8/17/2026 Update: We hit 110 sign-ups! To respect our room capacity of 100, entry will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Arrive early to guarantee your spot, food, and drink ticket!
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Cloud Native Madison & AAIF Community Madison present the AI & Open Source Mixer!Following a massive Agentic AI Summer, we’re heading to The Rigby Pub for a night of technical networking focused on the real-world side of innovation. Talk shop with experts from Broadcom, Solo.io, and more while enjoying complimentary food and refreshments, plus a drink ticket to get you started. We’re also giving away a $999 Ardan Labs Mastery Bundle (Go, Rust, and K8s) to one lucky builder. If you’re building, engineering, or interested in experimenting, come hang out, meet the community, and become part of an ever-growing local ecosystem.
Plus: Win tickets to DevFest WI! 🎟
We'll be giving away tickets to
DevFest WI — a positive, inclusive conference at Forward Fest for all technologists happening Wednesday, August 19 from 8:30 am–4:30 pm at Tripp Commons, Memorial Union. Organized by GDG Madison, Madison Women in Tech, and local volunteers, this year's theme is inclusivity: building teams and products that welcome everyone. Expect inspiring talks, a free hands-on "Anyone can build with Google AI" workshop sponsored by Google, and top-notch networking.
About Cloud Native MadisonCloud Native Madison is the official Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) chapter for Madison, WI, fostering collaboration, innovation, and community growth in cloud-native technologies. CNCF projects are the foundation of cloud native computing. As part of the Linux Foundation, we provide support, oversight and direction for fast-growing, cloud native projects, including Kubernetes, vLLm, kServe, Kubeflow, kagent, and more. Find our LinkedIn, CNCF Page, and more on our Linktree.
About AAIF Community Madison
AAIF Community Madison is the new Madison, Wisconsin chapter of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) — a community of people building agentic AI in the open, under the Linux Foundation.
AAIF is the neutral home for the open standards the agent ecosystem runs on, including the Model Context Protocol (MCP), goose, and AGENTS.md. We bring that work to Wisconsin.
