Join us for OpenTelemetry Talks and Activities at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025
The OpenTelemetry governance and technical committees, along with the project’s maintainers, invite you to join them and other members of the OpenTelemetry community at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe (registration) and at the co-located Observability Day in London from April 1 to 4, 2025.
This post covers all currently scheduled activities related to OpenTelemetry that are happening during KubeCon. Check back for updates before the start of the conference!
OpenTelemetry Contribfest
Join the OpenTelemetry maintainers for OpenTelemetry Contribfest! This hands-on session is a favorite for new contributors. You can choose between several opportunities to contribute—Collector, Go, Java, JavaScript, and more—with support and guidance from maintainers in these project areas to help you get started.
KubeCon talks and maintainer sessions
- ⚡ Lightning Talk: Quick Intro to CI/CD Observability with OpenTelemetry
by Dotan Horovits, CNCF Ambassador
Tuesday, April 1 • 14:50 - 14:55 - Keynote: AI Enabled Observability Explainers - We Actually Did Something With AI!
by Vijay Samuel, Principal MTS, Architect, eBay
Wednesday, April 2 • 09:48 - 10:03 - Keynote: The Observability Platform Engineering Advantage: From Zero-Code to Monitoring as Code
by Kasper Borg Nissen, Dash0
Wednesday, April 2 • 10:26 -10:41 - OpenTelemetry Project Update
by Severin Neumann, Independent; Daniel Gomez Blanco, Skyscanner; Alolita Sharma, Apple; Trask Stalnaker, Microsoft; Pablo Baeyens, Datadog
Wednesday, April 2 • 11:15 - 11:45 - OpenFeature Update From the Maintainers
by Thomas Poignant, Adevinta; Lukas Reining, codecentric AG; Alexandra Oberaigner, Dynatrace
Wednesday, April 2 • 11:15 - 11:45 - Standardizing CI/CD Observability with OpenTelemetry: Insights from the CI/CD Observability SIG
by Dotan Horovits, CNCF Ambassador & Adriel Perkins, Liatrio
Wednesday, April 2 • 12:00 - 12:30 - From 0 to Production-Grade with Kubernetes Native Development
by Thomas Vitale, Systematic & Kevin Dubois, Red Hat
Wednesday, April 2 • 12:00 - 12:30 - KEDA: Unlocking Advanced Event-Driven Scaling for Kubernetes
by Zbynek Roubalik, Kedify & Jorge Turrado, SCRM Lidl International Hub
Wednesday, April 2 • 12:00 - 12:30 - Enhancing Database Observability with OpenTelemetry
by Marylia Gutierrez, Grafana Labs
Wednesday, April 2 • 14:30 - 15:00 - What’s New in gRPC
by Kevin Nilson, Google
Wednesday, April 2 • 15:15 - 15:45 - Deep Dive To AI Agent Observability
by Guangya Liu, IBM & Karthik Kalyanaraman, Langtrace AI
Wednesday, April 2 • 15:15 - 15:45 - More Data Please: Hands on Green Cloud Experiments
by Leonard Pahlke, BWI GmbH & Antonio Di Turi, Data Reply
Wednesday, April 2 • 15:15 - 15:45 - Asimov’s Zeroth Law of Robotics: Observability for AI
by Nicole van der Hoeven, Grafana Labs
Wednesday, April 2 • 16:15 - 16:45 - Jaeger V2: OpenTelemetry at the Core of Modern Distributed Tracing
by Jonah Kowall, Paessler
Wednesday, April 2 • 17:00 - 17:30 - An Exemplary Path: Leveraging EBPFs and OpenTelemetry To Auto-instrument for Exemplars
by Charlie Le & Kruthika Prasanna Simha, Apple
Wednesday, April 2 • 17:00 - 17:30 - Logs, Metrics, Traces and Mayhem: An Interactive Observability Adventure Game
by Jay Clifford & Tom Glenn, Grafana Labs
Wednesday, April 2 • 17:45 - 18:15 - How Green Is My OpenTelemetry Collector?
by Nancy Chauhan, Student & Adriana Villela, Dynatrace
Wednesday, April 2 • 17:45 - 18:15 - OTel Sucks (But Also Rocks!)
by Juraci Paixão Kröhling, OllyGarden & Daniel Dyla, Dynatrace
Thursday, April 3 • 11:00 - 11:30 - Wasm Whiplash: WasmCloud’s Wild Ride To Standards
by Brooks Townsend, Cosmonic
Thursday, April 3 • 11:45 - 12:15 - How To Adopt OpenTelemetry in an Enterprise Where Incumbent Vendor Tools Reign Supreme
by Chris Weldon, Wolters Kluwer
Thursday, April 3 • 14:15 - 14:45 - How To Rename Metrics Without Impacting Somebody’s Observability
by Bartłomiej Płotka, Google & Arianna Vespri, Independent
Thursday, April 3 • 15:00 - 15:30 - OTel Me How To Get My Open Source Community Taken Seriously: Lessons Learned as an OTel Maintainer
by Reese Lee, New Relic & Adriana Villela, Dynatrace
Thursday, April 3 • 16:45 - 17:15 - ⚡ Lightning Talk: Observability Diet: Your 5-Step Plan To Trim the Data Fat
by Pranay Prateek, SigNoz
Thursday, April 3 • 16:55 - 17:00 - Optimizing Metrics Collection & Serving When Autoscaling LLM Workloads
by Vincent Hou, Bloomberg & Jiří Kremser, kedify.io
Thursday, April 3 • 17:30 - 18:00 - The State of Prometheus and OpenTelemetry Interoperability
by Arthur Sens, Grafana & Juraj Michálek, Swiss RE
Friday, April 4 • 11:45 - 12:15 - Fluent Bit v4: A Decade of Innovation and What’s Next
by Eduardo Silva, Chronosphere
Friday, April 4 • 13:45 - 14:15 - Smooth Scaling With the OpAMP Supervisor: Managing Thousands of OpenTelemetry Collectors
by Evan Bradley, Dynatrace & Andy Keller, observIQ
Friday, April 4 • 13:45 - 14:15 - Evolving OpenID Connect and Observability in Keycloak
by Ryan Emerson, Red Hat & Takashi Norimatsu, Hitachi
Friday, April 4 • 14:30 - 15:00 - How To Supercharge AI/ML Observability With OpenTelemetry and Fluent Bit
by Celalettin Calis, Chronosphere
Friday, April 4 • 15:15 - 15:45
Observability Day
Observability Day fosters collaboration, discussion, and knowledge sharing of cloud native observability projects. This event will be held on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, from 9:00 - 17:25. There will be several sessions on OpenTelemetry as well.
You need an all-access pass to attend Observability Day. For details, see KubeCon registration.
- Sponsored Keynote: The Future of Observability: Trends, AI, and New Relic’s Vision for a Smarter Stack
by Harry Kimpel, New Relic
Tuesday, April 1 • 10:00 - 10:05 - Sponsored Keynote: Fluent Bit vs. OpenTelemetry Collector - Why Not Both?
by Paige Cruz, Chronosphere
Tuesday, April 1 • 10:10 - 10:15 - Observability by Design: Leveraging OpenTelemetry Weaver To Take Control of Your Observability
by Josh Suereth, Google & Laurent Querel, F5
Tuesday, April 1 • 11:20 - 11:45 - Encrypted Telemetry in Transit
by Jason Plumb, Splunk
Tuesday, April 1 • 12:55 - 13:20 - From Sampling To Full Visibility: Scaling Tracing To Trillions of Spans
by Sonam Gupta, SigLens
Tuesday, April 1 • 12:55 - 13:20 - OpenTelemetry at Delivery Hero: The Good, the Bad and the Vendor-Agnostic
by Elena Kovalenko, Delivery Hero
Tuesday, April 1 • 13:30 - 13:55 - From Splunk To OTel: Scaling Observability at MSCI With a Four-Person Team
by Aftab Khan & Zach Arnold, MSCI
Tuesday, April 1 • 14:40 - 15:05 - Customize Your Own OpenTelemetry Collector: An Introduction To OCB
by Evan Bradley, Dynatrace & Pablo Baeyens, Datadog
Tuesday, April 1 • 15:20 - 15:45 - The Art and Craft of No-touch Instrumentation
by Michele Mancioppi, Dash0
Tuesday, April 1 • 15:20 - 15:45 - OTel-y Oops: Learning From Our Observability Blunders
by Joe Stephenson & Rodney Karemba, Akamai Technologies
Tuesday, April 1 • 15:55 - 16:20 - Beyond the Ephemeral: Mastering Serverless Metrics at Scale With Shopify
by Pedro Tanaka, Shopify
Tuesday, April 1 • 16:30 - 16:55 - The State of OpenTelemetry Profiling
by Damien Mathieu, Elastic & Felix Geisendoerfer, Datadog
Tuesday, April 1 • 16:30 - 16:55 - ⚡ Lightning Talk: Unlocking Customer-Centric Observability: A Case Study of OpenTelemetry To Reduce MTTD < 3 Mins
by Kokilavani Kathiresan, Intuit
Tuesday, April 1 • 17:00 - 17:10 - ⚡ Lightning Talk: Who Are You? Solving the Container ID Resolution With Cgroupv2
by Vincent Boulineau, Datadog
Tuesday, April 1 • 17:00 - 17:10 - ⚡ Lightning Talk: Empowering OpenTelemetry Users With the OTTL Playground: Simplified Data Transformation and Testing
by Edmo Vamerlatti Costa, Elastic
Tuesday, April 1 • 17:15 - 17:25 - ⚡ Lightning Talk: From HAR To OpenTelemetry Trace: Redefining Your Observability
by Antonio Jimenez Martinez, Cisco ThousandEyes
Tuesday, April 1 • 17:15 - 17:25
OpenTelemetry Observatory
Drop by and say “Hi!” at OpenTelemetry Observatory presented by Splunk in the Expo Hall. This will be a place for informal chats, meetups, and other discussions led by OpenTelemetry community members and maintainers.
Note that the Observatory might show up as “Splunk Activation Booth” on the event map.
Activity schedule coming soon. Check back in the coming weeks for updates!
You can help us improve the project by sharing your thoughts and feedback about your OpenTelemetry adoption, implementation, and usage.
We will create action items from your comments as appropriate. Check #otel-sig-end-user in CNCF’s Slack instance for results and action item updates to come after KubeCon EU.
Come join us to listen, learn, and get involved in OpenTelemetry. See you in London!