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Franklin BBQ Experience | Austin, TX

Wednesday, April 08, 2026
Austin, TX
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900 E 11th St, Austin, TX, United States, 78702
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Franklin BBQ Experience | Austin, TX

Wednesday, April 8th | 6:00 PM CT

 

Join us for an evening of authentic Southern BBQ in the vibrant heart of Austin! Experience the power of face-to-face networking and collaboration with colleagues and peers. Our events allow you to engage with the latest transformative technologies crucial for the storage, management, and transmission of data on corporate and governmental networks worldwide. We bring you face-to-face with the companies that ensure you're ahead of today's and tomorrow's threats to your data and technology security.

About Franklin BBQ
Established in 2009 by Anthony and Stacy Franklin, Franklin BBQ began as a humble barbecue stand along an Austin interstate. It quickly gained a reputation as the go-to BBQ joint, now proudly located at the bustling 11th Street. Renowned for its mouth-watering, authentic Southern barbecue, Franklin attracts both locals and tourists eager to savor the very best that Texas BBQ has to offer.

Join us for an evening filled with delicious food and dynamic conversations as we network over some of the finest barbecue in Texas! Seats are limited for this exclusive event, so reserve your spot today!

Agenda
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Registration & Networking
6:30 pm - 6:40 pm
Hosts opening remarks
6:40 pm - 6:50 pm
Stefanini Group

Stefanini Group is a global technology consultancy company, offering a broad portfolio of technological solutions with a presence in 41 countries and support in 44 languages. Driven by a shared entrepreneurial spirit, the company helps clients transform their businesses through digital innovation, working agilely and co-creating solutions for a better future.

6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Google Cloud

Google Cloud is the new way to the cloud, providing AI, infrastructure, developer, data, security, and collaboration tools built for today and tomorrow. Google Cloud offers a powerful, fully integrated and optimized AI stack with its own planet-scale infrastructure, custom-built chips, generative AI models, and development platform, as well as AI-powered applications, to help organizations transform. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted technology partner.

7:00 pm - 7:10 pm
Cobalt

Cobalt is the pioneer in pentesting as a service (PTaaS) and a leader in human-led, AI-powered offensive security services. We are focused on combining talent and technology with speed, scalability, and expertise. Thousands of customers and hundreds of partners rely on the Cobalt Offensive Security Platform, along with 500+ trusted security experts, to find and fix vulnerabilities across their environments. By enabling faster pentest launches, real-time collaboration with pentesters, and seamless integration with remediation workflows, we help organizations identify critical issues and accelerate risk mitigation so they can operate fearlessly and innovate securely.

7:10 pm - 7:20 pm
Kumo

Kumo makes foundation models similar to ChatGPT, but for structured data in the data warehouse, this model is called the Kumo Relational Foundation Model (KumoRFM). Simply connect your warehouse and start asking predictive questions like churn, LTV, fraud, or conversion. You will get strong zero-shot predictions out of the box with the ability to fine-tune for even higher accuracy on critical use cases. Trusted by companies like Reddit, Coinbase, Snowflake, Databricks, and DoorDash, among others, Kumo is built by industry veterans: Vanja Josifovski (CEO & Co-Founder, former CTO at Airbnb and Pinterest), Jure Leskovec (Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, Stanford professor and pioneer of graph neural networks), and Hema Raghavan (Co-Founder & Head of Engineering, former AI leader at LinkedIn). Kumo is also backed by Sequoia and leading venture firms.

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Networking, BBQ, and drinks
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