Charlotte, NC Event | Why OpenTelemetry Matters for Observability, Infrastructure, & User Experience

Overview: Will improving Customer Experience with modern application architectures become an essential part of your role? Cisco and Evolutio invite you to join us on Wednesday, March 20th afternoon to get hands-on and discuss OpenTelemetry and Full-Stack Observability's impact on infrastructure monitoring and user experience.

‍Date and time: On Wednesday, March 20th from 2:00-5:00 pm (Eastern), we'll be at the Mint Museum Uptown Boardroom in downtown Charlotte, for this fun and informative event, then from 5:00-7:00 pm we'll head down to Mint Museum's Carroll Atrium & Terrace for a peer networking cocktail reception.

Daytime Format | Instructor-led Enablement Workshop (Virtual or Onsite):

‍Join Evolutio's 2-hour instructor-led training and short lab (sponsored by Cisco) exploring topics related to OpenTelemetry (OTEL) and why it matters for Observability and User Experience.

In this workshop, participants will learn about the OpenTelemetry data standard, why the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) builds projects like Kubernetes and now OTEL, and how it can be leveraged to bridge the gap amongst observability silos within organizations.

We'll uncover real use cases improving Observability maturity across mixed infrastructure and multi-cloud environments that host business applications. Our Observability experts will teach workshop guests, using Cisco Observability Platform as a lab, how to work with and surface OTEL data.

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Who is this for: Network Engineers, DevOps, Applications/ Monitoring/ SRE, and Infrastructure engineering teams and business leaders or other strategic roles in IT and Digital Transformation who are trying to navigate their Observability practice across hybrid environments (mix of on-prem and cloud) and multi-cloud (across AWS, Azure, GCP, and other hyperscalers).

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Agenda (Eastern):

2:00 pm
Arrival to Mint Museum Boardroom, Introductions to the Evolutio and Cisco teams and other Charlotte-based guests

2:30 pm
Instructor-led training exploring OpenTelemetry and why it matters for Observability & User Experience hosted in Mint Museum Boardroom

4:45 pm
Wrap-up and takeaways

5:00 pm
Cocktail reception downstairs in Mint Museum Carroll Atrium and Terrace for drinks and gourmet appetizers

7:00 pm
Depart

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Join us and explore a methodology for tackling OpenTelemetry's potential at your organization. Please note in the comments section if you'd like to attend virtually.

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Mint Museum Uptown Location & Speakers in Charlotte, NC:

Presenter

Author

Forrest Smietankski

Full Stack Observability Architect

Forrest joined Evolutio in 2022 as a Consultant in the Observability practice area, bringing a decade of experience in software engineering, cloud architectures, and solving large scale enterprise issues. Wearing multiple hats during a long career at Liberty Mutual; Forrest brings financial and insurance industry experience to Evolutio customers. Forrest loves working with customers on solving complex problems, and is excited to collaborate with the other Evolutio practice areas, particularly in DevOps/ Automation and data science by applying ML and AI models to customer problems.

Raghav Srinivasan

Solutions Architect

Raghav is a Solutions Architect at Evolutio in the Observability Practice. Prior to joining in 2022, Raghav has over a decade of experience in Banking, Insurance and Financial services. He has led teams in Platform Engineering, Production Ops and Observability. He enjoys the challenge of designing monitoring solutions, driving O11y enablement and adoption, and leading the shift from on-premises to hybrid and Cloud environments. Raghav lives in the Detroit Metro area and he is passionate about singing and playing chess in his free time.