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On-demand sessions

  • Main Stage · Pier 27, San Francisco

    Opening keynote

    This session is sponsored byGoogle Cloud

    Join Grafana Labs CEO/Co-founder Raj Dutt, CTO Tom Wilkie, members of the engineering team, and Omar Lopez, Head of Observability for SailPoint, for the kickoff of ObservabilityCON 2026, where they share the latest in AI for observability, observability for AI, and solutions for all.

    • Raj Dutt, CEO, Co-Founder, Grafana Labs
    • Tom Wilkie, Chief Technology Officer, Grafana Labs
    • Jen Villa, Senior Director of Product, Grafana Labs
    • Richard Lam, Director of Product, Grafana Labs
    • Manoj Acharya, VP, Engineering, Grafana Labs
    • Mat Ryer, Senior Director, Engineering AI, Grafana Labs
    • Omar Lopez, Head of Observability, SailPoint
    • Cyril Tovena, Principal Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
  • Main Stage · Pier 27, San Francisco

    Reliability at World Cup scale: How Deutsche Telekom IT GmbH ensured zero downtime for millions of viewers with Grafana Assistant

    Learn how Deutsche Telekom IT GmbH built a FIFA World Cup 2026 Situation Room in just a few weeks, using Grafana Cloud's AI-powered Assistant to speed up dashboard creation and incident response during one of the world’s largest live sporting events.

    • Felix Mohnke, Observability Lead, Deutsche Telekom
    • Neha Kumar, Consultancy Team Lead Observability, Deutsche Telekom
  • Main Stage · Pier 27, San Francisco

    Towards autonomous operations with Grafana Assistant

    Welcome to the era of agentic operations. See how Grafana Assistant makes observability proactive, not reactive, taking on more of the work of deploying, running, and fixing your software applications.

    • Maurice Rochau, Staff Product Manager, Grafana Labs
    • Ksenia Yadav, Engineering Manager, Grafana Labs
  • Main Stage · Pier 27, San Francisco

    Open the black box: Why observability is the key to trusting your AI agents

    Say goodbye to black-box agents. Grafana Cloud makes agent sessions a new telemetry signal—correlated with metrics, logs, traces, and profiles—that helps you understand not just whether agents are working, but how and why.

    • Jack Gordley, Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
    • Devin Cheevers, Director of Product, Grafana Labs
  • Main Stage · Pier 27, San Francisco

    Automating efficiency at Uber scale with Grafana Cloud Profiles and Assistant

    Learn how Uber uses Grafana Cloud Profiles to give thousands of engineers performance visibility across millions of CPU cores – combining Generative AI and neurosymbolic analysis to optimize code automatically and deliver significant cost savings.

    • Chris Zhang, Senior Researcher, Frontier Tech Labs, Uber
  • Main Stage · Pier 27, San Francisco

    The real cost of AI adoption at scale: What we've learned about security, spend, and sanity

    The invoice is the easy part. AI adoption at scale also costs security posture, engineering hours, and organizational patience, impacting the leaders who fund it, run it, drive its adoption, and set its guardrails. Join us for an honest discussion of AI adoption's breakthroughs, setbacks, and cultural shifts, and what's worth doing next.

    • Joe McManus, Chief Information Security Officer, Grafana Labs
    • Olin Gay, Director - Head of Observability, BlackRock
    • Elaine Hardwick, Vice President of Platform and AI Developer Experience, Rapid7
    • Barry Driscoll, SVP, Chief Information Officer, WEX
    • Andrew Zigler, GTM Engineer, LinearB and host of the Dev Interrupted podcast
  • Main Stage · Pier 27, San Francisco

    Map business impact to root cause with full-stack observability

    Learn how Grafana Cloud quickly connects what your business sees to what your systems are doing, using an end-to-end playbook built around OpenTelemetry standards.

    • Sarah Constant, Staff Product Manager, Grafana Labs
    • Jim Gehrett, Principal Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
  • Main Stage · Pier 27, San Francisco

    Fireside chat: Observability needs AI. AI needs observability.

    Grafana Labs CTO Tom Wilkie and Anthropic's Head of Platform Engineering Katelyn Lesse discuss a shared realization: you can't run AI or observability at scale without the other. Get a candid look at the a-ha moments and lessons learned building AI into observability, and observability into AI.

    • Tom Wilkie, Chief Technology Officer, Grafana Labs
    • Katelyn Lesse, Head of Platform Engineering, Anthropic
  • Main Stage · Pier 27, San Francisco

    Building Grafana Cloud for next-generation cost-efficiency and scale

    See all the ways Grafana Cloud raises the bar on cost efficiency and operating at scale: needle-in-the-haystack log queries, faster ingest and query speed at billions of active series, plus intelligent sampling and more in Adaptive Telemetry.

    • Steven Dungan, Staff Product Manager, Grafana Labs
    • Patrick Oyarzún, Principal Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
    • Jonathan Halterman, Principal Engineer, Grafana Labs
    • Jason Nochlin, Distinguished Engineer, Grafana Labs
  • Main Stage · Pier 27, San Francisco

    UKG's playbook for an OpenTelemetry-powered observability transformation with Grafana Cloud

    Learn how UKG compressed a 15-month transformation into four through a targeted delivery strategy, technical guardrails that reduced risk, and an AI-assisted dashboard and alert conversion that accelerated adoption at enterprise scale.

    • Srikar Mohan, Senior Manager of Software Engineering, UKG
    • Christian Kruger, Software Engineering Manager, UKG
  • Main Stage · Pier 27, San Francisco

    The new Grafana Cloud IRM: One picture for humans and agents

    Get a closer look at how Grafana Cloud simplifies incident response and management so that incidents start with context, postmortems write themselves, and every incident makes the next one faster to resolve.

    • Michael Wettick, Staff Product Manager, IRM, Grafana Labs
    • Mimi McNair, Senior Manager, Engineering, Grafana Labs
  • Main Stage · Pier 27, San Francisco

    Any agent anywhere: Grafana Cloud is the open agentic observability platform

    The next observability users are agents. See how any agent—whether it's Grafana Assistant, third-party tools like Cursor or Claude Code, or homegrown—can interact with Grafana Cloud to help triage, troubleshoot, or advance your business needs.

    • Cedric Ziel, Principal Product Manager, Grafana Labs
    • Gianni Baiardi, Staff Product Designer, Grafana Labs

Why attend ObservabilityCON?

Whether you're building in a local environment or operating agentic workflows in production, ObservabilityCON brings together all the latest innovations, thought leaders, and experts to help you (and your agents) navigate the fast-moving AI era.

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First look at AI-powered solutions

See live demos of the latest agentic tools and workflows in Grafana Cloud that turn full-stack observability into faster actions and better decisions.

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Learn directly from the experts

Get valuable 1:1 time with the engineers behind the code, learn from your peers' success stories, and hear from observability pros about where the industry is going next.

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Get reliable QA for AI

Gain confidence in your agentic-built software with Agent Observability, the complete solution for high-level insights into where developers' time and tokens go.

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Leave with new skills and tools

Sign up for a hands-on workshop and attend deep-dive technical sessions. Plus test drive tools for AI observability, site reliability, digital experience monitoring, and more in our Expo Hall.

Agenda at a glance

  • 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
    • Registration for workshop attendees

    • Workshops (optional; additional ticket required)

    • Note: workshops will be hosted at the Hyatt Centric Fisherman’s Wharf, approximately 1 mile from the conference venue.

  • 9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
    • Opening keynote

    • Technical sessions and user success stories

    • Expo Hall with Ask the Experts desk and live demos

    • Networking opportunities

    • Welcome party

  • 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
    • Technical sessions and user success stories

    • Expo Hall with Ask the Experts desk and live demos

    • Networking opportunities

Monday, October 19

Hands-on workshops

Get firsthand experience in building advanced dashboards with Grafana Assistant, build pipelines with OpenTelemetry and Alloy, and more. Grafana Labs experts will lead interactive in-depth workshops in a variety of topics and teach you tips and tricks to improve your skills. 

Note: Workshops will take place at the Hyatt Centric Fisherman’s Wharf San Francisco. Separate ticket required for entry.

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"The range of talks on the agenda was great and it felt like there was some solid planning behind the scenes to have the talks build on each other. Every single person I interacted with was supportive, friendly, and helpful. Plus, it all seemed to go off without a hitch."

— Owen A.

"Chatting with the experts and visiting the demo booths was incredibly insightful. But having the opportunity to attend with colleagues, network with folks from other companies, and dig into deep conversations was well worth the trip."

— Neil W.

Don’t forget to stop by…

Get your questions answered

One place to get all the answers you need from an actual human. Get personalized help from Grafana Labs engineers.

Interactive demo stations

Get hands-on with Grafana Assistant, Adaptive Telemetry, and all the latest tools and technology that are reshaping observability today.

Welcome party

Don't miss the opportunity to meet and mingle with observability leaders, make new connections, and enjoy a memorable night with your peers.

The venue

Pier 27, San Francisco

  • On the Embarcadero waterfront, with views of the Bay and the Bay Bridge.

  • A short walk from the Embarcadero BART and Muni station.

  • Surrounded by North Beach, the Ferry Building, and downtown hotels.

Note: Workshops will take place at the Hyatt Centric Fisherman’s Wharf San Francisco on Monday, October 19. Separate ticket required for entry.

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