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KCD Budapest 2026
KCD Budapest 2026 is coming! The Kubernetes Community Days are returning to Budapest. Stay tuned for dates, speakers, and tickets.
20Speakers
9Sponsors
17Sessions
24Companies · in total
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Speakers
Programmed at KCD, in alphabetical order.
Adam Hegedus
Engineering Manager, Platform · Zocks
Attila Nagy
Cloud Architect · Spare Cores Kft
Attila Szakács-Bertók
Technical Lead · Axoflow
Bence Csati
Senior Software Engineer · Axoflow
Dmytro Kozlov
Software engineer · VictoriaMetrics
Dominik Táskai
Senior Software Engineer · Genesys
Gergely Daroczi
Project Lead · Spare Cores
Gergő Huszty
Cloud infrastructure engineer, architect · IBM
Hajnal Máté
Senior Machine Learning Operations Engineer · Aumovio SE
Janos Binder
Staff Engineer · SAP SE
László Kollár
Technology Manager · SMP Solutions
Márton Enyedi
Devops Engineer · Origoss Solutions
Nándor Krácser
CISO · Riptides
Paul Power
Software Engineer · Red Hat
Piotr Trębacz
Senior DevOps Manager · IGT
Richard Kovacs
CTO · HariKube
Simon Weald
Site Reliability Engineer · Giant Swarm
Viktor Nagy
Fractional Head of Product and R&D · Clearvis PMS Kft
Xavier Avrillier
Solutions architect · Giant Swarm
Zsolt Varga
CTO · Riptides
Sponsors
The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
Agenda
Selected from 17 sessions.
- 09:00 – 09:30Keynote
Don't panic! Somebody has to pick up the phone at 2AM
AI makes creating software cheaper. Does it make running it cheaper too? Somebody Has to Carry the Pager explores the less-discussed side of AI-assisted development: more software,…
- 09:30 – 10:00Keynote
Escaping the DevOps Hamster Wheel of Busywork
You automate away millions in costs, yet you remain invisible. You’re the first call when things break, but the last person with the authority to truly fix them. This isn't the str…
- 10:20 – 10:55
Beyond etcd: Building a Kubernetes-Compatible State API with Kafka
What happens when you use Kubernetes API semantics to expose large-scale application state? This talk explores HariKube, a K8s-compatible API layer powered by distributed databases…
- 10:20 – 10:55
Every Workload Deserves an Identity Instead of an API Key
Most workloads still reach cloud APIs, databases and SaaS services with long-lived API keys, stored in a Kubernetes Secret or an environment variable and shared by every replica. T…
- 10:55 – 11:30
563 Things Karpenter Didn't Know About
Karpenter scales workloads based on provider specs, which often don't reflect real performance. Two instance types with identical vCPU counts can show vastly different single-core …
- 10:55 – 11:30
The role of platform engineers and DevOps in agentic coding
DevOps, Ops, Platform Engineering were always secondary to application engineering. With agentic coding, most of us expects big changes in our processes, and likely an increased va…
- 11:30 – 12:05
Federating Clusters for Zero-Downtime Kubernetes
When your primary Kubernetes cluster goes dark, how quickly can you restore service? Most organizations rely on backup-and-restore strategies that leave applications unavailable fo…
- 11:30 – 12:05
Weights and Measures: What It Takes to Serve an LLM on Kubernetes
GPUs bill for existing, not for computing, and that was the first problem in finding out what it takes to serve a large language model on Kubernetes. So the whole stack went up aga…
- 13:35 – 14:10
Temporal as Agent Runtime: Lessons From Self-Hosting It in Production
Anthropic suffered an hour-long outage. Our agent workloads recovered without manual intervention, and no engineer replayed a workflow by hand. This is what durable execution prov…
Company intelligence
What does it mean when 24 companies show up, and 2 bet on three roles at once?
24 companies. two are betting more than once.
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