7th Minneapolis Platform Engineering Meetup

7th Platform Engineering MLPS October 2026

🗓️ When: Wednesday, October 21st 2026
📍 Where: Surly Brewing
⏰ Time: 6:15 – 9pm CDT
🤝 Hosted by: Tarmac and Co-Sponsored by: Chainguard

Join us in hearing from Hayden Goldstien from Greenhouse Software and a mystery speaker from Blank Metal AI 👻

Speakers and Topics:

— Hayden Goldstien, Director of Platform Engineering @ Greenhouse Software
"Building the Agentic Harness Your Business Actually Needs"
- Finding strategic alignment on what your business actually needs and how to build towards that

— 2nd Speaker TBD, from Blank Metal AI

Agenda:
🍻 [6:15pm] – Networking, Drinks, Food
🖥️ [7-8pm] – Tech Talks, Q&A
👥 [8-9pm] – Food, Drinks, Networking, Open Discussion

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Happy fall and halloween everyone! 🍂 🍁 🎃

We're especially excited for this one because Hayden has been an attendee of our meetups for a while now, super interested to hear what he's working on. Our other speakers from Blank Metal have a meetup of their own as well!

— Jake & Mitch

Food and drink provided by Tarmac and Chainguard, attendance is free but please RSVP early as space is limited.

For engineering leaders and senior practitioners who want real, no-fluff conversation about platform work; CTOs, staff/principal engineers, and anyone building toward that. Earlier-career folks who want to learn from them are welcome too.

House rule: share your opinions and be kind to each other. That's it.

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RSVP below - limited space available