KubeCon NA 2026: Afterparty Social
Join us in Salt Lake City for Day 1 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 ClickHouse
ClickHouse is a column-oriented database management system (DBMS) for online analytical processing of queries (OLAP). It processes billions of rows and tens of gigabytes of data per second. ClickHouse Cloud is the cloud offering created by the original creators of the popular open-source OLAP database ClickHouse.
About Mezmo
Mezmo is the intelligence layer for production AI, pairing a production-grade control plane (AURA) with an optimized data plane (Mezmo) to make autonomous operations fast, efficient, and safe. Mezmo engineers the context and orchestration foundation teams need to run reliable, cost-effective AI workflows in production, with Agentic SRE as a primary use case.
About Tailscale
Tailscale is the platform for secure, identity-first connectivity, delivering private, seamless connectivity tailored for modern applications, teams, and workflows. Designed to simplify complex network architectures, Tailscale replaces outdated approaches with fast, reliable connections that boost both productivity and security.
About Plakar
Plakar is the open backup platform enabling resilience-as-code for fast-growing companies and enterprises. Security and infrastructure teams use Plakar to define, orchestrate, and verify protection across every workload from a single control plane that scales from one host to multi-tenant cloud deployments. Built around Kloset, an open encrypted deduplication engine that collapses the cost of complete coverage, Plakar runs agent-less on any storage backend, trusts none of it, and gives teams one view of their entire resilience posture. Your keys. Your data. Your recovery path.