Featured sessions led by observability experts
The Six Essentials of Observability Success
Proven leadership strategies to align teams, secure buy-in, and build a resilient observability framework.
Blueprints for Observability Excellence
Strategic roadmaps, best practices, and engagement models to drive adoption and scale observability at your organization.
Cracking the Code on Observability Metrics
Learn how top companies measure success, track key metrics, and connect observability to business outcomes.
Real-World Case Study
Learn how a tech leader transformed observability at multiple companies with Grafana Cloud.
Agenda
- 1:30 PM
- 30 minutes
Registration
Get your badge, meet the Grafana Labs team, and settle in for a great afternoon.
- 2:00 PM
- 10 minutes
Opening remarks
Get a preview of the afternoon’s program and get to know your Grafana Labs hosts.
- 2:10 PM
- 40 minutes
Accelerating digital delivery with observability
The demand for lightning-fast delivery of innovative applications and services is a constant in our digital world. However, this urgency introduces significant pressure on observability, with complexity, culture, and cost emerging as major hurdles. This talk will explore these key challenges and offer strategies for organisations to overcome them, ensuring effective observability in a high-speed environment.
- 2:50 PM
- 30 minutes
From insight to operational excellence: Cyara's Observability Journey
Enterprise observability is essential for organisations aiming to improve system reliability, performance, and the overall user experience. For Cyara and its AI-led customer experience transformation platform, the path to modern observability led the team to Grafana Cloud.
In this session, Brendon Ghumman, Director of Cloud Operations, shares Cyara’s observability journey—detailing the strategic shift from legacy solutions to a unified observability stack with Grafana Cloud. Learn how Cyara adopted metrics, logs, traces, and synthetic monitoring to drive technical innovation, smarter spending, and operational excellence.
- 3:10 PM
- 30 minutes
Break
Grab a refreshment and connect with members of your local observability leadership community.
- 3:40 PM
- 20 minutes
Moving from Observability as a platform to building user workflows at Atlassian
Hear how Atlassian’s observability journey evolved from observability as platform to embedding observability into targeted workflows. In this session, Talal will share how Atlassian is leveraging Grafana’s rich visualisation capabilities combined with Tracing to build curated workflows for their teams to reduce trouble shooting time for support and reliability incidents.
- 4:00 PM
- 30 minutes
Engineering observability at scale across complex systems in financial services
Building a modern observability platform across large and complex hybrid environments and technologies requires more than just great tools—it demands a strong DevOps culture and core engineering principles across the entire organization. Learn how an observability engineer in the financial services industry worked closely with developers and SRE teams to design and deliver a highly scalable observability platform using Grafana’s single pane of glass for disparate data sources to enhance reliability, compliance, and the ability to actually find the needle in the haystack.
- 4:30 PM
- 30 minutes
Observability Journeys Panel
Learn in a dynamic discussion with Grafana experts and local observability leaders as they share successes, setbacks, and next steps in their observability journeys.
- Brendon Ghumman, Director, CloudOps, Cyara
- Talal Tayyab, Senior Engineering Manager, Atlassian
- Hung Dinh, Technical Director, Furō
- Abhaya Chauhan, Senior Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
- 5:00 PM
- 10 minutes
Closing session
Wrap-up of the day’s discussions, key themes and insights.
- 5:10 PM
- 1 hour
Networking Reception
Continue the conversation and connect with peers, leaders, and experts over refreshments and drinks.
When
August 27, 2025
Where
Rydges Melbourne
186 Exhibition StThank you to our sponsors!
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