Observability Summit North America 2026: Full Schedule

May 21-22, 2026
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8:00am CDT

Early Registration

Wednesday May 20, 2026 8:00am - 5:00pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom Lobby

Wednesday May 20, 2026 8:00am - 5:00pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom Lobby

Registration

7:30am CDT

Registration

Thursday May 21, 2026 7:30am - 5:00pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom Lobby

Thursday May 21, 2026 7:30am - 5:00pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom Lobby

Registration

8:00am CDT

Coat Check

Thursday May 21, 2026 8:00am - 6:15pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom Lobby

Thursday May 21, 2026 8:00am - 6:15pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom Lobby

Coat Check

9:00am CDT

Keynote: Welcome + Opening Remarks

Thursday May 21, 2026 9:00am - 9:10am CDT

Level One | Ballroom A

Thursday May 21, 2026 9:00am - 9:10am CDT
Level One | Ballroom A

Keynote Sessions

9:15am CDT

Sponsored Keynote: Zero-Code Observability: Close the Coverage Gaps That Cause Outages - Eden Federman, Odigos

Thursday May 21, 2026 9:15am - 9:20am CDT

Level One | Ballroom A

The outages that hurt most start across multiple vectors: compiled languages, third-party applications, legacy services, hard-to-instrument areas, and latency-sensitive workloads. In this session, Odigos co-founder and CTO Eden Federman will talk about how eBPF-based instrumentation with OpenTelemetry output delivers full distributed tracing across every service in your cluster — in minutes,...
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Speakers

Eden Federman

Co-founder & CTO, Odigos

Eden is the Co-Founder & CTO of Odigos, leading the company's technical vision with deep expertise as an OpenTelemetry maintainer and eBPF innovator. With a background spanning major engineering roles, including contributions at Verizon Media, Taboola, and OpenTelemetry, Eden leads... Read More →

Thursday May 21, 2026 9:15am - 9:20am CDT
Level One | Ballroom A

Keynote Sessions

9:25am CDT

Sponsored Keynote: The Work Before the Magic: Autoremediation Readiness - Alok Bhide, Chronosphere | A Palo Alto Networks Company

Thursday May 21, 2026 9:25am - 9:30am CDT

Level One | Ballroom A

The pitch for autoremediation is hard to resist: AI doesn't just surface issues faster — it fixes them on the spot, leaving you to kick back, validate, and observe. MTTR doesn't just shrink; it becomes a relic. Problems vanish before anyone even notices they existed.But rush into it without solid data, proper curation, and clear policy, and you're pulling a tap with too much pressure — nothing...
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Speakers

Alok Bhide

Director, Product Management, Chronosphere (a Palo Alto Networks company)

Alok Bhide is the Director, Product Management at Chronosphere a Palo Alto Networks company, and has been in the Observability space for over a decade, formerly as a Director of Product at Splunk and CPO at Universal Tennis, where he was also responsible for SRE and the Engineering... Read More →

Auto Remediation Readiness Before You Let AI Touch Production pptx

Thursday May 21, 2026 9:25am - 9:30am CDT
Level One | Ballroom A

Keynote Sessions

9:35am CDT

Keynote: 10 Million Spans Per Second: Lessons From Scaling OpenTelemetry at Reddit - Trevor Riles, Reddit

Thursday May 21, 2026 9:35am - 10:00am CDT

Level One | Ballroom A

Reddit processes over 25 billion tracing events per hour across thousands of services. In this talk, we share how we scaled our OpenTelemetry-based distributed tracing platform by 67% in one year—and what broke along the way. We'll cover our architecture: OpenTelemetry instrumentation across Python, Go, and JavaScript baseplate libraries feeding into Kafka pipelines and ClickHouse storage....
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Speakers

Trevor Riles

Senior Software Engineer, Reddit

Trevor Riles is a Senior Software Engineer on Reddit's Observability team, where he owns the distributed tracing platform. He previously co-presented at KubeCon on Reddit's Thanos metrics infrastructure and has been building observability systems at Reddit since 2021.

Thursday May 21, 2026 9:35am - 10:00am CDT
Level One | Ballroom A

Keynote Sessions

Content Experience Level Intermediate

10:00am CDT

Coffee + Networking Break

Thursday May 21, 2026 10:00am - 10:20am CDT

Level One | Ballroom A+B Foyer

Menu:
Assorted Scones (GF)
Blueberry Maple Overnight Oats (v, GF)
Assorted Fruit Yogurts, including Dairy Free and Greek Yogurts

Thursday May 21, 2026 10:00am - 10:20am CDT
Level One | Ballroom A+B Foyer

Breaks

10:20am CDT

The Invisible Tax: How Data Format Conversions Drive up Telemetry Pipeline Costs - Cijo Thomas & Joshua MacDonald, Microsoft

Thursday May 21, 2026 10:20am - 10:45am CDT

Level One | Ballroom A

Telemetry signals traverse long pipelines before reaching observability backends. While enrichment, filtering, and redaction provide clear value, significant compute cost often comes from repeated conversion through different data formats. Telemetry commonly flows through SDK formats, wire protocols, collector‑internal formats, and backend ingestion schemas. Each boundary introduces marshaling,...
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Speakers

Cijo Thomas

Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft

Cijo is a Software Engineer at Microsoft specializing in Observability. He has been deeply involved with the OpenTelemetry project since its inception and is a core maintainer for the OpenTelemetry .NET and OpenTelemetry Rust implementations. His expertise extends beyond OpenTelemetry... Read More →

Joshua MacDonald

Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft

Joshua MacDonald is an OpenTelemetry contributor working in the observability industry. On the side, he writes open-source telemetry software and operates a community water system.

Thursday May 21, 2026 10:20am - 10:45am CDT
Level One | Ballroom A

CNCF Observability Projects

Content Experience Level Beginner

10:20am CDT

[CANCELLATION] Scaling a Proprietary-to-OpenTelemetry Migration With AI-Assisted, Spec-Driven Workflows - Ying Mo & Paras Kampasi, IBM

Thursday May 21, 2026 10:20am - 10:45am CDT

Level One | Ballroom B

This talk presents a practical methodology for migrating a large proprietary observability platform to an OpenTelemetry-native architecture, using a GenAI-assisted workflow paired with a robust spec-driven strategy. Faced with hundreds of custom Java-based sensors, the engineering team designed a spec-driven conversion process that leverages GenAI to extract specifications, generate unit tests,...
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Speakers

Ying Mo

Senior Software Engineer, IBM

Ying Mo is a Senior Software Engineer at IBM, recently working on IBM Instana, an observability platform, leading engineering team to transform the product to OpenTelemetry native. He is always enthusiastic to bring innovative ideas into product by leveraging open source technology... Read More →

Paras Kampasi

Technical Product Manager, IBM

I work at the intersection of OpenTelemetry, observability, and modern cloud-native practices, helping teams make complex systems understandable and reliable. I speak and write about practical ways to apply open standards, close feedback loops between SREs and product teams, and turn... Read More →

Thursday May 21, 2026 10:20am - 10:45am CDT
Level One | Ballroom B

End-User Case Studies

Content Experience Level Advanced

10:50am CDT

OpenTelemetry GenAI in Practice: What the Spec Says Vs. What You Actually See - Zach Groves, Datadog

Thursday May 21, 2026 10:50am - 11:15am CDT

Level One | Ballroom B

OpenTelemetry’s GenAI semantic conventions are evolving quickly. Version 1.37 marked a major shift in how LLM behavior is expressed using standard spans and attributes. While later releases refined and clarified the spec, real-world adoption remains uneven, and “GenAI-compatible” can mean very different things across the ecosystem. In this talk, I’ll share hands-on lessons from...
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Speakers

Zach Groves

Software Engineer II, Datadog

Zach learned to code at Barnes & Noble during rest days between climbing while living in a van. He spent 3 years on the support team before moving over to engineering team at Datadog (3 years on APM and 1 on LLM Obs). He currently works on LLM Obs Otel compatibility. He likes scuba... Read More →

North America Observability otel genai presentation.pptx pdf

Thursday May 21, 2026 10:50am - 11:15am CDT
Level One | Ballroom B

AI and MCP in Observability

Content Experience Level Intermediate

10:50am CDT

Taming Observability at Scale in a Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Platform at Bloomberg - Joe Nathan Abellard, Bloomberg

Thursday May 21, 2026 10:50am - 11:15am CDT

Level One | Ballroom A

Bloomberg runs a managed, multi-cluster Kubernetes platform built atop Karmada to support AI and streaming analytics workloads. This comes with challenges around observability at scale. To meet disaster recovery requirements, we use a multi-region architecture where each Karmada control plane is hosted on management clusters spanning multiple regions. This helps ensure high availability, but also...
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Speakers

Joe Nathan Abellard

Senior Software Engineer, Bloomberg

Joe Nathan Abellard is a Senior Software Engineer on the Cloud Native Compute Services (CNCS) Platform Engineering team at Bloomberg. He's the lead engineer and product owner for Bloomberg's large-scale, managed multi-cluster Kubernetes platform, built on the CNCF Karmada project... Read More →

Thursday May 21, 2026 10:50am - 11:15am CDT
Level One | Ballroom A

Scalability Challenges and Solutions

Content Experience Level Intermediate

11:20am CDT

AI-Powered Root Cause Analysis at Scale: From Theory To Production Lessons From Nubank's 120M+ Cus - Letícia Mota & Yevgeny Gladun, Nubank

Thursday May 21, 2026 11:20am - 11:45am CDT

Level One | Ballroom B

This session presents an AI-powered SRE Agent designed to autonomously orchestrates complex, multi-source investigations by querying internal observability providers and knowledge bases. A primary focus is the "Data Volume Problem." Modern observability systems generate terabytes of metrics and logs daily; at Nubank’s scale, the Prometheus MCP alone has more than 23,000 metrics available, while...
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Speakers

Letícia Mota

Nubank

Letícia is a Product Manager at Nubank with 8+ years of experience. After working with data & image recognition products, she now works with Resilience and Troubleshooting products, including a DR Test Platform and an SRE Agent for Nubank.

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Yevgeny Gladun

Staff Runtime Platforms Engineer, Nubank

Yevgeny Gladun is a Staff Engineer at Nubank with nearly 20 years of software development experience. Over his four-year tenure at Nubank, he transitioned from scaling Data ETL pipelines to deep architectural analysis of microservice interactions. As part of the Runtime Platforms... Read More →

ObservabilityCon 2026 [Nubank] AI Powered Root Cause Analysis at Scale pdf

Thursday May 21, 2026 11:20am - 11:45am CDT
Level One | Ballroom B

AI and MCP in Observability

Content Experience Level Advanced

11:20am CDT

Quantiles at Scale: Choosing the Right Estimation Algorithms for Observability - Mike Shi, ClickHouse

Thursday May 21, 2026 11:20am - 11:45am CDT

Level One | Ballroom A

Quantiles like p90 and p99 sit at the heart of observability. They define dashboards, drive SLOs, and shape how teams reason about system performance. They are also some of the most expensive metrics to compute, and the cost grows fast as data volumes increase. To keep up, observability systems rely heavily on approximate quantile algorithms such as sketches and probabilistic data structures,...
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Speakers

Mike Shi

Head of Product, Observability, ClickHouse

Mike leads observability at ClickHouse, where he works on building a developer-friendly observability platform. He joined ClickHouse through the acquisition of HyperDX, a company he co-founded, after spending the last five years building observability platforms for engineers—accidentally... Read More →

Quantiles At Scale pdf

Thursday May 21, 2026 11:20am - 11:45am CDT
Level One | Ballroom A

Scalability Challenges and Solutions

Content Experience Level Intermediate

11:50am CDT

⚡ Lightning Talk: Summarizing the Noise: LLM Observability With Open Data Hub, VLLM, KServe and Prometheus - Twinkll Sisodia, Red Hat

Thursday May 21, 2026 11:50am - 12:00pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom B

As large language models (LLMs) move into production, raw metrics alone aren’t enough. This talk presents an open-source AI observability solution built on Open Data Hub (ODH) that deploys LLMs using vLLM and KServe, scrapes inference metrics using Prometheus, and feeds them into a summarization model to generate actionable insights. We’ll demonstrate a working UI that translates low-level...
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Speakers

Twinkll Sisodia

Senior Software Engineer, OpenShift AI (Red Hat), Red Hat

Twinkll Sisodia is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat, building scalable, production-ready GenAI solutions. She works with partners to integrate their technology into OpenShift AI and contributes to open source in AI observability, platform optimization, and sustainability. Her... Read More →

Thursday May 21, 2026 11:50am - 12:00pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom B

AI and MCP in Observability

Content Experience Level Intermediate

11:50am CDT

⚡ Lightning Talk: Beyond Billions: Operating Thanos, Prometheus & OpenTelemetry at Trillion-Scale - Narendra Sanikommu, Nvidia

Thursday May 21, 2026 11:50am - 12:00pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom A

Operating a metrics system beyond billions of data points introduces failure modes that don't exist at smaller deployments. This lightning talk shares battle-tested lessons from running, Thanos, Prometheus and OpenTelemetry in production across distributed Kubernetes environments, focusing on three critical challenges: implementing multi-tenancy without noisy neighbor problems, building rate...
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Speakers

Narendra Sanikommu

Senior Software Engineer, Nvidia

Experienced software engineer who is passionate about solving complex software engineering challenges. With around 14 years of experience in software engineering – has a strong foundation in building and optimizing high-performance systems particularly in Observability, Big Data... Read More →

Beyond Billions Operating Thanos Prometheus OTEL at Trillion scale pdf

Thursday May 21, 2026 11:50am - 12:00pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom A

Scalability Challenges and Solutions

Content Experience Level Any

12:05pm CDT

⚡ Lightning Talk: From Collector To Terminal: A Better Way To See Your OpenTelemetry Logs - Jon Reeve, ControlTheory

Thursday May 21, 2026 12:05pm - 12:15pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom B

The OpenTelemetry Collector is powerful, but the "debug exporter" only shows raw output. What if you could see your OpenTelemetry logs - with structure, filters, and context - right in your terminal? This talk introduces Gonzo, an open-source, OTLP-native terminal UI that visualizes logs from the Collector or any OTLP-capable source in real time. Learn how to validate both source...
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Speakers

Jon Reeve

CPO and Co-founder, ControlTheory

Jonathan Reeve is a co-founder of ControlTheory, where he helps teams take control of their observability data with smarter, more efficient telemetry pipelines. A passionate advocate for OpenTelemetry and open standards, Jonathan focuses on making observability more scalable, cost-effective... Read More →

Thursday May 21, 2026 12:05pm - 12:15pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom B

The Future of Open Source Observability

Content Experience Level Beginner

12:15pm CDT

Lunch

Thursday May 21, 2026 12:15pm - 1:15pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom A

Menu: MinneSalad: Romaine, Baby Lettuce Greens, Purple Cabbage, Carrot Shreds,Honey-Clover Gouda, Sweet and Spicy Pepitas, Cucumber,Shredded Daikon, Red Peppers, Blueberry Balsamic Vinaigrette (vg, gf)Sautéed Beef Tips, Wild Rice, Carrots, Celery, Onions, Mushrooms, Topped with Cheddar Cheese and Crispy Tater TotsWild Rice Hot Dish Plant-Based Ground Beef, Wild Rice, Carrots, Celery, Onions,...
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Thursday May 21, 2026 12:15pm - 1:15pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom A

Breaks

1:15pm CDT

Panel: Telemetry That Matters - Diana Todea, VictoriaMetrics; Antonio Jimenez Martinez, Cisco ThousandEyes; Laura Luttmer, Dynatrace

Thursday May 21, 2026 1:15pm - 1:50pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom A

Instrumentation has never been easier, but are we truly gaining clarity? As data volumes rise, dashboards multiply, and observability costs increase, developers may feel less insight and more friction. Are we collecting telemetry with purpose or just because we can? What problem is this data meant to solve? This panel brings together practitioners across open standards, developer experience and...
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Speakers

Antonio Jimenez Martinez

Tech Lead Software Engineer, Cisco ThousandEyes

I am a Tech Lead Software Engineer at Cisco ThousandEyes, specializing in observability to ensure our customers can effectively monitor their products. My recent work involves using OpenTelemetry to stream telemetry data, enhancing network visibility and performance for our clients... Read More →

Diana Todea

Developer Experience Engineer, VictoriaMetrics

Diana is a Developer Experience Engineer at VictoriaMetrics. She has worked as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer focused on Observability. She is an active member of the OpenTelemetry CNCF open source project, co-organizer of Cloud Native Days Romania, co-lead of neurodiversity working... Read More →

Laura Luttmer

Sr. Product Manager, Bindplane (Dynatrace)

I am a Product Manager at Bindplane based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. With over 10 years of product experience spanning SaaS, legal, and data platforms, I focus on OpenTelemetry-native pipeline solutions, AI-powered telemetry intelligence, and helping customers get more out of their... Read More →

Thursday May 21, 2026 1:15pm - 1:50pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom A

Integrating Observability into DevOps Practices

Content Experience Level Intermediate

1:25pm CDT

Unified End-to-End Observability: How Comcast Generates SpanMetrics at Enterprise Scale - Raghu Vamshi Challa, Comcast

Thursday May 21, 2026 1:25pm - 1:50pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom B

Enterprises often struggle with the "black box" nature of proprietary APM tools and the high cost of distributed tracing at scale. In this session, we will demonstrate how Comcast tackled this challenge by migrating 350 critical applications from AppDynamics to a cloud-native OpenTelemetry (OTel) stack, achieving a truly unified end-to-end observability experience. We will pull back the curtain...
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Speakers

Raghu Challa

Comcast Engineer 6, Software Development & Engineering - Backend Engineering, Comcast

Raghu is an Observability Lead at Comcast, driving the enterprise-wide migration from legacy APM tools to OpenTelemetry. He specializes in designing high-scale telemetry pipelines that process massive volumes of trace data. Raghu is passionate about democratizing observability and... Read More →

Comcast SpanMetrics observability summit pptx

Thursday May 21, 2026 1:25pm - 1:50pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom B

End-User Case Studies

Content Experience Level Advanced

1:55pm CDT

Policy as Code Meets OpenTelemetry: The Next Frontier of Observability - Christopher Voisey, EnforceAuth

Thursday May 21, 2026 1:55pm - 2:20pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom B

Modern observability stacks excel at capturing signals about infrastructure health, application performance, and request flows. Yet one critical class of decisions remains largely invisible: authorization. In distributed systems, authorization decisions increasingly determine not only whether an action succeeds, but if data is accessed, tools are invoked, or automated agents are allowed to act....
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Speakers

Christopher Voisey

Field CTO, EnforceAuth

Chris is a technology leader with 20+ years of experience designing and delivering secure, cloud-native systems. He has led engineering and solutions teams across startups and enterprises, helping organizations adopt policy-as-code, zero-trust architectures, and modern observability... Read More →

Thursday May 21, 2026 1:55pm - 2:20pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom B

CNCF Observability Projects

Content Experience Level Intermediate

1:55pm CDT

Taming Tenancy, Cost and Architecture at Collibra Through OpenTelemetry and Our Telemetry Backbone - Alex Van Boxel, Collibra

Thursday May 21, 2026 1:55pm - 2:20pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom A

Operating a SaaS platform presents the same observability problems as any other enterprise, but due to the scale and tenancy, we introduce a huge multiplier on the observability signals, having an effect on cost and effectiveness. This session dives into the techniques Collibra used to tame these problems and how to maintain clarity when infrastructure spans virtual machines, modern Kubernetes...
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Speakers

Alex Van Boxel

Principal System Architect, Collibra

Alex Van Boxel is a Principal System Architect at Collibra. With an engineering background in R&D at Alcatel-Lucent, Progress Software, and Veepee, he loves to focus on the fundamental building blocks of the software industry. That means reading, understanding, and contributing to... Read More →

taming tenancy cost and architecture trough otel pdf

Thursday May 21, 2026 1:55pm - 2:20pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom A

End-User Case Studies

Content Experience Level Any

2:25pm CDT

Whats the Best Way To Reduce Storage Requirements Without Losing Insights? Push AI To the Edge! - Alex Degitz, ElastiFlow Inc

Thursday May 21, 2026 2:25pm - 2:50pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom B

During this session we’ll discuss ElastiFlow’s Edge Observability strategy, which includes an OTel native edge processing node with local DuckDB storage for all OTel signals and an agentic AI system that is model agnostic (we often run it with OpenAI’s gpt-oss-20b), exposing its tools through an MCP server. Instead of just forwarding OTel signals from various Edge collectors, the signals...
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Speakers

Alex Degitz

VP of Product, ElastiFlow Inc

Alex has been building Automation and Observability products for 10+ years and has been advocating to break down silos between operations teams ever since.

Thursday May 21, 2026 2:25pm - 2:50pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom B

AI and MCP in Observability

Content Experience Level Intermediate

2:25pm CDT

The Speed of Metrics, the Fidelity of Traces: Architecting Post-Collection Aggregation - Zack Owens, New Relic

Thursday May 21, 2026 2:25pm - 2:50pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom A

As organizations adopt observability practices, they face a scalability paradox: systems now generate petabytes of traces and logs, but querying this raw telemetry over long time horizons becomes prohibitively slow and expensive due to the data volume. The standard solution of pre-aggregating high-cardinality telemetry into metrics at collection time through features in the OpenTelemetry...
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Speakers

Zack Owens

Principal Software Engineer, New Relic

Zack Owens is a Principal Engineer and Architect at New Relic, focusing on the data platform and NRDB, a purpose-built timeseries database for observability.

post collection agg pdf

Thursday May 21, 2026 2:25pm - 2:50pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom A

Scalability Challenges and Solutions

Content Experience Level Any

2:55pm CDT

One Pane to Rule Them All: Uniting the Prometheus Community with OpenSearch Dashboards, Logs, and Trace - Anirudha Jadhav and Kevin Fallis, AWS

Thursday May 21, 2026 2:55pm - 3:20pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom B

As infrastructure scales across regions and clusters, Prometheus deployments fragment into isolated islands of metrics—disconnected from logs, traces, and the dashboards operators actually live in.This talk is for the Prometheus community. If you've wrestled with federation sprawl, alert duplication, or the gap between your metrics and the rest of your observability story, this session is for...
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Speakers

Kevin Fallis

Principal Senior Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Kevin Fallis is seasoned leader, architect, and developer with experience across many industry verticals and disciplines such as agriculture, ad tech, financial services, networking, security, telecommunications and of course search technologies. His passion helps others leverage... Read More →

Anirudha Jadhav

Sr. Engineering Leader, Amazon Web Services

Anirudha is a Senior Manager, Software Development at Amazon Web Services (AWS), leading development of insight engines and visualization platforms for the OpenSearch Project. He specializes in distributed systems, data analytics, and search technologies, including architecting one... Read More →

Thursday May 21, 2026 2:55pm - 3:20pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom B

AI and MCP in Observability

Content Experience Level Intermediate

2:55pm CDT

When the Cloud Fails: Debugging the "Undocumented" - Dhruv Jain, Gojek (GoTo Group) Indonesia

Thursday May 21, 2026 2:55pm - 3:20pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom A

What happens when a system degrades under high load while all internal metrics remain “green”? At hyperscale, supporting on-demand services across Southeast Asia’s most populous countries, a team observed up to a 7% drop in message delivery. The root cause was not application code, messaging brokers, or load balancers, but a hidden limitation deep within a cloud provider’s firewall. This...
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Speakers

Dhruv Jain

Lead Software Engineer, Gojek (GoTo Group)

Dhruv Jain is a Lead Software Engineer at Gojek, where he focuses on building and scaling MQTT infrastructure that handles millions of concurrent connections across Southeast Asia. Beyond his work at Gojek, he is an active contributor to the open-source community and Google Summer... Read More →

When the cloud fails Debugging the undocumented Final pdf

Thursday May 21, 2026 2:55pm - 3:20pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom A

End-User Case Studies

Content Experience Level Beginner

3:20pm CDT

Coffee + Networking Break

Thursday May 21, 2026 3:20pm - 3:40pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom A+B Foyer

Menu:
Rice Crispy Bars (GF)
Potato Chips (GF, Vg) and French Onion Dip (v, GF)

Thursday May 21, 2026 3:20pm - 3:40pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom A+B Foyer

Breaks

3:40pm CDT

From Data Dumps To Smart Context: Building MCP Servers That AI Can Actually Use - Thomas Johnson, Multiplayer

Thursday May 21, 2026 3:40pm - 4:05pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom B

Most MCP servers fail the same way: they expose observability data without understanding what AI models need to reason effectively. The result? Tools that overwhelm models with metrics, miss critical context, and introduce unnecessary security exposure. At Multiplayer, we built an MCP server to give AI coding assistants access not just to production telemetry but to full stack data: frontend...
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Speakers

Thomas Johnson

CTO and Co-founder, Multiplayer

Co-founder and CTO at Multiplayer, with 20+ years of experience as a backend developer building large-scale distributed software (and robots!)

MCPSARE COLLECTINGDUST pdf

Thursday May 21, 2026 3:40pm - 4:05pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom B

AI and MCP in Observability

Content Experience Level Any

3:40pm CDT

The Full Picture: Visualizing Service "Fullness" To Rethink Saturation Prevention - Tal Nordan, Independent

Thursday May 21, 2026 3:40pm - 4:05pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom A

Saturation has long been the stepchild of "the Four Golden Signals of SRE". While latency, traffic, and errors are directly measurable through metrics like P99, RPS, and 5xx rates, monitoring just how "full" a service is relies on indirect symptoms such as CPU usage or queue depth. Yet, saturation should ideally rather be the first signal to alert, as once it's reached, other signals - latency and...
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Speakers

Tal Nordan

Software Engineer, Independent

An early contributor to the Envoy proxy project, now working on developing tools to detect and mitigate inefficiencies in the way services interact with each other. Over the years Tal has been a founding engineer and a contractor working on a wide variety of cloud-native data-plane... Read More →

Thursday May 21, 2026 3:40pm - 4:05pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom A

Scalability Challenges and Solutions

Content Experience Level Intermediate

4:10pm CDT

Why Are Your AI’s Decisions Hard To Explain: Trace Every Decision With Agentic AI Observability - Dhiraj Kumar Jain & Vikash Agrawal, Amazon Web Services

Thursday May 21, 2026 4:10pm - 4:35pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom B

Agentic AI systems represent a fundamental shift in software architecture: autonomous agents reason, plan, invoke tools, and orchestrate complex workflows without deterministic control flow. This breaks many assumptions behind traditional observability. When agents independently make decisions, failures no longer follow a single request path. How do you debug emergent behavior across multiple...
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Speakers

Dhiraj Kumar Jain

Sr. Software Engineer, AWS

Dhiraj is a software engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he’s working on building a next-gen log analytics platform with CloudWatch Logs, helping scale it to handle vast amounts of data. Before this, worked in Amazon AuroraDB.

A distributed systems enthusiast, Dhiraj loves diving into complex, large-scale problems and building software for the next billion users. When he’s not scaling systems, you’ll find him at tech meetups and hackathons... Read More →

Vikash Agrawal

Vikash Agarwal, Amazon Web Services

Vikash Agrawal is a Software Development Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS), leading initiatives in the AWS CloudWatch team. Previously, he played a key role in developing Amazon Q Developer, a Generative AI-powered assistant for developers. With over a decade of experience in software... Read More →

Observability for Agentic AI pdf

Thursday May 21, 2026 4:10pm - 4:35pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom B

AI and MCP in Observability

Content Experience Level Intermediate

4:10pm CDT

Secure by Design: Rethinking Test Credentials for Synthetic Monitoring - Katie Kodes, Katie Kodes

Thursday May 21, 2026 4:10pm - 4:35pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom A

Synthetic monitoring and end-to-end testing often require dangerous levels of access to production systems. Last summer, I nearly emailed my bank details to a team I was training on new testing tools. If I hadn't caught that mistake, I probably would have dumped them into an OTel collector too. This session explores the security implications of common testing practices, and presents practical...
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Speakers

Katie Kodes

DevOps Architect

Katie is a DevOps architect who brings clarity to complex technical challenges across the entire stack. With experience ranging from infrastructure to front-end development, she helps teams build reliable, observable systems that deliver real business value. A passionate educator... Read More →

Katie Kodes Observability Summit 2026 Slide Deck pdf

Thursday May 21, 2026 4:10pm - 4:35pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom A

Scalability Challenges and Solutions

Content Experience Level Intermediate

4:40pm CDT

Closing Remarks

Thursday May 21, 2026 4:40pm - 4:45pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom A

Thursday May 21, 2026 4:40pm - 4:45pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom A

Keynote Sessions

4:45pm CDT

Evening Reception

Thursday May 21, 2026 4:45pm - 5:45pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom A+B Foyer

Join us onsite for drinks and appetizers with fellow attendees.

Menu:
Gourmet Cheese Platter (v)
Fresh Vegetable Crudités Platter - Spinach Dip + Hummus (v)
Wild Rice Cakes (vg, gf) with Red Pepper Sauce
Filo Tartlet - Sundried Tomato-Chicken

Thursday May 21, 2026 4:45pm - 5:45pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom A+B Foyer

Breaks

7:30am CDT

Registration

Friday May 22, 2026 7:30am - 5:00pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom Lobby

Friday May 22, 2026 7:30am - 5:00pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom Lobby

Registration

8:30am CDT

Coat Check

Friday May 22, 2026 8:30am - 5:15pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom Lobby

Friday May 22, 2026 8:30am - 5:15pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom Lobby

Coat Check

9:00am CDT

Keynote: Welcome Back + Opening Remarks

Friday May 22, 2026 9:00am - 9:05am CDT

Level One | Ballroom A

Friday May 22, 2026 9:00am - 9:05am CDT
Level One | Ballroom A

Keynote Sessions

9:10am CDT

Sponsored Keynote: OpenSearch - See Everything: Open Observability for Agentic AI - Anirudha Jadhav, Amazon Web Services

Friday May 22, 2026 9:10am - 9:15am CDT

Level One | Ballroom A

AI is accelerating software development at an exponential pace, but we have no idea what our AI systems are actually doing. Agents operate across distributed frameworks. One request spawns dozens of hops with zero visibility. The OpenSearch Observability Stack closes that gap—built for open source contributors, with a growing focus on developers and operators using these systems every day. Open...
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Speakers

Anirudha Jadhav

Sr. Engineering Leader, Amazon Web Services

Friday May 22, 2026 9:10am - 9:15am CDT
Level One | Ballroom A

Keynote Sessions

9:15am CDT

Sponsored Keynote: Datadog - Every Byte Counts: How Protocol Design Shapes the Cost of Observability - Amanda Sopkin, Datadog

Friday May 22, 2026 9:15am - 9:20am CDT

Level One | Ballroom A

Today, many organizations are pushing beyond existing limits for telemetry volume. Systems are ever-more distributed and generative AI workloads produce enormous amounts of data. As telemetry volumes grow, observability pipelines must become more efficient.At scale, telemetry egress directly impacts observability spend. Cloud providers charge per gigabyte of data transferred across regions or...
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Speakers

Amanda Sopkin

Engineering Manager, Datadog

Friday May 22, 2026 9:15am - 9:20am CDT
Level One | Ballroom A

Keynote Sessions

9:20am CDT

Keynote: Tracing the Agent's Mind: Extending OpenTelemetry for Deep MCP Inspection - Mustafa Dayıoğlu, TUBITAK & Zeyno Dodd, Conjectura R&D

Friday May 22, 2026 9:20am - 9:45am CDT

Level One | Ballroom A

Production AI agents make thousands of tool-calling decisions daily, yet observability stops at the model boundary. OpenTelemetry's GenAI semantic conventions capture token counts and latencies—what the LLM processed—but not why an agent selected a specific tool. Research (McKenzie et al., 2023) demonstrates inverse scaling: more capable models exhibit unpredictable tool selection patterns....
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Speakers

mustafa dayıoğlu

Senior Chief Researcher, TUBITAK (THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF TÜRKİYE)

Mustafa Dayıoğlu (PhD, ITU) is a security architect with 25 years of experience in cybersecurity at TÜBİTAK, designing large-scale security systems serving 80 million citizens for regulated environments. Specializes in threat modeling and protocol development for AI agent systems... Read More →

Zeyno Dodd

R&D Solution Architect, Conjectura R&D

R&D Architect with 25+ years building distributed systems and leading open research collaborations. Principal collaborator on SFAMDF and GraphSentinel—open initiatives exploring proactive, federated security patterns for MCP‑based agentic AI systems. Research interests include... Read More →

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Friday May 22, 2026 9:20am - 9:45am CDT
Level One | Ballroom A

Keynote Sessions

Content Experience Level Intermediate

9:45am CDT

Coffee + Networking Break

Friday May 22, 2026 9:45am - 10:20am CDT

Level One | Ballroom A+B Foyer

Menu:
Seasonal Fresh Cut Fruit
Cinnamon-Apple Breakfast Bake (v)
Gluten Free Muffin (GF)

Friday May 22, 2026 9:45am - 10:20am CDT
Level One | Ballroom A+B Foyer

Breaks

9:45am CDT

Last Call for T-Shirts

Friday May 22, 2026 9:45am - 10:20am CDT

Level One | Ballroom A+B Foyer

Please visit the t-shirt swag table if you have not yet picked up your event shirt!

Friday May 22, 2026 9:45am - 10:20am CDT
Level One | Ballroom A+B Foyer

Breaks

10:20am CDT

Exploring Observability with MCP Servers - Tiffany Jernigan, Grafana Labs

Friday May 22, 2026 10:20am - 10:45am CDT

Level One | Ballroom A

You may have heard of the pillars of observability: metrics, logs, traces, and, depending on who you ask, profiles. As systems grow in complexity, the need to both individually understand and correlate these signals becomes paramount for rapid incident detection, root cause analysis, and performance optimization. Yet, even with advances like OpenTelemetry, making sense of your own data often...
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Speakers

Tiffany Jernigan

Senior Developer Advocate, Grafana Labs

Tiffany is senior developer advocate at Grafana Labs and a CNCF Ambassador. She also formerly worked as a software developer and developer advocate at VMware, Amazon, Docker, and Intel. Prior to that, she graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in electrical engineering. In her... Read More →

Friday May 22, 2026 10:20am - 10:45am CDT
Level One | Ballroom A

AI and MCP in Observability

Content Experience Level Beginner

10:20am CDT

Observing the Observers: Bringing OpenTelemetry to Autonomous AI Agents - Abdel Fane, OpenA2A

Friday May 22, 2026 10:20am - 10:45am CDT

Level One | Ballroom B

Traditional observability assumes humans operate systems. AI agents break that model—they make autonomous decisions, execute operations without approval, and drift in capability over time. Yet most organizations have zero observability into their AI agent infrastructure. When developers spin up MCP servers through Claude Desktop or Cursor, security and ops teams are blind. No metrics. No...
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Speakers

Abdel Fane

CEO & Founder, OpenA2A

Abdel is a cybersecurity architect with 17+ years of experience securing enterprise environments across healthcare, finance, and government sectors. He has led security initiatives at Grail, Booz Allen Hamilton, Protiviti, and Allstate, specializing in cloud security & DevSecOps.
... Read More →

Friday May 22, 2026 10:20am - 10:45am CDT
Level One | Ballroom B

AI and MCP in Observability

Content Experience Level Intermediate

10:50am CDT

Don't Let Users Find Your Outages: Synthetic Monitoring for Kubernetes Platforms - Kate Agnew, Marriott & David Norton, Platformers

Friday May 22, 2026 10:50am - 11:15am CDT

Level One | Ballroom B

No platform owner wants to be told their platform is down by a user. A core responsibility of the platform operating model is ensuring a reliable platform for the organization. In practice, it isn't always easy to detect when things are broken, especially when it falls outside of the traditional metrics coverage. In our work, we adopted synthetic monitoring using Kuberhealthy, a CNCF project, to...
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Speakers

Kate Agnew

Sr. Director of Platform Engineering, Marriott

Kate Agnew is a Sr Director of Platform Engineering at Marriott, where she manages the enterprise Kubernetes and Service Mesh platform. Prior to Marriott, she held a similar platform leadership role at Optum, and has had multiple other leadership and technology positions at smaller... Read More →

David Norton

President and Principal Consultant, Platformers

David Norton is a founder and principal consultant at Platformers. He has been working in cloud platform engineering since 2016. Prior to that, he worked as an application developer.

David lives in St. Louis Park, MN, and usually enjoys spending time with his family, playing pickleball, reading, and fishing... Read More →

Friday May 22, 2026 10:50am - 11:15am CDT
Level One | Ballroom B

Integrating Observability into DevOps Practices

Content Experience Level Beginner

10:50am CDT

Show Me the Receipts: A Forensic Hunt for Observability - Mostafa Radwan, Datadog

Friday May 22, 2026 10:50am - 11:15am CDT

Level One | Ballroom A

Today, observability platforms can process massive volumes of telemetry, but practitioners struggle to determine what matters during incidents, unnecessarily increasing usage bills. This talk resolves the question: “Which telemetry data should we keep?” Learn how one team achieved 30% log reduction by flipping the script and asking “what did we actually use?” instead of “what should we...
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Speakers

Mostafa Radwan

Senior Solutions Engineer, Datadog

Mostafa is a technologist specialized in cloud native computing, observability, and security.

He started his career as a software engineer before getting in the trenches of application and production support.

He worked as a Solutions Architect at Docker where he helped enterp... Read More →

Show Me The Receipts A Forensic Hunt for Observability pdf

Friday May 22, 2026 10:50am - 11:15am CDT
Level One | Ballroom A

Scalability Challenges and Solutions

Content Experience Level Any

11:20am CDT

[CANCELLATION] AI Training in Emerging Economies: Building Africa's Largest LLM From the Ground Up - Okikiola Oliyide, Awarri

Friday May 22, 2026 11:20am - 11:45am CDT

Level One | Ballroom A

N-ATLaS is a multilingual African-language LLM we took from research to production on Kubernetes. This talk shows the end-to-end path we used to make it reproducible, observable, and affordable: data + finetune pipelines (artifacts, seeds, checkpoints), Argo-orchestrated training on mixed GPU pools, and a serving stack with Triton + KServe tuned for real traffic. I’ll walk through SRE guardrails...
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Speakers

work okiki

Lead DevOps Engineer, Awarri

Okikiola Oliyide is Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer at Awarri Technology, where he designs and operates large-scale Kubernetes platforms powering Africa’s largest LLM initiative. With 5+ years across AWS, GCP, and on-prem, he specialises in CI/CD, observability, and cost-efficient GPU... Read More →

Friday May 22, 2026 11:20am - 11:45am CDT
Level One | Ballroom A

CNCF Observability Projects

Content Experience Level Intermediate

11:20am CDT

Applying Observability to the Internet of Living Things (IoLT) - Sophia Solomon, Elastic

Friday May 22, 2026 11:20am - 11:45am CDT

Level One | Ballroom B

We see IoT everywhere, from smart fridges to air quality sensors, but what about applying observability to billions of living things? Introducing Meowy, my virtual cat with a full observability stack. In this talk, I'll build a digital pet from scratch in Go, instrument it with OpenTelemetry, and visualize its "life" in real time, live-tracking its habits, moods, and (attempted) escapes. I'll...
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Speakers

Sophia Solomon

Elastic

Friday May 22, 2026 11:20am - 11:45am CDT
Level One | Ballroom B

Integrating Observability into DevOps Practices

Content Experience Level Any

11:50am CDT

⚡ Lightning Talk: Show Me the Money: Metrics Edition - Brian Davis, Red Canary

Friday May 22, 2026 11:50am - 12:00pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom A

Existing cloud and Kubernetes cost management tools struggle to track expenses at a granular level, leaving engineers unable to answer critical questions like: How much is one specific customer costing us in DynamoDB usage? Or, which system component is consuming the most of our Kafka cluster?1 This lightning talk demonstrates how to leverage existing observability frameworks to gain detailed,...
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Speakers

Brian Davis

Principal Software Architect, Red Canary

Principal Software Architect at Red Canary, a Zscaler Company, Brian Davis has been building and monitoring complex systems for over two decades, ranging from signal-processing algorithms to complex data-processing applications, deploying these on Solaris servers, on-prem virtual... Read More →

Show Me The Money Metrics Edition Brian Davis Red Canary Zscaler pdf

Friday May 22, 2026 11:50am - 12:00pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom A

End-User Case Studies

Content Experience Level Beginner

12:05pm CDT

⚡ Lightning Talk: Observability Debt: When Telemetry Stops Telling the Truth - Spoorthi Palakshaiah, Relevance Lab

Friday May 22, 2026 12:05pm - 12:15pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom A

This talk introduces observability debt as an operational issue that develops over time in evolving systems. Teams often instrument services early using observability frameworks, define metrics, dashboards, alerts, and SLOs, and initially gain confidence in their ability to understand system behavior. However, production systems rarely remain static. As systems evolve through refactoring, scaling,...
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Speakers

Spoorthi Palakshaiah

DevOps Engineer, Relevance Lab

Spoorthi is a DevOps engineer with experience designing, building, and optimizing cloud infrastructure. She works extensively with Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and open source observability tools to improve system reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency... Read More →

Observability Debt SpoorthiPalakshaiah pdf

Friday May 22, 2026 12:05pm - 12:15pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom A

Integrating Observability into DevOps Practices

Content Experience Level Intermediate

12:05pm CDT

⚡ Lightning Talk: A Drop-in System To Accelerate Metrics Observability by 100x Using Sketch-based Approximation - Milind Srivastava, Carnegie Mellon University

Friday May 22, 2026 12:05pm - 12:15pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom B

Metrics observability workloads are growing in scale, resulting in (a) higher cost to operate observability infrastructure, and (b) slower query latencies. The usual approaches to deal with these are: - sample data - roll up data - reduce data cardinality - send less queries All of these approaches compromise the coverage of the observability infrastructure and can result in missing...
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Speakers

Milind Srivastava

PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University

Milind Srivastava is a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University working on re-imagining the design of data analytics pipelines using semantic-preserving summarization, to drastically reduce costs, and increase performance. He is interested in seeing his research get adopted by industry... Read More →

Observability Summit May 2026 pdf

Friday May 22, 2026 12:05pm - 12:15pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom B

Scalability Challenges and Solutions

Content Experience Level Advanced

12:15pm CDT

[Rescheduled] ⚡ Lightning Talk: GPU-Scanner: Extending CNCF Observability for Multi-GPU AI Workloads - Ritika Gupta, Oracle

Friday May 22, 2026 12:15pm - 12:25pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom B

As large language models scale across hundreds of GPUs and multi-node AI systems, they’ve become a major operational challenge for infrastructure engineers. Traditional observability tools stop at the node level, leaving GPU health and utilization invisible until workloads fail or budgets spike. Imagine a 25 day training job failing on day 23 because one GPU silently throttled! In this...
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Speakers

Ritika Gupta

Senior SWE - AI Incubations, Oracle

With a knack for transforming chaos into seamless solutions Ritika Gupta creates technologies to bind Kubernetes, Containers and Cloud ecosystem leveraging cloud native tooling. She actively contributes to Kubernetes as an sig-windows member. Her expertise spans container orchestration... Read More →

Friday May 22, 2026 12:15pm - 12:25pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom B

Community-Driven Development in Observability

Content Experience Level Intermediate

12:30pm CDT

Lunch

Friday May 22, 2026 12:30pm - 1:25pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom A

Menu:

Smoked Turkey-Honey Dijon Wedge; Smoked Turkey, Honey-Dijon Cream Cheese, Lettuce, Marble Pumpernickel Focaccia (GF)
Ham & Swiss Wedge; Smoked Ham, Mustard Aioli, Lettuce, Egg Focaccia
Roasted Veggie Wrap (vg)
Corn Chowder Soup (v, GF)

Blueberry Cheesecake (V) and Apple Spice Cake (vg, GF)

Friday May 22, 2026 12:30pm - 1:25pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom A

Breaks

1:25pm CDT

Beyond Dashboards: Architecting AI Agents for Autonomous Observability - Divya Mahajan, Amazon & Achin Gupta, Intuit

Friday May 22, 2026 1:25pm - 1:50pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom A

The future of observability isn't better dashboards—it's AI agents that reason across metrics, logs, and traces alongside your engineering team.Engineers spend hours correlating signals across Grafana, Kibana, and Jaeger, mentally stitching together what happened and why. What if an agent could do that correlation automatically?This session presents a practical architecture for building...
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Speakers

Divya Mahajan

Software Engineer, Amazon

Divya Mahajan is a Software Development Engineer at Amazon Alexa, where she builds production-grade Agentic AI and LLM systems at scale. Her work sits at the intersection of conversational AI, agentic automation, and reliable system design, with a focus on accuracy, observability... Read More →

Achin Gupta

Staff Software Engineer, Intuit

Achin Gupta is a Staff Software Engineer with 9 years of experience designing and building production grade distributed observability backends on Kubernetes. He also focuses on AI driven systems, developing LLM powered workflows and multi agent architectures, with an emphasis on observability... Read More →

Friday May 22, 2026 1:25pm - 1:50pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom A

AI and MCP in Observability

Content Experience Level Intermediate

1:25pm CDT

eBPF Application Instrumentation for Java: Challenges, Design, and Real-World Examples - Endre Sara, Causely, Inc & Stephen Lang, Grafana Labs

Friday May 22, 2026 1:25pm - 1:50pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom B

Java is one of the most widely used languages for enterprise applications. Frameworks such as Spring Boot and Quarkus make observability straightforward when the OpenTelemetry Java agent can be injected. In many production environments, however, modifying application code or JVM startup parameters is not possible. In these cases, eBPF-based instrumentation enables observability without code...
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Speakers

Stephen Lang

Staff Software Engineer, Grafana Labs

Stephen is a Staff Software Engineer on Grafana's Beyla team and an approver for the OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) project.

Endre Sara

Co-Founder, Causely, Inc

Endre is a Co-Founder of Causely, where he’s building the IT industry’s first causal reasoning. Previously, Endre was VP of Advanced Engineering at Turbonomic. Prior to Turbonomic, Endre was a VP at Goldman Sachs. Endre holds an M.E. in Electrical Engineering from the Technical... Read More →

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Friday May 22, 2026 1:25pm - 1:50pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom B

CNCF Observability Projects

Content Experience Level Beginner

1:55pm CDT

Breaking Free from Vendor Lock-In: Nubank DIY Observability Success - Diego Rocha, AWS & Otavio Valadares, Nubank

Friday May 22, 2026 1:55pm - 2:20pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom B

Nubank is the largest digital bank outside Asia, operating in Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia, and serving over 120 million customers. As a cloud-native company, Nubank distributed digital environment relies on more than 4,000 microservices, generating nearly 1 petabyte of monitoring logs daily. To better manage this volume and reduce operational costs by over 50%, Nubank recently transitioned from...
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Speakers

Diego Rocha

Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS

Otavio Valadares

Lead Software Engineer, Nubank

Lead Software Engineer @ Nubank

Observability Summit 2026 Final pdf

Friday May 22, 2026 1:55pm - 2:20pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom B

Scalability Challenges and Solutions

Content Experience Level Intermediate

1:55pm CDT

One Size Does Not Fit All: A Polystore Architecture for Logs and Traces - Suman Karumuri, KalDB

Friday May 22, 2026 1:55pm - 2:20pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom A

Observability data isn't homogeneous. Security logs require needle-in-haystack searches with multi-year compliance retention. Kernel logs are uncompressible text. Structured logs enable fast aggregations, while semi-structured logs explode cardinality. Traces demand different access patterns entirely. Modern requirements compound this. Observability must join with other data sources. Agentic AI...
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Speakers

Suman Karumuri

CEO, KalDB

Suman Karumuri is Founder and CEO of KalDB and author of KalDB, an open source serverless Lucene platform. He is co-author of the OpenTracing/OpenTelemetry specification and was previously tech lead of Zipkin. Over the past decade, he has built and ran petabyte-scale log search, distributed... Read More →

Friday May 22, 2026 1:55pm - 2:20pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom A

Scalability Challenges and Solutions

Content Experience Level Intermediate

2:25pm CDT

The Legend of Config: Breath of the Cluster - Henrik Rexed, Dynatrace

Friday May 22, 2026 2:25pm - 2:50pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom B

Configuring Ingress, Gateway API, or service meshes in Kubernetes can feel like exploring an open world without a map : one wrong turn, and traffic vanishes. In this session, we’ll explore how to detect and prevent misconfigurations using OpenTelemetry, eBPF-based instrumentation (OBI), and enriched logs from service meshes and ingress controllers. Like a hero collecting tools to unlock new...
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Speakers

Henrik Rexed

Cloud Native advocate & CNCF Ambassador, Dynatrace

Henrik is a Cloud Native Advocate at Dynatrace and a CNCF Ambassador . Prior to Dynatrace, Henrik has worked more than 15 years, as Performance Engineer. Henrik Rexed Is Also one of the Organizer of the conferences named WOPR, KCD Austria and the owner of the Youtube Channel Isit... Read More →

Friday May 22, 2026 2:25pm - 2:50pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom B

Community-Driven Development in Observability

Content Experience Level Intermediate

2:25pm CDT

Implementation of Unified Observability at Scale From Scratch - Ahmed J., Emaar

Friday May 22, 2026 2:25pm - 2:50pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom A

Unified observability has lately been regarded as the holy grail by some. One platform, universal observability, for everything. Usually, this would be the default, but when you are at a 30-year-old non-technical enterprise, dealing with a mixture of legacy and modern systems, it's a whole different story. A consequence of legacy decisions, in some cases, results in having multiple observability...
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Speakers

Ahmed J.

Platform Engineer, Emaar

Ahmed is a platform engineer with a background in artificial intelligence research and development. He excels at building scalable infrastructure to deploy and manage production-grade applications and models. He co-led the orchestration of modern infrastructure and observability at... Read More →

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Friday May 22, 2026 2:25pm - 2:50pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom A

End-User Case Studies

Content Experience Level Intermediate

2:55pm CDT

How Observability-First Development Lets You Ship Agents in Weeks, Not Months - Anirudha Jadhav & Kevin Fallis, AWS

Friday May 22, 2026 2:55pm - 3:20pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom A

Building AI agents is easy, but knowing why they fail is hard. Traditional APM tools were designed for request-response services, not autonomous agents that reason, plan, and execute multi-step workflows. When your agent makes unexpected decisions, standard metrics and traces don't tell you why. This session introduces Eval-Driven Development, which focuses on building reliable agents through...
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Speakers

Anirudha Jadhav

Sr. Engineering Leader, Amazon Web Services

Kevin Fallis

Principal Senior Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Friday May 22, 2026 2:55pm - 3:20pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom A

AI and MCP in Observability

Content Experience Level Intermediate

2:55pm CDT

Let Them Eat Bugs: Practical Showcase of Agentic Issue Resolution - May Walter, Hud

Friday May 22, 2026 2:55pm - 3:20pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom B

What if we could move a big chunk of bug fixing and solving production issues to agentic AI? That would be so cool. In this talk we will go through the end to end process of setting up a background agentic workflow that detects production errors, finds their root causes, assesses the right solution and opens a PR - so you wake up in the morning to tasks almost fully completed for you by your loyal...
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Speakers

May Walter

Co-Founder & CTO, Hud

May Walter is a software engineer, researcher, entrepreneur and serial CTO. She is currently Co-Founder and CTO of Hud, building a Runtime Code Sensor to bridge the gap between coding agents and production. Before Hud she was a founding CTO at Santa, and CTO at Bond (acquired by REEF... Read More →

Friday May 22, 2026 2:55pm - 3:20pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom B

AI and MCP in Observability

Content Experience Level Intermediate

3:20pm CDT

Coffee + Networking Break

Friday May 22, 2026 3:20pm - 3:40pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom A+B Foyer

Menu:
Assorted Dry Snacks and Mini Candy Bars (v)

Friday May 22, 2026 3:20pm - 3:40pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom A+B Foyer

Breaks

3:40pm CDT

Devs, Transform (Your Data) and Roll Out!: Learning and Leveraging OTTL - Reese Lee, New Relic

Friday May 22, 2026 3:40pm - 4:05pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom A

The OpenTelemetry Collector has emerged as one of the project’s most critical pieces for ingesting and processing your app and infrastructure data, but did you know there’s even more you can do with your data before it reaches your backend? Enter OTTL, or OpenTelemetry Transformation Language, a domain-specific language that can interact with and modify OTel data. Yes, the Collector already...
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Speakers

Reese Lee

Senior Developer Relations Engineer, New Relic

Reese Lee is a Senior Developer Relations Engineer at New Relic focusing on technical enablement via workshops, blog posts, documentation, and more. She is a Maintainer of the OpenTelemetry End User SIG, where she enjoys learning about interesting use cases and the different ways... Read More →

Friday May 22, 2026 3:40pm - 4:05pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom A

CNCF Observability Projects

Content Experience Level Intermediate

3:40pm CDT

Inside the Telemetry Data Plane: Constraints, Tradeoffs, and Scale - Eduardo Silva & José Lecaros, Chronosphere | A Palo Alto Networks Company

Friday May 22, 2026 3:40pm - 4:05pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom B

Modern telemetry systems often struggle not because of missing features, but because of hidden constraints in how data is buffered, scheduled, and moved through the system. This session explores the practical realities of building a telemetry data plane that must operate under extreme throughput, tight latency budgets, and strict resource limits. Using real-world experience from developing a...
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Speakers

José Lecaros

Support Engineer, Chronosphere | A Palo Alto Networks Company

He works as a Support Engineer at Chronosphere, helping both customers and the Fluent community. He's been a developer and support engineer for 20+ years.

Eduardo Silva

Distinguished Engineer, Chronosphere | A Palo Alto Networks Company

Eduardo is an entrepreneur and Software Engineer. He is one of Fluentd project maintainers and creator of Fluent Bit, a lightweight Logs, Metrics, and Traces processor.

Friday May 22, 2026 3:40pm - 4:05pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom B

Integrating Observability into DevOps Practices

Content Experience Level Intermediate

4:10pm CDT

Closing Remarks

Friday May 22, 2026 4:10pm - 4:15pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom A

Friday May 22, 2026 4:10pm - 4:15pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom A

Keynote Sessions

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[CANCELLATION] The Missing Layer in eBPF Observability: Storage - Kritik Sachdeva, IBM

Friday May 22, 2026 4:10pm - 4:35pm CDT

Level One | Ballroom B

Modern observability has embraced eBPF for profiling CPU usage and tracing network paths in production systems. Yet one critical layer remains largely under-instrumented: storage. Despite being a frequent source of performance issues, storage I/O is still treated as a black box, especially in cloud native environments. This talk we will walk through the basic storage I/O path in Linux and...
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Speakers

kritik sachdeva

Technical Support Professional, IBM

I’m Kritik Sachdeva, currently working as a Support Professional at IBM. I’ve been working with Ceph & OpenShift for the past 5 years, and since college I had a great interest in technologies like K8s, containers, or Ceph.

Since then, I’ve enjoyed exploring how different... Read More →

Friday May 22, 2026 4:10pm - 4:35pm CDT
Level One | Ballroom B

The Future of Open Source Observability

Content Experience Level Beginner

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