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Hack Northwest
October 5 @ 9:00 am - October 6 @ 4:00 pm
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Hack Northwest is a hands-on security and AI conference in downtown Tacoma. Four rooms run at the same time over two days, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day, with no fixed schedule, so attendees can drop in for a single session or stay throughout. Bring a laptop.
- Hacking the Enterprise, with Rod Soto: advanced attack techniques across infrastructure, web and cloud (paid add-on, limited capacity)
- Advanced Claude: agentic workflows, taught by Stan Steenhuis, covering custom skills, subagents and coding-agent workspaces
- Play with local LLMs: running open-weight models offline, with hardware provided
- Getting started with AI: a beginner’s room for ChatGPT and Claude
