Following the success of StrimziCon 2024 and StrimziCon 2025, we’re pleased to announce the third edition, scheduled for later this year! As in previous years, the event is going to be focused on our beloved Strimzi and Apache Kafka projects and will be held virtually. The event is organized by the Strimzi maintainers in collaboration with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

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Why attend StrimziCon?

StrimziCon is a community event for developers, DevOps engineers, and solution architects who want to learn about Strimzi and event streaming. This event will bring together the Strimzi community to share real‑world use cases, best practices, and first‑hand experience from experts and users alike. If you work with cloud-native technologies, and need to manage data in motion in a cloud-based environment, this event is for you.

The conference will take place on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026 (afternoon CEST).

The call for speakers is now open, and we’re eagerly awaiting your proposals to discuss:

  • Core Strimzi: Deep dive into a specific component or feature.
  • Case Studies: Provide an overview of a use case or review of a real-world Strimzi deployment, highlighting difficulties, lessons learned, and key takeaways.
  • Integrations: Explore how Strimzi integrates with other open source or CNCF projects.
  • Operations: Share insights into what it takes to run Strimzi and maintain clusters in production.

The submission deadline is March 31st, 2026.

From the community to the community

We encourage any community members to submit a talk: from a Strimzi deep dive, to how you operate and use it in production, through integrations with other projects. From the community to the community, this is the best way to share.

Paolo Patierno and Kate Stanley, Strimzi maintainers and contributors, are organizing the conference with the CNCF team and will host the event.

All submitted sessions will be evaluated by the StrimziCon program committee. The committee includes representatives from companies that use Strimzi in production. We’ll have representatives from IBM, Ericsson, Reddit, Red Hat, and Elation Health Inc.:

The committee members will leverage their experience and knowledge on the project as users and contributors in order to select the best proposals and build an awesome agenda.

Join us, propose your session or register to attend!

You can find more details on the official page as part of the CNCF events.

Don’t forget to submit your proposal here.

Even if you’re not considering presenting, we hope you will still join us as an attendee.

It’s virtual, it’s free, and it’s going to be epic again! Join the Strimzi community at StrimziCon 2026!