Announcing Istio's 2026 Steering Committee Elections

The Istio Steering Committee oversees the administrative aspects of the project, including governance, branding, marketing, and working with the CNCF. Every year, the leaders in the Istio project estimate the proportion of the hundreds of companies that have contributed to Istio in the past year , and uses that metric to proportionally allocate nine Contribution Seats on our Steering Committee. Then, four Community Seats are voted for by our project members, with candidates being from companies that did not receive Contribution Seats.