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KCD Washington DC 2025

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KCD Washington DC 2025 ran on Sep 16, 2025 at American Red Cross in Washington, United States. It is a Cloud Computing conference. ConferenceGrid lists 20 speakers, 12 sponsors and 13 exhibitors. The next edition, KCD Washington DC 2026, is Sep 15, 2026 in Washington.

Last verified May 6, 2026

Celebrate the 5th annual KCD Washington DC event with community members and cloud native technology enthusiasts. This in-person conference brings together professionals, contributors, and experts from the Kubernetes and cloud-native ecosystem to share insights, learnings, and best practices in the field.

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20Speakers
12Sponsors
13Exhibitors
0Sessions
38Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at KCD, in alphabetical order.

Ashley Jones
Cybersecurity Advisor · CISA
Austin Abro
Software Engineer · Defense Unicorn
Catherine Paganini
Head of Marketing & Community · Buoyant
Christopher Khanoyan
Tech Lead · Booz Allen Hamilton
David Jeffers
Principal Site Reliability Engineer · American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
Elad Hirsch
Tech Lead · TeraSky
Erica Hughberg
Community Advocate · Tetrate
Faheem Memon
Principal Engineer · Freewheel / Comcast
Jason Stryker
Kubernetes Community of Practice Lead · Capital One
Kumuda Sreenivasa
Sr Data Architect · ATC Drivetrain Founder, Unimonk & GoIcure
Lin Sun
Director of Open-Source · Solo.io
Maria Gabriella Brodi
Lead Solutions Architect · TeraSky
Noam Levy
Founding Engineer · groundcover
Payal Godhani
Principal Member of Technical Staff · Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Pedro Coutinho
Software Engineer · Tigera
Peter Zaitsev
Co-Founder · Coroot, Percona, FerretDB
Raj Saha
Principal SA - Containers/Serverless · AWS
Reza Ramezanpour
Developer Advocate · Tigera
Riccardo Freschi
Senior Partner Solutions Architect · AWS
Rodrigo Bersa
Senior Solutions Architect · AWS

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

NirmataPlatinum
Sidero LabsPlatinum
TestkubePlatinum
Tetrate.ioPlatinum
vClusterPlatinum
AkamaiGold
groundcoverGold
Sonraí SecurityGold
Zoho CorporationGold
Clarity Business Solutions, IncSilver
Solo.ioSilver
TigeraSilver

Quick answers

When is KCD Washington DC 2025?
KCD Washington DC 2025 ran on Sep 16, 2025 at American Red Cross in Washington, United States. The next edition, KCD Washington DC 2026, is Sep 15, 2026 in Washington.
Where is KCD Washington DC 2025 held?
KCD Washington DC 2025 was held at American Red Cross in Washington, United States.
Who is speaking at KCD Washington DC 2025?
ConferenceGrid lists 20 speakers, including Ashley Jones (Cybersecurity Advisor, CISA), Austin Abro (Software Engineer, Defense Unicorn) and Catherine Paganini (Head of Marketing & Community, Buoyant).
Who sponsors KCD Washington DC 2025?
ConferenceGrid lists 12 sponsors, including Nirmata, Sidero Labs, Testkube, Tetrate.io and vCluster.
Company intelligence

What does it mean when 38 companies show up, and 3 bet on three roles at once?

38 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
9Sponsoringsponsor only
13Exhibitingexhibitor only
13Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

Tigera·groundcover·Solo.io

Speakers by seniority

20% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • Founder / Owner210%
  • Director / Head of210%
  • Manager / Lead840%
  • Engineer · IC630%
  • Advisor / Investor15%
  • Other roles15%

Of 20 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1TigeraSponsor · Silver2
2groundcoverSponsor · Gold1
3Solo.ioSponsor · Silver1
4AkamaiSponsor · Gold-
5AWS3
6Clarity Business Solutions, IncSponsor · Silver-
7NirmataSponsor · Platinum-
8Sidero LabsSponsor · Platinum-
9Sonraí SecuritySponsor · Gold-
10TestkubeSponsor · Platinum-
11Tetrate.ioSponsor · Platinum-
12vClusterSponsor · Platinum-
13ZohoSponsor · Gold-
14BCPExhibitor-
Sponsors by tier
platinum5
42% of 12
gold4
33% of 12
silver3
25% of 12
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.

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Civo Navigate London 2027September 27, 2027London2

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