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Kubernetes Community Days UK - Edinburgh 2026

Kubernetes Community Days UK (KCD UK) is back in Edinburgh for 2026, serving as the UK's leading community-organised event for the Cloud Native ecosystem. The event brings together individuals and organizations to learn, network, and collaborate through technical talks, open source project demos, and hands-on workshops. Supported by the Cloud Native Computin…

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22Speakers
4Sponsors
13Exhibitors
11On the bill · sessions
38Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at Kubernetes, in alphabetical order.
Adrian Mouat
Organizer · Chainguard
Alok Dangre
NIT Rourkela
Carla Gaggini
Organizer · Isovalent at Cisco
Chris Kranz
Organizer · The Grafter
Christian Heusel
Contractor / Self Employed
Danny Abukalam
Organizer · Meta
Iain Smart
Principal Security Consultant · AmberWolf
Joshua Michielsen
Principal Engineer · Dataminr
Julius von Kohout
DHL Data & AI
Lewis Denham-Parry
Organizer · Cloud Native Wales
Mathew Wicks
NVIDIA
Matthew Slane
Senior Platform Engineer · Cleartoken
Mehal Sakthi M S
Bank of New York
Nick Jones
Organizer · Nscale
Paula Kennedy
Organizer · Syntasso
Rohit Ghumare
Independent Consultant | Founder · Motia.dev
Rohit Kumar
Oracle
Santhosh T
Zenoti
Sowbarnigaa Shanmugavadivel
IBM Software Labs
Vassilis Vassiliadis
IBM Research
Vikas Saxena
RAICS.AI
Wenjia Zhang
Google Cloud
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
PluralPlatinum
KubecrashCommunity Partner
KubeEventsCommunity Partner
Merge ForwardCommunity Partner
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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

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

  • 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

What does it mean when 38 companies show up, and 1 bet on three roles at once?

38 companies. one 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
1All threespeak · spons · exh
3Sponsoringsponsor only
12Exhibitingexhibitor only
22Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

KubeEvents

Speakers by seniority

5% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • Founder / Owner15%
  • Manager / Lead29%
  • Engineer · IC15%
  • Other roles1882%

Of 22 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01KubeEventsSp·CEx
  2. 02KubecrashSp·C
  3. 03Merge ForwardSp·C
  4. 04PluralSp·P
  5. 05BCPEx
  6. 06Cloud Native AcademyEx
  7. 07DynatraceEx
  8. 08EncoraEx
  9. 09InetumEx
  10. 10InterbankEx
  11. 11Kube CareersEx
  12. 12Mito CodeEx
  13. 13Red HatEx
  14. 14RumboEx
Sponsors by tier
platinum1
25% of 4
community partner3
75% of 4
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