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KCD Washington DC 2025

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elebrate the 5th annual KCD Washington DC event with community members and cloud native technology enthusiasts. This in-person conference brings together professionals, contributors, and experts from the Kubernetes and cloud-native ecosystem to share insights, learnings, and best practices in the field.

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20Voices
12Underwriters
0Exhibitors
0On the bill · sessions
25Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at KCD, in alphabetical order.
Ashley Jones
Cybersecurity Advisor · CISA
Austin Abro
Software Engineer · Defense Unicorn
Catherine Paganini
Head of Marketing & Community · Buoyant
Christopher Khanoyan
Tech Lead · Booz Allen Hamilton
David Jeffers
Principal Site Reliability Engineer · American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
Elad Hirsch
Tech Lead · TeraSky
Erica Hughberg
Community Advocate · Tetrate
Faheem Memon
Principal Engineer · Freewheel / Comcast
Jason Stryker
Kubernetes Community of Practice Lead · Capital One
Kumuda Sreenivasa
Sr Data Architect · ATC Drivetrain Founder, Unimonk & GoIcure
Lin Sun
Director of Open-Source · Solo.io
Maria Gabriella Brodi
Lead Solutions Architect · TeraSky
Noam Levy
Founding Engineer · groundcover
Payal Godhani
Principal Member of Technical Staff · Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Pedro Coutinho
Software Engineer · Tigera
Peter Zaitsev
Co-Founder · Coroot, Percona, FerretDB
Raj Saha
Principal SA - Containers/Serverless · AWS
Reza Ramezanpour
Developer Advocate · Tigera
Riccardo Freschi
Senior Partner Solutions Architect · AWS
Rodrigo Bersa
Senior Solutions Architect · AWS
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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
NirmataPlatinum
Sidero LabsPlatinum
TestkubePlatinum
Tetrate.ioPlatinum
vClusterPlatinum
AkamaiGold
groundcoverGold
Sonraí SecurityGold
Zoho CorporationGold
Clarity Business Solutions, IncSilver
Solo.ioSilver
TigeraSilver
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 25 companies show up — and 3 bet on three roles at once?

“25 companies. three 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
3All threespeak · spons · exh
9Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
13Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Tigera·groundcover·Solo.io

№ 02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

20% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • Founder / Owner210%
  • Director / Head of210%
  • Manager / Lead840%
  • Engineer · IC630%
  • Advisor / Investor15%
  • Other roles15%

Of 20 on the bill · classified by free-text title

№ 03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01TigeraSp·S2V
  2. 02groundcoverSp·G1V
  3. 03Solo.ioSp·S1V
  4. 04AkamaiSp·G
  5. 05AWS3V
  6. 06Clarity Business Solutions, IncSp·S
  7. 07NirmataSp·P
  8. 08Sidero LabsSp·P
  9. 09Sonraí SecuritySp·G
  10. 10TestkubeSp·P
  11. 11Tetrate.ioSp·P
  12. 12vClusterSp·P
  13. 13Zoho CorporationSp·G
  14. 14TeraSky2V
№ 04Fig. 04 — By Tier
platinum5
42% of 12
gold4
33% of 12
silver3
25% of 12
№ 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