The Kampala DevOps Community has announced the inaugural Kampala DevOps and Cloud Summit 2026, set for Saturday, August 15 — a virtual-first conference bringing Uganda’s software engineering and cloud infrastructure community onto one stage for the first time.
Physical attendance at the event’s production hub will be restricted to speakers, the production crew, and a small number of selected invitees, in line with current Ebola health guidelines in Uganda. The rest of the summit is fully online: sessions stream simultaneously on Microsoft Teams Events, Zoom Events, and YouTube Live, opening the event to participants across the continent and beyond at no travel cost. The programme covers DevSecOps, FinOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), data residency, and compliance mandates — areas growing in urgency as more Ugandan companies shift workloads to cloud platforms. Alongside the main sessions, the organizers are running virtual hands-on labs for practical upskilling, a dedicated “Innovation Showcase” spotlighting Made-in-Uganda tech products and corporate cloud adoption stories, and a virtual Career Fair connecting developers with employers and academic institutions.
The Kampala DevOps Community counts more than 300 members and has been running monthly meetups, technical webinars, and workshops on Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud computing since its founding. The August summit is its first large-scale event — a step up from community meetups toward a format that can pull in speakers and participants from outside Uganda. The community says the full agenda will be published on the official summit website once finalized.
Corporate sponsorship packages are open across four tiers — Platinum headline, Gold, Silver, and Bronze — aimed at organizations looking to reach Uganda’s DevOps and cloud engineering talent pool. Speaker applications and volunteer sign-ups are also open now. Interested parties can reach the organizing committee at [email protected].
Uganda’s tech sector has been accelerating toward cloud-native architectures, containerization, and distributed systems over the past few years, driven partly by the growth of regional fintech and health-tech startups that run cloud-first stacks. A dedicated domestic conference for DevOps and cloud infrastructure has not existed here before. The virtual format means developers anywhere in Uganda — not just those who can travel to Kampala — can attend. With six weeks to go, it is early enough to block the date, register interest on the summit site, or submit a speaker proposal before the agenda closes.
via Kampala DevOps Community, Image: DevOPs community Kampala.
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