Cloud Native AI Summit - Melbourne 2026

The Cloud Native AI Summit lands in Melbourne for the first time on 28–29 October 2026, billed as an independent, vendor-neutral, enterprise-focused conference exploring the convergence of cloud-native foundations and AI in production. Hosted by FOST (Future of Software Technologies) and serving the wider Asia-Pacific region, it is a two-day flagship gathering of practitioners from Australia, New Zealand and beyond, structured around keynotes, deep-dive talks, a hallway track and a community evening, with diversity scholarships offered.

The programme sits at the intersection of Kubernetes, platform engineering, AI infrastructure and developer experience, with a published topic list spanning AI systems and agentic workloads, observability, security and trust, service mesh, data systems and reliability engineering. That makes it most relevant to developers, engineers, systems administrators, DevOps professionals, architects and technical leaders putting AI workloads onto cloud-native platforms rather than to a general business audience. The summit is community-driven, with an open call for speakers and backing from sponsors including IBM, Google Cloud and Postman. Registration runs through the FOST portal, with super-early-bird pricing on a limited basis. For Australian and APAC engineers wanting practitioner-led, honest talks on running AI at scale on Kubernetes, this is a welcome regional debut.