Montreal, QC Event | Why OpenTelemetry Matters for Observability, Infrastructure, & User Experience

Overview: Will improving Customer Experience with modern application architectures become an essential part of your role? Cisco and Evolutio + EPI-USE (a Cisco Observability and SAP-focused Group of companies with offices in Mississauga, Ottawa, and Edmonton) invite you to join us on Thursday, February 22nd afternoon to discuss OpenTelemetry and Full-Stack Observability's impact on infrastructure monitoring and user experience.

‍Date and time: On Thursday, February 22nd from 2:00-5:00 pm (Eastern), we'll be at Cisco's offices at their Montreal location for this fun and informative event, then from 5:00-7:00 pm we'll head to Bar George, a short walk from Cisco's offices for a peer networking cocktail reception.

Daytime Format | Instructor-led Enablement Workshop (Virtual or Onsite):

‍Join Evolutio's Instructor-led training (sponsored by Cisco) 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.

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Who is this for: Network Engineers, DevOps, Applications/ Monitoring/ SRE, and Infrastructure engineering teams and business leaders or other strategic roles in IT and Digital Transformation 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).

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Agenda (Eastern):

2:00 pm
Arrival, Introductions to the Evolutio and Cisco teams and other Montreal-based guests

2:30 pm
Instructor-led training exploring OpenTelemetry and why it matters for Observability & User Experience

5:00 pm
Arrive at cocktail reception at Bar George for drinks and gourmet appetizers

7:00 pm
Depart

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Join us and explore a methodology for tackling OpenTelemetry's potential at your organization. Please note in the comments section if you'd like to attend virtually.

Cocktail Reception Location:

Bar George - 1440 Drummond St, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1V9, Canada

(8 min walk from Cisco Offices)
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Cisco Montreal Location & Speakers:

Presenter

Author

Forrest Smietankski

Full Stack Observability Architect

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.

Abe Albee

Director, Sales

Before joining Evolutio, Abe spent over ten years working in many areas of the banking and finance industry. While in different levels of leadership at both large corporate settings and small financials, much of his time was spent focused around making improvements to client experience and finding solutions to operational inefficiencies.

During the later stage of his career, while overseeing multiple departments of the bank, Abe’s focus shifted to understanding the correlation between finding better ways of doing things, cultural change management, and how the two play a role in end-user experience. That dedication to continuous improvement is what eventually attracted Abe to the world of technical innovation at Evolutio.

In his present role, Abe enjoys the opportunity to help organizations rethink how they solve problems. Through the use of specific methodology and best practices, Abe helps companies be more equipped to solve the problems of their future. Abe’s passions outside of Evolutio revolve around maximizing his time with family and friends and watching his four children learn and grow.

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