Fast and Furious Adoption of OpenTelemetry with the Injector
When: Monday, November 10 | 11:15 - 11:40 AM
Where: Building B | Level 2 | B206
The OpenTelemetry Injector is a new project of OpenTelemetry, allowing quick injection of OpenTelemetry SDKs into any running application system wide. This talk will explain the rationale of the project, how its components work, its roadmap, and how it complements other parts of OpenTelemetry. We’ll wrap it up with an exciting demo.
Antoine Toulme
Principal Product Manager
Splunk, a Cisco Company
Jason Plumb
Principal Software Engineer
Splunk, a Cisco Company
The Hidden Foundation: How Effective Data Management Determines AI System Success
When: Monday, November 10 | 4:30 - 4:55 PM
Where: Building B | Level 4 | B401-402
Artificial intelligence systems are failing in production not because of algorithmic limitations, but due to fundamental data management failures that remain hidden beneath the surface. While organizations focus extensively on model selection and hyperparameter tuning, they often overlook the critical foundation that determines AI success: robust, reliable data management.
This talk will cover practical approaches for building resilient data foundations using cloud native technologies, including implementation patterns with OpenTelemetry for comprehensive data pipeline observability, Kubernetes and Kubeflow for management and orchestration, and Prometheus for monitoring data quality metrics at scale. The session addresses critical governance frameworks necessary for AI-ready data platforms, examining how organizations can establish sustainable data management practices that support both traditional workloads and AI applications.
Keith McClellan
Field CTO
Splunk, a Cisco Company
OpenTelemetry: Unpacking 2025, Charting 2026
When: Tuesday, November 11 | 5:00 - 5:30 pm
Where: Building C | Level 3 | Georgia Ballroom 3
Please join in for an insightful session which focuses on the impactful features and initiatives OpenTelemetry rolled out in 2025. You'll also get the inside scoop on what's coming in 2026 and how it's all going to shape the future of observability.
This session will also give you an opportunity to ask the awesome OpenTelemetry maintainers, TC and GC members, your questions about your favorite features or anything else OpenTelemetry.
Alolita Sharma
Eng. Leader, AIML Platform Engineering,
Apple
Austin Parker
Director of Open Source
Honeycomb.io
Trask Stalnaker
Principal Software Engineer
Microsoft
Josh Suereth
OpenTelemetry Technical Committee
Google
Debugging Your Cluster When it’s on Fire
When: Wednesday, November 12 | 4:00 - 4:25 PM
Where: Building B | Level 5 | Thomas Murphy Ballroom 4
Imagine you have a Kubernetes cluster that’s hosting some number of services, perhaps these services are written in different programming languages, perhaps there are some databases in the cluster too. Now, imagine that this cluster is intermittently experiencing errors and it’s not easy to tell what’s going on.
In this talk we will show you how you can add detailed telemetry immediately to a problematic production environment cluster, without any changes to your existing cluster configuration or applications, with the new OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation project. We’ll show you how you’ll be able to get insights into what’s wrong with your cluster or services, by leveraging on-demand distributed traces and connectivity graphs, even if it’s the first time you have heard the term OpenTelemetry. We’ll discuss the design principles which make this technology safe to deploy in an already problematic environment, without further compromising the stability of your cluster.
Nikola Grcevski
Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
OpenTelemetry Logs Driving a Major Shift: Events, Richer Data, and Smarter Semantics
When: Wednesday, November 12 | 4:45 - 5:15 PM
Where: Building B | Level 3 | B304 - 305
OpenTelemetry Logs are no longer the least mature signal. They’re driving major changes across the project. This talk explores how recent developments, including the introduction of OpenTelemetry Events, richer semantic conventions, and support for complex attribute values like nested objects and arrays. These changes are not isolated. They represent a coordinated effort to unify and modernize telemetry data, improve correlation across signals, and enable richer, more structured observability experiences. This session will dive into the technical challenges, design decisions, and emerging patterns that are turning logs into a first-class citizen in the OpenTelemetry ecosystem.
This session makes the case that logs are no longer “legacy” — they’re a foundation for smarter, more unified observability. Whether you're a platform engineer, SRE, or tooling vendor, understanding this shift is key to staying ahead as OpenTelemetry evolves.
Robert Pajak
OpenTelemetry Go Maintainer and Specification Sponsor
Splunk, a Cisco Company
