Cloud Native AI + Inference Day North America 2026
Cloud Native AI + Inference Day North America is the CNCF-hosted co-located event held alongside KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 at Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, on 9 November 2026. It is the North American edition of the same brand series as the European edition, which takes place on 15 March 2027 at Fira Gran Via in Barcelona, Spain.
The event brings together the Kubernetes and AI-ML communities to explore how large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic systems and inference workloads are deployed on cloud native infrastructure. Typical session topics include LLMs and generative AI, RAG and AI agents, end-to-end AI/ML in production covering MLOps and AIOps, edge AI and specialised environments, ethics, compliance and security, inference optimisation, and real-world user success stories. Formats include 25-minute presentations, 35-minute panel discussions and lightning talks.
Cloud Native AI + Inference Day is open to all in-person attendees holding an All-Access In-Person KubeCon + CloudNativeCon pass, which also grants entry to every other CNCF-hosted co-located event and to the main conference. The main conference runs 9-12 November 2026 in Salt Lake City, Utah, with the co-located programme on the opening day, 9 November 2026. Sponsorship for the 2026 edition closed on 21 September 2026.