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Join SLC Motion Meetup for an evening with designers and motion graphics artists, swapping ideas, sharing stories, and easing back into the groove of motion meetups. The Gantry team will share how personal projects have pushed us to experiment, grow as artists, and bring new ideas back into our client work, with a little behind-the-scenes look at the process along the way. You can also join the Discord to stay up to date - linktr.ee/gantry.tv Come hang out, talk shop, and celebrate making stuff for the fun of it.

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. View the schedule & speaker lineup at atecon.dev! 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

A free, practitioner-led day on making Kubernetes smarter: automation, platform engineering, and the cost of AI-era workloads. No KubeCon ticket required. In the IMAX and Dome theaters at Clark Planetarium, Salt Lake City, right before the main KubeCon days. November 9, 10:30 AM to 7:00 PM. Real production stories from teams running Kubernetes at scale, two workshops, and a closing session with food and drinks. 400+ practitioners, 14 speakers, zero cost. From the community to the community. ✨ Why attend Learn how platform teams cut Kubernetes costs with autoscaling and live migration Hear practitioners from NVIDIA, Isovalent, IBM, Google Cloud, Sidero Labs, Bitso and the CNCF community Get ahead on AI inference, AI agents, and sustainable platform engineering on K8s Network with the cloud-native community before the main KubeCon days begin 🎤 Speakers ⭐ Kelsey Hightower, Technologist (Keynote) 🎙 Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Officer, Isovalent 🎙 Bret Fisher, Course Instructor, YouTuber, Podcaster 🎙 Vishakha Sadhwani, Sr. Solutions Architect (AI Inference), NVIDIA 🎙 Justin Garrison, Field CTO, Sidero Labs 🎙 Abdel Sghiouar, Senior Developer Advocate, Google Cloud 🎙 Daniel Oh, Senior Principal Developer Advocate, IBM 🎙 Lisa-Marie Namphy, Head of Developer Relations, Intuit 🎙 Ram Iyengar, Chief Evangelist, Cloud Foundry Foundation, Linux Foundation 🎙 Julia Furst Morgado, Principal Developer Relations Engineer, Dash0 🎙 Michael Levan, Principal AI Architect, Solo.io 🎙 Pablo Fredrikson, Principal Engineer, Bitso 🎙 Caleb Geene, Director, AI & Platform Engineering, Nylas 🎙 Zilvinas Urbonas, VP of Engineering, Kimchi ⚠️ You don't need KubeCon badge to attend KubeAuto Day! Just register here. It's free to attend. Capacity limited. Food, drinks, and coffee included throughout the day. 🍕🍻 Sponsors: Cast AI, Solo.io, kimchi.dev, flox.dev, Teleport

In this hands-on platform engineering workshop during KubeCon Salt Lake City you will build a small managed Kubernetes platform on your laptop: a management cluster hosting tenant control planes, workers joining from outside, the network plumbing between them and how to manage your custom addons. We'll explore: How a hosted control plane works: apiserver, controller-manager, scheduler and etcd as Pods in a management cluster. The network paths that make or break it: node to apiserver and apiserver to kubelet (why kubectl logs fails until a tunnel is in place). How to distribute your custom addons for the tenant Clusters. Operating it: how to safely deploy upgrades without disrupting the Control Plane, how to manage Nodes with Cluster API and how to observe your infrastructure. Your hosts Bring your laptop. This is a hands-on session with limited seats, so register early to save your spot.

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.

AI adoption is spiking, yet only 8% of teams report transformative ROI. Join fellow practitioners at KubeCon Salt Lake City for a slide-free panel and networking reception unpacking the new State of AI in Platform Engineering, Vol. 2 report. We’ll explore how to evolve your platform, what separates the teams getting real value from agents, and how humans and agents can safely ship software together. What we'll cover: Why platform limitations, not model capability, are the primary bottleneck to scaling enterprise AI. Adapting your Internal Developer Platform into an Agentic Engineering Platform so humans and AI agents can build software safely together. Moving beyond basic developer assistance to the stage where AI usage translates to increased engineering throughput. Agenda: 6:00 - 6:30 pm: welcome and networking 6:30 - 7:30 pm: panel discussion, Q&A 7:30 - 9:00 pm: networking with refreshments and snacks Your hosts Come for candid community insights and Q&A; stay for drinks, food, and peer networking. If you're attending KubeCon in Salt Lake City, this meetup is the perfect chance to connect with fellow practitioners. Don't miss it!