Together, we wrote a new chapter in the story of the cloud native community. KCD Sofia 2025 brought people, ideas, and innovation under one roof - all driven by a shared passion for collaboration and learning. If you couldn’t join us in person, or if you simply want to revisit the best talks and moments, you can now watch the full recordings of every session. Feel the energy, be inspired by the speakers, and see how our community continues to grow stronger - together.
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Every smile, every handshake, every spark of connection - they all tell the story of a community that came together to build, share, and inspire. The photo album captures the true heart of KCD Sofia: the people behind the code, the laughter behind the learning, and the friendships that make this event unforgettable. Browse through our favorite moments and see what makes this community so special. Whether you were there or joining us from afar, these memories belong to all of us.
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Thursday, September 18, 2025
6:00 AM – 4:00 PM (UTC)
| 6:00 AM | Registration and Badge pick-up |
| 6:00 AM | Keynote: Viktor Farcic |
| 6:20 AM | Keynote: Ricardo Rocha |
| 6:40 AM | Keynote: Diana Stefanova |
| 7:00 AM | Break |
| 7:30 AM | Effortless RAG on Kubernetes: AI-Powered Knowledge Retrieval with AWS EKS Auto-Mode |
| 8:00 AM | Enhancing Kubernetes Security and Compliance with Kyverno: A Platform Engineering Perspective |
| 8:30 AM | Kubeflow Unpacked: From Raw Data to Clean Wins |
| 9:00 AM | Lunch |
| 10:00 AM | AI in a DevOps World |
| 10:30 AM | Meet BOB: the supply chain provided “bill of behaviour” for anomaly-based runtime security |
| 11:00 AM | You Don't Know Containers Until You Build One From Scratch: The Advanced Basic |
| 11:30 AM | Break |
| 12:00 PM | Beyond Infrastructure: Application Abstractions the Crossplane Way |
| 12:30 PM | Kubernetes Observability 2.0: An Unified Approach |
| 1:00 PM | Why, When, and How to Run Agentic AI on Kubernetes |
| 1:30 PM | Cloud-Native as a strategic platform for real-time AI-agents in Global Logistics |
| 2:00 PM | Break |
| 2:30 PM | Hidden Signals in K8s Clusters: What Your Systems are Trying to Tell You |
| 3:00 PM | Lightning Talk: EU Digital Sovereignty via Publicly Funded Initiative |
| 3:20 PM | Lightning Talk: Abstract It: The Higher, The Faster! |
| 3:30 PM | Lightning Talk: KRO intro |
| 3:40 PM | Lightning Talk: Two Node High Availability K8s cluster, myth or reality. |
| 3:50 PM | Lightning Talk: Evolving DevOps with GitOps: Speed, Stability, and Continuous Confidence |
| 4:00 PM | Closing Keynote |
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Solutions Architect | CNCF Ambassador
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CNCF Project Harbor maintainer
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Solution Architect
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Senior Solutions Architect
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Owner, Chief Solutions Architect
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Development Manager, Gardener
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Linux Cluster Solutions Developer
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