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oin us for KCDC 2026, a multi-day technology conference featuring workshops, main conference sessions, and a dedicated Kids Tech Day. The event provides educational and networking opportunities for developers and technology enthusiasts.

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20Voices
44Underwriters
0Exhibitors
6On the bill · sessions
55Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at KCDC, in alphabetical order.
Akshat Sharma
Technology Advocate @ Deskree | GSOC '25 Mentor, C4GT & MSOC Mentor | GSoC '24 Contributor @ The Mifos Initiative | Research Intern @ UC Berkeley · Deskree
Barry Stahl
Solution Architect and Developer
Brian Vermeer
Java Champion | Staff Developer Advocate @ Snyk · Snyk
Cecil Williams
Consultant at Source Allies, Inc. · Source Allies, Inc.
Dan Vega
Spring Developer Advocate
DaShaun Carter
Spring Developer Advocate, Broadcom · Broadcom
Devlin Duldulao
Microsoft MVP, Chief Consultant at Inmeta · Inmeta
Diana Pham
Developer Advocate at Vonage and Appwrite Hero · Vonage
Elliott Fouts
CTO at This Dot Labs · This Dot Labs
George Westwater
Senior Director, Engineering, Progress Chef · Progress Chef
Karl-Henrik Nilsson
Senior Technical Architect at GAC · GAC
Mary Grygleski
VP of Global (Western Hemisphere)-AI Collective, Technical Architect and Advocate, TED/x Speaker, Java Champion, President of Chicago-JUG, Organizer of AI Collective-Chicago · AI Collective
Matthew Renze
AI researcher, consultant, and author
Matt "Kelly" Williams
Sustainable IT Innovator Championing Agile Sustainability & Green Tech || CEO of Sustainable IT Manifesto Foundation || International Speaker || Advisory Board Member · Sustainable IT Manifesto Foundation
Micah Silverman
Director, AI Acceleration @ Snyk · Snyk
Nathaniel Schutta
Architect as a Service
Rob Winch
Spring Security Project Lead
Scott Sosna
Independent Consultant
Tadeh Hakopian
Senior Program Manager @Amazon · Amazon
Tamimi Ahmad
AI Developer Advocate in an event driven world 🥑
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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
Ascend LearningPlatinum
CouchbasePlatinum
DescopePlatinum
Dont Panic LabsPlatinum
DynatracePlatinum
LocalStackPlatinum
NAIC/NIPRPlatinum
NxPlatinum
OraclePlatinum
OutSystemsPlatinum
Particular SoftwarePlatinum
AvironGold
BuildertrendGold
ChocolateyGold
CloudawareGold
CoderGold
DuendeGold
H&R BlockGold
Lean TECHniquesGold
Paige TechnologiesGold
PropioGold
Quest AnalyticsGold
Red HatGold
ShamrockGold
SnowflakeGold
SnykGold
SonatypeGold
TEKsystemsGold
Text ControlGold
TouchnetGold
Turnberry SolutionsGold
Veterans UnitedGold
360PickC
AWSTitanium
Flox
Gradle Enterprise
Iowa Computer Gurus
KCDC
KC Digital Drive
Leading EDJE
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The Programme

Selected from 6 sessions on the bill.
  • NOT ANNOUNCED YET

    10 Things I Learned from Shipping AI Systems to Production

    AI systems behave very differently from traditional software. Once AI moves beyond prototypes, teams quickly discover that the biggest challenges are rarely about the model itself…

  • NOT ANNOUNCED YET

    10 things you didn't know EF Core can do

    You won't believe number 7! I know, the clickbait joke is rather lame, but I can assure you that this session is not! In this session, I'll take you on a journey in some lesser kn…

  • NOT ANNOUNCED YET

    10 Vectors of Cloud Exposure (And the Framework to Mitigate Them)

    Your cloud probably won’t get hacked because of some elite nation-state exploit. It’ll happen because someone pushed a hardcoded secret, left an S3 bucket open, or gave a CI/CD rol…

  • NOT ANNOUNCED YET

    30ms of Cloudflare Wizardry

    The smallest part of Cloudflare is the most powerful! Let's geek out on an insightful exploration of Cloudflare Worker Scripts, Key Vaults, and beyond based on over a year of deep…

  • NOT ANNOUNCED YET

    6 Ways You’re using ChatGPT Wrong (and How to Fix It)

    Everyone is using AI, but are you actually collaborating with it? Most Agile practitioners and Tech Leads treat LLMs like glorified search engines, resulting in generic backlogs an…

  • NOT ANNOUNCED YET

    .NET Aspire & Existing Projects: Elevate Developer Experiences

    Starting new projects with .NET Aspire is documented in great detail, however, existing projects and the usage of Aspire is far less understood. This session will explore .NET Aspi…

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 55 companies show up — and 1 bet on three roles at once?

55 companies. one are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
1All threespeak · spons · exh
43Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
11Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Snyk

02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

30% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite315%
  • VP-level15%
  • Director / Head of210%
  • Manager / Lead315%
  • Engineer · IC945%
  • Research / Science15%
  • Advisor / Investor15%

Of 20 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01SnykSp·G2V
  2. 02360PickCSp
  3. 03Ascend LearningSp·P
  4. 04AvironSp·G
  5. 05AWSSp·T
  6. 06BuildertrendSp·G
  7. 07ChocolateySp·G
  8. 08CloudawareSp·G
  9. 09CoderSp·G
  10. 10CouchbaseSp·P
  11. 11DescopeSp·P
  12. 12Dont Panic LabsSp·P
  13. 13DuendeSp·G
  14. 14DynatraceSp·P
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
platinum11
25% of 44
gold21
48% of 44
titanium2
5% of 44
unspecified10
23% of 44
05Fig. 05 — The Missing · who's at peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

06Fig. 06 — Adjacent Convocations · by shared underwriters