# Join us for OpenTelemetry Talks and Activities at KubeCon NA 2025 LLMS index: [llms.txt](/llms.txt) --- The OpenTelemetry project maintainers, members of the governance committee, and technical committee are thrilled to be at [KubeCon NA][] in Atlanta from November 10 - 13, 2025. [Register][] today to join us! Read on to learn about all the events related to OpenTelemetry during KubeCon. ## KubeCon Talks and Maintainer Sessions - **[⚡ Project Lightning Talk: Fluent Bit](https://sched.co/27d5X)**
by Eduardo Silva, Maintainer
Monday, November 10 • 15:00 - 15:05 - **[Taming Telemetry at Scale: Platform Blueprints for Consistent Observability](https://sched.co/27FUv)**
by Nancy Chauhan (Agno); Marino Wijay (Kong Inc.)
Tuesday, November 11 • 11:15 – 11:45 - **[Just Do It: OpAMP](https://sched.co/27FWT)**
by Panos Tsilopoulos & Bob Johnson, Nike, Inc.
Tuesday, November 11 • 15:15 - 15:45 - **[Reimagining Insurance Infrastructure: CopperPoint's Cloud Native Blueprint](https://sched.co/27FX0)**
by Sid Dixit & Sham Rao, CopperPoint Insurance Companies
Tuesday, November 11 • 16:15 - 16:45 - **[Instrumentation Score: The Difference Between Telemetry and Good Telemetry](https://sched.co/27FWx)**
by Juraci Paixão Kröhling, OllyGarden & Michele Mancioppi, Dash0
Tuesday, November 11 • 16:15 - 16:45 - **[OpenTelemetry: Unpacking 2025, Charting 2026](https://sched.co/27Y2M)**
by Alolita Sharma; Trask Stalnaker; Josh Suereth; Austin Parker
Tuesday, November 11 • 17:00 – 17:30 - **[Integrating Data Center Observability Into Cloud Native Environment](https://sched.co/27FXU)**
by Pedro Célestin, CLDF & Julia Furst Morgado, Veeam
Tuesday, November 11 • 17:00 – 17:30 - **[Sync or Swim: Building Platforms You Can See](https://sched.co/27FY4)**
by Heather Lee & Mike Cutsail, Apple
Tuesday, November 11 • 17:45 – 18:15 - **[🪧 Poster Session (PS3): From Noise To Clarity: Humanizing Observability in Cloud Native Systems](https://sched.co/27FYM)**
by Nikita Verma, Zscaler & Harshita Varma, Juspay
Tuesday, November 11 • 18:15 – 19:45 - **[Keynote: Cloud Native for Good](https://sched.co/27FUj)**
by Faseela K, Ericsson Software Technology; Omar Mohsine, United Nations; Roberto Machorro, Child Rescue Coalition; Bodhish Thomas, Open Healthcare Network; Jayson Workman, American Red Cross
Wednesday, November 12 • 10:11 - 10:26 - **[Models as Microservices, Platforms as Partners: Collaboratively Building ML Infra at Hinge](https://sched.co/27FYz)**
by Stephanie Pavlick, Hinge
Wednesday, November 12 • 11:00 - 11:30 - **[Retrofitting OTel Collectors & Prometheus: How to Overcome Scale/Design Limitations](https://sched.co/27FYq)**
by Vijay Samuel & Sandeep Raveesh (eBay)
Wednesday, November 12 • 11:00 – 11:30 - **[OTel+K8s= ❤️: An Introduction To OpenTelemetry for Kubernetes Users](https://sched.co/27FZN)**
by Christos Markou, Elastic & Jacob Aronoff, Omlet
Wednesday, November 12 • 11:45 - 12:15 - **[Fluent Bit: Smarter Telemetry Routing, Faster Pipelines](https://sched.co/27Nmb)**
by Eduardo Silva, Chronosphere
Wednesday, November 12 • 11:45 - 12:15 - **[What's New in gRPC](https://sched.co/27NnZ)**
by Kevin Nilson, Google & Israel Shapiro, Broadcom
Wednesday, November 12 • 11:45 - 12:15 - **[Beyond the Dashboard: Modern Observability for Platform Engineering at Scale](https://sched.co/27FaC)**
by Danielle Cook, Independent; Whitney Lee, Datadog; Stevie Caldwell, Fairwinds; Khallai Taylor, E.ON Digital Technology GmbH; Payal Bagga, Intuit
Wednesday, November 12 • 14:15 - 14:45 - **[UX Research Report: Prometheus and OTel's Resource Attributes](https://sched.co/27FZr)**
by Victoria Nduka, Independent & Amy Super, Grafana Labs
Wednesday, November 12 • 14:15 - 14:45 - **[Building Scalable End-to-end Latency Metrics From Distributed Trace](https://sched.co/27Faj)**
by Kusha Maharshi, Bloomberg
Wednesday, November 12 • 15:00 - 15:30 - **[Where's My Pod? End-to-End Tracing for Kubernetes With OpenTelemetry](https://sched.co/27FaO)**
by Artem Tkachuk; JP Phillips (Netflix)
Wednesday, November 12 • 15:00 – 15:30 - **[From Kubestronaut To Production Hero: Turning Study Paths Into Real-World Wins](https://sched.co/27Fav)**
by David Pech, Wrike & Pedro Célestin, CLDF
Wednesday, November 12 • 16:00 – 16:30 - **[Debugging Your Cluster When It's on Fire](https://sched.co/27FbD)**
by Nikola Grcevski, Grafana Labs & Tyler Yahn, Splunk
Wednesday, November 12 • 16:00 – 16:25 - **[Zero-Downtime Telemetry: Hot Reloading OpenTelemetry Collector Pipelines](https://sched.co/27Fas)**
by Amir Jakoby (Sawmills); Shiran Melamed (JFrog)
Wednesday, November 12 • 16:00 – 16:30 - **[⚡ Lightning Talk: Confidential Observability on Kubernetes: Protecting Telemetry End-to-End](https://sched.co/27Fbn)**
by Jitendra Singh, IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
Wednesday, November 12 • 16:45 – 16:50 - **[Designing for Observability: From Noise To Insight](https://sched.co/27Fbk)**
by Andrea Chomiak, Dash0
Wednesday, November 12 • 16:45 – 17:15 - **[OpenTelemetry Logs Driving a Major Shift: Events, Richer Data, and Smarter Semantics](https://sched.co/27FbP)**
by Robert Pająk (Splunk)
Wednesday, November 12 • 16:45 – 17:15 - **[Diagnosing Application Performance With eBPF, Pyroscope, and Kubernetes](https://sched.co/27FcT)**
by Liam Mackie, Octopus Deploy
Wednesday, November 12 • 17:30 – 18:00 - **[Observing Dark Matter With OpenTelemetry](https://sched.co/27Fc8)**
by Sam Alipio, Pasteur Labs & Mario Macías, Grafana Labs
Wednesday, November 12 • 17:30 – 18:00 - **[⚡ Lightning Talk: Tracing the Untraceable: OpenTelemetry for 'Vibe-Coded' LLM Apps](https://sched.co/27Fcf)**
by Pranay Prateek, SigNoz
Wednesday, November 12 • 17:41 – 17:46 - **[Feature Flags Suck! - The Problems With Feature Flagging and How To Avoid Them](https://sched.co/27FdI)**
by Pete Hodgson, PH1
Thursday November 13 • 11:00 - 11:30 - **[Help! My LLM Is a Resource Hog: How We Tamed Inference With Kubernetes and Open Source Muscle](https://sched.co/27Feq)**
by Aditya Soni, Forrester Research & Hrittik Roy, Loft Labs
Thursday November 13 • 14:30 - 15:00 ## Maintainer Summit Held on November 9, one day prior to the co-located events and 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. Prepared talks, project meetings, and unconference sessions run from 9:00 to 17:00. 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. For eligibility requirements, 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 10, 2025 from 9:00 to 18:00. 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 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, such as: - SIG Office Hours: Come meet the people behind the project, learn about their work, ask questions, share feedback, or find out how to contribute. - Special Topic Discussions: Come learn about the hottest topics in the OTel community. If you'd like to participate by leading a discussion, or if there is a discussion topic you're interested in, please reach out to the [OpenTelemetry End User SIG][end user] to let us know, and we will see what we can do. For activity details, see the [OTel Observatory Schedule][]. This schedule is a work in progress and will be updated up until the day of the event. Check back often for the latest! ## 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 will open soon, 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 Atlanta! [kubecon na]: [Observability Day]: [register]: [summit schedule]: https://maintainersummitna2025.sched.com/ [maintainer summit]: [membership]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/25f027532a6e9b503d6eb4dd3db0a98eb3b5f1cb/guides/contributor/membership.md?from_branch=main#member [obs-day-sched]: https://colocatedeventsna2025.sched.com/overview/type/Observability+Day [end user]: https://cloud-native.slack.com/archives/C01RT3MSWGZ [otel observatory schedule]: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Kk6io9V6Q1nluq6H05zGjwvWlXwxh9IwjiThBGJP1Rw/edit?usp=sharing