nce, organized by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, was special for Istio, as we evolved from a participant at ServiceMeshCon to hosting our first official project co-located event.</p><figure style=width:40%><div class=wrapper-with-intrinsic-ratio style=padding-bottom:133.39350180505417%><a data-skipendnotes=true href=/v1.26/blog/2023/istio-at-kubecon-eu/istio-day-welcome.jpg title="Istio Day Europe 2023, Welcome"><img class=element-to-stretch src=/v1.26/blog/2023/istio-at-kubecon-eu/istio-day-welcome