Docker / Kubernetes

kcpCON 2026

The kcp project is reimagining Kubernetes as a scalable, multi-tenant control plane for any API. Whether you're building an Internal Developer Platform, a SaaS offering, or exploring the future of Kubernetes, this half-day virtual event will explore Workspaces, API Exports, and multi-tenancy with insights from kcp maintainers and community members.

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24Speakers
2Sponsors
11On the bill · sessions
13Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at kcpCON, in alphabetical order.
Ajay Vohra
Alok Dangre
NIT Rourkela
Andrey Velichkevich
Anna Kramar
Chamod Perera
Chase Christensen
Christian Heusel
Contractor / Self Employed
Eoin Fennessy
Julius von Kohout
DHL Data & AI
Mathew Wicks
NVIDIA
Mehal Sakthi M S
Bank of New York
Nithin R
Omri Shiv
Rohit Kumar
Oracle
Saad Zaher
Santhosh T
Zenoti
Shao Wang
Shrinidhi Venkataraman
Sowbarnigaa Shanmugavadivel
IBM Software Labs
Suresh Peiris
Valentina Rodriguez Sosa
Vassilis Vassiliadis
IBM Research
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
CNCF
The Linux Foundation
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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

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

  • 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

An audience of 13 companies, parsed from the program.

Thirteen companies in attendance.

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
0All threespeak · spons · exh
2Sponsoringsponsor only
11Companies Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority
  • Other roles24100%

Of 24 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01CNCFSp
  2. 02The Linux FoundationSp
  3. 03Bank of New York1V
  4. 04Contractor / Self Employed1V
  5. 05DHL Data & AI1V
  6. 06Google Cloud1V
  7. 07IBM Research1V
  8. 08IBM Software Labs1V
  9. 09NIT Rourkela1V
  10. 10NVIDIA1V
  11. 11Oracle1V
  12. 12RAICS.AI1V
  13. 13Zenoti1V
Sponsors by tier
unspecified2
100% of 2