SUSECON 2026: What to Expect in Prague This April

SUSECON 2026 is next month, and the agenda is taking shape in a way that reflects exactly what enterprise IT professionals are experiencing right now: keeping up with the pressure to modernize, navigating competing priorities and doing it all without losing operational stability.

The theme this year is Shape Your Resilient Future, and it’s inspired directly from our recent conversations with customers and partners. Turns out, everyone is navigating some version of the same question around building resilience, only in different contexts: infrastructure stability, regulatory pressure, digital sovereignty, the pace of AI adoption. And that’s exactly what SUSECON will be all about.

To get a sneak preview of what to expect at SUSECON, hear more from SUSE’s Chief Marketing Office, Margaret Dawson, on The Future is Open podcast.

What’s new this year

One of the biggest additions to this year’s SUSECON is the SUSE Sovereign Summit, taking place on Monday, April 20. This is an invitation-only executive event, designed to bring together senior leaders from private enterprise and the public sector for deep conversations about digital sovereignty. Participants will have the space to speak openly about how they’re navigating data protection, residency requirements and how they’re controlling their technology estate these days.

For partners, we have also crafted dedicated daily morning mini-summits before the keynotes, plus a revamped awards ceremony on Tuesday that combines the partner and customer recognition into one welcome reception. 

Session tracks worth your time

This year’s SUSECON catalog spans more than 100 sessions organized into tracks that reflect where enterprise infrastructure is headed next: AI, Cloud Native, Digital Sovereignty, Edge, Linux, Virtualization and Open Source Projects. 

We’ve also added Product Roadmaps, which are dedicated longer-format sessions where SUSE’s product teams will walk through what you can expect later this year and answer questions from you live.

And while you can expect significant value from all sessions, the virtualization track deserves a specific mention here. The majority of enterprise workloads still run on VMs, and the pressure to migrate off legacy hypervisors is real for many organizations right now. The sessions in this track are focused on practical modernization: what to move, what to leave and how to think about the transition without disrupting what’s already working.

Will we see you in Prague?

The sessions are only part of what’s so exciting about SUSECON this year. There will be a lot more to take away from your time in Prague.

The 120-minute hands-on labs, for example, remain one of the highest-value parts of the event for professionals who want to leave with concrete insights to share with their team. And for anyone looking to validate their skills, SUSE industry certification exams are available at no cost on-site.

Finally, on the last day, SUSE’s Prague office is hosting “Nerds for Nerds,” an informal wind-down for anyone who wants to extend the week’s conversations in a less structured setting.

If you haven’t registered yet, it’s time to secure your spot.

And if you want to hear more about SUSECON 2026, Margaret Dawson, SUSE’s CMO, goes deeper on all of this with me in the latest episode of The Future is Open, including what she’s most excited about and why this year’s format is different. Tune in here.