Lessons from Organizing Kubernetes Community Days Lima 2026

The useful part

12 · Salt Lake City · REGISTER NOW Posted on September 15, 2026 by Ronald Requena | CNCF Ambassador On July 18, 2026, we held the third edition of Kubernetes Community Days Lima at UTEC in Barranco. By now, we have already sent the Transparency Report to the CNCF, thanked our sponsors, and processed the surveys. With the administrative wrap-up behind us, I want to share a few reflections on what it meant to organize it.

How it works

• We had no track record to show sponsors and no idea how many people would show up.
• That year we learned to document: the sponsor guide, the contracts, the run-of-show, the cash flow.
• I teach at a university, and I know how hard it is for a student to feel that an event like this is meant for them.
• That people registered as students and showed up on a Saturday is one of the things I value most about this edition.
• It is an honor to join that global community, and I take it as motivation to keep working so that Lima keeps growing as a cloud native hub in the region.

What to take from it

The second year is the hardest: you are no longer a novelty, but you are not yet a tradition. We nearly doubled attendance, sponsors came back and new ones joined, and international speakers said yes because they already knew KCD Lima. This year I understood that the community no longer needs to be convinced to attend.

Example or evidence

• What people saw on July 18 was the result of that team.And to our volunteers, who ran registration, guided attendees across five rooms, kept sessions on time, and solved a hundred small problems no one else...
• There was already a line of around 100 attendees outside the building.
• I'm Ronald Requena, CTO at Rumbo, professor at Universidad Ricardo Palma, co-organizer of KCD Lima and DevOpsDays Lima, and, as of August 2026, CNCF Ambassador for Peru.
• An image I will not forget I arrived at UTEC at 7:00 a.m., an hour and a half before the scheduled 8:30 opening.

Details worth keeping

Before I continue, a quick introduction of me. Feel free to connect with me or reach out on LinkedIn. This is the third KCD I have had the opportunity to co-organize.

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