Kubecon Cloudnativecon China 2026
September 8th - September 9th, 2026
Shanghai, ChinaCNCF, OpenInfra, and PyTorch join forces in Shanghai on September 8-9, 2026. Here's what to expect from the region's biggest cloud native gathering, and where container image security fits in.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenInfra Summit + PyTorch Conference China 2026: what to expect
For 2026, the Linux Foundation is combining KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, the OpenInfra Summit, and the PyTorch Conference into a single event in Shanghai on September 8-9, bringing Kubernetes, open infrastructure, and AI/ML tooling communities under one roof for the China market.
Themes to watch
- Kubernetes platform engineering at scale, including multi-cluster and edge deployments common in the region.
- AI/ML infrastructure, with PyTorch's inclusion signaling deeper crossover between cloud native and machine learning workloads.
- Open infrastructure, covering the OpenStack and adjacent ecosystems that still run a large share of China's private cloud.
- Supply chain security for cloud native software, a growing track across every regional KubeCon.
Where container security fits into the conversation
Combining cloud native, AI, and open infrastructure communities in one venue also combines their supply chains - which means more base images, more registries, and more surface area for a CVE to hide in an ML training pipeline or a Kubernetes node image alike.
This is exactly the problem Echo was built to solve. CVE-free container images with full SBOM transparency (SPDX and CycloneDX) and signed provenance via cosign and sigstore give platform teams the same auditability for an AI/ML base image as for a production Kubernetes workload - without slowing down the pipelines this event's attendees are there to build.
Thinking about image security for your cloud native or AI stack?
Get in touch - we'd love to talk through how Echo fits into a Kubernetes or MLOps pipeline running in the China market or beyond.
