Agentic AI Summer: Build Night #2 (Hybrid) + $999 Giveaway

Our May Circle event kicked off the residency by getting into the weeds—GitOps automation, Kubeflow's MLOps ecosystem, and early Hermes Agent experiments. Build Night #2 picks up those threads and pushes into two areas the room kept circling back to: security and observability for agentic systems.

This one's hybrid, and running long so more of you can join.

Build Night #2: Jun 24 @ StartingBlock

• 4–6 PM · Onsite (StartingBlock): Collaborative build session. Come architect, troubleshoot, and work through agentic loops with other builders in the room—same hands-on format as the kickoff.
• 6–8 PM · Virtual (bridge opens at 6): We open the stream for a recap, demos, further exploration, and open Q&A. Can't make it in person? Join us online for the second half.

If you're remote, the 6 PM mark is your call time—that's when the bridge goes live.

This month's threads:

• MCP Context Forge & agent context patterns
• GitOps + agentic infrastructure
• Kubeflow / GenAI / MLOps
• Hermes agent exploration
• 🆕 Security for agentic systems
• 🆕 Observability & monitoring agent behavior

The $999 Mastery Giveaway Ardan Labs is back! We're raffling the $999 Mastery Bundle (Go, Rust, and K8s training) at every Circle and Connect this summer. Show up, talk shop, and you might walk away with it. Onsite attendees are entered at the door—we'll run the draw before the bridge opens. Winners must be present to win.

Congratulations to Britany Tadesse for winning last month’s giveaway - thanks for joining us!

The Forward Festival Schedule is now live!

Cloud Native Madison presents the AI & Open Source Mixer!

Following our 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 Red Hat, 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.

RSVP today: https://sched.co/2P0Gi

Huge thanks to solo.io, Red Hat, StartingBlock, and Ardan Labs for fueling this series!