# Cloud Native News - 2024

This page lists the popular news, events, and activities in the cloud native community in 2024 by month for everyone to easily access and search.

## Asia KubeCon 2024

Event dates: August 21 to 23, 2024

Location: Hong Kong

Timeline:

- [Call For Proposal (CFP)](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-open-source-summit-ai-dev-china/program/call-for-proposal/)
  Deadline: May 5, Sunday, 11:59 pm
- CFP notification: June 10, Monday
- Schedule announcement: June 12, Wednesday
- Deadline for PPT upload to Sched.com: August 14, Wednesday

## Europe KubeCon

!!! tip

    The romantic city, the grand cloud native event KubeCon, see you in Paris, France :material-eiffel-tower:

Date: March 18-22, 2024

Location: PARIS EXPO PORTE DE VERSAILLES

Timeline:

- [x] September 19, 2023 Theme CFP starts

- [x] November 10, 2023, [Program Committee (CFP Review) application](https://forms.gle/ee5pX7847Xpb6SB36)

    - DaoCloud contributors selected for the topic review committee:
      [windsonsea](https://github.com/windsonsea) (Cloud Native Novice),
      [chaunceyjiang](https://github.com/chaunceyjiang) (Operation + Performance),
      [pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu) (Operation + Performance),
      [Iceber](https://github.com/Iceber) (Platform Engineering),
      [yankay](https://github.com/yankay) (Cloud Native Novice)

- [x] November 26, 2023 CFP deadline

- [x] December 3, 2023 [Co-located Events CFP](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/co-located-events/cfp-colocated-events/) deadline

- [x] December 31, 2023 Maintainer Track CFP deadline (each SIG only guarantees 2 spots, with about **5** spots remaining for competition)

- [x] January 8, 2024 Co-located Events CFP notification; officially announced 2 days later.
    - 🎉 __Kubernetes On Edge Day__
    
        Panel: Gen AI at the Edge: How Cloud Native Technologies Enable the Next Wave of Intelligent Applications - Kevin Wang, Huawei; Tina Tsou, LF Edge; Yin Ding, Google; Hongbing Zhang, DaoCloud

    - 🎉 __Cloud Native AI Day__ 
    
        Lightning Talk: Cloud Native Networking for AI: Strengthen CNI for RDMA - Weizhou Lan & Junnan Shi, DaoCloud

- [x] January 17, 2024 Booth application deadline
    - Spiderpool booth
    - HwameiStor booth

- [x] January 22, 2024 CFP notification (including Maintainer Track)

- [x] January 24, 2024 Schedule officially announced

    DaoCloud has 10 speakers attending.
    Check the [KubeCon EU schedule](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/program/schedule/).

- [x] January 31, 2024 Booth application deadline

- [x] February 4, 2024 [KCS EU CFP](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfndK6hEDUQlC75_fol0NotaK_FrSC1D1EB-GTP3AsLpRecjw/viewform) deadline

- [x] February 5, 2024 Booth application results announced

    DaoCloud has one booth: [Spiderpool](https://spidernet-io.github.io/spiderpool/v0.9/)

- [x] February 18 - 25, 2024 KCSEU results announced: <https://kcseu2024.sched.com/>

- [x] Deadline for PPT upload: 13 Mar 2024

- [x] Event dates: 18 - 22 Mar 2024

[Watch presentation videos](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLROmsd5kH8pC1mMMuoNPtgOv3qJkzs1h7)