GConferenceGridThe Conference Catalogue · Vol. 2026Folio № FCA74C
Of the Field

KCD Delhi 2026

P

resenting the first ever KCD in the heart of India, KCD Delhi brings together adopters and technologists from the open source and cloud native ecosystem for a full day of learning, collaboration, and meaningful networking. With over 500 attendees expected, it stands as one of India’s most vibrant cloud native gatherings, featuring technical talks, hands-on…

Visit the official site
34Voices
8Underwriters
0Exhibitors
0On the bill · sessions
33Companies · in total
§I

The Voices

Programmed at KCD, in alphabetical order.
Aditya Joshi
Senior Software Engineer · Walmart
Aditya Krishnakumar
Senior Site Reliability Engineer · SentinelOne
Aditya Soni
SRE · SailPoint
Akshay Kumar
Open Source Evangelist · Obmondo
Amanda Brock
CEO · OpenUK
Aman Mundra
Founder & CEO · Welzin
Arnab Chatterjee
Cloud Native Expert
Atulpriya Sharma
Senior Developer Advocate · Infracloud
Gurpreet Sachdeva
Senior Director · Capgemini
Hrittik Roy
Platform Advocate · vCluster
Kundeshwar Pundalik
Technical Lead · BharatGen
Manjula Rathnayaka
Director of Engineering · WSO2
Mirdul Swarup
Manager, Developer Relations · Vultr
Mridul Gain
Senior Member of Technical Staff · Platform9
Nitish Kumar
Software Engineer & Argo Project Maintainer · Akuity
Onkar Shelke
SRE Engineer & LFX Mentee · CNCF Kubestellar
Oshi Gupta
Site Reliability Engineer · Improving Pune
Prasanth Baskar
Software Engineer · 8gears AG
Rajan Sharma
Principal Architect · Comtech
Rakesh Rajendran
Co-Founder & CEO · Nudgebee
Ram Iyengar
Chief Evangelist · Cloud Foundary Foundation
Rigin Rajan
Lead Consultant · HCLTech

— and 12 more, by name unsung —

§II

Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
vClusterPlatinum
ElasticGold
VultrGold
CleanStartSilver
KodeKloudSilver
NudgeBeeSilver
DevtronParty Sponsor
DockerDiversity Sponsor
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 33 companies show up — and 4 bet on three roles at once?

33 companies. four are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
4All threespeak · spons · exh
4Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
25Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

vCluster·Elastic·Nudgebee·Vultr

02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

24% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite412%
  • Founder / Owner13%
  • Director / Head of39%
  • Manager / Lead618%
  • Engineer · IC1441%
  • Research / Science13%
  • Other roles515%

Of 34 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01vClusterSp·P2V
  2. 02ElasticSp·G1V
  3. 03NudgebeeSp·S1V
  4. 04VultrSp·G1V
  5. 05CleanStartSp·S
  6. 06DevtronSp·P
  7. 07DockerSp·D
  8. 08KodeKloudSp·S
  9. 09CNCF Kubestellar2V
  10. 10Platform92V
  11. 118gears AG1V
  12. 12Akuity1V
  13. 13American Express1V
  14. 14BharatGen1V
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
platinum1
13% of 8
gold2
25% of 8
silver3
38% of 8
diversity sponsor1
13% of 8
party sponsor1
13% of 8
05Fig. 05 — The Missing · who's at peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

06Fig. 06 — Adjacent Convocations · by shared underwriters