The Cloud Native ecosystem is gaining popularity in the continent of Africa and there has been a surge in talents focusing on DevSecOps, Containers, Cloud computing and Kubernetes. There is however little to no community to support these talents, leading to many aiming to attend conferences like KubeCon, a huge number of whom are always seeking limited scholarship opportunities to these events. The Kubernetes Community Days Africa (Virtual) is a premier event designed to spur interest in DevSecOps and the cloud-native ecosystem, while showcasing people and enterprises already invested in those technologies in Africa.

This is a VIRTUAL event!

Objectives

• Kickstart efforts towards the creation of local Cloud Native communities across Africa

• Showcase the awesome talents & use cases of technologies in Africa

• Enable access to opportunities for learning and scholarship

• Spur interest in open source contributions to CNCF and other projects

• Create a talent source for companies looking to fill relevant roles

Internet Data Sponsorhip

We will be providing internet data sponsorship to participants on a need basis, if you will like to be considered please fill the request form.

Pre-Event Activities

Twitter Spaces Conversation: How to get started in DevOps

April 19, 2021 - 7 PM WAT

Follow @sarki247 and @Samson_Goddy for more info.

Introduction to Grafana by Grafana Labs

April 28th, 2021 - Time: 3pm WAT

Event Details

KCD Africa is a 1-day event with 2 tracks, enterprise and community. The Enterprise track will be hosting speakers with vast experience using cloud-native technologies, they will be sharing use-cases, lessons learnt and tips. The Community track will host community leaders from the Kubernetes core team, CNCF and other leaders within our community sharing tips on how to get started and build a career in the cloud-native industry, while contributing back to the community.

Call for Speakers

We are looking for speakers, largely from the continent of Africa or African's in the diaspora. Visit the CFP page to submit.

Sponsorships

The CNCF has been generous to most of the heavy lifting in making this event possible, but we want to ensure a pleasant and fulfilling experience for our attendees. We are planning to provide stipends and sponsorships to make sure we can get as many participants as possible to benefit. We want to achieve the following:

• KubeCon EU 2021 Sponsorships ~$100 per person
• Linux Foundation Cloud Engineer Bootcamp sponsorship: $1000 per seat
• Internet Data subscription stipends to at least 200 participants: $20 per person

Kindly visit our OpenCollective page to learn more about sponsorship.