Technology

KCD Porto 2026

KCD Porto 2026 returns bigger than ever, in collaboration with DevOps Days Portugal. The event brings together the cloud-native community with keynotes, technical talks, and networking, expecting 500+ attendees. Call for Speakers is open until June 30, with sponsorship opportunities available. Full agenda coming soon. BLIND TICKET WILL OPEN EARLY APRIL!

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17Speakers
13Sponsors
14Exhibitors
11On the bill · sessions
40Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at KCD, in alphabetical order.
Alok Dangre
NIT Rourkela
Christian Heusel
Contractor / Self Employed
Davi Garcia
Modernization Specialist · AWS
Fábio Sampaio
Community & Communication Manager · xgeeks
Frederico Frederico Muñoz
Organizer · SAS Institute
Frederico Muñoz
Organizer · SAS Institute
Iris Dyrmishi
CNCF Ambassador & Senior Observability Engineer · Miro
Julius von Kohout
DHL Data & AI
Mathew Wicks
NVIDIA
Mehal Sakthi M S
Bank of New York
Rita Gouveia
Organizer · xgeeks
Rohit Kumar
Oracle
Santhosh T
Zenoti
Sowbarnigaa Shanmugavadivel
IBM Software Labs
Vassilis Vassiliadis
IBM Research
Vikas Saxena
RAICS.AI
Wenjia Zhang
Google Cloud
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
AWS UG PortoCommunity Partner
AWS User Group LisbonCommunity Partner
Cloud Native LisbonVisionary Ally
Cloud Native PortoVisionary Ally
DevOps BragaCommunity Partner
DevOps LisbonCommunity Partner
DevOps PortoVisionary Ally
Leiria Tech TalksCommunity Partner
Lisbon GenAI CommunityCommunity Partner
Merge ForwardCommunity Partner
Super Bock Arena - Pavilhão Rosa Mota
Viseu Tech TalksCommunity Partner
xgeeks
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Agenda

Selected from 11 sessions on the bill.
  • 11:00 AM

    Opening/Intro

  • 11:05 AM

    AI Workspaces for the Modern Era – Kubeflow Notebooks v2

    Kubeflow Notebooks runs interactive development environments for AI, ML, and Data workloads on Kubernetes. In this talk, we are pleased to announce that Kubeflow Notebooks 2.0 is n…

  • 11:40 AM

    Agentic RAG on Kubeflow

    Agentic RAG extends traditional retrieval-augmented generation by enabling AI systems to plan, use tools, evaluate intermediate results, and refine responses through multi-step wor…

  • 11:55 AM

    Automatic Resource Configuration for Kubeflow TrainJobs

    Currently, Kubeflow TrainJob requires users to manually specify GPU, CPU, and memory requests before submission. Getting the resource requirements right is crucial: - Under-request…

  • 12:30 PM

    Kubeflow Community Distribution

    The goal of this session is to first introduce the new Kubeflow community distribution working group and committee. Who is involved, how to participate. Furthermore I want to explo…

  • 12:40 PM

    Break

  • 12:50 PM

    Interactive Spark at Your Fingertips: Integrating SparkConnect into Kubeflow Notebooks

    Background Apache Spark is indispensable for large-scale data processing and feature engineering in ML pipelines. However, running Spark interactively within a Kubeflow Notebooks e…

  • 1:25 PM

    Closing the Observability Gap: Building a Kubeflow Plugin for Headlamp

    Managing ML workloads on Kubernetes means constant context-switching toggling between Headlamp and Kubeflow's UI just to understand what's running in your cluster. The Kubeflow Hea…

  • 1:40 PM

    Beyond 'Agent Works', Testing AI Agents and MCP Servers in Production

    AI agents and MCP servers introduce a critical untested layer. While we rigorously test APIs and models, agent behavior, tool selection and MCP server interactions often goes unval…

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 40 companies show up — and 1 bet on three roles at once?

40 companies. one 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
1All threespeak · spons · exh
12Sponsoringsponsor only
13Exhibitingexhibitor only
14Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

xgeeks

Speakers by seniority
  • Manager / Lead16%
  • Engineer · IC212%
  • Other roles1482%

Of 17 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01xgeeksSpEx2V
  2. 02AWS UG PortoSp·C
  3. 03AWS User Group LisbonSp·C
  4. 04Cloud Native LisbonSp·V
  5. 05Cloud Native PortoSp·V
  6. 06DevOps BragaSp·C
  7. 07DevOps LisbonSp·C
  8. 08DevOps PortoSp·V
  9. 09Leiria Tech TalksSp·C
  10. 10Lisbon GenAI CommunitySp·C
  11. 11Merge ForwardSp·C
  12. 12Super Bock Arena - Pavilhão Rosa MotaSp
  13. 13Viseu Tech TalksSp·C
  14. 14BCPEx
Sponsors by tier
community partner8
62% of 13
visionary ally3
23% of 13
unspecified2
15% of 13