Recipients are recognized for their outstanding contributions to the cloud native ecosystem and community Key Highlights KUBECON + CLOUDNATIVECON EUROPE…

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CNCF announced the winners of its Community Awards at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam. Hung-Ying (Hydai) Tai received the Outstanding Mentor Award for guiding mentees through WasmEdge projects including WASI-NN and LLM fine-tuning. Five contributors received TAGGIE awards for advancing CNCF Technical Advisory Groups. SNCF won the Top End User Award for migrating 70% of 2,000 applications to the cloud using Kubernetes across 200+ AWS and Azure clusters alongside a private OpenStack cloud. Saxo Bank won the End User Case Study Contest for extending GitOps automation beyond containerized workloads using a Kubernetes-based service catalog that automates provisioning across Kafka, databases, and identity systems.

CNCF Celebrates Innovators Advancing Cloud Native at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe