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KCD San Francisco Bay Area 2025

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oin us for the inaugural Kubernetes Community Day KCD SF Bay Area event, the ultimate gathering for cloud native enthusiasts! This full-day event, sponsored by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), is packed with insightful cloud native talks and amazing opportunities for community networking with some of our industry's most iconic thought leaders a…

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13Voices
24Underwriters
0Exhibitors
0On the bill · sessions
32Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at KCD, in alphabetical order.
Beatriz Datangel
Head of Growth & Marketing · Root.io
Dan Garfield
Co-Founder and Chief Open Source Officer · Codefresh
Estela Ramirez
Software Engineer · Intuit
Jim Bugwadia
Kyverno Maintainer; Co-founder and CEO · Nirmata
Jonathan Bryce
Executive Director · Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
Josh Berkus
Kubernetes Community Manager · Red Hat
Madhuri Yechuri
CEO · Elotl
Marina Moore
Research Scientist - Head of Edera Research · Edera
Ramiro Berrelleza
Founder · Okteto
Ronald Petty
Principal Consultant · RX-M, LLC
Solomon Hykes
Co-Founder · Dagger.io
William Rizzo
Consulting Architect · Mirantis
Yenkai Huang
Staff Product Manager for AI-native developer Platform · Intuit
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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
GooglePlatinum
MirantisPlatinum
NirmataPlatinum
vClusterPlatinum
AWSGold
Cast AIGold
GroundcoverGold
IntuitGold
KomodorGold
Red HatGold
SideroGold
SUSEGold
TeleportGold
CircleCISilver
DaggerSilver
IsovalentSilver
Octopus DeploySilver
TigeraSilver
NutanixBronze
AppsCodeWorkshop
KubecrashCommunity Partner
LearnK8sMedia Partner
Merge ForwardCommunity Partner
Salesforce HerokuWorkshop
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 32 companies show up — and 4 bet on three roles at once?

32 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
20Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
8Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Intuit·Mirantis·Nirmata·Red Hat

02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

62% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite323%
  • Founder / Owner215%
  • Director / Head of323%
  • Manager / Lead215%
  • Product18%
  • Engineer · IC215%

Of 13 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01IntuitSp·G2V
  2. 02MirantisSp·P1V
  3. 03NirmataSp·P1V
  4. 04Red HatSp·G1V
  5. 05AppsCodeSp·W
  6. 06AWSSp·G
  7. 07Cast AISp·G
  8. 08CircleCISp·S
  9. 09DaggerSp·S
  10. 10GoogleSp·P
  11. 11GroundcoverSp·G
  12. 12IsovalentSp·S
  13. 13KomodorSp·G
  14. 14KubecrashSp·C
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
platinum4
17% of 24
gold9
38% of 24
silver5
21% of 24
bronze1
4% of 24
media partner1
4% of 24
community partner2
8% of 24
workshop2
8% of 24
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