Cloud Native AI Summit
Melbourne
Two days of cloud native, platform engineering, AI infrastructure, and developer experience — landing for the first time in Melbourne. A welcoming, vendor-neutral gathering of practitioners from across Australia, New Zealand, and the wider Asia-Pacific region.
Melbourne · Australia
Asia–Pacific
Two days of cloud native, platform engineering, AI infrastructure, and developer experience — landing for the first time in Melbourne. A welcoming, vendor-neutral gathering of practitioners from across Australia, New Zealand, and the wider Asia-Pacific region.
- Two-day flagship conference
- Keynotes & deep-dive talks
- Hallway track + community evening
- Diversity scholarships
Venue
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
The Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) is one of Australia's premier event venues, situated on the banks of the Yarra River in South Wharf. With state-of-the-art audiovisual infrastructure, flexible multi-hall spaces, and world-class facilities, MCEC provides the perfect stage for a flagship cloud native conference. It sits just minutes from the Melbourne CBD, easily accessible by tram, train, or ferry.
- World-class AV & technical infrastructure
- Flexible multi-hall configuration
- Riverfront location, Melbourne CBD
- 5-min walk from Southern Cross Station
- On-site catering & networking spaces
Call for Speakers · Melbourne
Become a Speaker.
Share your experience, lessons, and real-world challenges with a community of practitioners building the next generation of cloud native systems. We're looking for practical, honest talks—from deep technical dives to stories from the field—that help others learn and build better.
Topics
- AI Systems & Agentic Workloads
- Developer Experience & Delivery
- Platforms & Internal Tooling
- Operations, Reliability & Performance
- Observability & Insights
- Security & Trust
- Networking, Edge & Service Mesh
- Data Systems & Storage
- Foundations & Getting Started
- Community, Business & Lessons Learned
- Research & Frontier Topics
Audience
Who should attend?
Cloud Native AI Summit is an independent, community-driven, vendor-neutral platform that welcomes diverse topics not only across the entire cloud-native landscape but on a wide range of topics that are relevant in the software industry today. Join us in a welcoming environment where you can expand your knowledge on cutting-edge innovations and industry best practices. Discover the transformative power of Cloud Native technologies, explore software development strategies, delve into DevOps principles, Microservices, Service Mesh, Continuous Delivery, Containers technologies, automating IT operations, Testing, Security and more. Immerse yourself in this exceptional opportunity to learn, collaborate, and grow.
At the Cloud Native AI Summit (CNS), you can expect to connect with a diverse array of attendees from private organizations of all sizes, government entities, and educational institutions. The event serves as a meeting ground for professionals from various sectors, fostering valuable networking opportunities and knowledge sharing. You will have the chance to engage with industry leaders, experts, and like-minded individuals who share a passion for Cloud technologies and its transformative potential. Whether you're seeking partnerships, collaborations, or simply expanding your professional network, CNS provides the ideal platform to meet and interact with a wide range of attendees.
At the event, you will meet
- Leaders of application development / Platform Owners
- Developers / Engineers
- Systems Admins
- DevOps professionals
- Architects
- CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, Executive and Above
- Academics & researchers
- Press and analysts engaged with the future of software development using cloud technologies
Hosted by FOST
A federation of conferences.
FOST is a premier federation of IT and software events dedicated to the architects, builders, developers, CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, and visionaries shaping the next decade of computing. We aren't just looking at what's “new”—we are deep-diving into the foundational shifts that will define the industry.
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