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ContainerDays Hamburg 2026

ContainerDays Hamburg 2026 returns to the historic harbor of Hamburg for a three-day, in-person conference focused on Kubernetes, Containers, DevOps, Cloud Native, and Platform Engineering. The event features a unique setting in Schuppen 52 with an additional special stage aboard the vessel MS Bleichen. Attendees can expect hands-on sessions, deep-dive talks…

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106Speakers
69Sponsors
10On the bill · sessions
118Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at ContainerDays, in alphabetical order.
Abubakar Siddiq Ango
Developer Education & Community leader
Adeel Chaudhry
Senior Platform Engineer · FreeNow
Adrian Kurt
Ajitem Sahasrabuddhe
Lead Technology Consultant · Technogise
Albrecht Jérémy
DevOps Enginner - Kubestronaut
Alessio Diamanti
Alexander Eimer
Platform Engineer · QAware GmbH
Alexander Schaber
CEO · DACHS IT
Alexandre Cabral
Senior Software Engineer · Stone Co
Alex Pliutau
Staff Software Engineer · BINARLY
Alfred Schmid
Expert Innovation · Steadforce GmbH
Ali Alp
Distinguished Software Architect · Brainlab
Alvaro Hernandez
Annika Opitz
Product Owner · STACKIT
Anton Ivanov
Principal Security Researcher
Antti Kervinen
Cloud orchestration software engineer · Intel
Arik Grahl
Awar Abdulkarim
Senior Engineer | Competency Lead Cloud Native · Sopra Steria
Bjoern Brundert
Chief Technologist · Broadcom
Cecil Wöbker
Co-Founder & CTO
Christian Matthaei
Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer · Tchibo GmbH
Christian Melendez
Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect · AWS
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
4dataSpecial sponsoring
AIPressRoomMedia Partners
AI Tools NetworkMedia Partner
Amazon Web ServicesChief officer
aoeEngineer
APItoolkitStart-Up
BWIEngineer
CANCOMEngineer
CAST AIEngineer
ChainguardCaptain
CIOReview europeMedia Partners
ClastixEngineer
CloudsmithChief officer
CNCFEngineer
Dachs ITCaptain
Dash0Engineer
DGiSpecial sponsoring
echoEngineer
Echocustom
ExoscaleEngineer
FOCUS ON: DevOpsMedia Partners
GermanTechJobsMedia Partners
GitlabChief officer
GloriumtechMedia Partners
IBMChief officer
iitsEngineer
iits consultingEngineer
IITS Consultingcustom
IsovalentEngineer
IT-SchulungenMedia Partners
it-sicherheitMedia Partners
jFrogChief officer
KlutchEngineer
KomodorEngineer
Kube careersMedia Partners
KubedemyMedia Partners
Kube eventsMedia Partner
Kube Eventsmedia_partner
Kube FMMedia Partners
KubermaticAdmiral
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Agenda

Selected from 10 sessions on the bill.
  • Tuesday, 9 September 2025, 09:20

    Beyond the Surface: Exploring Attacker Persistence Strategies in Kubernetes

    Security
  • Tuesday, 9 September 2025, 09:20

    Breaking Free with Open Standards: OpenTelemetry and Perses for Observability

    Observability
  • Tuesday, 9 September 2025, 09:20

    From Weeks to Seconds: Scaling Network Automation with Kubernetes Operators

    Networking
  • Tuesday, 9 September 2025, 09:20

    Securing AI/ML Workflows: Optimizing Container Images in Kubernetes Environments

    AI + ML
  • Tuesday, 9 September 2025, 10:05

    Dynamic OCI Registry

    Cloud Native Experience
  • Tuesday, 9 September 2025, 10:05

    Kubenix: Declare Your K8s Workloads Fully Reproducible

    Application Development
  • Tuesday, 9 September 2025, 10:05

    OpenSearch: The Open Source Path to Search and Observability

    Observability
  • Tuesday, 9 September 2025, 10:05

    Saxo Service Blueprint: Bridging Old and New World with Kubernetes Operators

    Platform Engineering
  • Tuesday, 9 September 2025, 10:05

    Simplifying cluster security with CEL

    Security
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 118 companies show up — and 13 bet on three roles at once?

118 companies. thirteen are betting more than once.

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.

Who's in the room
13All threespeak · spons · exh
56Sponsoringsponsor only
49Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

GitLab·STACKIT·AWS·Dachs IT·Isovalent·SUSE·Chainguard·CNCF·JFrog·Kubermatic·NetBird·Portworx·Tigera

Speakers by seniority

13% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite66%
  • Founder / Owner44%
  • Director / Head of44%
  • Manager / Lead2019%
  • Engineer · IC4744%
  • Research / Science11%
  • Other roles2423%

Of 106 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01GitLabSp·C3V
  2. 02STACKITSp·E3V
  3. 03AWSSp·C2V
  4. 04Dachs ITSp·C2V
  5. 05IsovalentSp·E2V
  6. 06SUSESp·C2V
  7. 07ChainguardSp·C1V
  8. 08CNCFSp·E1V
  9. 09JFrogSp·C1V
  10. 10KubermaticSp·A1V
  11. 11NetBirdSp·S1V
  12. 12PortworxSp·C1V
  13. 13TigeraSp·E1V
  14. 144dataSp·S
Sponsors by tier
admiral1
1% of 69
captain3
4% of 69
chief officer13
19% of 69
custom4
6% of 69
engineer25
36% of 69
media partner5
7% of 69
media_partner1
1% of 69
media partners12
17% of 69
special sponsoring3
4% of 69
start-up2
3% of 69
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.

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