East Bay Cool Kids: Post-Black Hat Cyber Happy Hour

East Bay Cool Kids’ Post-Black Hat Decompression is a peer-only cybersecurity happy hour for practitioners who run security programs: CISOs, directors, architects, engineers, and adjacent operators. The host frames it as a pitch-free, zero-selling zone - vendors and BD badge-scanners are explicitly out - so Tri-Valley cyber leaders can compare notes without commuting into San Francisco or the South Bay. That filter is the product. If you work cybersecurity hands-on in the East Bay / Tri-Valley and just came off Black Hat week, this is the practitioner room that stays local.

The series has run prior practitioner hours in Pleasanton after major conference weeks, which is why the August 11 date is framed as post-Black Hat decompression rather than a random Tuesday mixer. Exact venue is shared on Luma after registration; the public listing is Pleasanton, CA. Registration on Luma is approval-required. Confirm the live time window and exact venue after you are approved. Official CTA: Register on Luma. Do not go if you are selling security products - the host has already said vendors are out.

Tuesday, August 11, 2026, in Pleasanton. Time is not on the public when-line beyond the date, so treat the Luma confirmation as the schedule. Tri-Valley / East Bay geography is the commute win: Pleasanton instead of SOMA or South Bay after a conference week. Bring conference takeaways or a concrete threat-landscape question, not a deck. Approval gates mean you RSVP early and wait; do not put a client dinner on the calendar until Luma says yes and drops the address.

East Bay security leaders who want peer density after Black Hat should apply on Luma and plan Pleasanton once the venue lands. If approval does not come through, skip the drive. This graph does not overlap with founder pitch nights or chamber socials the same week - and it is not trying to.