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KCD San Francisco Bay Area 2026

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34Speakers
15Sponsors
14Exhibitors
45Sessions
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
Hardeep Singh Tiwana
Golden Kubestronaut | Senior TAM, AWS | Creator, The Kubernetes Show · AWS
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
Jimil Patel
Head of Developer Advocacy & Technical Marketing · Intuit
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

Sponsors

The companies 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
Tyk
WeMakeDevsCommunity Partner

Agenda

Selected from 45 sessions.

  • 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

Company intelligence

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.

Who's in the room
6All threespeak · spons · exh
9Sponsoringsponsor only
11Exhibitingexhibitor only
21Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

Intuit·Red Hat·Kube Events·Plural·Guild.ai·Testkube

Speakers by seniority

18% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite26%
  • VP-level13%
  • Director / Head of39%
  • Manager / Lead1338%
  • Product13%
  • Engineer · IC926%
  • Other roles515%

Of 34 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1IntuitSponsor · Gold4
2Red HatSponsor · PlatinumExhibitor1
3Kube EventsSponsor · Community PartnerExhibitor-
4PluralSponsor · PlatinumExhibitor-
5Guild.aiSponsor · Workshop1
6TestkubeSponsor · Silver1
7AkuitySponsor · Platinum-
8DuploCloudSponsor · Silver-
9Google3
10KubecrashSponsor · Community Partner-
11KubesimplifySponsor · Community Partner-
12Merge ForwardSponsor · Community Partner-
13Solo.ioSponsor · Gold-
14TeleportSponsor · Gold-
Sponsors by tier
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
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
ConferenceDateCityShared sponsors
Open Source SecurityCon 2026November 9, 2026Salt Lake City6
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North AmericaNovember 9, 2026Salt Lake City6
Dapr DayOctober 8, 2026-4
Virtual EnvoyCon 10 Year Anniversary EditionOctober 14, 2026-4
Kubernetes Community Days UK - Edinburgh 2026October 19, 2026Edinburgh4
KCD Nigeria 2026: Telling the African Cloud Native StoryOctober 24, 2026Lagos4

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