a member of Group Elephant

beyond corporate purpose

Chicago Event | OpenTelemetry & Why it Matters for Observability & User Experience

RSVP NowRSVP Now
May 2, 2024
2:00 pm - 6:00 PM (Central Time)
May 2, 2024
2:00 pm - 6:00 PM (Central Time)

Chicago Event | Why OpenTelemetry Matters for Observability & 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 Thursday, May 2nd afternoon to get hands-on and discuss OpenTelemetry and Full-Stack Observability's impact on infrastructure monitoring and user experience.

Date and time: On Thursday, May 2nd from 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm (Central), we'll be at the offices of CCC Intelligent Solutions at their Chicago location for this fun and informative event, then from 4:00 - 6:00 pm we'll head to a nearby location for a peer networking cocktail reception.

Daytime Format | Instructor-led Enablement Workshop:

Join Evolutio's 2-hour instructor-led training and short lab hosted at the CCC Intelligent Solutions Chicago office, 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.

Who is this for: Network Engineers, DevOps, Applications/ Monitoring/ SRE, and Infrastructure engineering teams 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). We also welcome business leaders or other strategic roles in IT and Digital Transformation to join the networking cocktail reception.


Virtual Attendees: Please indicate in the comments section if you'll need the virtual attendee link.

Agenda (Central):

2:00 pm
Instructor-led training exploring OpenTelemetry and why it matters for Observability & User Experience (light snack packs will be provided) 

2:30 pm
Hands-on Lab walkthrough & participation

3:45 pm
Wrap-up and takeaways

4:00 pm
Cocktail reception at a nearby location

6:00 pm
Depart

We look forward to you joining us to explore a methodology for tackling OpenTelemetry's potential at your organization.

CCC Intelligent Solutions Chicago Office Location & Speakers

Presenter

Author

Laura Vetter
CTO & Co-founder, USA, Evolutio

Laura Vetter is a subject matter expert in methodology and tooling for Monitoring, DevOps, and full stack Observability, namely with AppDynamics and other Performance Monitoring Tools in the competitive landscape. With over 20 years of hands-on experience working in IT Ops and leading large teams, she is particularly skilled in understanding how those tools can meet the visibility needs of application-driven, Fortune 500 organizations.

Laura is well-versed in building solutions for monitoring, alerting, and reporting demands at scale. With her team of consultants and solutions architects, they roadmap process to help organizations mature along the curve, wherever they're at in the journey.

As well, Laura is a certified subject matter expert in Splunk, monitoring global SAP ERP landscapes, and enabling Software Development and DevOps teams to leverage governance process for onboarding apps to CI/CD pipelines to get more secure and quality deployments.

Forrest Smietankski
Full Stack Observability Architect, USA, Evolutio

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.

Aaron Abodeely
Director of Corporate Strategy

Aaron has marketed Information Technology for fifteen years. He's held roles in partner marketing, community management, and field marketing. His experience managing large technical community-building initiatives and product roll-outs makes him savvy at bridging the divide between technology, advisory, service delivery, and marketing.

Prior to joining Evolutio in 2021, in 2018 he founded a self-employed consultancy and podcast, focused on the IT Channel by delivering Sales and Marketing services to OEMs, distributors, and IT solution providers. Aaron is also the Outcome Studio Podcast host, growing his audience to thousands of downloads and hundreds of thousands of video views on LinkedIn.

Aaron is applying the skills of developing a brand for a services company to Evolutio's practice areas. He works side-by-side with practice area leaders in Observability, Automation, Data Science, and Security to tell stories about how Evolutio is helping organizations build, scale, and secure enterprise applications.

Ready to see what we can do for your organization?

Contact Us
Cookie Consent

By clicking “Accept”, you agree to the storing of cookies on your device to enhance site navigation, analyze site usage, and assist in our marketing efforts. View our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy for more information.