HashiConf at IBM TechXchange 2026

HashiConf at IBM TechXchange 2026: what to expect

Following IBM’s acquisition of HashiCorp, HashiConf is co-located with IBM TechXchange in Atlanta for the first time. Expect keynotes and deep technical sessions on Terraform, Vault, Consul, and Nomad, aimed at developers, SREs, cloud architects, and security engineers building and securing infrastructure at scale.

Key takeaways

• HashiConf 2026 is co-located with IBM TechXchange in Atlanta, October 26–29 — a first.
• Pricing historically ran ~$1,000–$1,700; the co-location may change it, so confirm.
• The audience is DevOps, SRE, platform, cloud architecture, and security engineers.
• Terraform, Vault, and IBM + HashiCorp integration headline the agenda.
• Echo ensures the image your IaC deploys at scale is CVE-free and provable.

Dates, location, and pricing

• Dates: October 26–29, 2026
• Location: Atlanta, GA, USA
• Pricing: Estimate — confirm on official site. Standalone HashiConf passes historically ran roughly $1,000–$1,700; co-location with IBM TechXchange may change pass structure and pricing for 2026, so confirm on the official site.

Who should attend

DevOps engineers, SREs, platform teams, cloud architects, and security engineers working with infrastructure-as-code and secrets management — plus IT leaders attending the broader IBM TechXchange.

Themes to watch

• Infrastructure-as-code at scale with Terraform, including policy-as-code.
• Secrets management and machine identity with Vault.
• Security and compliance lifecycles across multi-cloud deployments.
• IBM + HashiCorp integration direction, a first-time headline this year.

Networking and after-parties

HashiConf is known for its practitioner community and evening social events; folding into IBM TechXchange broadens the networking to IBM’s enterprise ecosystem across four days.

Where container security fits into the conversation

Infrastructure-as-code makes it trivial to deploy the same base image thousands of times — which means a single vulnerable image can be templated straight into production at scale. Secrets management and policy-as-code solve part of the trust problem, but the image itself still needs to start clean.

Echo closes that gap with images that are CVE-free, FIPS-validated, and hardened against DISA STIG requirements, with signed provenance via cosign and sigstore and full SBOM transparency — so the artifact your Terraform deploys is as trustworthy as the pipeline that deploys it.

FAQ

When and where is HashiConf at IBM TechXchange 2026? It runs October 26–29, 2026 in Atlanta, Georgia. For the first time, HashiConf is co-located with IBM TechXchange following IBM’s acquisition of HashiCorp, combining HashiCorp’s Terraform, Vault, Consul, and Nomad sessions with IBM’s broader enterprise technology conference.

How much does HashiConf 2026 cost? Confirm 2026 pricing on the official site, as the IBM TechXchange co-location may change the pass structure. Standalone HashiConf passes historically ran roughly $1,000–$1,700, with early-bird discounts. The combined event may offer bundled access across both programs.

Who should attend HashiConf at IBM TechXchange? It’s aimed at DevOps engineers, SREs, platform teams, cloud architects, and security engineers working with infrastructure-as-code and secrets management, plus IT leaders drawn to the wider IBM TechXchange. Teams standardizing on Terraform or Vault will find the most direct value in the HashiConf tracks.