Past Edition

KCD Texas 2025

Austin, May 15, 2025, at the Austin Central Library. The first independent KCD Texas: one day of Kubernetes and cloud native talks and workshops on 3 stages.

Speakers: 29
Stages: 3
Proposals: 200+
Recordings: 19 Sessions

Sources: CNCF transparency report, 2025 and the 2025 playlist on YouTube.

Keynotes

Chris Aniszczyk
CNCF · CTO
Next Decade of Cloud Native - Celebrating 10 Years of Cloud Native Computing
Watch on YouTube: Next Decade of Cloud Native - Celebrating 10 Years of Cloud Native Computing
Andrew Martin
Control Plane · CEO
K8s vs Agent Smith: Exploding GPUs and AI Security
Watch on YouTube: K8s vs Agent Smith: Exploding GPUs and AI Security
Ricardo Rocha
CERN · Member TOC + Member TAB at CNCF
The Cloud Native Scientific Platform: Are We There Yet?
Watch on YouTube: The Cloud Native Scientific Platform: Are We There Yet?

The program

29 Speakers in 23 Sessions, 4 of them workshops, on 3 stages: Main Stage, Demonstration Room and Workshop Gallery. 19 Sessions have a recording on YouTube.

Talks with recordings

Wasm Powered Open source LLMs and AI Agent
Michael YuanSecond State(WasmEdge)
Watch on YouTube: Wasm Powered Open source LLMs and AI Agent
Choose Your Own Adventure: The Dignified Pursuit of a Developer Platform
Whitney LeeDatadog · CNCF Ambassador, Senior Technical Advocate
Viktor FarcicUpbound · Developer Advocate & CNCF Ambassador
Watch on YouTube: Choose Your Own Adventure: The Dignified Pursuit of a Developer Platform
From Kubernetes to Chaos Mesh: How CNCF Projects Redefine Platform Resilience
Elad HirschTeraSky · Tech Lead
Watch on YouTube: From Kubernetes to Chaos Mesh: How CNCF Projects Redefine Platform Resilience
Platform Engineering’s Missing Piece: A Deep Dive into Kubernetes Abstraction
Engin DiriPulumi · Community Engineer
Watch on YouTube: Platform Engineering’s Missing Piece: A Deep Dive into Kubernetes Abstraction
Build, Deploy, Run, and Iterate a Generative AI Application from Scratch
Lin SunSolo.io · Director of Open-Source
Watch on YouTube: Build, Deploy, Run, and Iterate a Generative AI Application from Scratch
Building an Edge Cloud Service Provider with Open Source
Angel RamirezCuemby · CEO
Watch on YouTube: Building an Edge Cloud Service Provider with Open Source
How Are You, Neighbor: Measuring Memory Interference in Cloud Native Systems
Jonathan PerryOpenTelemetry
Watch on YouTube: How Are You, Neighbor: Measuring Memory Interference in Cloud Native Systems
Harnessing Dapr Actors: Building Scalable Applications with Confidence
Whit WaldoInnovian · Founder and CEO
Watch on YouTube: Harnessing Dapr Actors: Building Scalable Applications with Confidence
Kubernetes Autoscaling: Beyond One-Size-Fits-All
John PlattStormForge · CTO
Lucas DuarteAWS · Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect, Containers
Watch on YouTube: Kubernetes Autoscaling: Beyond One-Size-Fits-All
Accelerate Dev Teams with Platform Guardrails
Chap AmbroseHeroku
Watch on YouTube: Accelerate Dev Teams with Platform Guardrails
Beyond DevOps: How Kubernetes is Powering the Platform Engineering Era
Timothy SerewiczThe Linux Foundation · VP of Education
Watch on YouTube: Beyond DevOps: How Kubernetes is Powering the Platform Engineering Era
Policy-as-Code 101 - Securing your environments and Workloads using Kyverno
Krishna KhandavilliNirmata · Sr Customer Success Engineer
Sagar KundralNirmata · Customer Success Engineer
Dolis SharmaNirmata · Customer Success Engineer
Watch on YouTube: Policy-as-Code 101 - Securing your environments and Workloads using Kyverno
Leveraging Helm Diff for Safer Kubernetes Deployments: A Guide for Developers
Payal GodhaniOracle Cloud Infrastructure · Principal Member of Technical Staff
Watch on YouTube: Leveraging Helm Diff for Safer Kubernetes Deployments: A Guide for Developers
From pure chaos to embracing chaos engineering: how K8s has changed the way we architect software
Benjamin Hindmanreboot.dev · Founder
Watch on YouTube: From pure chaos to embracing chaos engineering: how K8s has changed the way we architect software
Hidden Signals in K8s Clusters: What Your Systems are Trying to Tell You
Mickael AllielKomodor · Backend Tech Lead
Watch on YouTube: Hidden Signals in K8s Clusters: What Your Systems are Trying to Tell You
Optimizing Distributed Databases on Kubernetes with KEDA, Prometheus, and Karpenter
Bo GuanAWS · Senior Solutions Architect
Ratnopam ChakrabartiAWS · Sr. Solutions Architect
Watch on YouTube: Optimizing Distributed Databases on Kubernetes with KEDA, Prometheus, and Karpenter

Also on the program

These Sessions have no published recording.

Streamline Development with IDPBuilder: Build an Internal Developer Platform in Minutes
Gerardo Lopez FalconVeritas Automata · Principal Engineer
Fabrizio SguraVeritas Automata · Chief Engineer
Let's Do Bad Things to Unsecured Containers
Gene GotimerDevSecOps Engineer
Test the resiliency of your Kubernetes workloads
Siva GuruvareddiarSolutions Architect with Amazon
Future-Proof Foundations: Multi-Cloud Strategies for Robust Platform Development
Lakmal WarusawithanaWSO2 · Technology Evangelist

Hosts

Lisa-Marie NamphyCNCF Ambassador, DevRel Architect
Danielle CookCNCF Ambassador, Co-Organizer, Cartografos Working Group

Titles, times and stages from the 2025 Schedule. Names and affiliations as printed on the 2025 Event Page in May 2025. Sources: The 2025 Schedule and The 2025 Event Page.