As organizations race to adopt AI, a critical blind spot is emerging: most AI workloads running on cloud-native infrastructure lack meaningful observability and when sovereignty requirements enter the picture, this gap becomes a serious governance risk.
This talk explores how OpenTelemetry can serve as the open, vendor-neutral observability backbone for sovereign AI deployments. We'll walk through how to instrument AI agent pipelines from LLM inference calls to multi-agent orchestration — using OTel semantic conventions, and why this matters when your data must stay within jurisdictional boundaries