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KCD Texas 2026

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oin the third KCD Texas 2026, a must-attend event for the cloud-native and Kubernetes community. This full-day gathering at TCEA in Austin on May 15, 2026, offers groundbreaking insights, networking with tech leaders, and hands-on sessions. Whether you’re a seasoned Kubernetes pro or a newcomer, expect sessions, workshops, and cloud native demos tailored fo…

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27Voices
13Underwriters
0Exhibitors
0On the bill · sessions
32Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at KCD, in alphabetical order.
Abhinav Dahiya
Staff Software Engineer · Lyft
Andrew Martin
Founder & CEO · Controlplane
Angel Ramirez
CEO @Cuemby | OSPO - CNCF Ambassador, Guest Speaker, FHCN Co-Founder. · CUEMBY
Cesar Diaz
DevOps Engineer at Globant · 10+ years scaling cloud platforms · Globant
Chris De La Garza
Dolis Sharma
DevOps Engineer · Nirmata
Duffie Cooley
Field CTO · Isovalent
Emile Vauge
Founder & CTO · Traefik Labs
Engin Diri
Senior Solutions Architect · Pulumi
Goutam Tadi
Staff Software Engineer · Astronomer.io
Graziano Casto
Kubernetes v1.35 Comms Lead, and DevRel Engineer · Akamas
Jairo Martinez Mantilla
Solution Architect · Amazon Web Services
Jonathan Bryce
Executive Director · Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
Jooho Lee
Full Stack implementation & Integration Engineer · Red Hat
Julia Furst Morgado
Principal Developer Relations Engineer · Dash0
Katie Gamanji
TOC Member · CNCF
Kedar Kulkarni
Senior DevOps Architect
Lin Sun
Director of Open-Source · Solo.io
Lucas Duarte
Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect, Containers · AWS
Marina Moore
Research Scientist - Head of Edera Research · Edera
Michael Forrester
Kubestronaut | Lead Architect | 16Y Infrastructure Engineer
Myroslav Mishov

— and 5 more, by name unsung —

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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
Solo.ioPlatinum
vclusterPlatinum
WSO2Platinum
ChainguardGold
CloudBoltGold
DiagridGold
ElasticGold
Grafana LabsGold
IsovalentGold
PluralGold
TeleportGold
KomodorSilver
SynadiaSilver
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 32 companies show up — and 2 bet on three roles at once?

32 companies. two 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
2All threespeak · spons · exh
11Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
19Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Isovalent·Solo.io

02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

30% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite415%
  • Director / Head of415%
  • Manager / Lead726%
  • Engineer · IC830%
  • Other roles415%

Of 27 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01IsovalentSp·G1V
  2. 02Solo.ioSp·P1V
  3. 03ChainguardSp·G
  4. 04CloudBoltSp·G
  5. 05DiagridSp·G
  6. 06ElasticSp·G
  7. 07Grafana LabsSp·G
  8. 08KomodorSp·S
  9. 09PluralSp·G
  10. 10SynadiaSp·S
  11. 11TeleportSp·G
  12. 12vclusterSp·P
  13. 13WSO2Sp·P
  14. 14Traefik Labs2V
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
platinum3
23% of 13
gold8
62% of 13
silver2
15% of 13
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