Ceph Days Seattle 2026
Bringing Ceph back to Seattle ¶
Join us for a full-day celebration of Ceph in Seattle, bringing together the people and ideas driving open-source storage forward.
Connect with Ceph experts, core contributors, customers, and partners as they dive into the current state of the project, highlight recent improvements, preview what's on the roadmap, and share the latest community news. Stick around afterward for a networking reception to meet fellow community members.
Important Dates ¶
- CFP Opens: 2026-04-22
- CFP Closed: 2026-05-12
- Registration Opens: 2026-04-22
- Registration Closes: 2026-05-28
- Event Date: 2026-05-28
Watch Presentations now!
Read the Ceph Days Seattle recap blog post by community member John Shubeck, who highlights key moments and takeaways from the event.
Schedule ¶
| What | Who | When |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome, Check-in, Coffee, Pastries | 9:00 - 10:00 | |
| Introduction & State of the Cephalopod(Slides) | Steve Umbehocker (OSNexus) + Dan van der Ster (Clyso) | 10:00 - 10:30 |
| Proxmox and Ceph: Ditch the old SAN (Slides) | Alex Gorbachev, Intelligent Systems Services | 10:30 - 11:15 |
| Coffee / tea break | Everyone | 11:15 - 11:30 |
| Reclaim CephFS Capacity Through Pool Tiering + Migration (Slides) | Anthony D'Atri, Ceph Ambassador | 11:30 - 12:15 |
| Lunch | Everyone | 12:15 - 13:15 |
| Ceph Bucket Replication (Slides) | Seth Cagampang + Sheetal Garde (OSNexus) | 13:15 - 14:00 |
| Ceph Operations Toolkit: Ideas and Prototypes | Dan van der Ster | 14:00 - 14:45 |
| Coffee / tea break | Everyone | 14:45 - 15:00 |
| Ceph Cloud Storage Transitions and Beyond (Slides) | John Shubeck (IBM) | 15:00 - 15:45 |
| Designing Ceph Clusters: What's the Right Durability? (Slides) | Steve Umbehocker (OSNexus) | 15:45 - 16:30 |
| Speaker panel Q&A | All speakers | 16:30 - 17:00 |
| Networking | Everyone! | 17:00 - 18:00 |