Welcome to Amsterdam! 🇳🇱 KubeCon is here, and the city is packed with amazing side events. Join Luca as he breaks down the ultimate schedule for the week—from conferences and book signings to canal cruises and epic tech parties! https://lucaberton.com/blog/kubecon-europe-2026-side-events/ If you're in town, make sure to connect with Luca to get his full master list of all the incredible events happening around the city. 🗓️ Luca’s KubeCon Week Schedule: - Saturday, March 21: Kick off the week at Cloud Native Rejekts—a full-day conference and a great chance to mingle with the locals. - Sunday, March 22: Welcome the KubeTrain! Meet tech enthusiasts traveling from all over Europe by train to attend the conference. - Monday, March 23: Co-located events day! Check out Red Hat OpenShift Commons, Microsoft, and GitHub events. - Tuesday, March 24: The official CNCF KubeCon begins! - Wednesday, March 25: Time to get serious with the fun! Bowling, canal cruises around Amsterdam, and karaoke! 🎤🎳 👇 Let's Connect!Are you in Amsterdam for KubeCon? Drop a comment below or connect with me directly, and I’ll share my massive list of must-attend events! #KubeCon #Kubernetes #Amsterdam #CloudNative #TechEvents

KubeCon EU 2026 is coming to Amsterdam 🇳🇱 — and the side-events calendar is already 🔥 I put together a date-sorted guide of KubeCon Europe 2026 side events (meetups, workshops, parties, boat cruise, karaoke… yes 😄). If you’re in town March 18–26, don’t wait: most of these are free but fill up fast. My highlights so far: - Platform Engineering MeetUp | Human Intelligence (Mar 18) - Cloud Native Rejekts EU 2026 (Mar 21) - KubeTrain (Mar 22) — arrive together, sustainably 🚄 - Red Hat OpenShift Commons Gathering (Mar 23) - House of Kube Amsterdam (Mar 23) - #KubeCrawl + #CloudNativeFest (Mar 24) - Kuberoke Spring Party (Mar 24) 🎤 - Afterdrinks + receptions (Mar 25) + Cloud Cruise boat party 🛥️ - LangChain NL community event (Mar 26) Full list + RSVP links in the blog: https://lucaberton.com/blog/kubecon-europe-2026-side-events/ Hosted / sponsored by (tagging everyone mentioned):@Red Hat @OpenShift @Cast AI @Port @Tailscale @Chainguard @Cloudsmith @NetBird @Syntasso @TSC Labs @FikaWorks @TrueFullstaq @Sidero Labs @The New Stack @Dynatrace @Akamas @Excelien @Datafy @CloudZero @LangChain See you in Amsterdam 👋— Luca #KubeCon #KubeConEU #CloudNative #Kubernetes #CNCF #Amsterdam #PlatformEngineering #DevOps #Networking #Community

🚀 Just back from FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels — and still buzzing! 8,000+ open source minds, 65 beers, 1013 talks… and enough hallway track conversations to fuel a year’s worth of ideas. This year, I had the chance to connect deeply with the teams from DeepComputing and the RISC-V International Foundation, and I must say: the momentum around open silicon and custom compute is real. Seeing the energy in the RISC-V devroom and chatting about hardware/software co-design reminded me how far open innovation has come — and where it's going. From Red Hat OpenShift AI to edge GPU orchestration, it was also great to swap stories from the field — especially how we’re applying these architectures at scale for enterprise-grade AI/ML workloads. Big thanks to everyone who made this weekend not just about code, but about community. If we met, let’s keep the conversation going. If not, see you next year — or sooner in the next devroom! 💡 Key takeaways: - RISC-V is getting real traction for AI at the edge. - Hardware is getting more open — and that unlocks a new class of innovation. - Still amazed by how strong and welcoming the open source community is. #FOSDEM2026 #OpenSource #RISC_V #DeepComputing #Ansible #Kubernetes #OpenShiftAI #EdgeAI #InfraAsCode #DevRoomBuzz #FOSS #MLOps #Belgium #Bruxelles #AI #Innovation #InfraAsCode #CloudNative hashtag#CNCF

Hi everyone, Just a quick note to say that I’ll be attending FOSDEM this year. FOSDEM is the largest free open-source conference in Europe, bringing together thousands of developers to share, learn, and collaborate. If you’re around, I’d love to meet up—whether it’s to talk open source, cloud-native infrastructure, automation, AI platforms, or simply to exchange ideas and experiences from the community. Feel free to reply to this email or reach out during the event.Looking forward to great conversations and inspiring talks. See you in Brussels! Best,Luca

I’m currently looking for a venue host for Cloud Native Rejekts Amsterdam on Saturday, 21 March 2026 (right before KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, 23–26 March, Amsterdam). Rejekts is the community “B-side” event that gives a second chance to awesome talks that didn’t make it into KubeCon — and because of the timing, a lot of attendees are already in town that weekend. Expect a high-signal crowd: engineers, platform teams, SREs, maintainers, and CNCF contributors. Why host Rejekts? ✅ Support the open-source / cloud-native community in a meaningful way ✅ Connect with a highly relevant technical audience ahead of KubeCon ✅ Build goodwill + visibility (without turning it into a sales event) Status: CFP is closed with ~250 speaker submissions (thank you!!) and the org team/process is ready to go. What we’re looking for (roughly): Space for a conference-style Saturday (ideally 2 rooms/tracks + common area) Solid Wi-Fi + basic A/V (projectors/screens, mics) We’re not expecting catering (coffee is nice but not required) Event website: https://cloud-native.rejekts.io/ Call for Speakers page: https://sessionize.com/cloud-native-rejekts-eu-2026/ If your company has an office/event space in Amsterdam and this might be feasible, comment or DM me — happy to share attendance ranges + timing + A/V checklist.