About
About KCD Texas
KCD Texas is a Kubernetes Community Day: a one-day conference organized by local volunteers and supported by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). It’s the annual conference of Cloud Native Texas, the community behind the monthly meetups in Austin, Dallas and Houston.
KCD Texas is not-for-profit: sponsorship and tickets pay for the event.
How we got here
- 2023Canceled.
- 2024Austin, co-located with Texas Linux Fest.
- 2025Austin Central Library. The first independent KCD Texas.
- 2026TCEA, Austin, May 15, 2026, with 27 Speakers and 14 sponsors.
- 2027Dallas, April 23, 2027.
Committees
Organizers work in seven Committees, each owning one area of the event.
- Core Event
- the format of the day, tickets, the Code of Conduct and accessibility at the event
- Session
- the call for proposals and choosing the Sessions
- Sponsor
- Sponsorships and the prospectus
- Marketing
- announcements, the KCD Texas chapter and Short Links
- Venue
- the venue and getting there
- Volunteer
- the Volunteers who help run Event Day
- Finance
- the event’s money: tickets and sponsorship
Organizers
Rich BoydPrincipal DevOps EngineerLiatrio3rd year as an Organizer
Mars ToktonalievSenior System EngineerKGPCo4th year as an Organizer
Harsha ThirimannaPrincipal Forward Deployed EngineerWSO23rd year as an Organizer
Cris NevaresSenior Software Engineer IIZynga2nd year as an Organizer
Mara RuvalcabaCo-Founder and COOSoftware Guru3rd year as an Organizer
Joel HernandezSenior Technical Account ManagerRed Hat2nd year as an Organizer
Srihari NagaramSenior Platform EngineerDoma TechCo2nd year as an Organizer
Vishwa GandhiSoftware EngineerOracle2nd year as an Organizer
Amy MarrichPrincipal Technical Marketing ManagerRed Hat
Akshay MittalMTS Software EngineerPayPal
Myroslav MishovFounder and CTOTech Evolvers
Jamie PrinceProduct ManagerRed Hat3rd year as an Organizer
Get involved
- Join the KCD Texas chapter on the CNCF community site to hear about each Edition first.
- Come to a Cloud Native Texas meetup in Austin, Dallas or Houston.
- Want to volunteer on Event Day or help organize? Email organizers@kcdtexas.org.