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The Hard Tech Week Hackathon puts builders against live challenges in Utah's hard tech ecosystem. Each sponsor brings a real business problem, defines what winning looks like, and puts a cash bounty behind it. HOW IT WORKS Kickoff: Monday, October 26, 4:00 to 5:00 PM. Teams get their challenge briefs, meet the sponsor companies, and start building. Build: Monday to Wednesday Judging: Wednesday, October 28, 5:00 to 6:00 PM. Teams present their solutions to sponsor judges. RSVP here! Winners: Thursday, October 29. Winners are announced on the main stage at Zero Gravity Summit. BOUNTIES Bounties and challenge briefs will be announced soon. WHO SHOULD ATTEND Engineers, developers, designers, founders, and students who want to solve real problems for companies building at the frontier. Register now to secure your spot and get the bounty briefs as soon as they drop. Hosted by 47G, Utah Tech Week, and Nucleus.

We have liftoff! Join us for the official Hard Tech Week Opening Party for an evening of good food, good company, and Utah's hard tech community. Hosted by Traeger and sponsored by OTW Safety, this opening celebration kicks off a week of incredible events. Theme: Space Cowboy. Long before it was a hard tech hub, Utah was frontier territory, settled by people willing to bet on the unknown. That same willingness now drives the hard tech ecosystem, led by the trailblazers and innovators building what's next. Dress the part if you're up for it: hats, boots, spacesuits, and anything that leans into the theme are welcome and encouraged, but not required. Space is limited. RSVP early to secure your spot.

Agent Substrate Day The community gathering for engineers building infrastructure for AI agents on Kubernetes - brought to you by Google, Solo.io and the Agent Substrate Community. The CFP is now closed. The full schedule will be announced soon! Is Sandbox enough? Is a pod the right deployment format for AI agents? Join us at Agent Substrate Day to interact with project maintainers and early adopters of Agent Substrate on Monday, November 9th in Salt Lake City. Hosted by the maintainers and core contributors behind Agent Substrate, this event is built by the community, for the community. Expect deep technical talks and direct access to Agent Substrate maintainers, contributors, and the broader community. What to expect: Single track — one room, one schedule, nothing to miss Talks from teams running agentic workloads on Kubernetes in production Time with Agent Substrate and kagent maintainers An update on project direction and roadmap Join us on Tuesday night after KubeCrawl + CloudNativeFest to keep the party going! Register Now: Agent Substrate Community Party - November 10, 2026

KubeAuto Day North America is co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2026 in Salt Lake City - a practitioner-led day on making Kubernetes smarter through automation, platform engineering, and FinOps. Learn from Kelsey Hightower, Pablo Fredrikson (Principal Engineer, Bitso), and Justin Garrison (Field CTO, Sidero Labs), with more speakers to be announced. Connect with practitioners and peers from across the CNCF ecosystem before the main KubeCon days kick off. KubeAuto Day is free to attend, but registration is required. Check out the full agenda here.

Agent Substrate Community Party Come unwind with the people building the future of agentic infrastructure on Kubernetes. The Agent Substrate Community Party is an informal evening for maintainers, contributors, and anyone in the ecosystem to connect. Whether you’re coming to Agent Substrate Day, in town for KubeCon North America, or you're just deep in the world of AI agents and agentic infra, come say hi. When & Where: 7PM Tuesday, November 10, 2026 · Sky SLC · during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA. Brought to you by Google & Solo.io.