The Best DevOps conferences in 2026

Radar 11x, our free online event, brought together eight sessions with speakers from Google, AWS, Microsoft, Cloudera, Honeywell, DataRobot and Fifth Third Bank. For DevOps teams, the most relevant session covered the new developer workflow now that agents write code, with speakers including Mik Kersten, founder at Lymyt, and Craig McLuckie, CEO at Stacklok.

Other sessions covered moving AI pilots into production, the governance and skills that make that hold, and responsible AI. The day ran in blocks for the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East and Africa, so recordings cover every time zone.

Best for: engineers and engineering leaders who want to see how delivery work changes when AI agents write and review code, without travel or a ticket.

2. SREcon26 Americas

SREcon26 Americas was run by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association, for engineers who work on site reliability, systems engineering and complex distributed systems. Its program was built for both newcomers to the profession and engineers with decades of experience.

Registration was priced in three tiers, from $950 to $1,300 for standard attendees and $625 to $950 for students.

Best for: reliability and operations engineers in the Americas who want deep technical talks on running production systems.

3. PlatformCon 2026

PlatformCon 2026 was a week of platform engineering talks and hands-on workshops, with free virtual access and paid in-person Live Days in London on Jun 23 and New York on Jun 25. Workshops covered topics such as GitOps deployments with Argo and reusable deployment pipelines.

The organizers counted more than 300 virtual sessions and more than 1,700 in-person attendees, and the virtual talks are now free to stream on demand.

Best for: teams building an internal developer platform who want a large library of talks without a travel budget.

4. SREcon26 EMEA

SREcon26 EMEA was the European, Middle Eastern and African edition of the SREcon series, held in Dublin. It shared the Americas edition's focus on site reliability, systems engineering and distributed systems, with the same registration tiers in US dollars.

Best for: reliability engineers based in Europe, the Middle East or Africa who want SREcon's program without crossing the Atlantic.

5. HashiConf at IBM TechXchange

HashiConf at IBM TechXchange brings HashiCorp's conference into IBM's TechXchange week, with more than 100 HashiCorp product sessions inside a wider program of more than 900 sessions and 180 hands-on labs. Featured talks include day 2 operations with Terraform and Vault and automating IT to control cloud costs.

A full conference pass costs $1,599, and government and public-sector attendees with an official institutional email pay $799.

Best for: infrastructure and security teams that run Terraform or Vault, including public-sector teams eligible for the reduced pass.

6. GitHub Universe 2026

GitHub Universe 2026 is GitHub's developer event at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, with keynotes, sessions, workshops and live demos on how developers and AI agents work together on code. The in-person pass costs $1,399.

The free virtual pass includes the streamed keynotes, virtual-only content and full access to recorded sessions once they are available.

Best for: developers and DevOps teams whose pipelines live on GitHub and who want the product roadmap first-hand.

7. KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 is the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) conference for Kubernetes and the projects around it. Nov 9 is set aside for CNCF-hosted co-located events and project lightning talks, and the main program runs Nov 10 to 12.

Prices depend on pass and registration type: the All-Access pass adds the co-located events, and corporate, individual and academic rates differ. Current rates run from $200 for an academic pass to $2,278 for a corporate All-Access pass, before Utah sales tax.

Best for: platform and operations teams running Kubernetes who want project maintainers and end users in one place.

8. AWS re:Invent 2026

AWS re:Invent 2026 is Amazon Web Services' annual conference on cloud and AI, held over five days in Las Vegas. Reserved seating is open in the AWS Events app, and curated agendas help attendees plan a route through the session catalog.

The full conference pass costs $2,499.

Best for: DevOps and platform teams that build and run on AWS and want hands-on sessions with its services.

How We Chose These DevOps Conferences

We looked for events a DevOps engineer, platform team or engineering leader would really shortlist in 2026: reliability conferences, platform engineering, infrastructure tooling, Kubernetes and the large cloud and developer events. We kept only events whose official page we could open and whose dates and prices were published there.

Dates, venues, prices and formats come from each organizer's official event and registration pages, checked on October 20, 2026. Attendance and session counts are the organizers' own figures, and status is based on each event's last day compared with that date.

Final Thoughts

The right DevOps conference depends on the work in front of you: reliability, platform engineering, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes or a single cloud. Don't overlook online conferences and recordings. Free recordings from Radar 11x, PlatformCon 2026 and GitHub Universe 2026 let a whole team learn before anyone books travel.