Denver, CO Event | Observability Lunch & Learn at Coors Field

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Overview:
‍Is enhancing Customer Experience through modern application architectures becoming essential to your role? Splunk and Evolutio invite you to join us on Wednesday, December 11th to explore the role of Unified Observability and OpenTelemetry in advancing infrastructure monitoring and user experience.

‍Date and Time: Wednesday, December 11th from 10:00-1:00 pm (MST)
Location: Coor's Field Toyota Clubhouse

Join us for a morning session, followed by lunch and a special tour of the field.

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Observability Lunch & Learn Takeaways

Gain insights into how diverse telemetry data - spanning infrastructure, Kubernetes containers, APM, and more - can be standardized through OpenTelemetry (OTel) and aligned with key business KPIs. This approach helps quantify user impact and empowers teams to make swift, informed decisions when incidents occur.

OpenTelemetry, the data standard from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, represents the future of observability. With its lightweight, agentless integration across APM vendors, OTel offers a streamlined solution for modern monitoring.

Who should attend:
This lunch and learn is designed for professionals invested in Observability practices, especially those working across hybrid and multi-cloud environments such as:

- Network Engineers
- DevOps
- Applications/ Monitoring
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
- Software Engineering & Tools teams
- Infrastructure engineering

Whether managing on-prem, cloud, or multi-cloud systems across AWS, Azure, GCP, or other hyperscalers, this workshop will provide valuable strategies to elevate your Observability practice.

Agenda (MST):

10:00 am
Welcome and introductions to the Evolutio and Splunk teams

10:15 am
High level overview of OTel Signals (MELT Framework), Instrumentation, and Instructor-led training exploring OpenTelemetry

11:30 am
Break for Lunch

12:00 pm
Fireside Chat highlighting common use case across key industries

12:30 pm
Stadium Tour

1:00 pm
Depart

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Join us and explore a methodology for tackling OpenTelemetry's potential at your organization.
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Coors Field Location & Speakers:

Presenter

Author

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.

Wendel Wurzweiler

Observability Advisor, Splunk

Wendel Wurzweiler has been with Splunk for over four and a half years and currently serves as an Observability Advisor for the Western Region. In this role, Wendel collaborates with DevOps, SREs, IT Operations, and business leaders across accounts to understand key discussions and needs, delivering data insights that address critical business challenges. Based in Denver, Colorado, he enjoys outdoor activities like skiing and biking and is a dedicated supporter of his hometown sports teams.

Andrew Cuskelly

Director, Growth

With 15+ years of experience in infrastructure and software sales both in Europe and the USA, Andrew is a dedicated solution-focused salesperson who enjoys working in challenging goal-orientated situations. Drawing from his ability to listen and understand business challenges, Andrew is extremely dedicated to delivering lasting value to his clients. His skill in managing relationships allows him to work with many verticals and all levels of management.

Andrew's technical background is critical to his ability to liaise between users and management and understand how changes affect business processes to maintain productivity. A committed and driven professional, Andrew enjoys working in challenging goal-orientated situations.

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