Learn from people who ship it
Talks, live demos and short workshops on Kubernetes, eBPF, GitOps and the rest of the stack. Notes you can use the morning after.
Tuesday, 29 September 2026 Sofia Event Center, Sofia Tier 2 CNCF –
of 400 corporate seats left
Kubernetes
Community Days
Sofia, 2026
One day. One stage. Ten plus talks from people who actually run this stuff in production. We cap the room at 600 so the breaks stay useful. See you on 29 September 2026 at the Sofia Event Center.
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Day-of guide
Getting to KCD Sofia 2026.
Come on time and give yourself 10 minutes at the door. Registration is open from 8:00 to 9:00, and we start at 9:00 sharp. The times on the agenda are strict and we'll do our best to stick to them.
- Registration: 8:00-9:00. Talks start at 9:00 sharp.
- Agenda times are strict - plan your day around them.
- It's all about the community - talk to people, ask speakers questions, seek them out during the breaks.
- We're staying for a drink after closing - plan your departure time if you want to join us for a beer.
It is all about the community.
Registration closed
600 out of 600.
Every seat is spoken for.
Individual and Corporate tickets are both sold out - the room hit its 600-seat cap. Thank you, Sofia. Already holding a ticket? See you on Tuesday, 29 September 2026. Not this time? The talks and speaker lineup are still yours to browse below.
Individual tickets — closed
Corporate tickets — closed
KCD Sofia · 29 Sep 2026
Sold out
600/600
seats claimed
2 days to doors-open
Why come
Three good reasons
The room is a mix: Kubernetes maintainers, platform engineers running clusters at scale, SREs, security folks, and the CTOs that pay for it all.
See what production looks like
Engineers from Bulgaria and beyond walk through how they actually run clusters: what broke, what they tried, what stuck.
Meet the rest of the room
Long breaks on purpose. Bring a question, leave with a name and a Slack handle from someone who has solved it.
Roadmap
How we get to 29 September
A clear schedule from Early Bird to event day. Bookmark the page or follow us on LinkedIn and we'll nudge you when each window opens.
- End of May 2026 Done
Early Bird tickets open
First 50 personal tickets at the discounted Early Bird price. First come, first served.
- 1 June 2026 Done
Regular Corporate tickets open
Bank transfer billing with a proper company invoice. For teams sending two or more engineers.
- Mid June 2026 Done
Call for Speakers opens
Submit a talk on Kubernetes, platform engineering, observability, security, GitOps or production lessons. Submissions close 18 July on Sessionize.
- 6 August 2026 Done
Final agenda announced
Talks, speakers and the timing of the day are live on the agenda page.
- 20 September 2026 Done
Registration closes
Hard stop. The venue is capped at 600 seats by CNCF Tier 2 rules and we sell to the cap.
- 29 September 2026 Up next
KCD Sofia 2026
Sofia Event Center. One day, one track, the whole local cloud-native community in one room.
Speakers
Keynote Speakers
Chris Aniszczyk
CTO · CNCF
Natali Vlatko
Director of Open Source Software Engineering · Cisco
Cortney Nickerson
Principal Product Marketing Manager · Akamai
William Rizzo
Global Field CTO · Mirantis
More voices from the programme
Conference Speakers
Lyubomir Bozhinov
Director of Engineering · Tradu
Petar Cvitanović
Software engineer/Kubernetes lead · Unikraft
Zahari Dichev
Software Engineer · Buoyant
Juan Herrera Utande
Senior Product Solution Architect · Datadog
Valentin Hristev
Co-Founder · DojoBits
Hristo Hristov
Staff Engineer · Tide Platform
Marcus Noble
Platform Engineer · Monzo
Plamen Petkov
DevSecOps engineer · Cognyte
Dr. Constanze Roedig
Independent Researcher, CNCF/NeoNephos Ambassador · fusioncore.ai
Luis Rubiera
CTO · Cloud-IAM
Márk Sági-Kazár
Cloud Native Ambassador
Simon Schrottner
Fractional Developer Advocate · Flagsmith
Thomas Schuetz
Cloud Native Trainer and Architect · TSC Labs
Gerrit Tamboer
Chief Evangelist · TrueFullstaq
Desislava Todorova
DevOps · kre8.tech
Dario Tranchitella
CTO · CLASTIX
Antonia von den Driesch
Platform Engineer · Giant Swarm
The faces are only half the story
Now see what they’re bringing to the stage.
Million-pod Kubernetes. Live AI hacking. Runtime security. Sovereign observability. One stage, one day — every session in the exact running order.
29 Sep One stage Full running order
Next stop
Explore the agenda
Talks, speakers & times
Partners
The 2026 lineup
Call for partners is now closed. Here's who is backing 600 cloud-native engineers, architects and tech leaders in Sofia.
Trailblazer Partners
Community Partners
Call for partners is now closed
Thank you to everyone backing KCD Sofia 2026.
600 cloud-native engineers, architects and tech leaders in one room, for one day - made possible by the partners above. Questions about your existing partnership? We're one email away.
Venue
Sofia Event Center
Henrik Ibsen Str, Hladilnika, 1407 Sofia, Bulgaria
- Top floor of Paradise Center mall, in Hladilnika.
- Use the mall's parking garage; the elevators take you straight up.
- Step-free access throughout, wheelchair friendly.