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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Valencia was our first European in-person event since Barcelona in 2019 and we more than doubled the number of folks who joined us, both in Valencia and virtually. Our European community accounted for the largest number of attendees, but it was wonderful to see folks coming from as far as Africa, Australia and South America to be with us.

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End users are an important part of #TeamCloudNative and played a significant role in Valencia by driving new initiatives and sharing valuable experiences in presentations.

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Valencia played host to the inaugural Cloud Native Telco Day featuring speakers from major telco service providers like Deutsche Telekom, Bell Canada, Orange, and Swisscom.

Co-located events feature industry experts covering topics like security, web assembly, AI, GitOps, edge, and more.

We enjoyed 222 sessions in Valencia, from technical deep dives like Effective disaster recovery: The day we deleted production, to thought provoking emotional topics like Been there, done that: Tales of burnout from the open source world.

Thank you to our Europe 2022 co-chairs

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We care deeply about our community. This is why we want to be honest and open about our COVID-19 policies at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, the measures that were put in place, and how these may have affected the attendee experience.

Kubecon + CloudNativeCon implemented the following safety precautions:

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Over the two weeks immediately after KubeCon + CloudNativeCon (20 May - 3 June), we were made aware of:

This information was compiled from:

• Those who contacted us to let us know of a positive test
• Records from our onsite testing company
• Reviewing #KubeCovid on Twitter
• Scanning Twitter for additional publicized cases

Mask Mandate

As many are aware we ran into some issues onsite related to COVID-19 and the mask mandate, one of which was a general local staffing issue which is being felt on a global scale. This was reflected in a reduced number of taxis available, in the number of vendor staff working catering, and in many other places around the city and the event. This was exacerbated by a Spanish law that no Spanish employer could require an employee to wear a mask.

When Spain dropped its mask mandate on April 7 and put this law into effect (which we discovered would affect large groups on April 20) it resulted in a further reduction in local staffing for the event. Our vendors were only able to secure folx who would voluntarily wear a mask. This resulted in even lower staffing levels onsite which we know affected the attendee experience. With all of this taking place in the several weeks prior to the event, it was difficult to produce the event as our community expects.

Vendors were not the only challenge. A greater number of attendees were reluctant to comply with the mask mandate than we saw at our North America event last October. Events staff did their best to maintain enforcement, despite reduced staff, changing laws, and general mask fatigue.

We appreciate your support and partnership in this journey and hope to be in a more stable stage of pandemic management for upcoming events with a return to the standards we are all used to.

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A huge thank you to the sponsors, partners and supporters of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022. We couldn't do it without your support and collaboration.

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