Cloud Native AI + Inference Day North America 2026

Cloud Native AI + Inference Day North America covers running AI workloads on cloud native infrastructure, as part of KubeCon's co-located day on Monday 9 November 2026 at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City. It uses two rooms in parallel. The event page frames the day around moving AI from experiments into production, touching on large language models, graph-based retrieval, agentic systems and the ethics of AI, while the published 2026 schedule leans firmly toward infrastructure: serving LLM inference on Kubernetes, scheduling and sharing GPUs, and observing AI workloads once they are live. That makes it most useful for platform and infrastructure engineers who have been asked to host models, rather than for data scientists. The event was called Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day at the 2024 and 2025 North American editions and was renamed this year. A separate CNCF event, Agentics Day: MCP + Agents, runs the same morning for people working on agent protocols and gateways. Entry is included in the KubeCon All-Access pass with no separate ticket, and the co-located call for proposals closed on 21 June. Come with questions about GPU capacity, model serving and cost.