• Posted on February 13, 2026by Co-Chairs, Gergely Csatari & Philippe Ensarguet Cloud Native Telco Day returns to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 as a full-day co-located event bringing together telecommunications and cloud native communities for deep technical exchange and real-world collaboration. • Originally launched in 2022 in Valencia, Cloud Native Telco Day was created to bridge the networking and cloud native ecosystems. • That mission is even more relevant today. • Telecommunications providers are at an inflection point where AI and agentic AI systems are reshaping how networks are built and operated. • As 5G matures and the industry looks toward 6G and beyond, the boundaries between network and cloud infrastructures are blurring. • Telcos are adopting CNCF technologies across every layer of the telecom stack to enable autonomous operations, self-optimizing systems, and highly distributed architectures that must meet strict performance, reliability, and security requirements.

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  • Cloud Native Telco Day returns to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 as a full‑day, co‑located event that brings together telecom operators, vendors, integrators, and CNCF project maintainers. The program expands from last year’s half‑day format to seven talks, three panels, a lightning session, and a closing discussion, emphasizing real‑world case studies of CNCF technologies in live networks. Sponsors Red Hat and Sylva/LFN support the vendor‑neutral agenda, while deeper technical follow‑ups will continue at the Linux Foundation Europe Sylva project developer day. The day targets practitioners deploying telco workloads, platform teams building cloud‑native stacks, and CNCF maintainers needing to meet ultra‑low‑latency, high‑availability requirements.

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