KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 Co-located Event Deep Dive: KeycloakCon

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 March 6, 2026 by Co-chairs: Alexander Schwartz & Yoshiyuki Tabata CNCF projects highlighted in this post As cloud native architectures span more clusters, services, and trust domains, identity and access management have become foundational infrastructure rather than an application-level concern. At the same time, emerging patterns such as multi-cluster platforms, agent-based systems, and verifiable identity models are placing new pressure on traditional IAM approaches. KeycloakCon Europe 2026 provides a focused venue to explore how open, cloud native identity solutions can evolve to meet these challenges in practice. Created in response to the expanding scope of IAM responsibilities in modern distributed systems, this co-located event brings together practitioners, maintainers, and industry leaders to address real-world challenges. As workloads increasingly span clusters, trust domains, and new interaction models enabled by emerging protocols, the community benefits from a dedicated space to share patterns, pitfalls, and progress. Platform engineers, security engineers, and practitioners operating cloud native workloads in production will benefit most from attending. The program includes advanced sessions such as Airgap-native Identity Management, alongside practical talks like The Keycloak-Token-Configuration Mistake and How To Avoid It, offering value across experience levels. Open source contributors and maintainers will also find opportunities to exchange ideas and align on future direction. Attendees who already work with Kubernetes or distributed systems and want to deepen their understanding of authentication, authorization, and identity patterns will gain practical insight they can apply immediately. KeycloakCon Europe focuses deeply on identity, authentication, and authorization as core cloud native building blocks rather than as supporting features. The program explores emerging areas such as workload identity, agent-to-agent interactions, and verifiable credentials, including sessions like Model Context Protocol (MCP) Authorization for Enterprise Use Case, Bridging the Gap Between Human and Workload Identity with SPIFFE, and Keycloak and EUDI-Wallet: A Match Made in Heaven. The event remains grounded in practical, implementation-focused content, including real-world case studies such as Securing Multi-Tenant SaaS Platforms With Keycloak.