EVENT EXPERIENCES

November 18 – 21 | San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA | #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon

Dine-Ups

Looking for something to do upon arrival in San Diego? Join other attendees at our informal (and no-host) Dine-up Meet-ups at restaurants near the convention center. Restaurants are open outside hours listed below and discounts will be honored outside these times as well.

Date: Sunday, November 17
Time: 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Location: Tin Roof

A few tables will be reserved for those wearing their event badge or able to show their event confirmation email and you’ll also receive 15% off your total bill (not applicable to happy hour offers). Bonus: Karaoke starts at 8:00 PM so don’t be shy to show off your vocal prowess!

Date: Monday, November 18
Time: 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Location: El Chingon + Havana 1920

If you chose to forego a co-located event or just got into town, these restaurants are next door to one another and will be catering to the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon crowd and offering 10% off your total bill. Don’t hesitate to go meet up and get to know someone new in the community!

The New Stack Pancake Breakfast

Sponsored by

Date: Tuesday, November 19
Time: 7:30 AM – 8:45 AM
Location: Room 2 at SDCC

The reports are in — Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies open the attack surface far and wide. Come have a short stack with The New Stack for a Q&A with our expert panelists about the issues and options for managing security in cloud native workloads. Prevent attacks and enjoy some pancakes!

Attendee Headshots

Get ready for your close up!

We are proud to offer a limited number of complimentary headshots to attendees that are looking to spruce up their resume or LinkedIn profile. A reservation is required.

Reserve your spot!

Thank you to our sponsor!

Taco Tuesday Welcome Reception + Sponsor Booth Crawl

Date: Tuesday, November 19
Time: 6:40 PM – 8:40 PM
Location: Sponsor Showcase – Sails Pavilion + Hall 6AB at SDCC

Holy guacamole – this may turn out to be the most specTACOlar booth crawl yet! Don’t miss a night of fun and games with new and old friends, sponsor conversations, and entertainment all while enjoying fantasTACO south of the border favorites.

Thank you to our sponsor!

SAIC

The New Stack Pancake Breakfast

Sponsored by

Date: Wednesday, November 20
Time: 7:30 AM – 8:45 AM
Location: Room 2 at SDCC

It’s time for pancakes in San Diego! Come have a short stack with The New Stack for a Q&A with our expert panelists about the issues and options for managing identity in service mesh environments. Cloud native security and how it affects the pace of enterprise adoption will be the mainstay of our conversation for this latest stop on the pancake breakfast circuit.

All Attendee Party

Date: Wednesday, November 20
Time: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Location: Gaslamp Quarter

Join the whole crew for the block party of the year (name badge required to attend)! Cap off an amazing week at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon and a wonderful year with a celebration that will take over San Diego’s famed Gaslamp Quarter. The evening will be filled with music, lights, entertainment, food, and fun spilling from dozens of restaurants into the streets.

Interested in an alcohol-free environment? Head to Jolt’n Joe’s where we will have snacks and zero-proof beverages for all ages!

The Gaslamp Quarter is just a hop, skip and a jump across the street from the San Diego Convention Center – you won’t be able to miss us! See you there!

Interested in bringing a guest? You can add a guest ticket to your registration for $140. All Attendee Party guests will not receive a conference registration badge but can pick up their party credentials on Wednesday at the Convention Center.

Networking + Mentoring

Date: Thursday, November 21
Morning Session: 7:45 – 8:45 am | Afternoon Session: 3:15 – 4:30 pm
Location: Room 3 at the San Diego Convention Center

The community collectively has an immense depth of knowledge and expertise which we can explore and learn from at this collaborative event. Whether you’re new, or not so new, to open source and the cloud native community, we invite you to register to attend the KubeCon Networking + Mentoring Session. You’ll have the chance to meet with experienced open source veterans across many CNCF projects. You will be paired with two other people in a pod like setting to explore technical and community questions together.

Sign Up to Be A Mentee

Are you part of a SIG? An ambassador of a cloud native project and want to help others with using or contributing to your project? Are you a code committer? An issue opener? A documentation writer? We’re looking for mentors of all backgrounds and experience levels (including new folks!) across the entire ecosystem with technical, community, and career experience to sign up for one or both sessions. Even if you’re a new comer, if you’ve even successfully navigated the PR process you have skills and insights to share! We will provide you with FAQs of attendees upfront so you know what to expect. Sign up here to be a mentor and help hundreds.

Sign Up to Be A Mentor

SPONSORS 

DIAMOND

Cisco
Google Cloud
Intel
Microsoft Azure
Red Hat
VMware

PLATINUM

Amazon Web Services
Apple
Aqua
Ballerina
Canonical
Capital One
CloudBees
D2iQ
Dell Technologies
DivvyCloud
Docker
Dynatrace
F5 Networks
GitLab
HPE – KubeCon – hpedev.io
IBM Cloud
JFrog
Juniper Networks
Kong
LogDNA
Mirantis
NetApp – no tagline
New Relic
Oracle – KubeCon
Palo Alto Networks
Pivotal
Platform 9
Portworx – Stacked
Rancher
Salesforce
Stackrox
SUSE
Sysdig – KubeCon – Sysdig.com
Tigera
Turbonomic

GOLD

Atlassian
Avi Networks – VMware
Buoyant
Circle CI
Citrix
Datadog
Datastax
Datrium
Digital Ocean
Influx Data
Infoblox – with tagline
Instana – Robot
LeanIX
LightStep
Linux Foundation Training – CNCF
SignalFX
SuperGiant
The Home Depot
Yahoo Japan

SILVER

A10
Accenture
Aiven
Algorithmia
Altoros
Ampere
Anchore
anynines
Aporeto
Arista
Arm Treasure Data
Aspen Mesh
Chef
Cilium by Isovalent
Cloud66
Cloudera
Cockroach Labs
Codefresh
Containous
CouchBase
CryptoMove
Cyberark
Datawire – stacked
Decipher
Densify
Diamanti
Eclipse Foundation
Elastic
EnterpriseDB
Fairwinds
Futurewei
Grape Up
Gremlin
Haproxy
Harness
Hashicorp
Iguazio
InsightFinder
Intuit
JetBrains
Kasten
Kioxia America
Lacework
LaunchDarkly
Lenovo
Linbit – with tagline
Linode
Linux Academy
LogicMonitor
Logz – horizontal
MacStadium
MemSQL
MinIO
MongoDB
MUFG
NS1
NuoDB
Nutanix – no tagline
O’Reilly Media
One Convergence
OpenLogic by Perforce
OpenStack
Overops
Packet
PagerDuty – KubeCon EU
Percona
Pure Storage
QCT
Quest
Rackspace
Red8
RedisLabs
Replicated
Robin Systems
RX-M
SAP – KubeCon – Developers
SAS
Sauce Labs
Scytale
Sentry
Snyk
Split Software
Splunk
Spotinst
Stark & Wayne
StorageOS
Styra
Sumologic
SUPERMICRO
Synopsys
Trend Micro
Tufin
Turbot
VictorOps
Volterra
Weaveworks
WhiteSource Software
Wind River – non-reversed
Xmatters
Yugabyte

START-UP

Agile Stacks
Alcide
Alluxio
Altinity
Arrikto
Atomist
Banzai Cloud
Blameless
Blockchain Technology Partners
Capsule8
Carbon Relay
Chronosphere
cnvrg.io
cribl.io
Darillium
Datatron
DeployHub
DriveScale
Effx
Epsagon
Flowmill
Fossa
Garden
Giant Swarm
Grafana Labs – stacked
Gravitational – stacked
Hammerspace
Humio
InfoSiftr
Infranetes
Kinvolk
Kontena
Kubecost
KubeGrid
KubeMQ
Kublr
LF Edge – stacked
Loodse GmbH
Mattermost
MayaData
Morpheus Data
NetFoundry
NeuVector
NexClipper
Octarine
Odo
Opsani
OpsMx
PlanetScale
Portshift
Pulumi
Quobyte
Rafay Systems
Reduxio
replex GmbH
Rookout
Scalyr
Section.io
Sensu
SoftIron
Solo.io
Spectro Cloud
Squadcast
Talos Systems
Tetrate
Trilio
Tyk
Upbound
Wallarm
Windmill Engineering
Yotascale
ZB.io
Zebrium

END USER

American Red Cross
Apple
Capital One
Cruise
Discover Financial Services
Fidelity Investments
Intuit
MUFG
Opendoor
Reddit
Sony Interactive Entertainment
The Home Depot
The New York Times
Verizon Media
WeWork

MEDIA PARTNERS

Changelog
Cisco (Cloud Unfiltered Podcast)
DevOps.com
IBM (developer podcast)
Kubernetes Podcast from Google
Linux Academy
Packet Pushers
SD Times
SDxCentral
Software Engineering Daily
TechTarget
Telesemana
TFiR
The CUBE
The New Stack
VM Blog

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