An interview with three organizers of KCD San Francisco Bay Area, the second edition of a regional Kubernetes Community Day happening September 1, 2026 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Organizers Rey Lejano, Lisa-Marie Namphy, and Jason Smith discuss the Bay Area's cloud native history, the challenges of running an all-volunteer event, changes for this year including lower ticket prices and a shift toward agentic AI talk topics, and the agenda featuring speakers from OpenAI, Uber, LinkedIn, PayPal, NVIDIA, Google, Microsoft, AWS, and CoreWeave, plus a keynote from Kubernetes co-founder Tim Hockin.
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Meet the communityBringing a KCD to San FranciscoThe Bay Area cloud native sceneGetting the first edition off the groundWhat’s new this yearBeyond the talksThis year’s agendaLooking aheadNext stop…1.4K Impressions