oracle

  • Jessica Forrester

    Senior Distinguished Engineer, Red Hat

  • Jim Beyers

    Vice President, CVS Health

  • Jonathan Bryce

    Executive Director, Cloud and Infrastructure, The Linux Foundation

  • Jorge Palma

    Principal PM Lead, Azure Kubernetes Service, Microsoft

  • Kathryn Baldauf

    Software Engineer, Apple

  • Keith Babo

    Chief Product Officer, Solo.io

  • Kevin Cochrane

    CMO, Vultr

  • Lorenzo Biava

    Staff Infrastructure Engineer, LiveKit

  • Luiz Scheidegger

    Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic

  • Michael Amundson

    Distinguished Engineer, CVS Health

  • Robert Nishihara

    Co-founder, Anyscale

  • Shaun Hopper

    Production Engineer, Meta

  • Shiva Nimmagadda

    Vice President, Software Engineering, Salesforce

  • Sunil Arora

    Software Engineer, Google

  • Vara Bonthu

    Principal Open Source Specialist SA, AWS

  • Viv Keswani

    Senior Director, Engineering, Uber

  • Warren Barkley

    Vice President of Product Management, NVIDIA

  • Yodar Shafrir

    CEO, ScaleOps

Read from the event’s own pages: events.linuxfoundation.org

Industries and functions

Where it is and who it is for

Held in Salt Lake City, UT. Local jobs, employers, layoffs and other conferences nearby are on the place pages.

Past and planned editions

  • 2026: November 9, 2026 to November 12, 2026, Salt Lake City, UT

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