Dallas ·
KCD Texas 2027
2027 at a glance
- Sponsorships: open now
- Call for proposals: opens Nov 1
- Keynotes: announced Mar 1
- Your End-User Story here
One day of Kubernetes and cloud native talks and hands-on workshops, for the platform, SRE and DevOps engineers who run production across Texas. Organized by local volunteers and supported by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
KCD Texas 2026 in Austin: 27 Speakers · 14 sponsors · 18 talks on YouTube · Photos from the day
Key dates
Schedule
Mar 1
With the Speakers and keynotes
KCD Texas 2027
Apr 23
One day, in person, in Dallas.
14 sponsors backed KCD Texas 2026
Platinum
Gold
Silver
Partners: Cuemby, KubeSkills. Community partners: Austin Women in Technology, Merge Forward. Media partners: Software Guru, KUBE Events, Clowder Space.
Sponsor
Put your team in front of Texas platform engineers.
KCD Texas is where Texas teams that run Kubernetes meet the companies that build their tools.
Why Dallas
KCD Texas 2027 moves to Dallas–Fort Worth, home to about 8.5 million people: the largest metro area in Texas and the fourth-largest in the US.
Census Bureau estimate for July 1, 2025; residents, not attendees.
What 2026 Sponsor Tiers included (from the public 2026 prospectus)
- A table in the sponsor hall (Platinum and Gold)
- Two minutes on the main stage to introduce your team (Platinum)
- Your logo on the website, in emails, on signage and in the CNCF transparency report
- Full-day passes for your team
Sponsor Tiers: Platinum, Gold, Silver and End User, plus add-ons such as the happy hour, lanyards and the coffee bar.
2027 prospectus coming soon.
Sponsors agree to the CNCF Code of Conduct.
KCD Texas 2026 · Austin · May 15, 2026
On the 2026 stage
27 Speakers and 3 hosts
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
Affiliations as printed on the 2026 Event Page.
The 2026 bill
- Katie Gamanji
- Jonathan Bryce
- Ian Coldwater
- Eric Anderson
- Tyler Auerbeck
- Graziano Casto
- Duffie Cooley
- Abhinav Dahiya
- Chris De La Garza
- Cesar Diaz
- Engin Diri
- Lucas Duarte
- Michael Forrester
- Julia Furst Morgado
- Shravani Gunturu
- Kedar Kulkarni
- Jooho Lee
- Whitney Lee
- Andrew Martin
- Jairo Martinez Mantilla
- Myroslav Mishov
- Marina Moore
- Peter O’Neill
- Angel Ramirez
- Dolis Sharma
- Lin Sun
- Goutam Tadi
Hosted by
- Lisa-Marie Namphy
- Hanna Busekrus
- Nicole Pletka
See all 27 Speakers and 3 hosts
- Eric Anderson
- Tyler Auerbeck
- Graziano Casto
- Duffie Cooley
- Abhinav Dahiya
- Chris De La Garza
- Cesar Diaz
- Engin Diri
- Lucas Duarte
- Michael Forrester
- Julia Furst Morgado
- Shravani Gunturu
- Kedar Kulkarni
- Jooho Lee
- Whitney Lee
- Andrew Martin
- Jairo Martinez Mantilla
- Myroslav Mishov
- Marina Moore
- Peter O’Neill
- Angel Ramirez
- Dolis Sharma
- Lin Sun
- Goutam Tadi
Hosted by
- Lisa-Marie Namphy
- Hanna Busekrus
- Nicole Pletka
Tell us what broke
Run Kubernetes at work? Tell us how.
We want more talks from teams running cloud native in production: what broke, what they changed, what they’d do again. If your organization runs Kubernetes rather than sells it, mark your proposal as an End-User Story. Work at a vendor? Tell us what you learned, not what you sell.
You don’t have to name your employer’s systems. Ask us for help with your company’s review.
- Dates
- Opens Nov 1, 2026; closes Jan 31, 2027, 11:59 p.m. Central
- Formats
- Talks and hands-on workshops
- First time
- First time speaking? Ask for a mentor when you submit.
- Proposals
- KCD Texas 2025 received 200+ proposals.
- Conduct
- Speakers agree to the CNCF Code of Conduct.
More End-User talks from 2026
- We Migrated to Karpenter and Our Costs Went Up: A Journey to Real Savings Abhinav Dahiya, Lyft
- Hybrid Cloud at Enterprise Scale: Private Kubernetes for Portability and Control Shravani Gunturu, SoFi (Galileo)
A day at KCD Texas 2026
Attend
Coming to learn? Tickets are coming soon.
2026 tickets cost $50 to $150, depending on when you bought. Join the KCD Texas chapter on the CNCF community site to get the email when 2027 tickets go on sale.
Free CNCF community account
Need your manager’s OK? An approval letter is coming in November, with the cost and what your team gets back.
Meet the community before April at Cloud Native Texas meetups.
Getting to Dallas
- From Austin
- 195 mi about 3.5 h
- From Houston
- 240 mi about 4 h
- From San Antonio
- 275 mi about 5 h
In Dallas–Fort Worth? No flight, no hotel.
To downtown Dallas without traffic (OpenStreetMap).