KCD Washington DC 2026

About this event

KCD Washington DC brings together Kubernetes practitioners, platform engineers and cloud infrastructure teams for a day of community-led talks on container orchestration, cloud-native tooling and production lessons learned the hard way. Expect sessions pitched at engineers already running Kubernetes at scale, not vendor pitches. Organised by the CNCF, it's part of the wider Kubernetes Community Days network, so the content stays grounded in practitioner experience rather than marketing. Held at the American Red Cross Hall of Service in Washington DC, tickets run USD 25 to 50. Good fit for anyone building or maintaining cloud-native infrastructure who wants peer-level technical discussion rather than a sales floor.