KCD Florida 2026 (Kubernetes Community Days)
Florida's cloud-native conference lands in Miami, and the sponsor booths are staffed by hiring managers.
Miami, FL
What this event is
KCD Florida 2026 is the CNCF community's cloud-native conference for Florida, held December 11 in Miami and serving the Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach region. It is a paid community event with talks, sponsors and networking. Venue and schedule are posted on the CNCF community page.
Roles you will actually see
Who should go
Platform, DevOps, SRE and backend engineers who work with Kubernetes and want to meet the South Florida companies running it.
Community conferences are the best hiring events nobody calls hiring events. Sponsors pay to be there because they're hiring platform engineers, and the people at the booth are usually the team, not HR. Go to the hallway track, not just the talks. Sponsorship depends on each company, and Miami cloud shops range from tiny startups to global banks, so ask.
Show up prepared
- 1Register early and check the sponsor list as it fills in
- 2Prepare one real Kubernetes war story to tell at booths
- 3Join the CNCF South Florida chapter to catch pre-event meetups
Sponsorship reality
Sponsorship varies by employer. No organizer publishes sponsorship. Check each employer you plan to meet against H-1B disclosure data before you go, and ask in the first two minutes so neither side wastes the conversation.
Showing up is half of it.
The other half is being first to the roles these employers post, and having something real to show when you get there.
See roles the minute they go live, tailor one resume per employer, and reach the hiring manager directly. Walk into the event as a follow-up, not a stranger.
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