There was something magical about seeing humans in person, according to the author, who had not attended an in-person event since 2020. The KubeCon NA 2023 conference kicked off with presentations by Jeremy Adams and Márk Sági-Kazár on how to future-proof a platform's CI/CD pipeline without developers noticing, followed by Kyle Penfound's talk "Run Your CI in Code, Not YAML". The community's response to Dagger was overwhelmingly positive, with the booth being busy throughout the event and great conversations with people who were in the thick of their CI/CD transformations. Impromptu module hacking sessions were also held at nearby lunch tables. Kelsey Hightower gave the team some awesome feedback after a demo of Dagger. The conference ended with a long list of follow-up conversations and the welcoming of many new Daggernauts into the Discord community.