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oin us for KCDC 2026, a multi-day technology conference featuring workshops, main conference sessions, and a dedicated Kids Tech Day. The event provides educational and networking opportunities for developers and technology enthusiasts.

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37Voices
59Underwriters
0Exhibitors
6On the bill · sessions
64Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at KCDC, in alphabetical order.
Akshat Sharma
Technology Advocate @ Deskree | GSOC '25 Mentor, C4GT & MSOC Mentor | GSoC '24 Contributor @ The Mifos Initiative | Research Intern @ UC Berkeley · Deskree
Alexandria Hamilton
Ash Banaszek
UX Leader
Barry Stahl
Solution Architect and Developer
Brandon Minnick
.NET Consultant · Code Traveler LLC
Brian Vermeer
Java Champion | Staff Developer Advocate @ Snyk · Snyk
Cecil Williams
Consultant at Source Allies, Inc. · Source Allies, Inc.
Dan Vega
Spring Developer Advocate
DaShaun Carter
Spring Developer Advocate, Broadcom · Broadcom
Devlin Duldulao
Microsoft MVP, Chief Consultant at Inmeta · Inmeta
Diana Pham
Developer Advocate at Vonage and Appwrite Hero · Vonage
Eldert Grootenboer
Principal Product Manager · Microsoft
Elliott Fouts
CTO at This Dot Labs · This Dot Labs
Eric Boyd
Founder & CEO · responsiveX
Fred Deichler
Senior Agile Coach
George Westwater
Senior Director, Engineering, Progress Chef · Progress Chef
Jackie Gleason
THE Jackie Gleason
Jacob Beers
Senior Software Developer · Ortus Solutions
Karl-Henrik Nilsson
Senior Technical Architect at GAC · GAC
Kathryn Grayson Nanz
UI Designer & Front-end Developer
Liji Thomas
Gen AI Manager · HRBlock
Mary Grygleski
VP of Global (Western Hemisphere)-AI Collective, Technical Architect and Advocate, TED/x Speaker, Java Champion, President of Chicago-JUG, Organizer of AI Collective-Chicago · AI Collective

— and 15 more, by name unsung —

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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
Ascend LearningPlatinum
CouchbasePlatinum
descopePlatinum
DescopePlatinum
Don't Panic LabsPlatinum
Dont Panic LabsPlatinum
DynatracePlatinum
LocalStackPlatinum
NAIC NIPRPlatinum
NAIC/NIPRPlatinum
NextEra Energy (NX)Platinum
NxPlatinum
NXPlatinum
OraclePlatinum
OutSystemsPlatinum
ParticularPlatinum
Particular SoftwarePlatinum
AvironGold
BuildertrendGold
ChocolateyGold
CloudawareGold
CoderGold
duendeGold
DuendeGold
H&R BlockGold
Lean TECHniquesGold
Paige TechnologiesGold
PropioGold
Quest AnalyticsGold
Red HatGold
ShamrockGold
SnowflakeGold
Snowflake VMLGold
SnykGold
SonatypeGold
TEKsystemsGold
text controlGold
Text ControlGold
TouchnetGold
TouchNetGold
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The Programme

Selected from 6 sessions on the bill.
  • NOT ANNOUNCED YET

    10 Things I Learned from Shipping AI Systems to Production

    AI systems behave very differently from traditional software. Once AI moves beyond prototypes, teams quickly discover that the biggest challenges are rarely about the model itself…

  • NOT ANNOUNCED YET

    10 things you didn't know EF Core can do

    You won't believe number 7! I know, the clickbait joke is rather lame, but I can assure you that this session is not! In this session, I'll take you on a journey in some lesser kn…

  • NOT ANNOUNCED YET

    10 Vectors of Cloud Exposure (And the Framework to Mitigate Them)

    Your cloud probably won’t get hacked because of some elite nation-state exploit. It’ll happen because someone pushed a hardcoded secret, left an S3 bucket open, or gave a CI/CD rol…

  • NOT ANNOUNCED YET

    30ms of Cloudflare Wizardry

    The smallest part of Cloudflare is the most powerful! Let's geek out on an insightful exploration of Cloudflare Worker Scripts, Key Vaults, and beyond based on over a year of deep…

  • NOT ANNOUNCED YET

    6 Ways You’re using ChatGPT Wrong (and How to Fix It)

    Everyone is using AI, but are you actually collaborating with it? Most Agile practitioners and Tech Leads treat LLMs like glorified search engines, resulting in generic backlogs an…

  • NOT ANNOUNCED YET

    .NET Aspire & Existing Projects: Elevate Developer Experiences

    Starting new projects with .NET Aspire is documented in great detail, however, existing projects and the usage of Aspire is far less understood. This session will explore .NET Aspi…

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 64 companies show up — and 3 bet on three roles at once?

64 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.

01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
3All threespeak · spons · exh
44Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
17Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Snyk·Ascend Learning·H&R Block

02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

24% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite411%
  • VP-level25%
  • Director / Head of38%
  • Manager / Lead514%
  • Product13%
  • Engineer · IC1541%
  • Research / Science13%
  • Advisor / Investor13%
  • Other roles514%

Of 37 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01SnykSp·G2V
  2. 02Ascend LearningSp·P1V
  3. 03H&R BlockSp·G1V
  4. 04360pickCSp
  5. 05AvironSp·G
  6. 06AWSSp·T
  7. 07BuildertrendSp·G
  8. 08ChocolateySp·G
  9. 09CloudAwareSp·G
  10. 10CoderSp·G
  11. 11CouchbaseSp·P
  12. 12DescopeSp·P
  13. 13Don't Panic LabsSp·P
  14. 14duendeSp·G
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
platinum17
29% of 59
gold25
42% of 59
titanium2
3% of 59
unspecified15
25% of 59
05Fig. 05 — The Missing · who's 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.

06Fig. 06 — Adjacent Convocations · by shared underwriters