KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 Co-Located Event Deep Dive: Kubernetes on Edge Day

Who will get the most out of attending this event? What is new and different this year? What will the day look like? Should I do any homework first? Find your community! Posted on October 3, 2025 by Co-chairs, Katerina Arzhayev, Gergely Csatári, and Mars Toktonaliev CNCF projects highlighted in this post The inaugural Edge Day launched as a co-located event at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU in 2022, recognizing that data at the edge is here to stay. Once called the ‘Internet of Things’ and later ‘Industry 4.0,’ today ‘edge computing’ has emerged as the unifying term, reflecting the evolution from centralized data centers and cloud computing to the very edge of the network. Kubernetes on Edge Day embraces this shift with a thoughtful agenda that brings together academic research, real-world enterprise use cases, and insights from peers across the Kubernetes community. This is a wonderful event for everyone who wants to get as close to the newest technology as they can, without going to a quantum computing conference 😊. Engineers working at large companies who are looking to modernize and containerize their applications will be able to explore real-world business applications of technological innovation. Students and researchers will hear from other academics on what and how they are doing to push the limits of what is typically thought to be possible. At Kubernetes on Edge Day, we bring together experts for an audience who are tackling some of the most exciting and complex problems in cloud computin today, and tomorrow. We did our best to limit the topics to stay as close to true “edge computing” as we could, but the reality is edge computing is the future that is leaking into all other categories, verticals, industries, and technologies. This year, we had submissions covering artificial intelligence at the edge, edge computing for telco deployments, the effect and importance of data on Kubernetes, the vitality of observability at scale for these systems, and many more. We hope that this year’s agenda tells an interesting story about Kubernetes at the Edge. The event will kick off in the main room with a welcome from the chairs. After that, we’ll dive straight into the featured sessions.