Cloud Computing
KCD San Francisco Bay Area 2026
KCD San Francisco Bay Area is back for 2026!Tuesday, September 1, 2026 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, ...
32Speakers
15Sponsors
14Exhibitors
40On the bill · sessions
47Companies · in total
Speakers
Programmed at KCD, in alphabetical order.Akshay Pratinav
Senior Staff Software Engineer · Intuit
AmyJune Hineline
Certification Community Architect · Linux Foundation
Archana Anand
Senior Software Engineer, Kubernetes Infra Team · Linkedin
Archana Kataria
Group Development Manager · Intuit
Arun Gupta
Director, Open Source Ecoystem and Developer Platform · NVIDIA
Cijo Thomas
Principal Software Engineer · Microsoft
Duffie Cooley
Field CTO · Isovalent
Eric Wang
Senior Staff Engineer, ML Platform · Uber
Garvit Kataria
Senior Software Engineer · Intuit
Giorgi Keratishvili
Lead DevOps · EPAM Systems
Goutham Annem
Sr Technical Account Manager · AWS
Haibing Zhou
Engineer · OpenAI
Ishan Shah
Software Engineer | Distributed Systems, AI, and Platform Engineering · PayPal
Janet Kuo
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google (GKE) · Google
Jason Smith
Special Programs | SF Chapter Organizer · Google
Joseph Sandoval
Principal Product Manager · Adobe
Julia Furst Morgado
Principal Developer Relations Engineer · Dash0
Leigh Capili
Principal Cloud Native Consultant · ControlPlane
Lisa-Marie Namphy
Program Chair | CNCF Ambassador | DevRel Architect
Matthew Cascio
Sponsors + Finance | CNCF Ambassador · American Red Cross
Natalie Lunbeck
Program Committee · Man Numeric
Ole Lensmar
CTO · Testkube
Sponsors
The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.AkuityPlatinum
PluralPlatinum
Red HatPlatinum
IntuitGold
Solo.ioGold
TeleportGold
DuplocloudSilver
TestkubeSilver
Guild.aiWorkshop
KubecrashCommunity Partner
KubeEventsCommunity Partner
KubesimplifyCommunity Partner
Merge ForwardCommunity Partner
WeMakeDevsCommunity Partner
Agenda
Selected from 40 sessions on the bill.- 10:00 am
Code to Cluster: Abstracting Kubernetes ML Complexity with Michelangelo
Building machine learning platforms on Kubernetes shouldn't force data scientists to become infrastructure experts. True platform engineering means masking the complexities of clus…
- 10:30 am
Platinum and Gold Sponsors
- 10:30 am
Self-Healing Systems: How LLM Agents Are Reinventing Cloud-Native Disaster Recovery
Cloud-native systems have outgrown the incident response playbook. Static runbooks, manual operator intervention, and reactive on-call rotations weren't designed for the scale and …
- 10:45 am
Break
- 11:00 am
Platinum and Gold Sponsors
- 11:00 am
Self-Healing Systems: How LLM Agents Are Reinventing Cloud-Native Disaster Recovery
Cloud-native systems have outgrown the incident response playbook. Static runbooks, manual operator intervention, and reactive on-call rotations weren't designed for the scale and …
- 11:15 am
Break
- 11:30 am
Agentic GitOps: Agent and Sandbox Guardrails for CI/CD
With agentic workflows, kubectl commands can have dangerous consequences. Improper RBAC can allow agents to kubectl delete, and that includes deleting your whole CI with no commits…
- 1:15 pm
Panel: At the Crossroads of AI and Cloud Native
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer
What does it mean when 47 companies show up, and 6 bet on three roles at once?
47 companies. six 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.
6All threespeak · spons · exh
9Sponsoringsponsor only
11Exhibitingexhibitor only
21Companies Speakingspeaker only
16% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.
- C-suite26%
- VP-level13%
- Director / Head of26%
- Manager / Lead1341%
- Product13%
- Engineer · IC928%
- Other roles413%
Of 32 on the bill · classified by free-text title
- 01IntuitSp·G3V
- 02Red HatSp·PEx1V
- 03KubeEventsSp·CEx
- 04PluralSp·PEx
- 05Guild.aiSp·W1V
- 06TestkubeSp·S1V
- 07AkuitySp·P
- 08DuplocloudSp·S
- 09Google3V
- 10KubecrashSp·C
- 11KubesimplifySp·C
- 12Merge ForwardSp·C
- 13Solo.ioSp·G
- 14TeleportSp·G
platinum3
20% of 15
gold3
20% of 15
silver2
13% of 15
community partner5
33% of 15
workshop1
7% of 15
unspecified1
7% of 15
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.
- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North AmericaNovember 9, 2026 · Salt Lake City+ 6 shared
- ContainerDays Hamburg 2026September 2, 2026 · Hamburg+ 4 shared
- KCD Gujarat 2026September 19, 2026 · Ahmedabad+ 4 shared
- Dapr DayOctober 8, 2026+ 4 shared
- Virtual EnvoyCon 10 Year Anniversary EditionOctober 14, 2026+ 4 shared
- Kubernetes Community Days UK - Edinburgh 2026October 19, 2026 · Edinburgh+ 4 shared
In the same series
Prior and forthcoming editions
- KCD San Francisco Bay Area 2025· Mountain ViewSep 2025· past