en.Wedoany.com Reported - The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the OpenInfra Foundation, and the PyTorch Foundation jointly announced that the full agenda for the first co-located KubeCon+CloudNativeCon, OpenInfra Summit, and PyTorch Conference China 2026 has been released. The event will take place from September 7 to 9, 2026, at the Shanghai International Convention Center, marking the first time these three global open source communities converge on a single stage.

This conference responds to structural shifts in regional demand, as enterprises increasingly prioritize integrating foundational cloud-native platforms with artificial intelligence (AI) model workflows. As the second-largest contributor base to CNCF projects globally, China is a key pillar of open source engineering. Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director of CNCF and the OpenInfra Foundation, stated that the event will integrate the entire open source infrastructure stack, from OpenStack and Kata Containers to Kubernetes, PyTorch, and vLLM. AI workloads introduce new requirements at every layer of the environment, including differentiated hardware and unique usage patterns. Through community convergence, open source software can continue to drive next-generation production-grade AI. Mark Collier, Executive Director of the PyTorch Foundation, noted that modern AI relies on infrastructure capable of supporting training, inference, agents, and an increasingly diverse range of AI accelerators. PyTorch and vLLM provide critical open source building blocks, but delivering at scale requires collaboration with the cloud-native and open infrastructure communities. This event brings these communities together in China to advance scalable, production-ready AI from accelerators to applications.

The two-day technical agenda features dozens of topics curated by independent project committees, with a focus on AI infrastructure, platform engineering, and hardware enablement. Keynotes and breakout sessions delve into real-world case studies, showcasing how organizations scale production environments, implement runtime sandboxing, and maintain operational reliability. Key topics include: AI + Machine Learning + Agentic AI + Data Systems, such as Xiao Zhang (dynamia.ai) and Walter Duan (instig information co. ltd) sharing how to virtualize GPUs at scale with HAMi to serve billions of document scans; Cloud Infrastructure + Virtualization + Storage, such as Fupan Li (Ant Group) explaining how Kata Containers 4.0 reshapes sandboxing for the agent era; and Platform Engineering + Cloud-Native Architecture, such as Jiahang Xu (China Merchants Bank) elaborating on deploying digital employees at scale with a controlled AI agent approach.

The Dan Kohn Scholarship Program provides registration and travel funding. The scholarship application deadline is July 27 at 8:59 AM PDT (July 27 at 11:59 PM Beijing time), and the travel funding application deadline is July 6 at 8:59 AM PDT (July 6 at 11:59 PM Beijing time). Registration is now open, with standard pricing available until Tuesday, July 28 at 11:59 PM Beijing time. Discounted registration is available for individuals and academics. Sponsorship packages can be viewed on the designated page. Companies interested in sponsoring should send requests to [email protected], with the contract signing deadline set for July 17. The co-located event AGNTCon+MCPCon China will be held from September 6 to 7, focusing on the agent stack, infrastructure, and protocols such as MCP. OSPOlogy+OSPO Summit will explore the evolving role of Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) in the context of agentic AI, with key topics including the application of agentic AI in OSPO operations, governance of data and large language models, AI-enhanced software supply chain strategies, and global enterprise expansion through open innovation mechanisms. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), supported by nearly 800 members (including the world's largest cloud computing and software companies and over 200 innovative startups), hosts critical components such as Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy, and is part of the non-profit Linux Foundation. The OpenInfra Foundation builds communities that write and run production open source infrastructure software, developing and maintaining projects such as OpenStack, Kata Containers, StarlingX, and Zuul, with over 110,000 individual supporters across 187 countries. The PyTorch Foundation supports the open source PyTorch framework and a broader portfolio of AI projects, including DeepSpeed, Helion, Ray, Safetensors, and vLLM, providing a vendor-neutral home for collaboration across the AI lifecycle.

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