# KCD San Francisco Bay Area (KCD SF Bay Area)

- Dates: September 2026
- Location: Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA, Mountain View, United States
- Organiser: CNCF KCD SF Bay Area
- Industry: Cloud & DevOps

## About

The KCD San Francisco Bay Area event is set to take place in September 2026, in the vibrant city of Mountain View, United States.

## Official links

- [Official website](https://community2.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-sf-bay-area-presents-kcd-san-francisco-bay-area-2026/)

## Speakers

- Tamao Nakahara, Director of Growth and Community, Guild.ai
- Paul Zimmerman, Developer Advocate, Uber
- Duffie Cooley, Field CTO, Isovalent
- Julia Furst Morgado, Principal Developer Relations Engineer
- Leigh Capili, Principal Cloud Native Consultant, ControlPlane
- Reese Lee, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, New Relic
- Venkat Gattupalli, Scaling Infrastructure for Frontier Models, OpenAI
- Ole Lensmar, CTO, Testkube
- Archana Anand, Senior Software Engineer, Kubernetes Infra Team, Linkedin
- Cijo Thomas, Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft
- Eric Wang, Senior Staff Engineer, ML Platform, Uber
- Archana Kataria, Group Development Manager, Intuit
- Ishan Shah, PayPal
- Garvit Kataria, Senior Software Engineer, Intuit
- Haibing Zhou, Engineer, OpenAI
- AmyJune Hineline, Certification Community Architect, Linux Foundation
- Goutham Annem, Sr Technical Account Manager, AWS
- Priya Namasivayam, Staff Platform Engineer, EarnIn
- Akshay Pratinav, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Intuit
- Sameera Jayasoma

## Sponsors and partners

- Plural
- Akuity
- Teleport
- Solo.io
- KubeEvents
- Kubecrash
- Merge Forward Workshop

## Where to stay

- **Americas Best Value Inn Mountain View**: motel, 230 m from the venue
- **Budget Motel**: motel, 280 m from the venue
- **Holiday Inn Express Mountain View - South Palo Alto**: 800 m from the venue
- **Hotel Strata Mountain View**: 880 m from the venue, 93 West El Camino Real, 94040
- **Hotel Vue**: 1.0 km from the venue, 64 West El Camino Real, Mountain View, 94040
  - [Hotel website](https://www.hotelvue.com/)
  - Phone: +1-650-965-0585
- **Residence Inn Palo Alto**: 1.2 km from the venue, 1854 West El Camino Real, Mountain View, 94040
  - Phone: +1 650-940-1300
- **Hotel Zico**: 1.5 km from the venue, 200 East El Camino Real, Mountain View, 94040
  - [Hotel website](https://www.hotelzico.com/)
  - Phone: +1 650 965 2859
- **Hampton Inn & Suites**: 1.6 km from the venue, 390 Moffett Boulevard, Mountain View, 94043-4726
  - [Hotel website](https://hamptoninn3.hilton.com/en/hotels/california/hampton-inn-and-suites-mountain-view-NUQCAHX/maps-directions/index.html)
  - Phone: +1 650-988-0300

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Source: https://www.luminik.io/events/kcd-san-francisco-bay-area-1188c55627f8/