Around 10,000 people will be there. Realistically about 15 of them matter to you, and you will meet six of those by accident. Supermeet finds the rest.
Tell us you’re going to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America and we’ll start there.
The problem at this scale
The maintainer you want to thank or ask is usually in a hallway, not on stage. They are also being asked by everyone else.
attendees, roughly — mostly platform engineers, open source maintainers and cloud vendors. The attendee list is the single most valuable document of the week, and almost nobody reads it.
names is about what one person can realistically prepare for and meet properly over a few days.
people here are genuinely worth your time. Finding them by walking the floor takes longer than the conference lasts.
How to work KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America
Read the maintainer track and contributor events, and bring a specific question or a patch. Project pavilions are a good place to find the actual maintainers.
What we’re building
Live today: see who else is going and get introduced, if you both opt in. Next: eighteen names, ranked, each with one line on why this person and not the 9,982 others.
The KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America attendee list, speaker page or exhibitor directory — whatever you have access to.
Three questions, ninety seconds. Hiring, raising, selling, learning — the answer changes the entire list.
Drafted in your voice, sent from your address, with a second nudge to anyone who goes quiet. That second message is the one nobody sends.
Questions
Around 10,000, based on recent public figures. Numbers change from year to year, and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America usually takes place in November.
Mostly platform engineers, open source maintainers and cloud vendors.
Check the speaker and exhibitor pages first, since those are usually public. On Supermeet you can pick KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America and see how many others are going. If you both opt in, you can see each other’s name and role. Nobody’s email is ever shown.
Free beta
See who else is going to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America right now. The more people fromKubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America who join, the sooner it gets a full shortlist.
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