Category: Talks

Automating the Toil, Not the Community: AI-Assisted OpenTelemetry Docs Localization

This talk was presented at Observability Summit EU 2026. Localization is a powerful, although often overlooked, gateway to open-source contribution. For projects like OpenTelemetry, translating documentation forces you to dive deep into the project, understand the core terminology, and navigate your first pull request. It is a brilliant way to

AI Socratic Barcelona | September 2026

RSVP: https://luma.com/4wxixtxi AI Socratic Barcelona is a monthly gathering for AI practitioners, researchers, builders, educators, and design thinkers shaping the Barcelona AI ecosystem. ​As a chapter of AI Socratic, we run Socratic dialogues on the latest developments in AI: new models and architectures, breakthrough research, agentic ecosystems, socio-technical alignment, philosophy,

Becoming an otelhttp Code Owner (Grafana ❤️‍🔥 OpenTelemetry Community Call #10)

The preparation checklist available here. RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/grafana-friends-virtual-meetup-group/events/316611496/ We’re back with the new Grafana ❤️‍🔥OpenTelemetry Community Call! In this episode of the Grafana OTel Community Call, we’re joined by Sonal Gaud, code owner of otelhttp in opentelemetry-go-contrib and part of the core Go contributor team. We’ll trace her path from writing

Not Just Code: My First OpenTelemetry Contribution & Hands-On to Open Source

This talk was presented at Grafana&Friends Stockholm. RSVP here: https://www.meetup.com/grafana-friends-stockholm/events/316301304/ Time for another Grafana & Friends Meetup after the summer break ☀️ 🌴, hosted by Magello 🎉 📕 Agenda17:00 – 17:25: Drop-in, food/drink-grabbing and mingle17:25 – 17:30: Introductions17:30 – 18:00: Measuring what matters and setting the right expectations, Alex Ewerlöf18:00 – 18:20: Mingle18:20 – 18:50: Not Just Code: My

Not Just Code: My First OpenTelemetry Contribution & Hands-On to Open Source

This talk was presented at Grafana&Friends Kathmandu. Meet our speaker! 🎤 We’re excited to welcome Imma Valls Bernaus, Staff Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs. She will be presenting “Not Just Code: My First OpenTelemetry Contribution and Your Hands-On Guide to Open Source,” the story of her own first contribution, and

OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (Grafana ❤️‍🔥 OTel Community Call #9)

First time hosting the Grafana OpenTelemetry Community Calls, with a preparation checklist available here. Recording RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/grafana-friends-virtual-meetup-group/events/315676803 We’re back with the new Grafana ❤️‍🔥OpenTelemetry Community Call! In this episode of the Grafana OTel Community Call, we’re exploring OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI). OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) offers a powerful way to instrument applications at

Mastering OpenTelemetry instrumentation and Grafana

RSVP: https://grafana.com/go/webinar/mastering-code-based-instrumentation-with-opentelemetry-and-grafana/ A practical guide to code-based OpenTelemetry instrumentation with Grafana Building on our popular “Intro to OpenTelemetry” webinar, we are excited to present you with this webinar focused on advanced OpenTelemetry instrumentation techniques and the innovative use cases it unlocks. In this live demo and Q&A, Grafana Labs experts will show

GET /Ready #9 – Facilitating a workshop that gets real work done

Recording https://womeninapis.substack.com/p/facilitating-a-workshop-that-gets What do you do when everything goes wrong? Claire and Imma have run hundreds of workshops between them. They’ve seen the same thing happen, over and over. A room full of smart people. A few hours together. And at the end, everyone’s had a good chat, but the real work still

Automating the Toil, Not the Community: AI-Assisted OpenTelemetry Docs Localization

This talk was presented at Observability Summit EU 2026. Localization is a powerful, although often overlooked, gateway to open-source contribution. For projects like OpenTelemetry, translating documentation forces you to dive deep into the project, understand the core terminology, and navigate your first pull request. It is a brilliant way to

AI Socratic Barcelona | September 2026

RSVP: https://luma.com/4wxixtxi AI Socratic Barcelona is a monthly gathering for AI practitioners, researchers, builders, educators, and design thinkers shaping the Barcelona AI ecosystem. ​As a chapter of AI Socratic, we run Socratic dialogues on the latest developments in AI: new models and architectures, breakthrough research, agentic ecosystems, socio-technical alignment, philosophy,

Becoming an otelhttp Code Owner (Grafana ❤️‍🔥 OpenTelemetry Community Call #10)

The preparation checklist available here. RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/grafana-friends-virtual-meetup-group/events/316611496/ We’re back with the new Grafana ❤️‍🔥OpenTelemetry Community Call! In this episode of the Grafana OTel Community Call, we’re joined by Sonal Gaud, code owner of otelhttp in opentelemetry-go-contrib and part of the core Go contributor team. We’ll trace her path from writing

Not Just Code: My First OpenTelemetry Contribution & Hands-On to Open Source

This talk was presented at Grafana&Friends Stockholm. RSVP here: https://www.meetup.com/grafana-friends-stockholm/events/316301304/ Time for another Grafana & Friends Meetup after the summer break ☀️ 🌴, hosted by Magello 🎉 📕 Agenda17:00 – 17:25: Drop-in, food/drink-grabbing and mingle17:25 – 17:30: Introductions17:30 – 18:00: Measuring what matters and setting the right expectations, Alex Ewerlöf18:00 – 18:20: Mingle18:20 – 18:50: Not Just Code: My

Not Just Code: My First OpenTelemetry Contribution & Hands-On to Open Source

This talk was presented at Grafana&Friends Kathmandu. Meet our speaker! 🎤 We’re excited to welcome Imma Valls Bernaus, Staff Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs. She will be presenting “Not Just Code: My First OpenTelemetry Contribution and Your Hands-On Guide to Open Source,” the story of her own first contribution, and

OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (Grafana ❤️‍🔥 OTel Community Call #9)

First time hosting the Grafana OpenTelemetry Community Calls, with a preparation checklist available here. Recording RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/grafana-friends-virtual-meetup-group/events/315676803 We’re back with the new Grafana ❤️‍🔥OpenTelemetry Community Call! In this episode of the Grafana OTel Community Call, we’re exploring OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI). OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) offers a powerful way to instrument applications at

Mastering OpenTelemetry instrumentation and Grafana

RSVP: https://grafana.com/go/webinar/mastering-code-based-instrumentation-with-opentelemetry-and-grafana/ A practical guide to code-based OpenTelemetry instrumentation with Grafana Building on our popular “Intro to OpenTelemetry” webinar, we are excited to present you with this webinar focused on advanced OpenTelemetry instrumentation techniques and the innovative use cases it unlocks. In this live demo and Q&A, Grafana Labs experts will show

GET /Ready #9 – Facilitating a workshop that gets real work done

Recording https://womeninapis.substack.com/p/facilitating-a-workshop-that-gets What do you do when everything goes wrong? Claire and Imma have run hundreds of workshops between them. They’ve seen the same thing happen, over and over. A room full of smart people. A few hours together. And at the end, everyone’s had a good chat, but the real work still