Call for papers open for CDCon 2026

[Tracy Ragan]

Hello all - a call to action:

CDCon 2026 has a clear, laser-focused mission: to spotlight the four areas that are actively driving the next evolution of DevOps, AI in CI/CD, platform engineering, software supply chain security, and the CDF open-source projects that power modern delivery.

Many of you are already leading this change. You are experimenting with AI to optimize pipelines, formalizing platform engineering to reduce cognitive load, building guardrails for a more secure software supply chain, and contributing to the open-source foundations that make all of this possible. These are not theoretical topics, they are reshaping how software is built, secured, and operated today. We want those real-world insights on the CDCon stage.

CDCon is a practitioner-driven conference, and its value comes directly from the community. If you have lessons learned, architectures, failures, successes, or forward-looking ideas in any of these four focus areas, we encourage you to submit a proposal and help define what DevOps looks like next.

The Call for Papers for CDCon 2026 is now open.
Submit your proposal here:
https://cd.foundation/cdcon-2026/

We look forward to your submissions and to building a CDCon program that reflects where DevOps is headed—not where it has been.

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Kind Regards,

Tracy Ragan

CEO and Co-Founder / DeployHub / 

OpenSSF Governing Board Member, CDF Technology Oversight Committee Member

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