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SRE NEXT 2026

SRE NEXT 2026
Date 2026.07.10 – 07.11
Venue TOC Ariake
Fee Paid on-site tickets (plans including the after-party available) / free online streaming
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Overview

Japan's largest conference dedicated to Site Reliability Engineering, born out of the SRE Lounge community in 2020 and drawing 1,272 attendees in 2025. The 2026 edition runs two days under the theme "Inclusive SRE," serving as the Japanese SRE scene's annual checkpoint where reliability practices are shared across company boundaries.

Speakers

  • David Blank-Edelman (editor of "Seeking SRE" and SREcon co-founder, 2026 keynote)
  • Tatsuya Fukushima (Sony Bank, 2026 keynote)
  • Mikio Kiura (Anchor Design, 2026 keynote)

Foundation

Founded
2020
Founder
Launched in January 2020 by core organizers of the SRE Lounge meetup community

Conceived as a once-a-year, full-scale conference extending the weekday SRE Lounge meetups, where community members bring their most serious proposals.

Transition

  1. 2020 First SRE NEXT 2020 held in January, Japan's first large-scale SRE-focused conference
  2. 2022 Held online
  3. 2025 Held over two days at TOC Ariake, with 1,272 attendees
  4. 2026 Held July 10-11 at TOC Ariake under the theme 'Inclusive SRE'

Voices

Many AI-related sessions this year — you could feel the trend shifting from SRE toward Platform Engineering.
Full of takeaways even for engineers outside the SRE role; reliability thinking applies to everyone.
The greatest value is hearing other companies' real SRE practices at the after-party and sponsor booths.
A first-timer learned SRE from sessions and booths while helping host the party as a sponsor (from Makkie's report, in Japanese)

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Other editions

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