DevOpsCon New York 2026: Dates, Tracks, Tickets and the $250 Upgrade

TL;DR: DevOpsCon New York 2026 runs September 28 to October 2, 2026 at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, with the main conference and expo on September 29-30 and workshops and bootcamps wrapped around them. Seven tracks, a published speaker list, and an AI Platform Engineering Day on September 28. Passes run from $719 for a single day to $2,429 for All Access, discounted until the conference starts rather than at a fixed early-bird cutoff. The detail most people miss: a $250 upgrade adds the two conferences running in the same building, which is the best-value line on the page by a wide margin.

I run ZPlatform’s AI events hub, and DevOpsCon is one of the few conferences I cover that did not start life as an AI event. It is a ten-year-old operations conference that has been absorbing AI into its programme year by year, and the New York 2026 edition is the point where that absorption becomes obvious: the opening day is named after it, and a majority of the highlighted sessions are about running agents in production rather than running containers.

There is one structural fact that changes how you should read the ticket page, so I am putting it near the top rather than burying it in a pricing section. DevOpsCon New York does not run alone. It is one of three conferences S&S Media stages in the same Brooklyn hotel on the same five days, and moving between them costs $250.

All figures below come from the official DevOpsCon New York site, its programme and its ticket page, checked on September 9, 2026.

The $250 Line on the Ticket Page

Buried in the list of ticket specials is a line the organiser calls the devmio New York Week offer: upgrade your ticket for $250 and get access to parallel conferences.

The parallel conferences are the International JavaScript Conference New York 2026 and MLcon New York 2026. Same venue, same dates, same badge desk, three separate programmes.

Run the numbers. A 2-Day Pass at DevOpsCon costs $1,349 and gets you two days of one programme. Adding $250 to it gets you two days with the run of three programmes: platform engineering and DevSecOps in one room, generative AI and MLOps in another, and full-stack JavaScript in a third. That is a 19 percent increase on the ticket for roughly triple the session choice.

I would take that trade in almost every case, with one exception. If you are sending someone specifically to go deep on Kubernetes and CI/CD and come back with a plan, the extra optionality is a distraction and you should skip it. For anyone whose job spans platform work and AI delivery, which in 2026 is most platform engineers, $250 is the cheapest thing on the page.

The catch worth naming: three parallel programmes means three sets of sessions you will miss, and the temptation to hop between rooms is real. Pick a primary programme, use the upgrade for the two or three sessions elsewhere that you genuinely cannot skip, and do not try to attend all three.

DevOpsCon New York 2026 Dates, Venue and the Five-Day Shape

DevOpsCon New York 2026 takes place September 28 to October 2, 2026 at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, 333 Adams St, Brooklyn, New York 11201. The event is hybrid, with a separate remote ticket for live streams and virtual Q&A.

The five days are not five equivalent days:

Day	Date	What runs
Monday	September 28, 2026	AI Platform Engineering Day and Power Workshops
Tuesday	September 29, 2026	Conference day 1 and expo
Wednesday	September 30, 2026	Conference day 2 and expo
Thursday	October 1, 2026	Power Workshops and bootcamp day 1
Friday	October 2, 2026	Bootcamp day 2

Tuesday and Wednesday are the centre of gravity. If you are flying in for the keynotes and the expo, be in Brooklyn on Monday night and you can leave Wednesday evening. If you bought a bootcamp, you are there until Friday.

On the venue: 333 Adams St puts you in downtown Brooklyn, a short walk from Jay St-MetroTech, which is on the A, C, F and R lines. From JFK that is the AirTrain to Howard Beach then the A train, no transfer into Manhattan required. From LaGuardia it is a longer haul on the Q70 and three subway changes, so budget for a car if you land at LGA in rush hour. The hotel itself has two restaurants and around 39,000 square feet of event space, which is the right size for a conference of this shape: big enough for an expo, small enough that you will actually run into speakers.

Quick facts:

Detail	Information
Event	DevOpsCon New York 2026
Dates	September 28 to October 2, 2026
Conference and expo	September 29 to 30, 2026
AI Platform Engineering Day	September 28, 2026
Workshops	September 28 and October 1, 2026
Bootcamps	October 1 to 2, 2026
Venue	New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, 333 Adams St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Format	Hybrid, on site or remote
Tracks	7
All Access price	from $2,429 (regular $2,699)
Parallel-conference upgrade	$250
Organiser	S&S Media / devmio
Official site	devopscon.io/new-york

What Happens on the AI Platform Engineering Day?

Monday September 28 is a full day built around one question: what does an internal platform look like when a meaningful share of its users are not people?

The organiser’s own framing on the outcomes page is the clearest statement of it I have seen from a DevOps conference. They describe building internal platforms “ready for a new kind of user, AI agents that provision, deploy, and consume APIs alongside your developers”. That is the actual, unglamorous shift happening in platform teams right now, and it produces a set of problems nobody has settled answers for: what a service catalogue entry looks like when the consumer is an agent, how you rate-limit something that does not get tired, what identity and authorisation mean for a non-human principal, and who gets paged when it goes wrong.

One important difference from the European editions. At DevOpsCon Munich 2026 the AI Platform Engineering Day is bundled free into the 3-Day Pass as a deliberate sweetener. In New York it is priced as a workshop day: the ticket line reads “Workshop Day or AI Platform Engineering Day, from $719”. If the AI day is your reason for going, budget for it as a day rather than assuming it comes attached to a mid-tier pass.

Seven Tracks, and Where the AI Sessions Landed

The programme filter lists seven tracks for New York:

1. Kubernetes & Cloud Native
2. CI/CD: Automation & Delivery
3. Cloud Platforms & Infrastructure
4. DevSecOps
5. Observability & Reliability
6. Business, Leadership & Organization
7. Platform Engineering Summit

Two observations. The Platform Engineering Summit is presented as a track but sold as a bundled bonus, included with every pass of two days or more, so treat it as part of the main conference rather than a choice against it.

The second is that there is no AI track. That is not an oversight, it is a distribution decision, and you can see it in where the AI sessions actually sit. “Agents and MCP Servers: Are the Electric Sheep Safe?” from Brett Smith at SAS Institute is filed under DevSecOps. “When AI Loses Context: A Zero Trust Blueprint for AI Agents in Kubernetes” from Mithil Patel at Equinix is under Kubernetes & Cloud Native. “From Alert to Postmortem: How Duolingo Uses AI to Make Incident Response Auditable by Default” from Harrison Katz sits with the security and reliability material. “AI Broke AppSec, Rethinking Security in the Mythos Era” from Chai Bhat at Black Duck is DevSecOps again.

I read that as the right call. Putting the agent-security talk in the security track means it gets an audience of security people rather than an audience of AI enthusiasts, which is where that conversation needs to happen. The Duolingo incident-response session is the one I would prioritise: a named company, a named practice, and an outcome you can audit.

The workshop and bootcamp lineup is similarly concrete. Rob Richardson runs a two-day hands-on Kubernetes bootcamp, Russell Miles runs a two-day Mastering Platform Engineering bootcamp, John Willis has a workshop on rethinking DevOps and DevSecOps with generative AI, Omer Farooq runs a GenAI security workshop on securing LLM-powered enterprises, and Garima Bajpai has a Strategic AI Workshop for Leaders. William Morgan, CEO of Buoyant and the person who named the service mesh category, is on the speaker list.

For context on the agent-integration layer these sessions keep circling, our MCP servers report tracks that ecosystem including its security signals.

How Much Does a DevOpsCon New York Ticket Cost?

Every price below is in USD, already includes the 10 percent group discount for bookings of three or more, and reflects the current discounted rate.

Ticket	Current	Regular	Includes
All Access (Conference + Bootcamp)	$2,429	$2,699	All conference days plus bootcamp, Platform Engineering Summit, devmio, 6 months of recordings. Workshop day optional
4-Day Pass	$2,159	$2,399	Four conference days, Platform Engineering Summit, devmio, recordings
3-Day Pass	$1,709	$1,899	Any three days, Platform Engineering Summit, recordings
2-Day Bootcamp Pass	$1,439	$1,599	One two-day bootcamp
2-Day Pass	$1,349	$1,499	Any two days, Platform Engineering Summit
Workshop Day or AI Platform Engineering Day	$719	$799	One deep-dive day

The organiser marks the 3-Day Pass as its best offer and advertises early-bird savings of up to $240. Unlike the European editions, there is no published early-bird cutoff date: the specials are framed as running until the conference starts on September 28. That is friendlier than a cliff, but it also means there is no deadline forcing your hand, so the constraint on booking is hotel availability rather than price.

Three things worth reading off the table.

The gap between the 2-Day and 3-Day passes is $360, and the third day is worth it. A single workshop day sells for $719 on its own. Moving from two days to three costs half that and adds a day of workshops or the AI Platform Engineering Day. It is the best marginal dollar on the list.

The 2-Day Bootcamp Pass is a specialist product. At $1,439 it costs more than the 2-Day conference pass and gets you two days with one instructor. Buy it if you want Kubernetes or platform engineering drilled in properly. Do not buy it as a cheap route into the conference, because it is neither cheap nor the conference.

Every multi-day pass carries the Platform Engineering Summit. Two days and up includes it, so if the Summit is why you are coming, the 2-Day Pass at $1,349 is the floor rather than the 4-Day.

Is DevOpsCon New York 2026 Worth Flying For?

Go if you own a platform, a delivery pipeline or the reliability of something that now has a model in it. This is an operations conference that has taken AI seriously rather than an AI conference that has discovered operations, and the difference shows up in the session titles: zero trust for agents in Kubernetes, auditable incident response, MCP server security. The people in those rooms are the ones who get paged.

Three caveats, none about quality.

The audience data is house-wide, not New York specific. The organiser publishes a participant breakdown of 42 percent operations, platform and SRE, 33 percent developers and engineers, 11 percent architects and 14 percent leadership. The identical figures appear on their other conference sites, so treat it as an S&S Media portfolio average rather than a measurement of who will be in Brooklyn.

The headline stats are for the whole circuit too. Twenty-five years of IT conferences, ten years of DevOps conferences, six editions worldwide and more than 7,000 participants describe the DevOpsCon franchise, not the size of the New York room.

Language and format are not the European ones. If you have been to the German editions, note that New York is a two-day core in a hotel with a small expo, not a convention-centre show. That is a feature if you want to talk to speakers and a limitation if you came to walk a floor of vendors.

My go-or-skip framing. Buy the 3-Day Pass and add the $250 upgrade if you are going at all, because that combination costs $1,959 and gets you three days across three conferences. Buy the 2-Day Pass plus the upgrade at $1,599 if budget is tight, since the Platform Engineering Summit is still included. Go remote if the travel is the blocker, since recordings come with the ticket regardless. Skip it if you want a pure AI conference with a keynote-driven main stage, because this is an operations conference with strong AI content, and those remain different products.

Questions People Ask About DevOpsCon New York 2026

When and where is DevOpsCon New York 2026?

September 28 to October 2, 2026 at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, 333 Adams St, Brooklyn, NY 11201. The main conference and expo run September 29 to 30, with workshops on September 28 and October 1, an AI Platform Engineering Day on September 28, and bootcamps on October 1 to 2.

How much does a DevOpsCon New York 2026 ticket cost?

From $719 for a single workshop or AI Platform Engineering Day up to $2,429 for All Access, against regular prices of $799 and $2,699. The 3-Day Pass is $1,709. All prices include the 10 percent group discount for three or more tickets.

What is the $250 New York Week upgrade?

It adds access to the two conferences running in parallel at the same venue, the International JavaScript Conference New York and MLcon New York. One badge, three programmes, for $250 on top of any DevOpsCon ticket.

Is there an early-bird deadline for DevOpsCon New York 2026?

No fixed date is published. The organiser advertises savings of up to $240 and frames the specials as running until the conference starts on September 28, rather than ending at an earlier cutoff.

What tracks does DevOpsCon New York 2026 cover?

Seven: Kubernetes & Cloud Native, CI/CD Automation & Delivery, Cloud Platforms & Infrastructure, DevSecOps, Observability & Reliability, Business Leadership & Organization, and the Platform Engineering Summit. The Summit is included with any pass of two days or more.

Is the AI Platform Engineering Day included in a ticket?

In New York it is priced as a workshop day at $719, or covered as one of your chosen days on a multi-day pass. That differs from the Munich edition, where it is bundled free with the 3-Day Pass.

Can I attend DevOpsCon New York 2026 online?

Yes. A separate remote ticket covers live streaming of all sessions and virtual Q&A, and on-site tiers include six months of access to session recordings plus one year of devmio Fullstack access.

My Recommendation

DevOpsCon New York 2026 is a ten-year-old operations conference that has put AI platform engineering on its opening day and distributed the rest of its AI content into the tracks where the relevant people already sit. Seven tracks, a published speaker list four weeks out, a Brooklyn hotel venue a short walk from the A train, and a hybrid option.

The number to act on is not on the price table, it is in the specials list. Two other conferences run in the same building on the same days, and $250 buys you into both. Whatever tier you were going to book, book it with that upgrade attached.

Your concrete next step for DevOpsCon New York 2026: open the official DevOpsCon New York ticket page, take the 3-Day Pass, and add the $250 New York Week upgrade at checkout. While you plan the week, browse the AI tools I have actually tested so the platform sessions land with more context, and subscribe for AI event and deal alerts for the next round of conference pricing.