​Your KubeCon week starts here. For free.

​15 leading cloud-native practitioners. Two theaters. Hands-on workshops. An iPhone Duo and 15 GTA VI licenses up for grabs. All completely free.

​Join Kelsey Hightower, Liz Rice, Bret Fisher and engineers from NVIDIA, Google Cloud, IBM and across the Kubernetes ecosystem for a day of real production lessons, technical conversations and networking.

​November 9 at Clark Planetarium in Salt Lake City, the day before the main KubeCon conference begins. No KubeCon badge required.

​🎁 And yes, we're giving away prizes.

• ​1 iPhone Duo: The winner receives theirs on December 5.

• ​15 GTA VI licenses: 15 separate prizes, 15 chances to win.

​Everyone who checks in is automatically entered. Just be in the room when we draw the winners live.

​🪐 What to expect

• ​Real engineering lessons: Kubernetes automation, platform engineering, cost optimization and AI workloads in production.

• ​Two hands-on workshops: Practical sessions beyond the talks.

• ​An extraordinary venue: Talks inside Clark Planetarium's IMAX and Dome theaters.

• ​A great community: Meet the engineers and practitioners shaping the cloud-native ecosystem.

​Coffee, lunch, dinner and drinks are on us.

​🎤 Meet the speakers

• ​Kelsey Hightower, Technologist (Keynote)

• ​Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Officer, Isovalent

• ​Bret Fisher, Course Instructor, YouTuber and Podcaster

• ​Vishakha Sadhwani, Senior Solutions Architect, 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

• ​Michael Levan, Principal AI Architect, Solo.io

• ​Pablo Fredrikson, Principal Engineer, Bitso

• ​Caleb Geene, Director, AI & Platform Engineering, Nylas

• ​Žilvinas Urbonas, VP of Engineering, Kimchi

• ​Morgan Helton, Software Engineer, Flox

• ​Engin Diri, Principal Solutions Architect, Pulumi

​📍 When and where

​Monday, November 9, 2026 | 10:30 AM–7:00 PM

​Clark Planetarium, 110 South 400 West, Salt Lake City, Utah

​Free admission. No KubeCon badge required. Registration required.

​Sponsors

​Cast AI · Solo.io · Kimchi · Flox · Teleport

​Come for the engineering. Stay for the conversations.