Platform Engineering Meetup (@ KubeCon): Building the agentic future

The Hard Tech Week Hackathon puts builders up against live challenges from 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: You have 48 hours, from the end of kickoff until judging. Judging: Wednesday, October 28, 5:00 to 6:00 PM. Each team presents its solution one-on-one to the sponsor judges. Register for judging Winners: Thursday, October 29. Finalists are notified after judging, and winners are announced on the main stage at Zero Gravity Summit. TEAMS Compete on your own or as a team. We recommend up to three people per team, and teams can have no more than five. BOUNTIES $10,000 from Nucleus $5,000 from Torus The challenge briefs will be released at kickoff. 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. Hosted by 47G, Utah Tech Week, and Nucleus. Venue provided by Aernata. Thank you to the sponsors that have supported 47G and Utah Tech Week in putting Hard Tech Week on: OTW Safety, Nucleus, Silicon Slopes, University of Utah, Torus, Traeger, Drip Swag, Gunderson Dettmer, Tanner, Snowflake, Kickstart, Aernata, US Health

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. Thank you to the sponsors that have supported 47G and Utah Tech Week in putting Hard Tech Week on: OTW Safety, Nucleus, Silicon Slopes, University of Utah, Torus, Traeger, Drip Swag, Gunderson Dettmer, Tanner, Snowflake, Kickstart, Aernata, US Health

Please arrive 10-15 minutes early. We’ll start the panel promptly at 3:00 PM. Panel description follows the location details below. Location: Foundry43 (formerly Industry SLC) Address: 650 S 500 W, Salt Lake City, UT 84101 The venue was previously known as Industry SLC and has recently been renamed Foundry43. Please use the full street address above for navigation, as some maps may still show the old venue name or an incorrect address. Join us for a panel discussion exploring what it takes to deploy robots into the real world, using Blue Collar Robotics and its work in grocery automation as a case study. Bringing together perspectives from robotics entrepreneurship, grocery retail operations, the investment community, and academia, the discussion will explore how to integrate autonomous robotic labor into existing industries whose growth is bottlenecked by labor shortages. Additionally, the panel will highlight Utah's growing hard-tech ecosystem, including the pivotal role of university partnerships and state-supported initiatives.

Join us in celebrating the women shaping Utah’s aerospace and defense ecosystem. RAM and 47G invite you to the Women in Aerospace Dinner, an evening honoring the trailblazers, innovators, and rising leaders driving the industry forward. Connect with peers from across the field and hear from our special guest speaker, MITRE Vice President Kerry Buckley! More details to come.

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. 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