Open Observability Summit and OTel Community Day

Alolita Sharma is a OpenTelemetry GC member and CNCF Observability TAG co-chair. She also serves on the CNCF Governing Board and is a CNCF End User Technical Advisory Board member from Apple. She leads Apple’s AIML observability teams. She contributes to OpenTelemetry, CNCF, Unicode, W3C. Previously, Alolita led observability, search engineering and open source strategy at AWS and has managed engineering teams at IBM, PayPal, Twitter, Wikipedia. She has also served on the OSI, SFLC.in, Unicode Consortium boards.

Alok has spent the bulk of his 15+ year career in Observability with a very specific focus on logging having worked at Splunk, SentinelOne (running the logging product) and now at Chronosphere.  His current passion in the space is to help users reduce the cost of logging while trying to maintain good query performance and the value those logs provide.  In his personal time he loves playing Tennis and spending time with his wife and his son in the Bay Area.

Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Developer Advocate, DevOps Specialist, Open Source Evangelist)

Margaret Dawson is an acclaimed writer and speaker on emerging technologies, open source, and the convergence of business and technology. A twenty-five-year tech industry veteran, she has led enterprise open-source initiatives for Linux, OpenStack, Kubernetes, and, currently, Fluent Bit, Prometheus and OpenTelemetry. Margaret is Chief Marketing Officer and Open Source Evangelist at Chronosphere, a cloud-native observability platform. In previous leadership roles, she drove global initiatives, including portfolio strategy at Red Hat, cloud at HPE, network security at Microsoft, and international e-commerce at Amazon.com. Prior to Chronosphere, she served as Chief of Staff to the CEOs of Apptio and Red Hat. She has worked and traveled extensively in Asia, Europe, and North America, and is an advisor to multiple technology organizations and start-up CEOs. Ranked as one of the top Women in Cloud Computing, she was also named Business Role Model of the Year for Women in IT, and Mentor and Coach of the Year in the Stevie Business Awards.

Austin is Director of Open Source at honeycomb.io, an OpenTelemetry maintainer and governance member, author of several books, and all around great person.