The Call for Speakers is now closed. Notifications will be sent on March 9, 2026 and the full schedule will be announced on March 31, 2026.
KCD Texas 2026 is a community-driven, CNCF-supported event taking place on Friday, May 15, 2026 at the TCEA Conference Center in Austin, Texas. This repo serves as a public reference for the Call for Speakers process.
All session submissions are managed through Sessionize:
https://sessionize.com/kcd-texas-2026
- Maximum of 2 submissions per speaker
- Speakers may submit as individuals or with co-speakers
| Milestone | Date |
|---|---|
| CFS Opens | December 15, 2025 |
| CFS Closes | February 15, 2026 |
| Speaker Notifications | March 9, 2026 |
| Schedule Announced | March 31, 2026 |
| Event Date | Friday, May 15, 2026 |
- Date: Friday, May 15, 2026
- Venue: TCEA Conference Center, Austin, Texas, United States
- Organized by: Volunteers of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
- Website: https://texaskcd.com
Guide attendees through Kubernetes-related projects, real-world problem-solving, and practical implementation. Help participants build confidence and technical expertise to innovate within their cloud-native environments.
Share your insights, present unique use cases, or showcase live demos. Equip attendees with actionable strategies to tackle cloud-native challenges and drive adoption of Kubernetes and CNCF tools. Sessions are 25 minutes with 1–2 speakers.
KCD Texas is looking for practitioners who ship, break, and fix real systems every day. Skip the marketing slides — bring hard-earned lessons, design trade-offs, outages, and wins. Topics of interest include:
- Software delivery and deployment pipelines
- Observability in practice (metrics, logs, traces, profiles)
- Open source projects and the ecosystem around them
- Platform engineering and internal developer platforms
- Service mesh and traffic management
- Kubernetes at the edge and in unusual environments
- Machine learning and data pipelines on Kubernetes
- Container networking and CNIs
- Batch and job workloads
- ML infrastructure and MLOps
- Wasm and Kubernetes
- Serverless on top of Kubernetes
First-time presenters and experienced speakers alike are welcome.
When submitting via Sessionize, you will be asked for:
- Session Title
- Description
- Session Format (Workshop or 25-min Presentation)
- Level (Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced)
- Benefits to the Ecosystem
- Have you presented this talk before?
- Additional Resources
- Open Source Projects Used (list any CNCF-hosted and other OSS projects featured)
- Co-speakers (optional; invite by email)
- Speaker diversity information (gender identity, person of color, underrepresented group)
KCD Texas is committed to inclusivity and representation. Before submitting, please review:
- The Linux Foundation's Inclusive Speaker Orientation
- Inclusive Language Guidelines
- CNCF Code of Conduct
By submitting, you agree to follow the CNCF Code of Conduct and help maintain a safe, welcoming space for everyone.
Note: KCD Texas is unable to sponsor visas or travel.
Reach out to the organizers at any time:
organizers-texas@kubernetescommunitydays.org
Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) Texas is a community-driven event focused on cloud-native technologies, with a particular emphasis on Kubernetes and related tools within the CNCF ecosystem. It is where big Texas ideas meet the Kubernetes ecosystem.
- Website: https://texaskcd.com
- X/Twitter: @KCDTexas
- YouTube: @kcdtexas
- LinkedIn: company/kcd-texas
- CNCF Community: community.cncf.io/kcd-texas