Regular Corporate Tickets are available for registrants whose company is paying for attendance at KCD. The price is 120 Euros including VAT. This includes for-profit companies and government employees. Contact "invoices@kcd.bg" if you are purchasing this type of ticket.
Thursday, September 18, 2025
6:00 AM – 4:00 PM (UTC)
| Keynote: Viktor Farcic | |
| Keynote: Ricardo Rocha | |
| Keynote: Diana Stefanova | |
| Keynote: TBA | |
| Break | |
| Effortless RAG on Kubernetes: AI-Powered Knowledge Retrieval with AWS EKS Auto-Mode | Mihail Vukadinoff, CTO @ ITGix |
| Enhancing Kubernetes Security and Compliance with Kyverno: A Platform Engineering Perspective | Cortney Nickerson, Head of Community @ Nirmata |
| Kubeflow Unpacked: From Raw Data to Clean Wins | Velmira Georgieva, Data Engineer @ SAP |
| Lunch | |
| AI in a DevOps World | Engin Diri, Senior Solutions Architect @ Pulumi |
| Meet BOB: the supply chain provided “bill of behaviour” for anomaly-based runtime security | Dr. Constanze Roedig - Key Researcher @ Cloud Native Threat Inteligence, Vadim Bauer - Founder @ 8gears AG |
| You Don't Know Containers Until You Build One From Scratch: The Advanced Basic | Valentin Hristev, Co-Founder @ DojoBits |
| Break | |
| Beyond Infrastructure: Application Abstractions the Crossplane Way | Yury Tsarev - Principal Solutions Architect @ Upbound, Tobias Kasser - Solutions Architect @ Upbound |
| Kubernetes Observability 2.0: An Unified Approach | Niki Dokovski, Enterprise Cloud Architect @ SAP |
| Why, When, and How to Run Agentic AI on Kubernetes | Christina Andonov, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect @ AWS |
| Cloud-Native as a strategic platform for real-time AI-agents in Global Logistics | Palle Simonsen, Owner @ Rhiagano Consulting |
| Break | |
| Hidden Signals in K8s Clusters: What Your Systems are Trying to Tell You | Andrei Pokhilko, Innovation Researcher in CTO Office @ Komodor |
| Lightning Talk: EU Digital Sovereignty via Publicly Funded Initiative | Jordan Jordanov, Development Manager, Gardener @ SAP |
| Lightning Talk: Abstract It: The Higher, The Faster! | Engin Diri, Senior Solutions Architect @ Pulumi |
| Lightning Talk: KRO intro | Christina Andonov, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect @ AWS |
| Lightning Talk: Two Node High Availability K8s cluster, myth or reality. | Emil Penchev, Linux Cluster Solutions Developer @ SUSE |
| Lightning Talk: Evolving DevOps with GitOps: Speed, Stability, and Continuous Confidence | Desislava Todorova, Senior DevOps Engineer @ DraftKings |
| Closing Keynote |
CERN
Chair TAB at CNCF | Platform Infrastructure Lead at CERN
SBA Research
Key Researcher - Cloud Native Threat Intelligence
Upbound
Principal Solutions Architect. Creator of k8gb.io.
DojoBits
Kubestronaut | Co-Founder at DojoBits.io
SAP
Enterprise Cloud Architect
AWS
Solutions Architect | CNCF Ambassador
8gears AG
CNCF Project Harbor maintainer
Upbound
Solution Architect
Pulumi
Senior Solutions Architect
Rhiagano Consulting
Owner, Chief Solutions Architect
SAP
Development Manager, Gardener
SAP
Data Engineer
SUSE
Linux Cluster Solutions Developer
ITGix
CTO
Nirmata
Head of Community
Buoyant
Isovalent
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