Kickoff Event in Berlin || What's new & OpenTelemetry

I'm so happy and excited to announce the first ever Datadog User Group event at the Spiced Academy in Berlin!

First, I'd like to extend a heartfelt thank you to our sponsors, Public Cloud Group and Datadog, for making this event possible. Now, without further ado, let's dive into an exciting agenda - all talks will be presented in English, to ensure that as many people as possible can participate and engage at this event.

If you want to attend, please RSVP to secure your spot!

Location: Spiced Academy, Ritterstrasse 12, 10969 Berlin, 2. Hof

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🏠 17:00 - Arrival: Networking, Drinks & Snacks (30 min.)
Grab yourself snacks & drinks and say hello to everybody else!

👋 17:30 - Welcome! (15 min.)
🎙️Speaker: Marcel Drechsler, User Group Leader & Product Owner IDP @ andsafe

Let me welcome you and give a brief introduction to the user group.

📅 17:45 - What's new at Datadog? (60 min.)
🎙️Speaker: Dušan Okanović, Senior Enterprise Sales Engineer @ Datadog

Datadog is a powerful, ever-evolving Observability and Security Platform that continues to expand its features and capabilities day-by-day. Keeping pace with each new feature, enhancement and products can be challenging. In this session, we'll explore the latest updates in-depth and highlight the most significant features and product additions from recent months.

☕ 18:45 - Break (15 min.)

📅 19:00 - OpenTelemetry Introduction (45 min.)
🎙️Speaker: Juraci Paixão Kröhling, CNCF ambassador & OpenTelemetry maintainer

Datadog recently announced the embedded OpenTelemetry Collector at their annual conference DASH24. OpenTelemetry (OTel) is an open source, vendor-neutral observability solution that consists of a suite of components—including APIs, SDKs, and the OTel Collector. It allows teams to monitor their applications and services in a standardized format.

In this talk we will give you a introduction to OTel, let you know the status quo about the project and tell you why using it could be a game-changer for your observability strategy.

📅 19:45 - Wrap up (10 min.)
🎙️Speaker: Marcel Drechsler, User Group Leader & Product Owner IDP @ andsafe

🥗 19:55 - Drinks, Food & Networking
Enjoy refreshments while networking with community peers!

👋 21:00 - Goodbye, see you next time!