GConferenceGridThe Conference Catalogue · Vol. 2026Folio № 5BA63D
Of the Field

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026

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he Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference brings together adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities in Yokohama, Japan. CNCF Graduated, Incubating, and Sandbox Projects unite for two days of collaboration, learning, and innovation to drive the future of cloud native computing.

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50Voices
22Underwriters
0Exhibitors
0On the bill · sessions
56Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at KubeCon, in alphabetical order.
Adam Kelloway
Innovation Manager · Dow Chemical
Adrian Cockcroft
VP Cloud Architecture Strategy · Amazon
Alexandru Coca
Research Engineer · Seldon.io
Anna Luo
Applied Scientist · Amazon Web Services
Aparna Dhinakaran
Chief Product Officer · Arize AI
Azalia Mirhoseini
Senior Research Scientist · Google
Charles He
Chief Architect · Ant Group
Christopher Nguyen
President & CEO · Arimo
Clark Zinzow
Software Engineer · Descartes Labs
David Patterson
Professor Emeritus, Professor in the Graduate School · UC Berkeley
David Talby
Chief Technology Officer · John Snow Labs
Devin Petersohn
Machine Learning Engineer · Intel
Ding Ding
Machine Learning Engineer · Intel
Edilmo Palencia
Principal AI Engineer · Microsoft
Edmon Begoli
Director - Scalable Protected Data Facilities (SPDF), National Center... · Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Edward Oakes
Software Engineer · Anyscale
Eric Liang
Software Engineer · Anyscale
Gaël Varoquaux
Research Director · Inria
Géza Szabó
Senior Researcher · Ericsson Research
Hao Chen
Staff Engineer · Ant Group
Ion Stoica
Executive Chairman, Anyscale | Professor, University of California...
James Dunworth-Crompton
Associate · Goldman Sachs

— and 28 more, by name unsung —

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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
CanonicalGold
DatadogGold
HitachiGold
Microsoft AzureGold
Octopus DeployGold
Portworx by Pure StorageGold
Red HatGold
TintriGold
CAST AISilver
CoderSilver
Grafana LabsSilver
HashiCorpSilver
HondaSilver
NutanixSilver
SnykSilver
SysdigSilver
Archestra.aiStart-Up + Non-Profit
InfisicalStart-Up + Non-Profit
KubeDBStart-Up + Non-Profit
LPI JapanStart-Up + Non-Profit
OpenStackStart-Up + Non-Profit
Soda FoundationStart-Up + Non-Profit
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 56 companies, parsed from the program.

56 companies in attendance.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
0All threespeak · spons · exh
22Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
34Speakingspeaker only
02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

34% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite1122%
  • VP-level12%
  • Director / Head of510%
  • Manager / Lead510%
  • Engineer · IC1632%
  • Research / Science612%
  • Other roles612%

Of 50 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01Anyscale9V
  2. 02Ant Group3V
  3. 03Archestra.aiSp·S
  4. 04CanonicalSp·G
  5. 05CAST AISp·S
  6. 06CoderSp·S
  7. 07DatadogSp·G
  8. 08Grafana LabsSp·S
  9. 09HashiCorpSp·S
  10. 10HitachiSp·G
  11. 11HondaSp·S
  12. 12InfisicalSp·S
  13. 13KubeDBSp·S
  14. 14LPI JapanSp·S
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
gold8
36% of 22
silver8
36% of 22
start-up + non-profit6
27% of 22
05Fig. 05 — The Missing · who's at peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

06Fig. 06 — Adjacent Convocations · by shared underwriters

Sister convocations

Same brand, other regions