DevOpsDays Portugal 2026 (with KCD Porto)

In 2026 DevOpsDays Portugal and KCD Porto, the CNCF-backed Kubernetes Community Day, run as a single two-day conference at the Super Bock Arena (Pavilhão Rosa Mota) in Porto's Palácio de Cristal gardens, with one call for speakers, one agenda and one ticket. It is the fourth DevOpsDays Portugal, after Lisbon in 2019 and Porto in 2022 and 2024, and the third KCD Porto. The audience is developers, SREs, platform teams and engineering leads from across Portugal and nearby countries. Each day opens with keynotes, among them Natanael Copa on what Alpine Linux and k0s teach about building cloud-native systems, followed by parallel technical sessions on Kubernetes, platform engineering, DevOps practice, observability and AI in operations. The KCD organizers advertise an audience of more than 500 and describe the agenda as locked at more than 50 talks and keynotes. Tickets are sold by the CNCF on its community site on behalf of xgeeks Portugal, the KCD's legal entity, and need a CNCF account: the blind and early-bird tiers (EUR 125 and EUR 150) have closed, and regular tickets cost EUR 175. The joint call for speakers ran on Sessionize from May to the end of July 2026 and is closed. Lunch is catered at the venue, and the first day ends with an evening cocktail.