KCD Sofia

Kubernetes Community Days Sofia

Attendees: 535
in-person
Event date
September 18, 2025
09:00 AM - 07:00 PM EEST
Location
Sofia Event Center, София
About this event

KCD represents the next step in the evolution of the Bulgarian Cloud Native Community.

What started back in 2018 as a small meetup with just 30 attendees has grown into a thriving community. Today, we have a Meetup group of over 2,000 members, with consistent attendance of more than 100 participants at every event.

Agenda
  1. 9:00 AM EEST

    Registration and Badge pick-up

    in-person
  2. 9:00 AM EEST

    Keynote: Viktor Farcic

    in-person
  3. 9:20 AM EEST

    Keynote: Ricardo Rocha

    in-person
  4. 9:40 AM EEST

    Keynote: Diana Stefanova

    in-person
  5. 10:00 AM EEST

    Break

    in-person
  6. 10:30 AM EEST

    Effortless RAG on Kubernetes: AI-Powered Knowledge Retrieval with AWS EKS Auto-Mode

    in-person

    Mihail Vukadinoff, CTO @ ITGix

  7. 11:00 AM EEST

    Enhancing Kubernetes Security and Compliance with Kyverno: A Platform Engineering Perspective

    in-person

    Cortney Nickerson, Head of Community @ Nirmata

  8. 11:30 AM EEST

    Kubeflow Unpacked: From Raw Data to Clean Wins

    in-person

    Velmira Georgieva, Data Engineer @ SAP

  9. 12:00 PM EEST

    Lunch

    in-person
  10. 1:00 PM EEST

    AI in a DevOps World

    in-person

    Engin Diri, Senior Solutions Architect @ Pulumi

  11. 1:30 PM EEST

    Meet BOB: the supply chain provided “bill of behaviour” for anomaly-based runtime security

    in-person

    Dr. Constanze Roedig - Key Researcher @ Cloud Native Threat Inteligence, Vadim Bauer - Founder @ 8gears AG

  12. 2:00 PM EEST

    You Don't Know Containers Until You Build One From Scratch: The Advanced Basic

    in-person

    Valentin Hristev, Co-Founder @ DojoBits

  13. 2:30 PM EEST

    Break

    in-person
  14. 3:00 PM EEST

    Beyond Infrastructure: Application Abstractions the Crossplane Way

    in-person

    Yury Tsarev - Principal Solutions Architect @ Upbound, Tobias Kasser - Solutions Architect @ Upbound

  15. 3:30 PM EEST

    Kubernetes Observability 2.0: An Unified Approach

    in-person

    Niki Dokovski, Enterprise Cloud Architect @ SAP

  16. 4:00 PM EEST

    Why, When, and How to Run Agentic AI on Kubernetes

    in-person

    Christina Andonov, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect @ AWS

  17. 4:30 PM EEST

    Cloud-Native as a strategic platform for real-time AI-agents in Global Logistics

    in-person

    Palle Simonsen, Owner @ Rhiagano Consulting

  18. 5:00 PM EEST

    Break

    in-person
  19. 5:30 PM EEST

    Hidden Signals in K8s Clusters: What Your Systems are Trying to Tell You

    in-person

    Nir Adler, Innovation Engineer @ Komodor

  20. 6:00 PM EEST

    Lightning Talk: EU Digital Sovereignty via Publicly Funded Initiative

    in-person

    Jordan Jordanov, Development Manager, Gardener @ SAP

  21. 6:20 PM EEST

    Lightning Talk: Abstract It: The Higher, The Faster!

    in-person

    Engin Diri, Senior Solutions Architect @ Pulumi

  22. 6:30 PM EEST

    Lightning Talk: KRO intro

    in-person

    Christina Andonov, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect @ AWS

  23. 6:40 PM EEST

    Lightning Talk: Two Node High Availability K8s cluster, myth or reality.

    in-person

    Emil Penchev, Linux Cluster Solutions Developer @ SUSE

  24. 6:50 PM EEST

    Lightning Talk: Evolving DevOps with GitOps: Speed, Stability, and Continuous Confidence

    in-person

    Desislava Todorova, Senior DevOps Engineer @ DraftKings

  25. 7:00 PM EEST

    Closing Keynote

    in-person
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