KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2026 in Amsterdam will bring the cloud native community together with projects, vendors and end users in what is one of the largest…

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A guide from the CNCF End User Technical Advisory Board (TAB) highlighting recommended sessions and practical tips for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2026 in Amsterdam. Covers dedicated end-user activities including Birds of Feather sessions on AI infrastructure, GPU optimization, and AI observability, plus a Town Hall and poster sessions. TAB members share their top session picks spanning Kubernetes cluster migrations at scale (Airbnb, Disney+ Hotstar), observability stack rebuilds (DigitalOcean), Spotify's XDS control plane routing, Gateway API navigation, Cilium networking, ML training scheduling with Kueue, and agentic AI workloads at Netflix. Practical conference tips on session planning, hallway networking, and knowledge sharing are also included.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2026: End User TAB recommendations and tips