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KCD Washington DC is a community-organized event assembling adopters and technologists from open source and cloud-native communities for education, collaboration, and networking. This is a fantastic opportunity to meet local peers, hear from industry experts, and dive deep into the latest in the CNCF ecosystem right here in our backyard. This year promises to be a fresh start for talks, workshops and sponsorship opportunities as we explore the surging influence of platforms and patterns in the AI economy.
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Thoughtworks
Keynote · Principal Architect
Lyft
Staff Software Engineer
Guidehouse Digital
DevOps & Platform Architect
TeraSky
Head of Public Cloud & AI
Defense Unicorns
Zarf Maintainer
Buoyant
Head of Marketing & Community
Buoyant
Technical Evangelist
Elastic
Developer Advocate
FreeWheel (Comcast)
Principal Platform Engineer
Broadcom
Product Builder
Broadcom
Product Leader
Red Hat
AI Platform Leader
Google Cloud
Cloud Solutions Architect
Visa
Chief Systems Engineer
Teller's Tech
Founder & Podcast Host
Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
AWS
Product & GTM Leader, AI Platform
Independent / OSS
OCI Maintainer & Docker Captain
Palo Alto Networks
Sr Principal Engineer, Network R&D
StackGen
Developer Advocate
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
12:00 PM – 11:00 PM (UTC)
| 12:00 PM | Registration & Breakfast |
| 1:00 PM | Welcome |
| 1:25 PM | Keynote — Kubernetes Community Days 2026 |
| 2:00 PM | How kube-scheduler and ReplicaSet Quietly Undermine Karpenter at Scale |
| 2:20 PM | Compliance-as-Code Architecture: Automated Governance for Regulated Government Infrastructure |
| 2:45 PM | Morning Break |
| 3:10 PM | Session TBA: Awaiting Speaker Confirmation |
| 3:35 PM | Who's Calling? Agent Identity Before Agent Sprawl |
| 4:00 PM | Lunch |
| 5:00 PM | Air-Gapped In-Cluster Registries the Easy Way |
| 5:00 PM | The Kubernetes Service Mesh Debugging Escape Room (90-min workshop) |
| 5:05 PM | The DevOps Metabolism: How CI/CD is Like the Krebs Cycle |
| 5:15 PM | Kargo and Argo Rollouts in Production |
| 5:40 PM | Air-Gapped, Immutable, and Isolated: Surviving Ransomware in a Cloud-Native Ecosystem |
| 6:05 PM | From GPU Chaos to Cloud-Native AI: Running LLM Inference on Kubernetes |
| 6:30 PM | MCP from the Ground Up: From Conversation to Agentic Actions |
| 6:55 PM | Passports for Agents: Workload Identity for kagent with SPIFFE |
| 7:15 PM | Afternoon Break |
| 7:35 PM | The AI-Generated Kubernetes Manifest Looked Fine |
| 7:40 PM | Why we migrated from aws-auth ConfigMaps to Access Entries |
| 7:45 PM | Architecting Production-Ready AI Platforms with Open Source Frameworks |
| 7:50 PM | What's Next for OCI Registries |
| 8:00 PM | Session TBA: Awaiting Speaker Confirmation |
| 8:25 PM | Building a Self-Service Platform for Stateful AI Agents |
| 8:50 PM | Observing AI Agents in Production: How We Built Tracing for MCP-Based Systems |
| 9:10 PM | Closing & Sponsors |
American Red Cross
Governance & Strategy | CNCF Ambassador
Organizer
Freewheel / Comcast
Principal Engineer
Solutions Architect
FreeWheel, Inc
Sr. Site Reliability Engineer
American Red Cross. Sr. Principal Platform Architect
Venue/Facilities Coordinator
American Red Corss
Senior DevSecOps Engineer / Solution Architect
Clarity Business Solutions
Consulting Engineer
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