OpenTelemetry SF Meetup: Re-Launch!

Overview
Observability practitioners in the Bay Area have long needed a consistent space to share, learn, and connect—and we're here to change that with our partners at Grafana.

This meetup dives into OpenTelemetry’s evolution, covering instrumentation hurdles, client-side data strategies, and the risks of siloing RUM from backend telemetry.

This is intended to be the first of an ongoing, quarterly series of Observability-centric meetups

🎉 What's in it for you?
- Open standards, honest conversations, and a community-first approach to modern observability
- Hear insights from peers in the observability space
- Meet and network with like-minded people over food and drinks

Talk 1 - Embrace - Joe LoCascio - Observability Nerd

• Joe has over 15 years of experience in the monitoring and observability space. He was a champion for W3C TraceContext and New Relic’s involvement in OpenTelemetry & their Distributed Tracing product. He now resides at Embrace.
• In this talk, you’ll learn about: End-user focused SLOs, Observability challenges in handing real user data, the organizational shift to client-focused observability

Talk 2 - Grafana - Andrew Chee - Solutions Engineer

• Andrew has over 10 years of experience in the observability space working at New Relic, Lightstep, and now Grafana
• In this talk, you’ll learn about: Profiling as a telemetry signal and how it fits into your observability stack.

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Agenda
4:30 - 5:00 pm - Doors Open / Registration
5:00 - 5:30 pm - Joe LoCasio (Embrace)
5:30 - 6:00 pm - Andrew Chee (Grafana Labs)
6:00 - 7:00 pm - Food, Beer, NA Options, and Networking