Of the Field

KCD Melbourne 2026

OverviewOn 5th of August, 2026 the Kubernetes and Cloud Native community will gather in Melbourne, Australia for a one-d...

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14Speakers
11Sponsors
13Exhibitors
9On the bill · sessions
34Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at KCD, in alphabetical order.
Andrew Jeffree
Senior Staff Engineer · SafetyCulture
Ashan Senevirathne
Senior Domain Lead · Telstra
Cathy Weng
Senior Cloud Engineer · Mantel Group
Dale Orders
Software Engineer · Five9
Gabriele Bartolini
Co-organizer · EDB
James Bannan
Principal Consultant · Microsoft
Kugamoorthy Gajananan
Senior Consultant · Vivanti
Mark Farrell
Senior DevOps Engineer · Telstra
Nick Young
Staff Engineer · Isovalent
Olga Mirensky
Lead Platform Engineer · Macquarie Group
Robert Kenefeck
Field CTO · ControlPlane
Tatiana Selezneva
Engineering Manager · REA Group
Thiago SinjiShimada Ramos
Cloud & AI Engineer · DNX Solutions
Wendy Ha
Software Engineer · SEEK
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
EDB (EnterpriseDB)Platinum
Red HatPlatinum
IsovalentGold
VeeamGold
MetalBearSilver
NutanixSilver
PortworxSilver
Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) MelbourneCommunity Partner
EasyGoReception Event
Kube EventsMedia Partner
SRE MelbourneCommunity Partner
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Agenda

Selected from 9 sessions on the bill.
  • 10:30

    Inside KEP: The Hidden Journey Behind Kubernetes Feature Development

  • 11:00

    Telstra's GitOps Journey: Scaling Reliable Mobile Core Operations with Kubernetes

  • 11:30

    What Managed Kubernetes Hid and Why It Matters Now

  • 12:00

    Zero-Friction DevSecOps: Automated Code Signing Done Right

  • 1:30

    ingress-nginx is gone. Now what?

  • 2:00

    How Kubernetes Gets Released: A Contributor's View from the Release Team

  • 2:30

    One Cluster, 150 Engineers: Ephemeral Environments Without the Duplication Tax

  • 3:30

    The myth of stateless infrastructure

  • 4:00

    Lightning Talks (5 x 5 min)

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 34 companies show up — and 3 bet on three roles at once?

34 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.

Who's in the room
3All threespeak · spons · exh
8Sponsoringsponsor only
11Exhibitingexhibitor only
12Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

KubeEvents·Red Hat·Isovalent

Speakers by seniority

7% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite17%
  • Manager / Lead643%
  • Engineer · IC643%
  • Other roles17%

Of 14 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01KubeEventsSp·MEx
  2. 02Red HatSp·PEx
  3. 03IsovalentSp·G1V
  4. 04Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) MelbourneSp·C
  5. 05EasygoSp·R
  6. 06EDB (EnterpriseDB)Sp·P
  7. 07MetalBearSp·S
  8. 08NutanixSp·S
  9. 09PortworxSp·S
  10. 10SRE MelbourneSp·C
  11. 11VeeamSp·G
  12. 12BCPEx
  13. 13Cloud Native AcademyEx
  14. 14DynatraceEx
Sponsors by tier
platinum2
18% of 11
gold2
18% of 11
silver3
27% of 11
community partner2
18% of 11
media partner1
9% of 11
reception event1
9% of 11
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.

Related events · by shared sponsors