Past Edition

KCD Texas 2026

Austin, May 15, 2026, at TCEA. One day of Kubernetes and cloud native talks and workshops.

Speakers: 27, plus 3 hosts
Workshops: 3
Sponsors: 14
Recordings: 18 talks

Source: CNCF transparency report, 2026

Keynotes

Katie Gamanji
CNCF · TOC Member
The State of Cloud Native: The Shift Towards AI
Watch on YouTube: The State of Cloud Native: The Shift Towards AI
Jonathan Bryce
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) · Executive Director
Open Source Infrastructure for the AI Native Era
Watch on YouTube: Open Source Infrastructure for the AI Native Era
Ian Coldwater
Kubernetes SIG Security Chair
Spoke to a full room. No recording published.

The program

27 Speakers, 2 of them first-time Speakers, and 3 hosts. 18 talks have a recording on YouTube. The titles come from those recordings, so a talk without one is listed by its Speaker.

Talks with recordings

Self-Service, Multi-Tenant Infrastructure With Kured and Flatcar Linux
Tyler AuerbeckStaff Software Engineer @ Stack AV
Watch on YouTube: Self-Service, Multi-Tenant Infrastructure With Kured and Flatcar Linux
Stop Over-provisioning for Application Startup
Graziano CastoAkamas · Kubernetes v1.35 Comms Lead, and DevRel Engineer
Watch on YouTube: Stop Over-provisioning for Application Startup
How did that happen? And is it a security Problem
Duffie CooleyIsovalent · Field CTO
Watch on YouTube: How did that happen? And is it a security Problem
We Migrated to Karpenter and Our Costs Went Up: A Journey to Real Savings
Abhinav DahiyaLyft · Staff Software Engineer
Watch on YouTube: We Migrated to Karpenter and Our Costs Went Up: A Journey to Real Savings
Kubernetes at the Edge: Declaring the Indeterminable with Nix and K3s
Cesar DiazDevOps Engineer at Globant · 10+ years scaling cloud platforms
Watch on YouTube: Kubernetes at the Edge: Declaring the Indeterminable with Nix and K3s
Stop Wasting GPUs: How We Built a Golden Path for GPU Sharing on Kubernetes
Engin DiriPulumi · Senior Solutions Architect
Watch on YouTube: Stop Wasting GPUs: How We Built a Golden Path for GPU Sharing on Kubernetes
Mastering the Dark Arts of OTel Debugging
Julia Furst MorgadoDash0 · Principal Developer Relations Engineer
Watch on YouTube: Mastering the Dark Arts of OTel Debugging
Hybrid Cloud at Enterprise Scale: Private Kubernetes for Portability and Control
Shravani GunturuSenior Engineering Manager at Sofi(Galileo)
Watch on YouTube: Hybrid Cloud at Enterprise Scale: Private Kubernetes for Portability and Control
Livin’ In the Future: Your Platform’s Next Interface Is an AI Agent
Whitney LeeDatadog · CNCF Ambassador, Senior Technical Advocate
Watch on YouTube: Livin’ In the Future: Your Platform’s Next Interface Is an AI Agent
Sandbox Breakouts: Rapid Unscheduled Agentic Assembly
Andrew MartinControlplane · Founder & CEO
Watch on YouTube: Sandbox Breakouts: Rapid Unscheduled Agentic Assembly
Unifying Brownfield VMs, AI, and Containers on a Single Control Plane
Myroslav Mishov
Watch on YouTube: Unifying Brownfield VMs, AI, and Containers on a Single Control Plane
Linux for the Cloud Native Engineer
Marina MooreEdera · Research Scientist - Head of Edera Research
Watch on YouTube: Linux for the Cloud Native Engineer
AGENTS.md and Beyond: Open Standards for AI-Assisted Engineering
Angel RamirezCUEMBY · CEO @Cuemby · OSPO - CNCF Ambassador, Guest Speaker, FHCN Co-Founder.
Watch on YouTube: AGENTS.md and Beyond: Open Standards for AI-Assisted Engineering
Cracking the OWASP 10 for Kubernetes
Dolis SharmaNirmata · DevOps Engineer
Watch on YouTube: Cracking the OWASP 10 for Kubernetes
Enhance Your Agent Accuracy with Agent Skills
Lin SunSolo.io · Director of Open-Source
Watch on YouTube: Enhance Your Agent Accuracy with Agent Skills
Kubernetes-Powered Multi-Cloud Apache Airflow at Scale: The Astro Architecture
Goutam TadiAstronomer.io · Staff Software Engineer
Watch on YouTube: Kubernetes-Powered Multi-Cloud Apache Airflow at Scale: The Astro Architecture

Also on the program

These Sessions have no published recording.

Eric AndersonAWS · Specialist Solutions Architect
Chris De La Garza
Lucas DuarteAWS · Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect, Containers
Michael ForresterKubestronaut · Lead Architect · 16Y Infrastructure Engineer
Kedar KulkarniSenior DevOps Architect
Jooho LeeRed Hat · Full Stack implementation & Integration Engineer
Jairo Martinez MantillaSolution Architect at Amazon Web Services
Peter O’NeillCloud Native Architect, & Security Evangelist