Call for Presentations
Maintainer Summit: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026
22 Mar 2026
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The CNCF Maintainer Summit is an exclusive event for the people behind our projects to gather face-to-face, collaborate, and celebrate the projects that make “Cloud Native”. Programming will be focused around sharing best practices, diving into contributing processes, and solving common problems across projects to enrich our great community of maintainers.
To submit a proposal you must be one of the following:
- TOC Representative
- Graduated Project Maintainer or Org Member
- TAG Chair, Technical Lead or Working Group Lead
- Incubating Project Maintainer
Sessions may be submitted in one of the following categories (descriptions of each category are available here):
- Kubernetes
- Growing Contributors
- CI/CD/Distribution
- Open submission option
- Project Meetings*
*Please note: Project Meetings will be listed on the schedule with the project name only, and meeting facilitator will not receive a speaker registration pass.
Call for Presentations
14 Oct 2025
14 Dec 2025
DATES TO REMEMBER:
- CFP Opens: Wednesday, 15 October
- CFP Closes: Sunday, 14 December, 23:49 CET (2:59 PM PST)
- CFP Notifications: Tuesday, 20 January
- Schedule Announced: Wednesday, 21 January
- Event Date: Sunday, 22 March
Reminder: This is a community event — so no product and/or vendor sales pitches.
CODE OF CONDUCT
By submitting, you agree to the CNCF Code of Conduct.
COMMITMENT TO INCLUSIVITY
Please review The Linux Foundation's Inclusive Speaker Orientation and Inclusive Language Initiative.
QUESTIONS?
Contact us at projectsatkubecon@linuxfoundation.org.
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