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Netdev 0x1A (Rome, 13-16 July 2026)

Netdev is the Linux kernel networking community's own conference, so the "vendor pitch" problem barely exists here — the filter instead is between mainline-relevant engineering and one-off experiments. This cycle is dominated by the AI backend fabric: RDMA multipathing in production at OpenAI/Microsoft scale, SRv6 as the host-controlled path primitive, pluggable congestion control, and encryption sliding down the stack into hardware (PSP in v6.18, MACsec under RoCE, kTLS on DPUs). The second big thread is the DPU/host split becoming a Linux netdev contract problem, including how Kubernetes learns to schedule on it.

Write-ups are grounded in the session abstracts; three (MRC/SRv6, PSP, MACsec-on-DPU) are additionally grounded in the published slide decks, which is noted per item.

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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026

23 picks from a 569-session program (Amsterdam, 22–27 March 2026).

Sourcing note: the Sched program exposes titles, speakers and descriptions but no paper, slide or recording links, so every write-up below is from the session abstract only and no links are given. Where an abstract promises a demo or numbers without stating them, that is called out rather than guessed at.

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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025

A triaged set of sessions for a PM working across physical DC/WAN networking, cloud-native networking, network security, and identity. The published program provides titles, speakers, and abstracts only — no per-session paper/slide/recording links — so every write-up below is grounded in the abstract and is marked accordingly. Pure sponsor slots, 101 sessions, and content-free "we adopted X" talks were dropped. Picks are deliberately tight.

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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 (London)

A triaged set of sessions for a PM working across physical DC/WAN networking, cloud-native networking, network security, and identity. The published program provides titles, speakers, and abstracts only — no per-session paper/slide/recording links — so every write-up below is grounded in the abstract and is marked accordingly. Sponsor pitches, cloakroom/logistics entries, DEI/community programming, and content-free "we adopted X" talks were dropped. Picks are deliberately tight given the size of the program (500+ sessions across the main conference and ~15 co-located day events).