SRE NEXT 2026
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.
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
- 2020 First SRE NEXT 2020 held in January, Japan's first large-scale SRE-focused conference
- 2022 Held online
- 2025 Held over two days at TOC Ariake, with 1,272 attendees
- 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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