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title: "Join us for OpenTelemetry Talks and Activities at KubeCon NA 2023"
source: OpenTelemetry Documentation
source_url: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io
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domain: engineering
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date_added: 2026-04-25
---

The OpenTelemetry project maintainers, members of the governance committee, and
technical committee are thrilled to be at [KubeCon NA][] in Chicago from
November 6 - 9, 2023.

Read on to learn about all the things related OpenTelemetry during KubeCon.

## OpenTelemetry Contribfest

We are happy to announce, that for the first time, you can join the
OpenTelemetry maintainers in making OpenTelemetry better for everyone during the
[OpenTelemetry Contribfest](https://sched.co/1R2rQ), on Wednesday November 8,
2023 from 2:30pm - 3:55pm. There will be several opportunities to contribute:

- Join the Collector maintainers and help fix bugs, add new features, and add
  new transformation functions.
- Help the OTel JS maintainers update the instrumentation libraries and ensure
  they are outputting [semantic convention-compliant](/docs/specs/semconv/)
  telemetry data.

## KubeCon Talks and Maintainer Sessions

- **[All You Need to Know About Prometheus in 2023: Decade of Monitoring](https://sched.co/1R2mK)**
  by Julien Pivotto, O11y Tuesday, November 7 • 11:00am - 11:35am
- **[A Practical Guide to Debugging Browser Performance with OpenTelemetry](https://sched.co/1R2m6)**
  by Purvi Kanal, Honeycomb Tuesday, November 7 • 11:00am - 11:35am
- **[A Tale of Two Flamegraphs: Unlocking Performance Insights in a Diverse Application Landscape](https://sched.co/1R2mo)**
  by Ryan Perry, Grafana Labs Tuesday, November 7 • 11:55am - 12:30pm
- **[Observability in the Cloud Native Era - Why Is It Still so Hard?](https://sched.co/1R2nO)**
  by Sharone Zitzman, RTFM Please; Jason Yee, Datadog; Charity Majors,
  honeycomb.io; Itiel Shwartz, Komodor Tuesday, November 7 • 2:30pm - 3:05pm
- **[Leverage Contextual and Structured Logging in K8s for Enhanced Monitoring](https://sched.co/1R2oQ)**
  by Patrick Ohly, Intel & Shivanshu Raj Shrivastava, Independent Tuesday,
  November 7 • 3:25pm - 4:00pm
- **[Build in Observability While Developing](https://sched.co/1R2oA)** by
  Jamie Danielson, Honeycomb.io Tuesday, November 7 • 3:25pm - 4:00pm
- **[E2E Observability for Connected Vehicle Service via Distributed Tracing](https://sched.co/1R2oh)**
  by Kota Endo, KDDI Corporation & Masanori Itoh, Toyota Motor Corporation
  Tuesday, November 7 • 4:30pm - 5:05pm
- **[Journey to Becoming an OpenTelemetry Approver](https://sched.co/1R2pI)**
  by Jamie Danielson, Honeycomb.io Tuesday, November 7 • 5:25pm - 6:00pm
- **[OpenTelemetry: What's Next? Logs, Profiles, and More](https://sched.co/1R2ur)**
  by Morgan McLean, Splunk; Ted Young, Lightstep; Alolita Sharma, Apple; Daniel
  Dyla, Dynatrace Wednesday, November 8 • 11:00am - 11:35am
- **[Tutorial: Exploring the Power of Metrics Collection with OpenTelemetry on Kubernetes](https://sched.co/1R2pr)**
  by Pavol Loffay & Benedikt Bongartz, Red Hat; Anthony Mirabella, AWS; Matej
  Gera, Coralogix; Anusha Reddy Narapureddy, Apple Wednesday, November 8 •
  11:00am - 12:30pm
- **[Introducing Logs in OpenTelemetry: What It Unlocks and How to Use It](https://sched.co/1R2r4)**
  by Morgan McLean, Splunk & Dan Jaglowski, observIQ Wednesday, November 8 •
  2:30pm - 3:05pm
- **[Empowering Users Through Platform Engineering: Unleashing the Potential of Self-Service Tooling](https://sched.co/1R2rW)**
  by Ana Margarita Medina & Adriana Villela, Lightstep Wednesday, November 8
  • 2:30pm - 3:05pm
- **[Jaeger the Future with OpenTelemetry and Metrics](https://sched.co/1R2q1)**
  by Pavol Loffay, Red Hat Wednesday, November 8 • 3:25pm - 4:00pm
- **[Tutorial: OpenTelemetry 101: Let's Instrument!](https://sched.co/1R2sI)**
  by Paige Cruz, Chronosphere Wednesday, November 8 • 4:30pm - 6:00pm
- **[Remote Control for Observability Using the Open Agent Management Protocol](https://sched.co/1R2sr)**
  by Jacob Aronoff, Lightstep from ServiceNow & Andy Keller, observIQ
  Wednesday, November 8 • 5:25pm - 6:00pm
- **[OpenTelemetry Tracing for Monoliths](https://sched.co/1R2sr)** by
  Phillip Carter, Honeycomb Thursday, November 9 • 11:00am - 11:35am
- **[Today, Not Tomorrow: Scalable Strategies for Migrating to OpenTelemetry](https://sched.co/1R2uc)**
  by Jason Anderson & Kevin Broadbridge, Cruise Thursday, November 9 •
  2:00pm - 2:35pm
- **[How and Why You Should Adopt and Expose OSS Interfaces Like OTel & Prometheus](https://sched.co/1R2uc)**
  by Daniel Hrabovcak & Shishi Chen, Google Thursday, November 9 • 4:55pm -
  5:30pm

## Co-located Events

[Observability Day][] _fosters collaboration, discussion, and knowledge sharing
of cloud native observability projects_. This event will be held on November 6,
2023 from 9am - 5pm. There will be several sessions on OpenTelemetry as well.

>  **IMPORTANT access note**: You
> need an _in-person all-access_ pass for on-site access to **Observability
> Day**. For details, see [KubeCon registration][]. If you have a virtual
> ticket, you will be able to follow **Observability Day** through a live
> stream.

## OpenTelemetry Project Booth

Drop by and say _"Hi!"_ at the OpenTelemetry project booth in the KubeCon NA
Project Pavilion. If you’re lucky, you may even pick up some OpenTelemetry swag.

[Pavilion hours][] are as follows:

- Tuesday, November 7: 10:30am – 8:00pm (includes KubeCrawl + CloudNativeFest
  from 6:00pm – 8:00pm)
- Wednesday, November 8: 10:30am – 5:00pm
- Thursday, November 9: 10:30am – 2:30pm

You can help us improve the project by sharing your thoughts and feedback about
your OpenTelemetry adoption, implementation, and usage. We also invite you to
fill out our [community survey][]. We will create action items from your
comments as appropriate. Check [#otel-user-research][] in CNCF's Slack instance
for survey results and action item updates to come after KubeCon NA.

## OpenTelemetry Observatory

In addition to our booth at the Project Pavilion, please visit the 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. If you’d like to participate and lead a discussion or
short presentation,
[please fill out the content application form](https://forms.gle/ajNv8jGs12coDUjG8)
to indicate your interest.

Come join us to listen, learn, and get involved in OpenTelemetry.

See you in Chicago!

[kubecon na]:
  https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/
[Observability Day]:
  https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/co-located-events/observability-day/
[kubecon registration]:
  https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/register/
[pavilion hours]:
  https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/program/project-engagement/#project-pavilion
[community survey]:
  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdKm6oLYRXlZOhEZMVmjoIn4eBToVYNmF6fwpm5GAIipQmPxA/viewform?pli=1
[#otel-user-research]: https://cloud-native.slack.com/archives/C01RT3MSWGZ
