OpenTelemetry @ KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan takes place July 28-30, 2026, in Yokohama, Japan. Register today to join us! Here are all the OpenTelemetry-related sessions, up to date at the time of writing. Session details can change, so confirm dates and times in the official schedule.
Community Day
Japan Community Day is on Tuesday, July 28, ahead of the main conference. It’s a great way to engage with fellow attendees and with members of local meetup communities, special interest groups, and subgroups within Cloud Native Community Japan.
OpenTelemetry sessions at Community Day:
- OpenTelemetry Past and Future
by Ted Young, Grafana Labs
Tuesday, July 28 • 14:40-15:10 - Building AI Agent Observability with OpenTelemetry
by Yuzuru Ohira, LayerX Inc.
Tuesday, July 28 • 15:15-15:45
For the complete list of community sessions, see the full schedule.
KubeCon talks
These OpenTelemetry sessions are part of the main conference program, July 29-30:
- Project Lightning Talk: New Frontiers for OpenTelemetry - A Roadmap for the
Future
by Ted Young, Grafana Labs
Wednesday, July 29 • 12:38-12:43 - Keynote: OpenTelemetry Celebrates Graduation and the Next Era of Agentic
Observability
by Alolita Sharma, Apple, and Ted Young, Grafana Labs
Thursday, July 30 • 09:54-09:57 - Keynote: Large-Scale Edge Management with Kubernetes: The Tech Behind
Stable Operation of 200 EV Chargers
by Ryota Yonekura, PowerX
Thursday, July 30 • 09:59-10:02 - Standardizing Industrial IoT observability with
OpenTelemetry
by Alolita Sharma, Florian Zouhar, and Justin Gabitzsch, Apple
Thursday, July 30 • 11:30-12:00 - From StatsD to OpenTelemetry: Atlassian’s Metrics Platform Migration at
Scale
by Iris Grace Endozo and Farzad Vazirnia, Atlassian
Thursday, July 30 • 12:10-12:40 - Repurposing OpenTelemetry Traces as Test Data: Breaking the Cost Barrier in
System Migration
by Yoshiki Fujikane, CyberAgent, Inc.
Thursday, July 30 • 14:50-15:20 - The Great Doubt: What Building an AI Agent Taught Us About
Trust
by Nicole van der Hoeven, Grafana Labs
Thursday, July 30 • 15:50-16:20 - OTel meets Wasm: Rethinking OpenTelemetry Collector
Extensibility
by Kotaro Inoue, independent, and Tsuzuki Tsuchiya, LY Corporation
Thursday, July 30 • 15:50-16:20 - One Binary, Two Ecosystems: Embedding Prometheus Exporters with
OCB
by Kyle Eckhart and Arthur Sens, Grafana Labs
Thursday, July 30 • 16:30-17:00
Join us
Come listen, learn, and get involved in OpenTelemetry. We look forward to seeing you in Yokohama!