The Application Developer Con was held during the co-located events at KubeCon North America 2023, focusing on cloud-native developers and featuring talks on various CNCF projects.
The event was created to address the needs of application developers and provide a space for them to discuss topics such as cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, security, scalability, and integrations to core services.
The CNCF Transparency Report stated that 16,000 people attended KubeCon EU, with 2,971 identifying as developers, highlighting the demand for events catering specifically to application developers.