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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35Voices
22Underwriters
44Exhibitors
0On the bill · sessions
89Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at KubeCon, in alphabetical order.
Abby Bangser
Principal Engineer · Syntasso
Ahmed Bebars
Principal Engineer · The New York Times
Baptiste Assmann
Director of Product · HAProxy Technologies
Brian Stevens
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for AI · Red Hat
Chad Beaudin
Chief Engineer · Boeing Software Factory
Chris Aniszczyk
CTO, Cloud & Infrastructure · Linux Foundation
Chris Holmes
Vice President · Planet Labs
Erin A. Boyd
Sr. Director · NVIDIA
Fabian Steinbach
Software Architect · ZEISS
Faseela K
Cloud Native Developer · Ericsson
Goetz Reinhaeckel
Program Director Cloud · BWI
Greg Kroah-Hartman
Linux Kernel Maintainer & Fellow · The Linux Foundation
Idit Levine
Founder & CEO · Solo.io
Jago Macleod
Engineering Director · Google
Jan Melen
General Manager · Ericsson
Jean-François Hubert
Development Director · Ubisoft Entertainment
Jesse Butler
Principal Product Manager and Technologist · Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Jonathan Bryce
Executive Director, Cloud & Infrastructure · Linux Foundation
Jorge Palma
Principal PM Lead for Azure Kubernetes Services · Microsoft
Karena Angell
Technical Strategist, Global Engineering | CNCF TOC Chair · Red Hat
Katie Gamanji
Senior Field Engineer · Apple
Keith Babo
Chief Product Officer · Solo.io

— and 13 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

What does it mean when 89 companies show up — and 3 bet on three roles at once?

89 companies. three 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
3All threespeak · spons · exh
20Sponsoringsponsor only
42Exhibitingexhibitor only
24Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Red Hat·Canonical·Google

02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

54% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite823%
  • Founder / Owner13%
  • VP-level13%
  • Director / Head of926%
  • Manager / Lead617%
  • Product26%
  • Engineer · IC617%
  • Other roles26%

Of 35 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01Red HatSp·G3V
  2. 02CanonicalSp·GEx
  3. 03Archestra.aiSp·S
  4. 04CAST AISp·S
  5. 05CoderSp·S
  6. 06DatadogSp·G
  7. 07GoogleEx1V
  8. 08Grafana LabsSp·S
  9. 09HashiCorpSp·S
  10. 10HitachiSp·G
  11. 11HondaSp·S
  12. 12InfisicalSp·S
  13. 13KubeDBSp·S
  14. 14Linux Foundation3V
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