# Join us for OpenTelemetry Talks and Activities at KubeCon NA 2026 Site [llms.txt](/llms.txt) --- The OpenTelemetry project maintainers, members of the governance committee, and technical committee are thrilled to be at [KubeCon NA][] in Salt Lake City from November 9 - 12, 2026. [Register][] today to join us! Read on to learn about all the events related to OpenTelemetry during KubeCon. ## OpenTelemetry Contribfest Join the OpenTelemetry maintainers for the [OpenTelemetry Contribfest](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1294771) to make the project better for everyone. You can choose between several opportunities to contribute, and you can count on maintainers from different project areas to help you on your first steps. The Contribfest takes place on Tuesday, November 10 • 11:30 - 12:50. ## KubeCon Talks and Maintainer Sessions - **[⚡ Project Lightning Talk: Fluent Bit: The Evolution of High-Performance Telemetry Pipelines](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1289874)**
by Eduardo Silva, Palo Alto Networks
Monday, November 9 • 10:41 - 10:46 - **[Your Agent Needs a Platform: Cloud Native Infrastructure for Multi-Agent AI Systems](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1233585)**
by Soham Ghadge, GenbaNEXT
Tuesday, November 10 • 11:30 - 12:00 - **[Next Generation DevOps: Reshaping the Cloud Native DevOps Infinity Loop with AI](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1249351)**
by Rey Lejano, Red Hat
Tuesday, November 10 • 11:30 - 12:00 - **[Demo Theater: All the Ways to Add OpenTelemetry Without Touching Your Code](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1361545)**
by Michele Mancioppi, Dash0
Tuesday, November 10 • 12:30 - 12:50 - **[Demo Theater: Agent Observability: Evaluating and Guardrailing Responses in Real Time](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1362463)**
by Greg Leffler, Splunk
Tuesday, November 10 • 12:55 - 13:15 - **[Tracing at Scale: Running a 16 Billion Spans/Hour Pipeline at Nubank](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1239823)**
by Felipe Araujo & Kaynan Coelho, Nubank
Tuesday, November 10 • 14:50 - 15:20 - **[From Bytes to Traces: A Deep Dive into OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation Internals](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1247277)**
by Rafael Roquetto, Isovalent @ Cisco; Mike Dame, Odigos
Tuesday, November 10 • 14:50 - 15:20 - **[The Prompt Layer: What Platform Engineering Has to Own Next](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1243089)**
by Atulpriya Sharma, Improving
Tuesday, November 10 • 14:50 - 15:20 - **[Just Keep Swimming: Benchmarking OSS Agent Memory on Kubernetes with OpenTelemetry](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1241330)**
by Henrik Rexed, Dynatrace
Tuesday, November 10 • 15:40 - 16:10 - **[The SRE Is Not Dead: What AI Taught Us about Missing Context in Kubernetes Incident Response](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1250770)**
by Muhammed Yunas Chirayath, Best Buy; Ajmal Ali kannu, Independent
Tuesday, November 10 • 15:40 - 16:10 - **[From Traceroute to OTel Traces: Modeling Network Paths with OpenTelemetry](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1243292)**
by Antonio Jimenez Martinez, Cisco ThousandEyes
Tuesday, November 10 • 15:40 - 16:10 - **[Agents on the Platform: Four Perspectives on the Conversation We're Already Having in Private](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1248218)**
by Kasper Borg Nissen, Dash0; Juraci Paixão Kröhling, OllyGarden; Joseph Sandoval, Adobe; Jed Salazar, Edera; Alexa Griffith, Red Hat
Tuesday, November 10 • 16:40 - 17:10 - **[Not All Memory Is Equal: How To Properly Observe Memory Usage](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1247991)**
by Braydon Kains, Google; Roger Coll, Grafana Labs
Tuesday, November 10 • 16:40 - 17:10 - **[Two-Stage OTel Aggregation: Taming Istio Cardinality at 10k-Pod Scale](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1248216)**
by Evelyn (Chungyu) Chen, Yahoo
Tuesday, November 10 • 17:30 - 18:00 - **[Verticalizing Platform Intelligence for Regulated Domains](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1238630)**
by William Rizzo, Mirantis; Kasper Borg Nissen, Dash0
Wednesday, November 11 • 11:00 - 11:30 - **[OTel Blueprints: Prescriptive Patterns for Enterprise Observability](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1249846)**
by Dan Gomez Blanco, New Relic; Lukasz Ciukaj, Cisco Splunk
Wednesday, November 11 • 11:00 - 11:30 - **[Filter, Transform, Route: Mastering OTTL in the OpenTelemetry Collector](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1249896)**
by Evan Bradley, Dynatrace; Edmo Vamerlatti Costa, Elastic; Jamie Danielson, honeycomb.io; Tyler Helmuth, Grafana Labs
Wednesday, November 11 • 11:00 - 12:20 - **[Sample Smarter, Not Harder (Or Not At All!)](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1246179)**
by Reese Lee, New Relic; Juliano Costa, Datadog
Wednesday, November 11 • 11:50 - 12:20 - **[Demo Theater: ClickHouse Observability: Full-fidelity observability for AI agents and SREs](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1362631)**
by Mike Shi, ClickHouse
Wednesday, November 11 • 12:15 - 12:35 - **[🪧 Poster Session: Many Agents, One Platform: Production Multi-Agent Apps on K8s with CNCF Building Blocks](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1230983)**
by Daniel Oh, Red Hat
Wednesday, November 11 • 13:20 - 14:20 - **[🪧 Poster Session: Your GPU Dashboard Is Lying: Per-Tenant Blind Spots in MIG, MPS, and HAMi](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1244682)**
by Saiyam Pathak, vCluster; Saloni Narang, Kubesimplify
Wednesday, November 11 • 13:20 - 14:20 - **[GPU Observability with eBPF: From Kernel Hooks to Kubernetes Metrics](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1244576)**
by Qasim Sarfraz & Michael Friese, Microsoft
Wednesday, November 11 • 15:10 - 15:40 - **[Battle-tested Autoscaling Paradigms with KEDA](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1249409)**
by Jan Wozniak, Kedify; Christian Melendez, AWS
Wednesday, November 11 • 16:10 - 16:40 - **[Zero-Trust Telemetry: Stopping AI-Powered Poisoning Attacks on Observability Pipelines](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1230227)**
by Chad M. Crowell, Akamai; Diana Todea, VictoriaMetrics
Wednesday, November 11 • 16:10 - 16:40 - **[OpenTelemetry in Your Pocket](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1250513)**
by Jason Plumb, Splunk
Wednesday, November 11 • 16:10 - 16:40 - **[Exploring Telemetry Quality](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1363966)**
by Jacob Aronoff, Tero
Wednesday, November 11 • 16:10 - 16:40 - **[Demo Theater: Day 2 for Stateful Kubernetes: Data Services You Can See](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1362689)**
by Brock Mowry & Tapas Mahanata, Tintri
Wednesday, November 11 • 16:25 - 16:45 - **[Composing Inference on Kubernetes: Gateway, Schedule, Serve, Observe](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1247513)**
by Karena Angell, Red Hat; Alex Chircop, Google
Wednesday, November 11 • 17:00 - 17:30 - **[Beyond Dashboards: A Semantic Layer for AI-Driven Observability in Kubernetes](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1230488)**
by Pronnoy Goswami, NVIDIA
Thursday, November 12 • 11:00 - 11:30 - **[Demo Theater: HTTP 200, Tool Failed: Taming MCP Agent Traffic with NGINX](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1362642)**
by Ciara Stacke & Micheal Kingston, F5
Thursday, November 12 • 11:25 - 11:45 - **[Hope Is Not a Rollout Strategy: Balancing (AI) Quality, Cost, and Risk Through Experimentation](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1250076)**
by Todd Baert, Dynatrace
Thursday, November 12 • 11:50 - 12:20 - **[Seeing Inside LLM Inference: Observability and Cost Visibility for llm-d on Kubernetes](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1336060)**
by Nili Guy, IBM; Guangya Liu, JPMorgan Chase
Thursday, November 12 • 11:55 - 12:10 - **[The Race to Standardize AI Observability](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1246166)**
by Liudmila Molkova, Google; Trask Stalnaker, Microsoft
Thursday, November 12 • 13:50 - 14:20 - **[From Black-Box to Auditable AI-Grid: A Deterministic Governance Layer with Hybrid Cloud](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1237843)**
by Fatih E. Nar, Red Hat; Andrew Hendrickson, FCC
Thursday, November 12 • 14:40 - 15:10 - **[Fast and Furious: OTel Drift](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1245970)**
by Laura Luttmer, Bindplane
Thursday, November 12 • 15:30 - 16:00 - **[OpenFeature as a Control Plane for OpenTelemetry](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/?id=1246551)**
by Simon Schrottner, Flagsmith; Juliano Costa, Datadog
Thursday, November 12 • 15:30 - 16:00 ## Maintainer Summit Held on November 8, one day prior to the co-located events and two days prior to the conference, the Maintainer Summit is an exclusive opportunity for the people behind the project to gather face-to-face. [Members][membership] of the OpenTelemetry organization will come together to collaborate, learn, share ideas, solve problems, and enrich their projects. See the [full schedule][summit schedule] for all the details. [Sign up][maintainer summit] today! > [!IMPORTANT] Important access note > > You must be registered for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon to access the **Maintainer > Summit**. You also must be a member of a CNCF incubating project, such as > OpenTelemetry. Maintainer Summit requires a separate registration. For > eligibility requirements and to register, see [Maintainer Summit][]. ## Observability Day [Observability Day][] fosters collaboration, discussion, and knowledge sharing with a focus on cloud native observability projects. This event will be held on November 9, 2026, from 9:00 to 17:30. Look for your favorite talks about observability and OpenTelemetry in the [schedule][obs-day-sched]. > [!IMPORTANT] Important access note > > You need an _all-access_ pass to attend **Observability Day**. For details, > see [KubeCon registration][register]. ## OpenTelemetry at the Project Pavilion Come meet the OpenTelemetry community at the Project Pavilion on Thursday, November 12, from 10:00 to 14:00! Stop by for an informal chat, ask questions, share your experiences, or find out how to get involved in the project. ## OpenTelemetry Community Awards OpenTelemetry is a community-driven project, fueled by a group of awesome humans who are actively revolutionizing the field of observability with their contributions. Whether it’s through code, documentation, project management, outreach, adoption, or simply helping others, we want to recognize these contributions and the people behind them. Nominations for this year's awards are [open now](/blog/2026/community-awards/), and we'll announce the winners during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America! Come join us to listen, learn, and get involved in OpenTelemetry. See you in Salt Lake City! [kubecon na]: [Observability Day]: [register]: [summit schedule]: [maintainer summit]: [membership]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/25f027532a6e9b503d6eb4dd3db0a98eb3b5f1cb/guides/contributor/membership.md?from_branch=main#member [obs-day-sched]: