GrafanaCON 2025 opening keynote

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Join co-chairs Carl Bergquist, Mihaela Maior, and Richard “RichiH” Hartmann for the official kickoff of our biggest community conference of the year. Grafana Labs CEO/Co-founder Raj Dutt and Grafana creator Torkel Ödegaard will be on hand to celebrate the highlights from the past year. Members of our engineering team will make some exciting announcements around our open source projects and unveil what’s new in Grafana 12.

Speakers

Carl Bergquist

Carl Bergquist

Senior Principal Software Engineer  •  Grafana Labs
Carl is a Senior Principal Engineer at Grafana Labs and the technical leader for Grafana as a platform. He was one of the first maintainers of the Grafana OSS project.
Raj Dutt

Raj Dutt

CEO, Co-Founder  •  Grafana Labs
While in college, Raj founded Voxel, a cloud and hosting company acquired by Internap in 2012. His two great passions are observability and aviation; he got his private pilot’s license almost 20 years ago and has completed his motorglider rating.
Richard "RichiH" Hartmann

Richard "RichiH" Hartmann

Office of the CTO  •  Grafana Labs
Richard “RichiH” Hartmann is the Senior Developer Programs Director, a member of the Office of the CTO and a member of the OSPO of Grafana Labs. He is also Prometheus maintainer, OpenMetrics founder, OpenTelemetry member, and more. Among others, he was a CNCF Technical Oversight Committee member, a CNCF Governing Board member, the chair of the CNCF Technical Advisory Group on Observability, and other roles. He’s the only one to receive the CNCF’s “Chop wood, carry water” award for essential background twice. He also leads, organizes, or helps run various conferences from hundreds to 18,000 attendess, including but not limited to KubeCon, PromCon, FOSDEM, DENOG, DebConf, and Chaos Communication Congress. In the past, he made mainframe databases work, ISP backbones run, kept the largest IRC network on Earth running, and designed and built a datacenter from scratch. Go through his talks, podcasts, interviews, and articles at https://github.com/RichiH/talks or follow him on Mastodon at https://chaos.social/@RichiH for musings on the intersection of technology and society.
David Kaltschmidt

David Kaltschmidt

Senior Director, Engineering  •  Grafana Labs
David works at Grafana Labs as a Senior Director of Engineering. Previously he worked on Prometheus and Cortex and at companies such as Weaveworks, Oracle, and Acme Packet. David has been building UIs for the networking industry for over a decade.
Mihaela Maior

Mihaela Maior

Director of Engineering  •  Grafana Labs
Mihaela is a senior leader with a keen interest in open leadership, agile mindset, and value creation. Since joining Grafana Labs, she has been leading a growing engineering team focused on visualizing, sharing, and correlating data using Grafana. In her free time, which is shared with her family and dogs, Mihaela enjoys hiking, camping, and spending time outdoors.
Ryan McKinley

Ryan McKinley

Distinguished Engineer  •  Grafana Labs
Ryan is a Distinguished Engineer at Grafana Labs. Before joining the company, he was the leading community contributor to the open source Grafana project. Ryan has worked as a software engineer at Makani and Natel Energy, where he implemented Grafana to help run next-generation hydropower plants. He received a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Visual Arts from UC San Diego and a Master of Science from the Media Lab at MIT.
    Torkel Ödegaard

    Torkel Ödegaard

    CGO, Co-Founder  •  Grafana Labs
    Torkel is the creator of Grafana, the open source metrics dashboard that Grafana Labs is built around. He enjoys seeing people use metrics more through beautiful and easy to use software. Torkel is infatuated with the theory of evolution.
    Mat Ryer

    Mat Ryer

    Principal Software Engineer  •  Grafana Labs
    Mat is a Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs on the Machine Learning team. Author of Go Programming Blueprints and host of Go Time podcast.
    Andrew Stucky

    Andrew Stucky

    Senior Engineering Manager  •  Grafana Labs
    Andrew is a Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs with over a decade of hands-on experience in software engineering. Passionate about building high-quality digital products, Andrew specializes in crafting intuitive, opinionated, and easy-to-use user experiences that drive meaningful interactions. Beyond frontend and UX, Andrew has spent a significant portion of their career architecting and scaling complex distributed backend systems. Their expertise extends to the instrumentation and observability of distributed systems, ensuring that high-performance applications remain reliable and maintainable at scale. With a strong belief in pragmatic engineering and developer experience, Andrew enjoys bridging the gap between frontend and backend, making systems not only functional but also a pleasure to work with. They are an advocate for clear abstractions, efficient tooling, and thoughtful design that enables developers and users alike. While not managing teams at Grafana, Andrew contributes to open-source projects, shares knowledge through talks and writing, and continuously explores ways to improve the craft of software engineering.
      Cyril Tovena

      Cyril Tovena

      Principal Software Engineer  •  Grafana Labs
      At Grafana Labs, Cyril mainly focuses on Loki, an open source logs aggregation system inspired by Prometheus. He previously worked at Ubisoft, scaling dedicated game servers in the cloud using Kubernetes. Cyril also contributed to Agones creation, an open source project to scale dedicated servers on Kubernetes.
      Ted Young

      Ted Young

      Developer Programs Director  •  Grafana Labs
      Ted Young is a co-founder of the OpenTelemetry project. Prior to that, he worked on Diego, the container scheduling system for Cloud Foundry. For work, his main area of interest is in correctness and reliability for large scale distributed software systems. For fun, he likes to makes movies, and tries to get as far away from the computers as humanly possible.
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        What’s happening at GrafanaCON 2025

        News

        Hear about the latest Grafana features and visualizations and other developments in the extended open source monitoring ecosystem.

        Community

        Get inspired by community members who are dashboarding everything and using Grafana in cool and surprising ways.

        Education

        Learn from 20+ talks, deep dives, and hands-on sessions covering Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Loki, Mimir, Tempo, and more.

        Hallway track

        Meet your Community Forum friends and LinkedIn connections in person. Share ideas, tips and tricks, and your favorite dashboards!

        When

        May 6-8, 2025

        Where

        McCaw Hall at Seattle Center
        321 Mercer Street
        Seattle, WA 98109

        Hands-on labs

        Get firsthand experience in building dashboards, data sources, new telemetry pipelines, and more. Grafana Labs experts will lead hands-on labs in a variety of topics and teach you tips and tricks to improve your skills.
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