DevOpsCon Munich 2026: Dates, Tracks, Tickets & AI Platform Day
November 30 - December 4, 2026
TL;DR: DevOpsCon Munich 2026 runs November 30 to December 4, 2026 at the Holiday Inn Munich City Centre, with the main conference and expo on December 1-2 and workshops and bootcamps wrapped around them. Seven...
TL;DR: DevOpsCon Munich 2026 runs November 30 to December 4, 2026 at the Holiday Inn Munich City Centre, with the main conference and expo on December 1-2 and workshops and bootcamps wrapped around them. Seven tracks, 40-plus speakers claimed, and a dedicated AI Platform Engineering Day on November 30. Early-bird pricing runs until August 20, 2026 and saves up to 840 EUR, putting All Access at 1,709 EUR against a 2,299 EUR regular price. It is co-located with the IT Security Summit at the same venue, and you can add admission to that second conference for 300 EUR.
I run ZPlatform’s AI events hub, and most of the conferences I cover are AI events that have always been AI events. DevOpsCon is the other kind: a ten-year-old DevOps conference that has been steadily absorbing AI into its programme, to the point where it now opens with a day named after it. That makes it more interesting to me than another agent-hype summit, because the people in the room are the ones who have to actually operate this stuff in production.
There is one detail that matters more than anything else in this guide, and it is a date rather than a feature. The early-bird window closes on August 20, 2026. If you are reading this in the days around publication, that is the decision in front of you, not the session list, because the session list is not out yet.
That is the second thing worth being straight about. The 2026 programme is not published. S&S Media’s own programme page says the schedule is still taking shape, so the tracks below are confirmed and the speakers are not. I would rather tell you that up front than pad this guide with last year’s lineup and let you assume it applies.
This guide covers the exact dates and the five-day structure, all seven tracks, every ticket tier with real numbers, how the AI Platform Engineering Day and the co-located IT Security Summit change the value calculation, and an honest read on who should book. All figures come from the official DevOpsCon Munich site and its ticket page, checked on August 17, 2026.
Key Takeaways
- Dates are November 30 to December 4, 2026, at the Holiday Inn Munich City Centre, Hochstrasse 3, 81669 Munich. Conference and expo days are December 1-2.
- Early bird ends August 20, 2026. That is the single most time-sensitive fact on this page. The organiser advertises savings of up to 840 EUR against regular pricing.
- The AI angle has its own day. November 30 is an AI Platform Engineering Day, and it comes free with the 3-Day Pass rather than as a paid add-on.
- Seven tracks, including a Platform Engineering Summit that is bundled into every pass of two days or more.
- The IT Security Summit runs in the same building on the same dates, and 300 EUR buys you into it on top of your DevOpsCon ticket.
- No 2026 speaker roster yet. The organiser claims 40-plus speakers and 7,000-plus past participants across ten years, but the session list for this edition is still unpublished.
A conference that puts AI platform engineering on day zero and gives it away with a mid-tier pass is telling you where it thinks the growth is. Free access is a positioning decision, not a discount.
What Is DevOpsCon?
DevOpsCon is a practitioner conference run by S&S Media, the Frankfurt-based publisher behind devmio and a long list of developer events. The organiser’s own history claims are specific: 25 years of IT conferences, 10 years of DevOps conferences, 6 editions worldwide, and more than 7,000 satisfied participants. Munich is one stop on a circuit that also runs editions elsewhere in Europe through the year.
The format is the German technical-conference model, and it is worth understanding before you buy, because it is not the American mega-expo shape. You get two dense conference days in a hotel rather than a convention centre, with a small expo attached instead of a show floor that takes a day to walk. Around those two days sit optional workshop and bootcamp days, priced separately, that are the real depth of the event.
That structure has a consequence for how you budget. At a 700-booth trade show the exhibitors are the product. Here the workshops are, and a two-day ticket buys you the least valuable version of the event. I will come back to this in the pricing section, because it is where most first-time attendees under-buy.
The audience skews toward people with operational responsibility: platform engineers, SREs, infrastructure leads, and the engineering managers who own delivery. That is the useful thing about DevOpsCon adding AI content rather than an AI conference adding operations content. The AI sessions are aimed at people who will be paged when the thing breaks.
When and Where Is DevOpsCon Munich 2026?
DevOpsCon Munich 2026 takes place November 30 to December 4, 2026 at the Holiday Inn Munich City Centre, Hochstrasse 3, 81669 Munich, Germany. The event is hybrid: every element is available on site or remotely online.
The five days are not five equivalent days, and reading the structure correctly is how you avoid booking the wrong flights.
| Day | Date | What runs |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | November 30, 2026 | AI Platform Engineering Day and Power Workshops |
| Tuesday | December 1, 2026 | Conference day 1 and expo |
| Wednesday | December 2, 2026 | Conference day 2 and expo |
| Thursday | December 3, 2026 | Power Workshops and bootcamp day 1 |
| Friday | December 4, 2026 | Bootcamp day 2 |
The centre of gravity is Tuesday and Wednesday. Everything before and after is optional depth. If you are flying in for the keynotes and the expo, you need to be in Munich Monday night and you can leave Wednesday evening. If you bought a bootcamp, you are there until Friday.
On the venue: the Holiday Inn Munich City Centre is genuinely central, a short walk from Rosenheimer Platz S-Bahn and about 15 minutes from Marienplatz. That is a real advantage over conferences that put you in an exhibition park on the edge of town, and it means you can stay somewhere other than the conference hotel without a commute eating your mornings.
One seasonal note that nobody on the official site will tell you: late November into early December is Christmas market season in Munich, and the city is busy. Hotel rates in the centre are noticeably higher than in October, and the good ones near the venue go early. Book accommodation before you finish reading the programme, not after.
Quick facts:
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Event | DevOpsCon Munich 2026 |
| Dates | November 30 - December 4, 2026 |
| Conference and expo | December 1-2, 2026 |
| AI Platform Engineering Day | November 30, 2026 |
| Bootcamps | December 3-4, 2026 |
| Venue | Holiday Inn Munich City Centre, Hochstrasse 3, 81669 Munich, Germany |
| Format | Hybrid, on site or remote |
| Tracks | 7 |
| Speakers | 40+ claimed, roster not yet published |
| Early-bird deadline | August 20, 2026 |
| All Access early bird | 1,709 EUR (regular 2,299 EUR) |
| Organiser | S&S Media / devmio |
| Co-located | IT Security Summit Munich |
| Official site | devopscon.io/munich |
The Seven Tracks
Seven tracks are confirmed for the Munich edition:
- Kubernetes & Cloud Native
- CI/CD: Automation & Delivery
- Cloud Platforms & Infrastructure
- DevSecOps
- Business, Leadership & Organization
- Observability & Reliability
- Platform Engineering Summit
Two observations about that list. The first is that the Platform Engineering Summit is framed as a track but sold as a bundled bonus, included with every pass of two days or more. Treat it as part of the main conference rather than something you have to choose between.
The second is what is missing. There is no track called “AI” or “LLMOps” or “agents”. The AI content is concentrated in the November 30 AI Platform Engineering Day and distributed through the other tracks rather than given a track of its own. If your primary reason for attending is AI, that day is your anchor and you should build the rest of the trip around it.
I read that as an honest choice rather than a gap. Plenty of conferences in 2026 have bolted an AI track onto an existing programme and filled it with vendor talks. Keeping the operational tracks operational and putting the AI material in a dedicated day is a harder thing to do and a more useful outcome for the attendee.
The AI Platform Engineering Day
November 30 is a full day on AI platform engineering, running alongside the Power Workshops, before the main conference opens.
The commercial detail is the interesting part: it is included free with the 3-Day Pass, which the organiser markets as “3-Day Pass + Free AI Day”. That is a 2,099 EUR regular tier available at 1,259 EUR early bird, with the AI day thrown in. On the AI conference circuit, an AI-specific day is normally the upsell. Here it is the sweetener used to move people from a two-day to a three-day ticket.
For anyone whose actual job in 2026 is figuring out how AI workloads and AI-assisted development fit into existing platforms and delivery pipelines, this is the part of the week to optimise for. The operational questions there are unglamorous and largely unanswered: how you run inference workloads next to everything else, what observability means when part of your system is non-deterministic, who owns the model in a platform team’s service catalogue, and how the CI pipeline changes when a meaningful share of the diff was machine-generated.
If you want context before you go, the tooling side of that shift is what I spend most of my time testing. Our MCP servers report tracks the agent-integration layer these platform conversations keep landing on, including the security signals, and the AI tools I recommend to developers covers the day-to-day end of it.
DevOpsCon Munich 2026 Ticket Prices
Here is the full early-bird table. Every price is in EUR, already includes the 10 percent team discount for bookings of three or more tickets, and excludes VAT. Individual pricing without the team discount is higher.
| Ticket | Early bird | Regular | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Access (Conference + Bootcamp) | 1,709 EUR | 2,299 EUR | All conference days plus bootcamp, Platform Engineering Summit, devmio access, 6 months of recordings |
| 4-Day Pass | 1,619 EUR | 2,099 EUR | Four conference days, devmio access, free gadget, 6 months of recordings |
| 3-Day Pass + Free AI Day | 1,259 EUR | 2,099 EUR | Three days plus the AI Platform Engineering Day, Summit access, devmio, recordings |
| 2-Day Pass | 879 EUR | 1,299 EUR | Two days chosen freely, Platform Engineering Summit access |
| Workshop Day | 479 EUR | 669 EUR | One deep-dive workshop day |
Every tier includes six months of access to session video recordings from your bookings and one year of devmio Fullstack access.
Three things stand out when you look at that table rather than at the marketing.
The 3-Day Pass is the value tier, and it is not close. It carries the same 2,099 EUR regular price as the 4-Day Pass but sells at 1,259 EUR early bird, 360 EUR less, while adding the AI Platform Engineering Day for nothing. Unless you specifically need a fourth day, the 4-Day Pass is the tier to skip.
The 2-Day Pass is a trap for first-timers. At 879 EUR it looks like the sensible starter option, and it gets you the two conference days plus the Summit. But it excludes the workshops and the bootcamp, which is where a hotel-format conference does the thing a YouTube playlist cannot. Spending 380 EUR more to move up to the 3-Day Pass buys a workshop day and the AI day. That is the best marginal euro on the whole price list.
The early-bird saving is real but front-loaded. The organiser advertises up to 840 EUR off, and the All Access line bears that out at 590 EUR of actual difference, with the 3-Day Pass showing 840 EUR. After August 20, 2026 those numbers go away. There is no published second-tier deadline, so treat August 20 as the price cliff.
The Co-located IT Security Summit, and the 300 EUR Question
DevOpsCon Munich shares its venue and its dates with the IT Security Summit Munich, also run by S&S Media, also November 30 to December 4 at the Holiday Inn City Centre. You can book a DevOpsCon ticket and add admission to the IT Security Summit for 300 EUR, which includes the recordings from both bookings and the devmio Fullstack year.
That is worth thinking about properly rather than dismissing as an upsell, because the two programmes overlap in a specific and useful way. DevOpsCon has a DevSecOps track. The IT Security Summit has a DevSecOps track and an AI-Powered Security Automation track. If security is anywhere near your remit, 300 EUR for a second full conference in the same building is cheaper than any single day on the DevOpsCon price list.
The honest counter-argument: two co-located conferences means twice as many sessions you cannot attend, and running between two programmes for two days is a recipe for seeing the first ten minutes of a lot of talks. The add-on makes sense if there is a named person on your team who will use it, or if you genuinely straddle platform and security. It does not make sense bought speculatively for yourself.
I have written a separate guide to the IT Security Summit Munich 2026 if you want the tracks and pricing for that side before deciding.
Is DevOpsCon Munich 2026 Worth It? My Honest Take
Go if you own a platform, a delivery pipeline, or the reliability of something with AI in it, and you want two days of operational material from people doing the same job. The hotel format means you will actually talk to speakers, which is the thing that stops being true above about 2,000 attendees. The central Munich location and the hybrid option both lower the cost of a mistake.
Three caveats, and none of them is about quality.
You are buying on trust right now. The 2026 session list is not published, so an early-bird purchase before August 20 is a bet on a track list and a ten-year track record rather than on named talks. That is a defensible bet for a repeat attendee and an uncomfortable one for a first-timer. If you need to see the programme before you commit, accept that you will pay regular price. That is the actual trade, and anyone telling you to “book now” without naming it is selling.
Two days is not the event. If your budget only stretches to the 2-Day Pass, I would genuinely consider waiting for a year when it stretches further, or attending remotely. The workshops and bootcamps are the differentiated content.
Language. S&S Media runs its conferences with a mix of German and English content. International attendance is normal and the material is technical enough to follow either way, but do not assume an all-English programme without checking the sessions when they publish.
Here is my go-or-skip framing. Buy the 3-Day Pass before August 20 if you are going at all, because it is the tier the pricing is built around. Add the IT Security Summit for 300 EUR if you have any security remit. Go remote if the travel budget is the constraint, since the recordings and hybrid access are included anyway. Skip it if you want an AI-first conference with a published keynote lineup, because this is an operations conference with a strong AI day attached, and those are different products.
Frequently Asked Questions
When and where is DevOpsCon Munich 2026?
DevOpsCon Munich 2026 runs November 30 to December 4, 2026 at the Holiday Inn Munich City Centre, Hochstrasse 3, 81669 Munich. The main conference and expo are on December 1-2, with workshops, an AI Platform Engineering Day, and bootcamps on the surrounding days.
How much does a DevOpsCon Munich 2026 ticket cost?
Early-bird prices run from 479 EUR for a single workshop day to 1,709 EUR for All Access, against regular prices of 669 EUR and 2,299 EUR. The 3-Day Pass with the free AI Platform Engineering Day is 1,259 EUR early bird against 2,099 EUR regular. All prices include the 10 percent team discount for three or more tickets and exclude VAT.
When does DevOpsCon Munich early-bird pricing end?
August 20, 2026. The organiser advertises savings of up to 840 EUR before that date, and no later discount tier is published.
What tracks does DevOpsCon Munich 2026 cover?
Seven: Kubernetes & Cloud Native, CI/CD Automation & Delivery, Cloud Platforms & Infrastructure, DevSecOps, Business Leadership & Organization, Observability & Reliability, and the Platform Engineering Summit. The Summit is included with any pass of two days or more.
Is there AI content at DevOpsCon Munich 2026?
Yes. November 30 is a dedicated AI Platform Engineering Day, included free with the 3-Day Pass, and AI material is distributed through the other tracks. There is no standalone AI track.
Who is speaking at DevOpsCon Munich 2026?
Not yet announced. The organiser claims 40-plus speakers, but the 2026 programme page states the schedule is still being assembled. Last year’s programme is published for reference and should not be read as this year’s lineup.
Can I attend DevOpsCon Munich 2026 online?
Yes. The event is hybrid, with remote access to all elements, and every ticket tier includes six months of access to the video recordings from your bookings plus one year of devmio Fullstack access.
Is DevOpsCon Munich co-located with another conference?
Yes. The IT Security Summit Munich runs at the same venue on the same dates. Adding admission to it costs 300 EUR on top of a DevOpsCon ticket.
The Bottom Line
DevOpsCon Munich 2026 is a ten-year-old operations conference that has put AI platform engineering on its opening day and made it free with a mid-tier pass. Seven tracks, a central Munich hotel venue, a hybrid option, and a second conference available for 300 EUR in the same building.
The insight worth carrying: the pricing table tells you more about this event than the marketing does. The 3-Day Pass carries the same regular price as the 4-Day Pass, sells for 360 EUR less, and includes the AI day. That is a deliberate nudge toward the tier the organiser wants you in, and in this case the nudge points at the genuinely best-value ticket. Follow it.
Your concrete next step for DevOpsCon Munich 2026: open the official DevOpsCon Munich ticket page and book the 3-Day Pass before August 20, 2026, adding the 300 EUR IT Security Summit access if security is in your remit. While you plan, browse the AI tools I have actually tested so the platform and tooling sessions land with more context, and subscribe for AI event and deal alerts to get a heads-up when the 2026 speaker roster goes live.