DevOpsCon Munich 2026: Dates, Tracks, Tickets & AI Platform Day
November 30 - December 4, 2026
DevOpsCon Munich 2026 runs November 30 to December 4, 2026 at the Holiday Inn Munich City Centre. Main conference and expo land on December 1-2, with workshops, bootcamps, and an AI Platform Engineering Day on the...
DevOpsCon Munich 2026 runs November 30 to December 4, 2026 at the Holiday Inn Munich City Centre. Main conference and expo land on December 1-2, with workshops, bootcamps, and an AI Platform Engineering Day on the surrounding days. Seven tracks, 40-plus speakers claimed, hybrid access, and a co-located IT Security Summit at the same venue for a 300 EUR add-on. Early bird closed August 20; regular pricing now applies (checked 2026-08-24, devopscon.io/munich/tickets-munich).
I run StackVerdict’s AI events hub, and most events I cover have always been AI events. DevOpsCon is the other kind. A ten-year-old operations conference has been quietly absorbing AI content until it now opens with a full day named after it. That makes it more useful to me than another agent-hype summit, because the people in the room are the ones who get paged when the model breaks in production.
The 2026 session list is still unpublished as of today, August 24, 2026. The organiser’s own programme page says the schedule is being assembled. If you need to see named talks before you commit, this guide is not going to change that. What it can do is tell you which ticket the pricing table is quietly built around, and which co-location decision is worth the 300 EUR.
What DevOpsCon actually is
DevOpsCon is a practitioner conference from S&S Media, the Frankfurt publisher behind devmio. The organiser claims 25 years of IT conferences, 10 years of DevOps conferences, 6 editions worldwide, and 7,000-plus past participants across the run. Munich is one stop on a European circuit.
The format is the German technical-conference model, and it is worth understanding before you buy. Two dense conference days in a hotel, not a convention centre. A small expo, not a show floor that takes a day to walk. Optional workshop and bootcamp days sit around those two, priced separately. Depth lives in the workshops. A two-day ticket buys the least valuable version of the event, and most first-time attendees under-buy without realising it.
The audience skews toward people with operational responsibility: platform engineers, SREs, infrastructure leads, engineering managers who own delivery. That is the interesting thing about DevOpsCon adding AI content instead of an AI conference adding operations content. The AI sessions get aimed at people who will run the workloads, not at people evaluating models on a laptop.
When and where DevOpsCon Munich 2026 runs
DevOpsCon Munich 2026 runs November 30 to December 4, 2026 at the Holiday Inn Munich City Centre, Hochstrasse 3, 81669 Munich. Every element is available on site or remotely.
The five days are not five equivalent days. Read the structure before you book flights.
| Day | Date | What runs |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | November 30 | AI Platform Engineering Day + Power Workshops |
| Tuesday | December 1 | Conference day 1 + expo |
| Wednesday | December 2 | Conference day 2 + expo |
| Thursday | December 3 | Power Workshops + bootcamp day 1 |
| Friday | December 4 | Bootcamp day 2 |
Centre of gravity is Tuesday and Wednesday. Everything before and after is optional depth. Flying in for the keynotes and the expo means Munich by Monday night, wheels-up Wednesday evening. Booked a bootcamp, and Friday is the earliest you leave.
The Holiday Inn Munich City Centre sits 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 nothing on the official site mentions. Late November into early December is Munich Christmas market season, and the city is busy. Hotel rates in the centre run noticeably higher than October, and the good rooms near the venue go early. Book accommodation before you finish reading the programme, not after.
Seven tracks, and what is missing from the list
Seven tracks are confirmed: Kubernetes & Cloud Native, CI/CD Automation & Delivery, Cloud Platforms & Infrastructure, DevSecOps, Business Leadership & Organization, Observability & Reliability, and the Platform Engineering Summit. The Summit gets bundled into every pass of two days or more, so treat it as part of the main conference rather than a choice.
The interesting thing about that list is what is not on it. There is no track called “AI”, “LLMOps”, or “agents”. AI content sits concentrated in the November 30 AI Platform Engineering Day and gets distributed through the other tracks rather than given a track of its own. If AI is your primary reason for attending, that day is the anchor and everything else builds around it.
I read that as an honest choice. Plenty of 2026 conferences bolted an AI track onto an existing programme and filled it with vendor talks. Keeping the operational tracks operational and putting AI material in a dedicated day is harder to do and more useful to the attendee.
The AI Platform Engineering Day is the sweetener, not the upsell
November 30 is a full day on AI platform engineering. Included free with the 3-Day Pass, marketed as “3-Day Pass + Free AI Day”. 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.
The operational questions in that room 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. How the CI pipeline changes when a meaningful share of the diff was machine-generated.
If you want context on the tooling side of that shift, StackVerdict’s MCP servers report tracks the agent-integration layer these platform conversations keep landing on. The AI tools I recommend to developers covers the day-to-day end of it.
DevOpsCon Munich 2026 ticket prices
Every price is in EUR, includes the 10 percent team discount for three-plus tickets, and excludes VAT. Individual pricing without the team discount runs higher.
| Ticket | Early bird | Regular | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Access (Conference + Bootcamp) | 1,709 | 2,299 | All conference days + bootcamp, Summit, devmio, 6 months of recordings |
| 4-Day Pass | 1,619 | 2,099 | Four conference days, devmio, free gadget, 6 months of recordings |
| 3-Day Pass + Free AI Day | 1,259 | 2,099 | Three days + AI Platform Engineering Day, Summit, devmio, recordings |
| 2-Day Pass | 879 | 1,299 | Two days chosen freely, Summit access |
| Workshop Day | 479 | 669 | One deep-dive workshop day |
Early bird closed August 20, 2026 (checked 2026-08-24, devopscon.io/munich/tickets-munich). Regular pricing runs the rest of the booking window. No later discount tier is published.
Three things stand out on that table if you look past the marketing.
The 3-Day Pass is the value tier, and it is not close. Same 2,099 EUR regular price as the 4-Day Pass. Adds the AI Platform Engineering Day for nothing. Unless a specific fourth day matters, the 4-Day Pass is the tier to skip.
The 2-Day Pass is a trap for first-timers. At 1,299 EUR regular it looks like the sensible starter option. Gets you the two conference days and the Summit. Excludes the workshops and the bootcamp, which is where a hotel-format conference does the thing a YouTube playlist cannot. Spending 800 EUR more to move up to the 3-Day Pass buys a workshop day plus the AI day. Best marginal euro on the whole price list.
Regular pricing is not a mistake, it is now the deal. If you missed the early-bird window, the 3-Day Pass at 2,099 EUR still buys you the day-zero AI programme and two full conference days for less than most single-track US AI conferences charge for the badge alone.
The 300 EUR IT Security Summit question
DevOpsCon Munich shares its venue and dates with the IT Security Summit Munich, also from S&S Media, also November 30 to December 4 at the Holiday Inn City Centre. Add admission for 300 EUR on top of a DevOpsCon ticket. Includes recordings from both bookings and the devmio Fullstack year.
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. Security anywhere near your remit, and 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. Two co-located conferences means twice as many sessions you cannot attend. 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.
My go-or-skip framing
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 stops being true above about 2,000 attendees. Central Munich and hybrid access both lower the cost of a mistake.
Three caveats, none of them about quality.
The 2026 session list is still not published, so buying today is a bet on the track list and the ten-year track record rather than named talks. Defensible bet for a repeat attendee, uncomfortable one for a first-timer. Language runs mixed German and English. International attendance is normal and the material is technical enough to follow either way, but do not assume an all-English programme without checking sessions when they publish. And two days really is not the event. If the budget only stretches to the 2-Day Pass, I would attend remotely for a year and save toward the full ticket in 2027.
Buy the 3-Day Pass at regular price if you are going at all. Add the IT Security Summit for 300 EUR if you have any security remit. Go remote if travel budget is the constraint, since 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.
Common questions
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 distributes through the other tracks. There is no standalone AI track through the main conference days.
Can I attend DevOpsCon Munich 2026 online?
Yes. The event runs hybrid with remote access to every element. Every ticket tier includes six months of access to recordings from your bookings plus one year of devmio Fullstack access.
Who is speaking at DevOpsCon Munich 2026?
Not announced yet as of August 24, 2026. 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.