Many people are asking about the future of KubeCon now that Kubernetes isn’t the central focus. How does it evolve? Is it like re:Invent or VMworld or something else? 

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WHAT’S THE FUTURE OF KUBECON / CLOUDNATIVECON

KubeCon feels like it’s at a cross-roads now that Kubernetes is not the central focus of the event. So where does it go from here? 

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THERE ISN’T A CENTRAL FOCUS?

• Is it OpenStack Big Tent 2.0?
• Is the CNCF trying to define a stack anymore, or just a governance home?
• Is it VMworld post-2012?
• Is it the re:Invent of Cloud-native technologies?
• Could some company be the GTM for many of the companies at KubeCon?
• Would it be good or bad to have individual project conferences? 
• Are the pre-event event good or bad for people trying to learn a specific domain?

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