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October 22, 2026 — Warsaw, Poland

From KCD Warsaw to CND Poland

In 2025, our team organized KCD Warsaw 2025 — the first Kubernetes Community Days in Poland, bringing together over 200 developers and engineers. Now we're evolving into CND Poland — a broader conference covering Cloud Native, DevOps, software architecture, and beyond.

200+ Attendees in 2025
20+ Expert Speakers
1 Incredible Day

KCD Warsaw 2025 Highlights

Watch how the community came together last year.

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What to Expect

Inspiring Talks

World-class speakers sharing insights on Kubernetes, cloud architecture, security, and emerging technologies.

Networking

Connect with fellow engineers, architects, and technology leaders from across Poland and Europe.

Hallway Track & Fun

The best conversations happen between sessions — great coffee, food, and an after-party to keep the community spirit going.

Speakers

Meet our speakers for Cloud Native Days Poland 2026 — maintainers, CNCF ambassadors, and hands-on practitioners from across the Cloud Native ecosystem. Hover or tap a speaker to see their talk.

Alex Chircop Keynote
Talk

The State of the Cloud Native Union

Alex Chircop

Principal Engineer, Google · CNCF TOC

Julia Furst Morgado Keynote
Talk

The Trace I Never Instrumented

Julia Furst Morgado

Principal DevRel Engineer, Dash0 · CNCF Ambassador

Adriana Villela Keynote
Talk

Zen AI Cohabitation: How I learned to embrace the slop

Adriana Villela

Principal Developer Advocate at Dynatrace

Josh Lee Keynote
Talk

Zen AI Cohabitation: How I learned to embrace the slop

Josh Lee

Developer Advocate @ Altinity

Jan Bronicki
Talk

Operating Systems as Code: The Missing Layer in Cloud Native Platforms

Jan Bronicki

Software Engineer, Microsoft · Flatcar Maintainer

Svitlana Chaplinska
Talk

What Could Go Wrong? Threat Modeling Kubernetes in 5 Minutes

Svitlana Chaplinska

Security Engineer @ Metacore Games

Yair Etziony
Talk

After Docker: Isolation for Agentic Workloads

Yair Etziony

Founder, False Systems · CD Foundation Ambassador

Wojtek Gawroński
Talk

Reversibility as a Service: The Property Your Platform Needs

Wojtek Gawroński

Developer Advocate, Unleash

Kateryna Hrytsaienko
Talk

One Brain, Many Skills: How to Serve 100 Models on One Foundation

Kateryna Hrytsaienko

Senior Software Engineer · GDG Kyiv Co-Lead

Moritz Johner
Talk

Boring Work Is Where Agents Actually Start Paying Rent

Moritz Johner

Staff Engineer, Form3

Nikhil Kumar
Talk

Running Multi-Tenant GPUs on Kubernetes with NVIDIA GPU Operator and MIG

Nikhil Kumar

DevOps & Platform Engineer

Artem Lajko
Talk

Predicting GitOps at 15,000+ Clusters: What Large-Scale Testing Taught Us

Artem Lajko

Head of Platform Engineering, iits-consulting

Gianluca Mardente
Talk

Predicting GitOps at 15,000+ Clusters: What Large-Scale Testing Taught Us

Gianluca Mardente

Principal Engineer, Ciroos AI · Projectsveltos Maintainer

Kasper Borg Nissen
Talk

Rethinking Observability as a Platform Product

Kasper Borg Nissen

DevRel & Product, Dash0 · CNCF Ambassador

Marcus Noble
Talk

Kube-Oddities - the quirks that keep Kubernetes interesting

Marcus Noble

Platform Engineer, Monzo · Cloud Native Ambassador

Tal Nordan
Talk

The Full Picture: Visualizing Service "Fullness" to Rethink Saturation Prevention

Tal Nordan

Envoy Contributor · Independent

Robert Pająk
Talk

Agentic Telemetry Was Never Flat: OpenTelemetry Stops Pretending Otherwise

Robert Pająk

OpenTelemetry Maintainer · Senior Staff Engineer, Splunk

David Pech
Talk

"YOU MUST NOT ssh!" and Other Stories from Building Our SRE Agent

David Pech

DevOps Engineer · Kubestronaut

Patryk Piętka
Talk

Container Startup time Or: How to lower it and why should you care?

Patryk Piętka

Software Engineer

Konrad Rzentarzewski
Talk

Str-AI-tjacket: A Tale of Marrying Agentic AI and Declarative GitOps

Konrad Rzentarzewski

DevOps · Kubestronaut

Márk Sági-Kazár
Talk

Kube-Oddities - the quirks that keep Kubernetes interesting

Márk Sági-Kazár

Software Engineer · Cloud Native Ambassador

Alessandro Stefouli-Vozza
Talk

Sovereign by Architecture: A Cloud-Native Reference Stack for AI Workloads Under EU Jurisdiction

Alessandro Stefouli-Vozza

Developer Relations · CNCF Ambassador

Mateusz Szostok
Talk

Beyond Utilization: Pressure-aware vertical autoscaling

Mateusz Szostok

Staff Engineer, Cast AI · Kubestronaut

Cijo Thomas
Talk

Agentic Telemetry Was Never Flat: OpenTelemetry Stops Pretending Otherwise

Cijo Thomas

Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft

Verena Traub
Talk

Operators in Action: Making Kubernetes Work for You

Verena Traub

Cloud & DevOps Consultant, b'nerd

Arnav Tripathy
Talk

Building a digital beehive: The cluster that wasn't real, but the attacks were

Arnav Tripathy

Cloud Security Engineer · Kubestronaut

Sagar Utekar
Talk

Who Gets the GPU? Building Fair Multi-Cluster Allocation for GenAI Research

Sagar Utekar

SRE, Omnissa · CNCF Ambassador

Anton Weiss
Talk

Optimize Your Agents for Cost and Reliability

Anton Weiss

Software Delivery Futurist, Otomato

More speakers announced as talks are confirmed — get updates so you don't miss the full agenda.

Experience the Venue

Chmielna 73 — Varso Tower

CND Poland 2026 will be held at Chmielna 73 in Varso Tower — the tallest building in the European Union, standing at 310 metres. Designed by Foster + Partners and located in the heart of Warsaw, it offers world-class conference facilities with a modern, inspiring atmosphere.

Just minutes from Warsaw Central Station, the venue offers world-class facilities with easy access from anywhere in the city.

Chmielna 73, 00-801 Warsaw
October 22, 2026

Venue Address

Varso Tower
Chmielna 73, 00-801 Warsaw
Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

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Getting There

By Air

Warsaw Chopin Airport (WAW) is approximately 10 km from the city centre

By Train

Warszawa Centralna is a 2-minute walk from the venue

By Metro

Rondo ONZ station (M2 line) is right next to the venue

By Car

Paid parking available in the Varso Tower garage

Sponsors & Partners

CND Poland 2026 is made possible by organizations that believe in the Cloud Native community. We're finalizing this year's sponsor lineup — in the meantime, meet the partners supporting the conference, and see how your company can get involved.

Partners
Foundation Partner

CND Poland 2026 is proudly supported by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Community Partner

In partnership with SysOps/DevOps Polska — Poland's largest SysOps & DevOps community.

Sponsorship Opportunities

Reach a highly engaged audience of developers, architects, and engineering leaders. We offer sponsorship packages ranging from focused visibility to headline presence on the main stage — full tiers, benefits and pricing are in the 2026 prospectus.

Call for Papers

The Call for Papers for CND Poland 2026 closed on June 1, 2026. Thank you to everyone who submitted a talk — we were blown away by the response from the community.

Submissions Closed

What happens next?

Our program committee is now reviewing every submission. Selected speakers will be notified by email, and we'll announce the lineup right here as talks are confirmed.

Didn't get a chance to submit? Sign up for updates to hear about the agenda, tickets, and future opportunities to speak.

Submissions Closed

Speaker announcements coming soon — watch this space.

Meet the Team

The passionate group of cloud native practitioners, community leaders, and conference veterans behind CND Poland 2026 — CNCF Ambassadors, Docker Captains, Java Champions, and seasoned architects united by a shared mission to grow the cloud native ecosystem in Poland.

Tomasz Cholewa

Tomasz Cholewa

Platform Architect

Kasia Brzozowska

Kasia Brzozowska

DevSecOps Engineer

Patrycja Węgrzynowicz

Patrycja Węgrzynowicz

Java Champion, Oracle ACE, Speaker

Maciej Gołaszewski

Maciej Gołaszewski

Cloud Native Meetup Organizer

Rafal Ligmann

Rafal Ligmann

Enterprise Architect

Wojciech Kocjan

Wojciech Kocjan

CNCF Ambassador & Cloud Native Co-host

Paweł Piwosz

Paweł Piwosz

Docker Captain & Cloud Native Co-host

Hubert Stachurski

Hubert Stachurski

Platform Engineering Lead

Contact Us

Have questions about CND Poland 2026? We'd love to hear from you.

For all inquiries — general, speakers, CFP, or sponsorship:

organizers@cloudnativedayspoland.org

CND Poland 2026 is organised by:

Fundacja Innoventis

ul. Skierniewicka 14/66, 01-230 Warszawa, Poland
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0001188169
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5273178248
REGON
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