As technology architectures have become more complex, observability has become a must have for today’s engineering and IT leaders. The benefits of observability are clear but the path to success is not always easy to see. What is the best strategy for implementing observability within your organization? How do you drive adoption and develop a culture of observability?
In this executive dinner, join former Head of Observability for United Airlines and Chronosphere Field CTO, Bill Hineline and Rob Strickland, Interim CIO, Infovista in an engaged discussion.
DINNER AGENDA
5:45 PM CT Event start
6:30 PM CT Leadership Discussion
- Introduction (5 mins)
The peer executive will engage the audience for brief introductions and discuss the format and key takeaways from the guided interaction conversation and dinner discussions. - Guided Interactive Conversation (30 mins) – Topics include:
- The Evolution of Observability from APM to the cloud-native era
- How to develop an observability strategy and how to get buy-in on people, processes, resources and tools to execute your strategy?
- How does AI play a part in the Observability strategy?
- How does OpenTelemetry (OTel) impact your current and future Observability Strategy?
- How the Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline can impact your Observability Strategy?
- Open Forum Discussion (15 mins)
This discussion will be based on the list of challenges discussed already and will take the format of group brainstorming and open discussion to come up with suggestions and solutions to common challenges at the executive level.
7:15 PM CT Dinner Service
9:00 PM CT Conclusion

Speaker
Bill Hineline
Field Chief Technology Officer
Chronosphere

Moderator