Call for Speakers

in 17 days

OTel Night Birmingham

event date

11 Jun 2026

location

Bluetel Birmingham, United Kingdom


We are looking for speakers to share practical talks, lessons learned, case studies, and hands-on experiences around OpenTelemetry and modern observability.

This meetup is designed for engineers, platform teams, DevOps practitioners, SREs, developers, architects, and anyone interested in learning how OpenTelemetry is being used in real-world cloud native environments.

We welcome talks from all experience levels. You do not need to be an expert — beginner-friendly sessions, real-world implementation stories, challenges, and lessons learned are highly valuable to the community.

Suggested Topics

OpenTelemetry basics and adoption journey

OpenTelemetry in production

Traces, metrics, and logs

OTel Collector use cases

Kubernetes observability

Cloud native monitoring

Observability pipelines

Production debugging

Distributed tracing

OpenTelemetry with Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, Tempo, or other tools

Lessons learned from real-world implementation

Cost optimization for telemetry data


Talk Format

Standard Talk: 25–30 minutes

Q&A: 5 minutes after each session, depending on schedule


Who Can Submit

Speakers from all backgrounds are welcome, including:

DevOps Engineers, SREs, Platform Engineers, Cloud Engineers, Developers, Observability Engineers, Architects, students, and first-time speakers.


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Call for Speakers
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17 May 2026

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06 Jun 2026

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We are looking for speakers to share practical talks, lessons learned, case studies, and hands-on experiences around OpenTelemetry and modern observability.


This meetup is designed for engineers, platform teams, DevOps practitioners, SREs, developers, architects, and anyone interested in learning how OpenTelemetry is being used in real-world cloud native environments.

We welcome talks from all experience levels. You do not need to be an expert — beginner-friendly sessions, real-world implementation stories, challenges, and lessons learned are highly valuable to the community.


Suggested Topics

OpenTelemetry basics and adoption journey

OpenTelemetry in production

Traces, metrics, and logs

OTel Collector use cases

Kubernetes observability

Cloud native monitoring

Observability pipelines

Production debugging

Distributed tracing

OpenTelemetry with Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, Tempo, or other tools

Lessons learned from real-world implementation

Cost optimization for telemetry data


Talk Format

Standard Talk: 25–30 minutes

Q&A: 5 minutes after each session, depending on schedule


Who Can Submit

Speakers from all backgrounds are welcome, including:

DevOps Engineers, SREs, Platform Engineers, Cloud Engineers, Developers, Observability Engineers, Architects, students, and first-time speakers.



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