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Chicago State of Observability Session

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December 6, 2022
5:30-8:00 pm (Central Time)
December 6, 2022
5:30-8:00 pm (Central Time)

Chicago, IL | Observability, Bourbon, & Fine Cigar Education with The Urban Bourbonist

Chicagoan Chris Blanter will join us to lead the spirits tasting and cigar pairing as we discuss observability, DevOps, Cloud, & more.

We look forward to you joining us Tuesday, December 6th, 2022 in the Downtown Chicago West Loop with a bourbon spirit tasting. It'll be hosted basement speakeasy of The Clayton, an exquisite cigar establishment in Chicago's Fulton River District. We'll network and discuss Observability trends for the application-driven enterprise.

IT-Peer Networking:

It will be a great chance to network with Chicago peers and discuss the State of Observability in 2022. We'll talk about examples in various industries, and highlight recommendations for the application-driven enterprise.

Observability Topics:

- 2022 monitoring trends, and moving to Observability
- Observability with a business lens
- Monitoring vs Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
- KPIs that matter for both uptime and client satisfaction

Learn about the tradecraft of bourbon with The Urban Bourbonist and Chicago-local, Chris Blanter


Rare Spirits Tasting with Sommelier, Chris Blanter The Urban Bourbonist:

We'll close out the event with a professional, rare spirits tasting of four bourbons/ whiskeys with Chris Blanter of the Urban Bourbonist

Agenda (Central):

5:30 pm
Arrival/ network/ lite fare appetizers with cocktail hour

6:15 pm
Session on State of Observability and Cloud Transformation with Laura Vetter (Evolutio CTO); client roundtable and brain share with Q&A

6:45 pm
Bourbon/ whiskey/ spirits education with Chris Blanter, The Urban Bourbonist

8:00 pm
Depart

Location & Speaker:

Presenter

Author

Laura Vetter
CTO & Co-founder, USA, Evolutio

Laura Vetter is a subject matter expert in methodology and tooling for Monitoring, SRE, and Observability, namely with Cisco Observability, Splunk, AppDynamics, and other Performance Monitoring Tools in the competitive landscape. She is also well-versed in monitoring global SAP ERP landscapes and works with DevOps teams on governance for more secure and quality software deployments. With over 20 years of hands-on experience working in IT Ops and leading large teams, she is exceptionally skilled in understanding how those tools can meet the visibility needs of application-driven, Fortune 500 organizations.

As a CTO and technology transformation visionary, Laura leads strategy for alerting and business-relevant dashboarding demands at scale. She leads a team that helps clients roadmap an observability strategy to mature along the curve, wherever they are in the journey.

Chris Blanter
Chris Blanter, The Urban Bourbonist

Writer. Creative Director. Executive Bourbon Steward.

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