KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025
Nov 11, 2025 · Atlanta
Keynote: Welcome + Opening Remarks - Jonathan Bryce & Chris AniszczykNov 11, 2025 · 42m · Jonathan Bryce, Chris AniszczykCNCF opened KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 in Atlanta celebrating 10 years of CNCF and Kubernetes and launching the Certified Kubernetes AI Conformance program.
Key themes: Open source, AI infrastructure
- 1CNCF opened KubeCon NA 2025 in Atlanta by marking 10 years since the foundation's creation
- 2Organizers pointed to landscape.cncf.io to show project maturity levels, with several projects graduating this year
- 3CVS Health was welcomed as a new platinum end-user member of CNCF
- 4CNCF said Kubernetes has powered cloud native infrastructure for a decade and is now the base for AI workloads too
- 5CNCF and OSTIF announced a partnership to fund third-party security audits of core CNCF projects
- 6Kubernetes AI Conformance was framed as a way to certify clusters run AI and ML workloads reliably and portably
| Announcement | Status |
|---|---|
| Certified Kubernetes AI Conformance Programv1.0 released, open development at cncf/ai-conformance | Announced |
| CNCF and SlashData cloud native developer surveyFinds 15.6 million cloud native developers worldwide | Announced |
| CNPE CertificationDefines enterprise-scale platform engineering globally | Announced |
Companies on stage
Named or launching: Akamai, AWS, CoreWeave, CVS Health, Giant Swarm, Google, Kubermatic, Linux Foundation, Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat, Sidero Labs, VMware
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