Actually useful AI

​There is so much noise these days about AI. Actually, isn’t everything about AI these days? We are running an event to demonstrate some actually useful uses of AI in the observability space, and how to add observability in your organization for all things people do with AI. You’ll walk out with best practices that you can apply wherever you work, or for your own use cases, especially since running AI workloads costs so much on many levels.

​Talks
🎤 Grafana 13: The road to AI-native observability — Marylia Gutierrez, Principal Software Engineer @ Grafana Labs
This talk will walk through Grafana 13 and the most impactful improvements across the platform. Learn how Grafana is continuing to invest in AI to become the first fully AI-native observability platform, and the default choice for agents.
🎤 Scaling Grafana Assistant: Context, confidence, and AI observability — Edward Qian, Staff Software Engineer @ Grafana Labs
AI agents are only as powerful as the context they receive. In this session, we'll share lessons from building Grafana Assistant and offer practical tips for bringing the right context to get the most out of AI agents.
🎤 AI tools to optimize your development workflow — Cristiano Ventura, Senior Software Engineer @ Grafana Labs
The way we write software has changed. AI systems read code, plan, execute shell commands, run tests, open PRs, and ship work end-to-end. This talk will showcase useful AI tools and concepts to improve your development workflow.

​Agenda
5:30 PM — Doors open, food + networking
6:00 PM — Talks begin
~8:00 PM — Networking continues
8:30 PM — Wrap

Toronto Tech Week is a citywide celebration of the people building what’s next. From May 25–29, 2026, founders, investors, and builders come together for hundreds of community-led events across Toronto, connecting tens of thousands of people around Canadian tech. Torontotechweek.com

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