KubeCon NA 2026: After-Hours Social
Join us in Salt Lake City for Day 2 of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026! Connect with developers, platform engineers, and cloud-native leaders during a full day of keynotes, breakout sessions, and technical discussions covering Kubernetes, observability, and AI infrastructure.
Agenda
5:00 PM – 9:00 PM: Head straight over from the convention center to Salt Lake City's premier gastropub! Unwind right as sessions wrap up with drinks, bites, and casual networking with fellow attendees, engineering leaders, and open-source contributors.
About Rootly AI
Rootly AI is the AI-native on-call and incident response platform that provides proactive support to help Site Reliability Engineers resolve incidents faster, improve system resilience, and streamline on-call operations. It’s your always-on SRE copilot that automates root cause analysis and identifies patterns that drive continuous improvement—trusted by hundreds of companies like LinkedIn, NVIDIA, Replit, Elastic, Canva, Clay, Tripadvisor, and Shell.
About Chainguard
Chainguard secures open source artifacts with layers of defense, preventing AI supply chain attacks. Engineering and security teams can be confident that what they’re using in production is safe to consume. Chainguard’s trusted open source has minimal vulnerabilities, provable provenance, and malware-resistance by design, defending against supply chain attack risk without adding any engineering toil.
About Twingate
Twingate is the identity-aware access platform that helps modern engineering and infrastructure teams securely access critical systems, production environments, and internal resources without the friction of legacy VPNs and cloud-proxies. By simplifying authentication, improving visibility, and enforcing granular access controls across private and privileged resources, Twingate helps teams move faster while strengthening security—trusted by companies like Notion, Confluent, Wiz, Scopely, Red Hat, and Chargebee.
About Zesty
Zesty helps organizations boost efficiency with its Kubernetes optimization platform. Through intelligent automation and a multi-layer optimization approach, Zesty unifies real-time resource and commitment optimization in a single platform, enabling FinOps and DevOps teams to reduce costs while maintaining peak performance.
About Runpod
Runpod is the AI developer cloud – cloud infrastructure for the full AI lifecycle, built for AI developers. Pods for on-demand GPUs for model development and training. Serverless for production inference at scale. Clusters for multi-node large-scale workloads. One platform. No lock-in, no hyperscaler tax, no ops overhead. 175,000+ community templates. 31 global regions. 1M+ developers chose Runpod through word-of-mouth and self-serve. OpenAI, Perplexity, Cursor and Replit run here. Scatter Lab handles 1,000+ inference requests per second on Runpod, at nearly half the cost of major cloud providers. Gendo migrated their entire GPU backend from AWS in a day.