It's time for our biggest event of the year! We're teaming up with Grafana, Devtron, and StartingBlock to host a special birthday bash for the 10th anniversary of Kubernetes and CNCF, and the 1st anniversary of our revitalized local CNCF community.

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Here's what to expect:

• Great Talks: Hear directly from industry leaders, CNCF project maintainers, and local champions

• Quick Demos: Catch up on the latest in cloud-native tech through a series of lightning talks

• Local Connections: Meet and mingle with other companies, engineers, students, and innovators from right here in Madison

• A Real Celebration: Enjoy food, drinks, and plenty of energy as we celebrate the community

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Event rundown (abstracts in bios!):

• 5:00PM (Doors @ 4:30): WELCOME & KICKOFF

  • The Next Decade of Cloud Native: A Madison Perspective

    With Organizers: Ryan Etten, Cory Sherman, & Santanu Mojumder

• 5:15PM: GRAFANA LABS KEYNOTE

  • Beyond Dashboarding: The Grafana Observability Stack

    Tim Levett, Director of Engineering @ Grafana Labs

• 5:50PM: DEVTRON SPOTLIGHT

  • Supercharge the Kubernetes Experience with Devtron

    Cloud Native Madison Organizers on behalf of Devtron

• 6:00PM: COMMUNITY TALKS

  • Building the Front Door to UW Innovation

    Siddharth (Sid) Singh, President @Transcend UW

  • A Kubernetes Community Journey

    Jonathon Jenkins, Enterprise Architect @ Entegral

  • For ten years you have been able to get away with this...

    Nick Nellis, Director of Solution Architecture @ Solo.io

• 6:30PM: DINNER & NETWORKING

  • Continue the conversation over complimentary food and drinks

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A huge thank you to the sponsors making this happen:

✨ StartingBlock Madison – Venue Partner
✨ Grafana Labs – Event Sponsor
✨ Devtron – Event Sponsor

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The Details:

• When: Wednesday, October 29th, from 4:30 PM - 7:30 PM CT

• Where: StartingBlock Madison

• Action: 👉 Register Above!

Don't miss out. This is a perfect chance to connect with the local tech community, learn something new, and celebrate the journey of Kubernetes and our own group. We can't wait to see you there!