THE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Program overview by day
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November 17, 2026
Workshops
November 18, 2026
Ballroom 1+2
09:15 - 09:30
09:30 - 10:15
Frontend Observability – The Missing Layer in Modern Software Architecture
Billy Lando
Neusta GmbH
09:30 - 10:15
10:30 - 11:00
The Hidden Complexity of SNMP – Lessons from Building and Maintaining the Prometheus SNMP Exporter
Sebastian Schubert
Grafana Labs
10:30 - 11:00
11:15 - 12:00
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Ballroom 3
09:15 - 09:30
09:30 - 10:15
10:30 - 11:00
11:15 - 12:00
Evolution, Not Revolution: Growing Observability on Top of the Monitoring You Already Have
Severin Neumann
Bronto
11:15 - 12:00
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Lunch Break
Lunch will be served in the restaurant on the same floor, from 12:00 – 13:30!
Ballroom 1+2
13:30 - 13:35
IGNITE: From Alerts to Action: Integration Ideas for Modern Monitoring
Ronald Czachara
Derdack / SIGNL4
13:30 - 13:35
13:35 - 13:40
13:40 - 13:45
No event found!
14:00 - 14:30
Vector and VictoriaLogs: Powerhouse combo for Database logging Observability
Priyanka Chatterjee
Schwarz Digits
14:00 - 14:30
14:45 - 15:15
Monitoring in the Era of LLMs: How to Make Your Monitoring Work for You
Mohamed Elsakhawy
Western University
14:45 - 15:15
15:45 - 16:15
Monitoring the Unseen: Why Event-Driven APIs Break Traditional Monitoring
Aishat Muibudeen
AsyncAPI initiative
15:45 - 16:15
16:30 - 17:15
17:30 - 18:00
No event found!
Ballroom 3
No event found!
14:00 - 14:30
Why Your Monitoring Doesn’t Work – And How to Fix It at Scale
Thorsten Kuhn
Endress+Hauser InfoServe GmbH+Co. KG
14:00 - 14:30
14:45 - 15:15
From Checks to Metrics: Re-Architecting ISP Monitoring at National Scale with Icinga2
Rocco Pezzani
Wuerth IT Italy
William Calliari
Wuerth IT Italy
14:45 - 15:15
15:45 - 16:15
Look Ma, No Dashboards: Building Autonomous Control Planes with Agentic Telemetry and Observability
Susobhit Panigrahi
15:45 - 16:15
16:30 - 17:15
17:30 - 18:00
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Evening Event
Relax in a casual setting, mingle, and enjoy food, drinks, and entertainment at PARKS from 19:00 – 01:00!
November 19, 2026
Ballroom 1+2
09:30 - 10:00
Building a High-Performance Time Series Database from Scratch
Aliaksandr Valialkin
VictoriaMetrics
09:30 - 10:00
10:15 - 11:00
11:15 - 12:00
Patchmon – patch monitoring done right
Mattias Schlenker
Checkmk GmbH
Muhammad Ibrahim
PatchMon LTD
11:15 - 12:00
No event found!
Ballroom 3
09:30 - 10:00
Can an LLM understand your car? Real telemetry and predictive insights
Soumaya Erradi
Atlantis
09:30 - 10:00
10:15 - 11:00
IMEdge – Network monitoring on the Edge
Rocco Pezzani
Wuerth IT Italy
Thomas Gelf
NETWAYS Professional Services GmbH
10:15 - 11:00
11:15 - 12:00
From Edge to Gateway: architecting your OpenTelemetry Collector deployment
Marcin Stożek
Elastic
11:15 - 12:00
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Lunch Break
Lunch will be served in the restaurant on the same floor, from 12:00 – 13:30!
Ballroom 1+2
13:30 - 13:35
IGNITE: Beyond Traditional Observability – How Grafana data sources extends the Modern Needs for your Infrastructure
Syed Usman Ahmad
Grafana Labs
13:30 - 13:35
13:35 - 13:40
IGNITE: How we integrate Prometheus and Icinga
Markus Opolka
NETWAYS Professional Services GmbH
13:35 - 13:40
13:40 - 13:45
IGNITE: Dragonfly Mail Agent – The Minimal Mail Transport Agent Monitoring Admins Love
Mattias Schlenker
Checkmk GmbH
13:40 - 13:45
No event found!
14:00 - 14:30
Runtime Lineage: End-to-End OpenTelemetry Tracing for AI Data Systems
Tom Kaltofen
mloda
14:00 - 14:30
14:45 - 15:15
Capability-as-a-Service: Self-Hosted Observability That Feels Like SaaS
Dominik Schmidle
giantswarm.io
14:45 - 15:15
15:30 - 16:00
16:15 - 16:45
Monitoring Without Polling: Real-Time, Change-Driven Monitoring with Drasi
Allen Jones
Microsoft
16:15 - 16:45
No event found!
Ballroom 3
No event found!
14:00 - 14:30
Better Together: Leveraging Your Observability Tools as a SIEM
Jesús Espino
VictoriaMetrics
14:00 - 14:30
14:45 - 15:15
AI-Guided Troubleshooting: Smarter Root Cause Analysis with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus
Robert King
Palo Alto Networks / Chronosphere
14:45 - 15:15
15:30 - 16:00
16:15 - 16:45
Red Hat’s journey of moving Observability for 1000s of clusters to a third party vendor and then back in-house
Daniel Mohr
Red Hat
16:15 - 16:45
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We ask for your understanding that the program may change in unforeseen circumstances.