Agenda
- 3:30 PM
- 30 minutes
Registration
Get your badge, meet the Grafana Labs team, and settle in for a great evening.
- 4:00 PM
- 5 minutes
Opening remarks
Get a preview of the afternoon’s program and get to know your Grafana Labs hosts.
- 4:05 PM
- 1 hour
GrafanaCON local keynote
Celebrate highlights from the past year! Grafana Labs Senior Developer Programs Director, Richard Hartmann will make some exciting announcements around our open source projects and showcase what’s new in Grafana 12.
- 3:05 PM
- 30 minutes
Transforming nuclear materials research: harnessing machine learning and Grafana for the next nuclear era
Next-generation nuclear fission and fusion reactors are poised to sustainably meet escalating energy demands with zero carbon emissions, driving a renaissance in nuclear technology. This revival is evidenced by recent collaborations between cloud providers, AI companies, and nuclear energy firms, focusing on small modular reactors (SMRs) and fusion technologies. However, the path forward requires overcoming significant material science challenges to endure extreme reactor conditions and boost efficiency. Traditionally, nuclear materials research has been hampered by slow, manual processes. In this presentation, Theia Scientific will share their experience and excitement transforming materials research and testing workflows with a novel combination of Machine Learning, computer vision, and the Grafana platform with custom and community plugins and data sources that leverages GPU-enabled systems both at the edge and in the Cloud, for a truly unique, multi-scale deployment. Join us to learn about scaling observability from individual atoms to nuclear reactors. We will showcase the award-winning, interactive user experience that significantly accelerates scientific discovery, paving the way for nuclear energy to literally power Grafana-based applications, Cloud infrastructure, and AI systems.
- 3:35 PM
- 25 minutes
Break
Connect with members of your local Grafana community and take your questions to the Ask the Experts booth.
- 5:50 PM
- 30 minutes
7 features to get more out of Loki with Logs Drilldown in Grafana
This session will show you how to get the most out of Loki with Logs Drilldown, the queryless, point-and-click experience in Grafana that allows you to quickly find insights in your observability data — no queries or complicated syntax required.
- 4:20 PM
- 5 minutes
AWS: a message from our sponsor
- 4:25 PM
- 5 minutes
Closing remarks
- 4:30 PM
- 1 hour
Happy hour
Continue the conversation and connect with peers, leaders, and experts over refreshments and drinks.
Grafana & Friends Toronto
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When
May 29, 2025
Where
St. James Cathedral Centre Event Venue
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See highlights from GrafanaCON

5 years in, Loki turns 3.0
Loki maintainer Owen Diehl discussed the highlights of the major release – native OTel support, bloom-filter query acceleration, and more – as well as what's ahead: making Loki more of a general purpose tool for everyone.

Grafana 11 deep dive
Director of Product Mitch Seaman and Engineering Director Mihaela Maior provide an overview of what's new in Grafana 11 and demo some favorite features.

Introducing Grafana Alloy, a distribution of the OTel Collector
Senior Software Engineers Matt Durham and Paschalis Tsilias dive into the core concepts around Grafana Alloy, a distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector.