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Open Tech Day 2026

The 2026 Open Tech Day will focus on the future of software-driven, highly available, and scalable storage solutions. As the demand for data storage continues to grow, the event explores cutting-edge technologies and open source innovations transforming how we manage and scale data. Attendees will dive into distributed storage systems, cloud-native architect…

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16Speakers
6Sponsors
14On the bill · sessions
12Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at Open, in alphabetical order.
Alkin Tezuysal
Altinity
Bernd Erk
NETWAYS GmbH
Daniel Bodky
NETWAYS Managed Services GmbH
Denys Kondratenko
Altinity
Fabian Stäber
Grafana Labs
Gunter Geib
DATEV eG
Ismail Simsek
Grafana Labs
Klavs Klavsen
CEO · Obmondo
Markus Opolka
NETWAYS GmbH
Mehrshad Lotfi
Optiop GmbH
Mohamed-Ali Yacoubi
Smile France
Moritz Tanner
LINBIT
Sebastian Schubert
Grafana Labs
Syed Usman
Grafana Labs
Syed Usman Ahmad
Grafana Labs
Yusuf Yildiz
Solution Architect · LINBIT
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
GermanTechJobs
IT-Administrator
Linbit
LINBIT
Linux-Magazin
NETWAYS
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Agenda

Selected from 14 sessions on the bill.
  • 10:15 - 10:45

    Grafana Dashboards as Prompt

  • 11:15 - 11:45

    Learning Grafana Skills for Effective Monitoring

  • 11:45 - 12:15

    Palindrome.js – Bringing 3D Visualization to Grafana

  • 12:15 - 12:45

    Ahoy Alloy! How Grafana Alloy Can Transform Your Open Telemetry Journey

  • 13:50 - 13:55

    Observability vs Monitoring – a linguistic analysis

  • 13:55 - 14:00

    Observability for in-house or Cloud Native Platform via Open Source Tools

  • 14:00 - 14:30

    Zero Code Instrumentation with eBPF

  • 14:30 - 15:00

    Grafana Drilldown – queryless satisfaction

  • 15:00 - 15:30

    Don’t build from scratch — Grafana for your data visualisation application

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 12 companies show up — and 2 bet on three roles at once?

Twelve companies. two are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
2All threespeak · spons · exh
3Sponsoringsponsor only
7Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

LINBIT·NETWAYS GmbH

Speakers by seniority

6% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite16%
  • Engineer · IC16%
  • Other roles1488%

Of 16 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01Grafana Labs5V
  2. 02LINBITSp2V
  3. 03NETWAYS GmbHSp2V
  4. 04German Tech JobsSp
  5. 05IT-AdministratorSp
  6. 06Linux-MagazinSp
  7. 07Altinity2V
  8. 08DATEV eG1V
  9. 09NETWAYS Managed Services GmbH1V
  10. 10Obmondo1V
  11. 11Optiop GmbH1V
  12. 12Smile France1V
Sponsors by tier
unspecified6
100% of 6
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