Sponsored Keynote | Odigos: Runtime Context: The Missing... - Ari Recht, Odigos Technologies Inc.

Don't miss out! Join us at our next KubeCon + CloudNativeCon event in Salt Lake City, United States (Nov 9–12, 2026). Connect with our current graduated, incubating, and sandbox projects as the community gathers to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing. Learn more at https://kubecon.io Sponsored Keynote | Odigos: Runtime Context: The Missing Foundation for AI in Production - Ari Recht, Odigos Technologies Inc. AI is changing how engineers build, operate, and troubleshoot software. But AI is only as effective as the production context it can access. Today, that context is fragmented across traces, logs, metrics, infrastructure, deployments, and runtime behavior, leaving AI systems without the complete picture needed to understand what's actually happening in production. This keynote explores why runtime context is becoming the foundation of the next generation of software operations. We'll discuss how OpenTelemetry has standardized telemetry collection, why eBPF is making production visibility dramatically easier, and how organizations are moving beyond simply collecting more data toward delivering rich, connected runtime context that both engineers and AI systems can reason about. Attendees will learn: 1. Why runtime context is becoming the new operational data layer. 2. How OpenTelemetry and eBPF are reducing friction in production visibility. 3. Why dynamic telemetry matters more than static instrumentation. 4. How rich runtime context enables AI to troubleshoot, investigate, and automate production operations with greater confidence. As AI becomes part of every engineering workflow, organizations that can provide complete, trustworthy runtime context will be best positioned to unlock the next generation of intelligent operations.