KCD DC is looking for Cloud Native talks relative to the DC region. Topics may span the lifecycle from development, provisioning, and deployment to disaster recovery. Recommended topics include:

• Developer workflows, CI/CD, and GitOps solutions
  
• End-user use cases and lessons learned
• Government specific challenges and solutions
• Machine learning and big data
  
• Observability and infrastructure scaling
  
• Security, including air-gapped environments, container hardening, and provenance
  

Open source projects are welcome, but please avoid submitting commercial vendor pitches. The event will be held in person, and local speakers are encouraged. Accommodations may be made for recorded submissions for speakers that are unable to attend in person (please note if you will not be able to attend in person in your submission).