- Full schedule released for the inaugural co-location of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, OpenInfra Summit, and PyTorch Conference China 2026.
- Uniting cloud native, open infrastructure, and machine learning communities to standardise platforms for production-grade AI
- The September 7–9 event will bring together cloud native adopters, open infrastructure technologists, and machine learning experts at the Shanghai International Convention Center.
An event hosting three of the world's most active open source projects is to take place in China later this year. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software; the OpenInfra Foundation, which builds open source infrastructure communities, and the PyTorch Foundation, a community-driven hub for open source AI, have announced the full schedule for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenInfra Summit + PyTorch Conference China 2026.
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| Source: Linux Foundation. Announcement for the combined KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenInfra Summit + PyTorch Conference China 2026 in September. |
The joint event, to take place September 7-9 at the Shanghai International Convention Center, marks the first time these three global open source communities will converge on a single stage. This gathering addresses a structural shift in regional demand where enterprises are increasingly prioritising the integration of foundational cloud native platforms with AI model workflows, the Linux Foundation said. As the second-largest global contributor base for CNCF projects, China is a critical pillar of open source engineering.
"We are bringing the entire open source infrastructure stack together in a single event from OpenStack and Kata Containers to Kubernetes, PyTorch and vLLM," said Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director, CNCF and OpenInfra Foundation. VLLM is an acronym for virtual large language model.
"AI workloads introduce new requirements at every layer of the environment with differentiated hardware and unique usage patterns. By bringing these communities together, we ensure open source software continues to drive the next wave of production-grade AI."
The event allows organisations to streamline the entire stack—from the underlying virtualisation and storage provided by open infrastructure (openinfra) through the orchestration and scheduling capabilities of Kubernetes up to the model training and inferencing frameworks of PyTorch, ensuring that AI workloads are not just experimental, but portable, scalable and operationally reliable.
"Modern AI depends on infrastructure that can support training, inference, agents and a growing diversity of AI accelerators," said Mark Collier, Executive Director, PyTorch Foundation.
"PyTorch and vLLM provide critical open source building blocks that help developers move from research to production across heterogeneous hardware, but delivering that at scale requires close collaboration with the cloud native and open infrastructure communities. This event brings those communities together in China to advance scalable, production-ready AI from accelerators to applications."
The two-day technical schedule features dozens of tracks curated by an independent programme committee, emphasising specialised domains such as AI infrastructure, platform engineering and hardware enablement. Keynote presentations and breakout sessions will dive into real-world case studies detailing how leading organisations scale production environments, implement runtime sandboxing, and maintain operational reliability. Featured tracks highlighted on this year's agenda include:
AI + ML + Agentic AI + Data Systems
Covers the AI lifecycle end-to-end, from PyTorch model training and inferencing to retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and agentic workflows, connecting large language models to data and applications.
Highlighted session: How Intsig Serves Billions of Document Scans: GPU Virtualization at Scale with HAMi - Xiao Zhang, dynamia.ai & Walter Duan, instig information company
Cloud Infrastructure + Virtualization + Storage
Foundational cloud infrastructure, including OpenStack and container runtimes, ensuring efficient, scalable provisioning of specialised hardware and storage for high-performance AI computing.
Highlighted session: From Cloud to AI: How Kata Containers 4.0 Reinvents the Sandbox for the Agent Era - Fupan Li, Ant Group
Platform Engineering + Cloud Native Architecture
Discusses internal developer platforms and cloud native environments leverage Kubernetes to orchestrate accelerator-aware scheduling and unified multi-tenant architectures for AI workloads.
Highlighted session: Scaling Digital Employees at China Merchants Bank in Production: A Controlled AI Agents Approach - Jiahang Xu, China Merchants Bank
The CNCF, which is part of the non-profit Linux Foundation, hosts critical components of the global technology infrastructure, including Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy. CNCF brings together the industry's top developers, end users, and vendors and runs the largest open source developer conferences in the world. Supported by nearly 800 members, including the world's largest cloud computing and software companies, as well as over 200 startups.
The OpenInfra Foundation builds communities who write open-source infrastructure software that runs in production. The foundation develops and supports open source infrastructure projects, including OpenStack, Kata Containers, StarlingX, and Zuul. With the support of over 110,000 individuals in 187 countries, the OpenInfra Foundation hosts open source projects and communities of practice, including infrastructure for AI, container native apps, edge computing and data centre clouds.
Through open governance, strategic support, and a global contributor community, the PyTorch Foundation empowers developers, researchers, and enterprises to build and deploy AI at scale. The foundation supports the open-source PyTorch framework and a broader portfolio of open-source AI projects, including DeepSpeed, Helion, PyTorch, Ray, Safetensors, and vLLM. Hosted by the Linux Foundation, the PyTorch Foundation provides a vendor-neutral, trusted home for collaboration across the AI lifecycle—from model training and inference, to domain-specific applications.
Details
Registration is open at https://www.lfopensource.cn/kubecon-cloudnativecon-openinfra-summit-pytorch-conference-china/register/
- Standard pricing rates are available through July 28, 23:59 CST.
- Discounted registration is available for individuals and academics at https://www.lfopensource.cn/kubecon-cloudnativecon-openinfra-summit-pytorch-conference-china/register/#registration-types
Dan Kohn Scholarship programme
The Dan Kohn Scholarship programme offers registration and travel funding scholarships for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenInfra Summit + PyTorch Conference China.
- Apply for scholarships at https://www.lfopensource.cn/kubecon-cloudnativecon-openinfra-summit-pytorch-conference-china/attend/scholarships-travel-funding/#scholarships (Deadline July 27, 8:59 PDT / July 27, 23:59 CST)
- Apply for travel funding at https://www.lfopensource.cn/kubecon-cloudnativecon-openinfra-summit-pytorch-conference-china/attend/scholarships-travel-funding/#travel-funding (Deadline July 6, 8:59 PDT / July 6, 23:59 CST)
Co-located events
AGNTCon + MCPCon China will also gather the global community of researchers, developers, and enterprises from September 6-7, the same week as the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenInfra Summit + PyTorch Conference China. This event focuses on the complete agentic stack, including infrastructure, production systems, orchestration, and agent protocols like Model Context Protocol (MCP).
The OSPOlogy & OSPO Summit falls on September 7. It examines the advancement of open source program office (OSPO) roles and corporate governance frameworks for open source within the context of agentic AI. Key discussion areas at the conference include the application of agentic AI in OSPO operations, governance of data and large language models (LLMs) and strategies for AI-enhanced software supply chains. Additionally, the event will address enterprise global expansion through open innovation mechanisms and strategic planning.
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