DevOpsCon Munich 2026: AI Platform Engineering, DevSecOps, and Digital Sovereignty
AI speeds up software delivery, but it can also carry half-built platform problems into production. DevOpsCon Munich 2026 builds its program around that risk. The five-day event opens with a dedicated AI Platform Engineering Day. It then moves through Kubernetes, CI/CD, DevSecOps, observability, and digital sovereignty.
Event Overview
The conference runs five days at the Holiday Inn Munich City Centre. Monday 30 November opens with the AI Platform Engineering Day and a set of workshops. Tuesday 1 and Wednesday 2 December are the main conference days, with sessions, keynotes, and an expo. Thursday 3 December adds more workshops and the first day of two bootcamps. Friday 4 December closes with bootcamp day two.
The event is hybrid. Remote attendees get live streaming of all sessions and virtual Q&A. DevOpsCon Munich runs alongside IT Security Summit Munich in the same week.
Why the Event Matters Now
The organizer ties this edition to four pressures. AI agents now act inside delivery pipelines and internal platforms. European companies weigh digital sovereignty in their cloud decisions. Every new agent widens the attack surface. And AI-generated changes can overload CI/CD, Kubernetes, and observability faster than teams can absorb them.
The program treats these as engineering questions. Some sessions ask how platforms can serve both humans and AI agents. Others cover dependence on US hyperscalers, agent security, and release control.
Agenda and Key Themes
The organizer lists these tracks for the Munich edition:
- AI Platform Engineering Day: building platforms for AI-native enterprises, on 30 November
- Platform Engineering Summit: treating platforms as products, building internal developer platforms, and measuring platform ROI
- Kubernetes & Cloud Native: from fundamentals to advanced edge deployments
- CI/CD: Automation & Delivery: building high-performance pipelines
- DevSecOps: shift-left security practices, including AI
- Observability & Reliability: tools such as Grafana, Cilium, and OpenTelemetry
- Business, Leadership & Organization: the human side of DevOps
The organizer has highlighted three AI platform sessions: “AI for Developers Has an Operating Model Problem,” “The Future of Platform Engineering: Can AI Reshape Developer Productivity?” and “Forget the Portal: Designing Headless, Intent-Driven Developer Platforms.”
Security sessions cover secretless AI deployment, threat modeling for agents, OWASP risks for LLMs and AI systems, and the EU Cyber Resilience Act. Sovereignty sessions look at implementing sovereignty with Kubernetes and migrating workloads to a European sovereign cloud. Delivery sessions include DORA metrics combined with statistical process control, plus Kubernetes performance and cost optimization.
Workshops and Bootcamps
Monday 30 November workshops include:
- Becoming the Godfather of Threat Modeling
- Web Application Security Workshop with the OWASP Top Ten(s)
- Mastering CI/CD on Kubernetes
Thursday 3 December workshops include:
- Platform Engineering Workshop: From Design to Value
- Service Mesh with Istio Ambient Workshop
- Secure Your GitHub Pipeline: Integrating Open Source Security Checks
- Advanced CI/CD Using Jenkins
Two bootcamps run on 3-4 December. One covers service mesh with Istio Ambient, including security and traffic routing. The other is a two-day course on mastering platform engineering, from design to value.
Speakers
The organizer publishes speakers and the day-by-day schedule on the official program page, linked below.
Who Should Attend
DevOps engineers, platform engineers and architects, site reliability engineers, and cloud engineers will find the most to use. Security engineers, MLOps engineers, enterprise architects, engineering managers, and CTOs also fit. The AI Platform Engineering Day targets people who build, run, govern, or scale enterprise platforms.
What Attendees Will Gain
Attendees can compare how peers run platforms, pipelines, and clusters once AI agents join the toolchain. Workshops and bootcamps add hands-on time with Istio Ambient, threat modeling, and platform design. Passes of two days or more include the Platform Engineering Summit. Depending on the pass, tickets also add one year of devmio Fullstack access and six months of session recordings. Attendees receive a certificate of participation, available to download one week after the event.
Networking Opportunities
On-site attendees get coffee breaks, a lunch buffet, and an expo reception with drinks and snacks. Speakers, exhibitors, and attendees share one hotel venue. The hotel sits directly above Rosenheimer Platz S-Bahn station, about a 10-minute train ride from Munich Hauptbahnhof. The organizer also offers discounted hotel rates through a booking link on its website.
Registration Details
Prices are single-ticket list prices excluding VAT, as shown on the official ticket page. Buying three or more tickets earns a 10% group discount, shown in brackets. Check the ticket page for current pricing.
- All Access, four days (conference days plus bootcamp): €2,299 (€2,069 with group discount)
- All Access, five days (adds a workshop day): €2,699 (€2,429)
- 4-Day Pass: €2,099 (€1,889)
- 3-Day Pass: €1,699 (€1,529)
- 2-Day Pass: €1,299 (€1,169)
- Workshop Day or AI Platform Engineering Day: €669 (€602)
- IT Security Summit Munich add-on: €300 with a DevOpsCon ticket
Freelancers and employees of scientific institutions can ask the organizer for individual offers. Remote tickets are sold on a separate page: devopscon.io/munich/tickets-munich-remote.
Book on-site tickets: devopscon.io/munich/tickets-munich
For platform, DevOps, and security teams deciding how far AI agents should reach into delivery, DevOpsCon Munich offers five days of focused sessions and workshops in a central Munich hotel. Full program, speaker, and ticket details are available on the official event website.