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ContainerDays Hamburg 2026

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ontainerDays 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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62Voices
57Underwriters
0Exhibitors
10On the bill · sessions
91Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at ContainerDays, in alphabetical order.
Adeel Chaudhry
Senior Platform Engineer · FreeNow
Ajitem Sahasrabuddhe
Lead Technology Consultant · Technogise
Albrecht Jérémy
DevOps Enginner - Kubestronaut
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
Christian Melendez
Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect · AWS
Christoph Puhl
Senior Sales Engineer, Isovalent · Cisco
Daniel Paul
Cloud Architect · Portworx
Davide Sellitri
Customer Success Engineer · Tigera
David Pech
Kubernetes, ArgoCD, AWS, OCI, Postgres fan
Dotan Horovits
Sr. Developer Advocate for OpenSearch
Federico Fregosi
Independent Cloud Architect
Felix Kerker
System Engineer - Infrastructure Automation · SVA System Vertrieb Alexander GmbH
Florian Nowarre
We {platform}, You {product}
Florian Schreiber
Senior Softeware Engineer · FreeNow
Franesco Bernardi
Cloud Engineer · ING Diba Netherlands
Geetha Anne
Sr Manager, Customer Solutions Group
Gualter Barbas Baptista
Driving Platform Evolution | Connecting People, Tech, and Ecosystems · Deutsche Bahn
Jan Bruder
Solutions Architect (Cloud Native Computing)

— and 40 more, by name unsung —

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Underwritten By

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
CloudsmithChief officer
CNCFEngineer
Dachs ITCaptain
DGiSpecial sponsoring
echoEngineer
ExoscaleEngineer
FOCUS ON: DevOpsMedia Partners
GermanTechJobsMedia Partners
GitlabChief officer
GloriumtechMedia Partners
IBMChief officer
iitsEngineer
IsovalentEngineer
IT-SchulungenMedia Partners
it-sicherheitMedia Partners
jFrogChief officer
KlutchEngineer
Kube careersMedia Partners
KubedemyMedia Partners
Kube eventsMedia Partner
Kube FMMedia Partners
KubermaticAdmiral
KubesimplifyMedia Partner
LINBITEngineer
NetBirdStart-Up
NutanixEngineer
Open Industry 4.0 AllianceEngineer
Open Telekom CloudEngineer
PerfectScaleChief officer
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The Programme

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 91 companies show up — and 11 bet on three roles at once?

91 companies. eleven 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.

01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
11All threespeak · spons · exh
46Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
34Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

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

02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

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

  • C-suite35%
  • Founder / Owner35%
  • Director / Head of23%
  • Manager / Lead1321%
  • Engineer · IC3252%
  • Other roles915%

Of 62 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01Dachs ITSp·C2V
  2. 02STACKITSp·E2V
  3. 03AWSSp·C1V
  4. 04ChainguardSp·C1V
  5. 05CNCFSp·E1V
  6. 06GitLabSp·C1V
  7. 07IsovalentSp·E1V
  8. 08NetBirdSp·S1V
  9. 09PortworxSp·C1V
  10. 10SUSESp·C1V
  11. 11TigeraSp·E1V
  12. 124dataSp·S
  13. 13AI Press RoomSp·M
  14. 14AI Tools NetworkSp·M
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
admiral1
2% of 57
captain3
5% of 57
chief officer13
23% of 57
engineer18
32% of 57
media partner5
9% of 57
media partners12
21% of 57
special sponsoring3
5% of 57
start-up2
4% of 57
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