Conferences & Talks

https://sessionize.com/diana-todea/

Speaker at Cloud Native and Open Source events

1. KCD Istanbul, Turkey, July 2026: Observing Kubernetes Policies with Kyverno and VictoriaMetrics, https://kcd.ist/sessions/

2. KCD New York, USA, June 2026: Observing Kubernetes Policies with Kyverno and VictoriaMetrics, and Telemetry that Matters panel: https://kcdnewyork.com/schedule/

3. Open Source NA Summit, Minneapolis, USA, May 2026: https://osselcna2026.sched.com/event/2JQyi/day-2-neurodiversity-moving-beyond-fundamentals-with-merge-forward-ryan-etten-rhca-red-hat-diana-todea-victoriametrics, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBfQwX2N8-U

4. Observability NA Summit, Minneapolis, USA, May 2026: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyOX0GHd0Ug

5. Cloud Native Panama, online, April 2026: https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-cloud-native-panama-presents-meetup-online-greener-observability-a-journey-toward-sustainable-monitoring-through-open-source-innovation-w-diana-todea/, https://www.linkedin.com/events/7447523520995241984/, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxblaK8fjbQ

6. KubeCon EU Amsterdam, Platform Engineering Day, March 2026: https://youtu.be/Fn2gSOsp9TA?si=axpYW9FqNtXYTb4i

7. KubeCon EU Amsterdam, Platform Engineering Day, March 2026: https://youtu.be/dVCN3bwumTg?si=3tXQT3LENgB4UTlG

8. KubeCon EU Amsterdam, March 2026, Cloud Native University: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNDNw84Uuqg

9. KubeCon EU Amsterdam, leading the Neurodiversity Commmunity Hub session, March 2026: https://kccnceu2026.sched.com/event/2IWqL/neurodiversity-at-work-practical-tools-open-source-paths-and-inclusive-community-building

10. Scale23x, Cloud Native Days LA, March 2026: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/presentations/green-observability-what-needs-shuffle-open-source, https://www.youtube.com/live/TRw0bsrtCjA?t=16296s

11. Container Days London, February 2026: https://www.containerdays.io/containerdays-london-2026/agenda/

12. Cloud Native Days France, Paris, February 2026: https://youtu.be/la8coUmqriQ?si=9JMBKON7rz6fYNpC

13. FOSDEM, Brussels, January 2026: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/speaker/diana_todea/

14. Cloud Native Valencia, Valencia, November 2025: https://youtu.be/KbvaQfPoUCQ?si=6NuVHd4tqeyR_nY6&t=2373

15. Cloud Native LATAM Summit Virtual, November 2025: https://cloud-native-latam-summit.sessionize.com/session/1046922, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoyGwC7i-SI

16. Cloud Native Sustainability Month, Barcelona Edition, November 2025: https://www.meetup.com/cloud-native-bcn/events/311460252/

17. OSMC, Nuremberg, Germany, November 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ynHP_RZFDM

18. Cloud Native Rejekts, Atlanta, November 2025: Merge-Forward lightning talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE5B7WmPIgs, OpenTelemetry lightning talk: https://youtu.be/b1Pdv4RSR78?si=hRUgd9Li9D16ELia

19. Cloud Native Bergen, October 2025: https://2025.cloudnativebergen.dev/speaker/diana-todea, https://youtu.be/eVDBqKcDXpU

20. PromCON EU, October 2025: https://www.youtube.com/live/SzSUa5y7Ji0?si=maeQvwqIqxNilch_

21. Cloud Native Days Austria, September 2025: https://cloudnativedays.at/; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPrxpEE5GpY

22. Cloud Native Kuala Lumpur, September 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEl83PLUook

23. Cloud Native Santo Domingo, Virtual, July 2025: https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-cloud-native-santo-domingo-presents-from-zero-to-developer-my-one-year-serendipity-journey-with-opentelemetry/, https://youtu.be/NEt5tPLwryw?si=VEC_eT_u61Hv5bZj

24. OTel Community Day 2025, Denver, US, June 2025: "From zero to developer: my one year serendipity journey with OpenTelemetry", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWON2NT41lE

25. Cloud Native Days Romania, May 2025: "From zero to developer: my one year serendipity journey with OpenTelemetry", https://youtu.be/K61o4Z1gTxw?si=1RKPbFFAHaOyHKTC

26. KCD Accra, Ghana, virtual, December 2024: " Open source observability for private clouds: mission impossible or not?", https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-ghana-presents-kcd-accra-2024/

27. Open Source Monitoring Conference in Nuremberg, Germany, 2024: "Open source observability for private clouds: mission impossible or not?", https://osmc.de/talks/open-source-observability-for-private-cloud-mission-impossible-or-not/, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi1_aCHoxu0

Speaker at DevOps and Platform Engineering events

28. Devoxx Poland, June 2026: "How to Use an AI Assistant with Your Monitoring System", https://youtu.be/TZPZ6jfty68?si=0_WFkAM-tnAFA_KF

29. Berlin Buzzwords, June 2026: "Observability’s Sixth Sense: Detecting Anomalies in Metrics", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1Fg6CpRKzc

30. JNation, Portugal, May 2026: "Observability’s Sixth Sense: Detecting Anomalies in Metrics": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK_KQHdD7po

31. Devoxx UK, May 2026: "Neurodiversity in Tech", https://www.devoxx.co.uk/talk/?id=8007

32. Devoxx Greece, April 2026: "The lazy developers guide to observing your own code", https://m.devoxx.com/events/dvgr26/talks/3850/the-lazy-developers-guide-to-observing-your-own-code

33. SREDay Amsterdam, November 2025: https://sreday.com/2025-amsterdam-q4/Diana_Todea_VictoriaMetrics_Cutting_Through_Metrics_Cardinality_Noise_with_VictoriaMetrics, https://youtu.be/pvY5QcYShyc?si=vTwhB7ek_CL79a8B

34. SREDay London, September 2025: https://sreday.com/2025-london-q3/Diana_Todea_VictoriaMetrics_Cutting_Through_Metrics_Cardinality_Noise_with_VictoriaMetrics

35. DevBCN, Barcelona, Spain, July 2025: "From zero to developer: my one year serendipity journey with OpenTelemetry", https://www.devbcn.com/talk/829657. This talk wasn't recorded but I gave an Youtube interview in Spanish shortly after on CodelyTV: https://www.youtube.com/live/LGmHZXm_QK4?si=94oYLAvBBRkyki9H

36. DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2025, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2025: "From zero to developer: my one year serendipity journey with OpenTelemetry", https://youtu.be/52PkHEbXIaA?si=zh_OvQoYGCx9L_wH

37. Platmosphere Chapter 2025, Unleash the Invisible, May 2025, Milan, Italy: https://platmosphere.com/talks/generative-ai

38. GlobalAIBootcamp Valencia 2025, March 2025: https://global-ai-bootcamp-valencia-2025.sessionize.com/speakers

39. DevOps Barcelona Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 2024: https://devops.barcelona/talk/0d590d1b-a322-46c8-8ce0-6a120f6763e2/questions, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zbbUtLX7j0

40. Platform Engineers Meetup, Virtual, August 2024: https://platformengineering.org/events/genai-for-observability-in-the-serverless-world, https://www.youtube.com/live/V7TcB9WgqB0

41. DevBCN, Barcelona, Spain, June 2024: https://www.devbcn.com/speaker/f22272a3-c974-4261-9846-8ae441a9d4e5

42. Monitorama, Portland, US, June 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pazo-e8jcks, https://monitorama.com/2024/pdx.html#speakers

43. DevOpsDays Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, May 2024: https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-geneva/speakers/virginia-diana-todea/

44. JOTB 2024 conference, Malaga, Spain, May 2024: https://youtu.be/lhgMlizvMF0?feature=shared

45. WomenTech Global Conference 2024, April 2024: https://www.womentech.net/speaker/all/all/98668, https://www.womentech.net/en-es/video/generativeai-applications-in-serverless-world

46. Platform Engineers Meetup, Virtual, April 2024: https://platformengineering.org/events/serverless-observability-where-slos-meet-transforms, https://www.youtube.com/live/KsvhCyIrrAk?si=s0KRcHzv3DEpGvo4

47. Keynote speaker at DevOpsDays Raleigh 2024, Raleigh, North Carolina, US, April 2024: https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-raleigh/program/virginia-diana-todea-keynote, https://youtu.be/WcD5kA0fK3o?si=Jwj-yLVZY7cPVgxE

48. Serverless Architecture & DevOpsCon Conference London 2024, April 2024: https://serverless-architecture.io/serverless-development/generative-ai-serverless/

49. DevOpsJS Conference, February 2024: https://portal.gitnation.org/contents/serverless-observability-where-slos-meet-transforms

50. WeAreDevelopersLive DevOps Day Conference February 2024: https://www.wearedevelopers.com/event/DevOps-Day-February-2024 and https://youtube.com/watch?v=XO1FqCCgvfE

51. SREday September 2023, London, UK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnhlCuXl_3k

Author of cloud native and open source articles

1. CNCF blog article,"From awareness to engineered accessibility in open source", https://www.cncf.io/blog/2026/06/24/from-awareness-to-engineered-accessibility-in-open-source/
2. CNCF blog article, "Telemetry that matters: Designing sustainable, high-impact observability pipelines": https://www.cncf.io/blog/2026/06/22/telemetry-that-matters-designing-sustainable-high-impact-observability-pipelines/
3. One year inside the engine room of Cloud Native Days Romania: https://medium.com/@dianatodea/one-year-inside-the-engine-room-of-cloud-native-days-romania-291e631a629b
4. The Lazy Developer's Guide to Observing Your Own Code: https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Community-Voices/The-Lazy-Developer-s-Guide-to-Observing-Your-Own-Code/ba-p/299230, https://open.substack.com/pub/geekingoutpodcast/p/the-lazy-developers-guide-to-observing
5. Rethinking platform engineering through diverse perspectives at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU Amsterdam: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2026/04/10/rethinking-platform-engineering-through-diverse-perspectives-at-kubecon-cloudnativecon-eu-amsterdam/
6. Observability has a data hoarding problem: https://medium.com/@dianatodea/observability-has-a-data-hoarding-problem-70df85c88b9f
7. The Green side of Observability: https://devops.com/the-green-side-of-observability-why-less-data-can-mean-more-insight/
8. My first KubeCon + CloudNativeCon: A journey through community, inclusivity, and neurodiversity, "https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/12/04/my-first-kubecon-cloudnativecon-a-journey-through-community-inclusivity-and-neurodiversity/
9. "How I Made the Most of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Atlanta 2025 and How You Can Maximize Your Network Too" https://medium.com/@dianatodea/how-i-made-the-most-of-kubecon-cloudnativecon-atlanta-2025-and-how-you-can- maximize-your-network-e9a79dd98169
10. "Observability Is a Mesh, Not a Braid", https://medium.com/@dianatodea/observability-is-a-mesh-not-a-braid-c3ac3ca9a305
11. "Merge-Forward: Elevating Equity in Cloud Native", https://medium.com/@dianatodea/merge-forward-elevating-equity-in-cloud-native-8df9a3538c7e
12. "How OTel community day enriched my OSS career", https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/08/13/how-otel-community-day-enriched-my-open-source-career-a-tale-of-community-and-connection/
13. "OTel me more on Traces: introducing VictoriaMetrics' Trace Analyzer", https://medium.com/@dianatodea/otel-me-more-on-traces-introducing-victoriametrics-trace-analyzer-3db76d8a2bb2
14. "Cloud Native Days Romania: tales from the field", https://medium.com/@dianatodea/cloud-native-days-romania-2025-tales-from-the-field-2d41c75f69df
15. "I played with OTEL and I liked it", https://medium.com/@dianatodea/i-played-with-otel-and-i-liked-it-a69af868568b
16. "Document writing: a great way to contribute to Open Source projects", https://medium.com/@dianatodea/document-writing-a-great-way-to-contribute-to-open-source-projects-5fee57699efd
17. "Why feedback matters for open source projects": https://medium.com/@dianatodea/why-feedback-matters-for-open-source-a3a26d5a3069

Author of SRE, GenerativeAI related articles

11. "Can you make your calls and SMS observable? An Aircall Elastic integration story", https://medium.com/@dianatodea/send-aircall-data-into-elastic-a-webhook-integration-story-3753501a9d29
12. "GenerativeAI and Observability in the Serverless World", "Part 3: How Machine Learning and DevOps are Transforming IT Operations Going Beyond RAG and Fine-Tuning", https://devm.io/devops/beyond-rag-fine-tuning-machine-learning-devops
13. "GenerativeAI and Observability in the Serverless World", "Part 2: Introduction to Generative AI and Transformer Architecture Transformer and Generative AI Concepts", https://devm.io/machine-learning/generative-ai-transformer-architecture
14. "GenerativeAI and Observability in the Serverless World", "Part 1: How Machine Learning and DevOps are Transforming IT Operations": https://devm.io/devops/generativeai-observability-serverless
15. "10 lessons on how to become an excellent SRE": https://medium.com/@dianatodea/10-lessons-on-how-to-become-an-excellent-sre-5b002af50ba3
16. Elastic Advent Calendar blog article about Serverless Observability and beats alerts (English, Spanish and Romanian): https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dec-3rd-2023-en-serverless-observability-how-beats-alerts-help-you-save-christmas/347284
17. Elastic Advent Calendar blog article about Good and Bad SLOs (English, Spanish and Romanian): https://discuss.elastic.co/t/347304

Public speaking, DevRel, community articles

18. "Tech conferences, anyone? 2024 year wrap": https://medium.com/@dianatodea/tech-conferences-anyone-2024-year-wrap-395d0c36c40c
19. "SRE or DevRel?": https://medium.com/@dianatodea/sre-or-devrel-a019bb7cff9b
20. "Breaking into public speaking: my honest opinions after a two-year journey": https://medium.com/@dianatodea/breaking-into-devrel-my-honest-opinions-after-a-2-years-journey-495a516c3ffe

Author of books reviews

15. O'Reilly book review on Observability: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/book-review-fundamentals-data-observability-andy-petrella-diana-todea%3FtrackingId=Ka%252Fz%252Bsa3TMqe1IORKJxiIQ%253D%253D/?trackingId=Ka%2Fz%2Bsa3TMqe1IORKJxiIQ%3D%3D
16. O'Reilly book review on ChatGPT: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/book-review-developing-apps-gpt4-chatgpt-diana-todea-ns45f%3FtrackingId=vfdCfM3ZS4%252B2Bs%252FM7x5vYQ%253D%253D/?trackingId=vfdCfM3ZS4%2B2Bs%2FM7x5vYQ%3D%3D

Host of podcasts

1. Telemetry Talks, VictoriaMetrics: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXT8DSiuv5ymWeL5_hJgPVIyTVoO_98oU&si=kEcLWx1yGn2moU3F

   In this podcast, I interview different guests and walk through several use cases of OpenTelemetry with VictoriaMetrics solutions and beyond.

2. DevEx Talks, Victoriametrics: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXT8DSiuv5ymSZB8gy7tUXqk03LXpKWXw&si=ejzpbCrQu-nCYxFL

   In this podcast, I interview a wide range of guests from the cloud native and open source community and address more sensitive topics such as diversity, inclusion, neurodiversity, Merge-Forward initiative, accessibility in tech and beyond, creating communities and digital content from the ground up, or providing examples of professionals who succeeeded in cloud native and open source with their projects. A vendor neutral podcast.

Guest speaker at interviews and podcasts

1. Humans of OTel: Live from KubeCon NA 2025 with Jacob Aronoff and Diana Todea, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzbDui8hDdo
2. eAfterWork EP 10: "Observabilité illimitée + OpenTelemetry sur une stack open source avec DIANA TODEA", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9t3aLkR6js
3. Diana Todea on Why Developer Experience Is Replacing DevRel - Packet Pushers at KubeCon NA 2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvtYkrrEWsY
4. Merge-Forward at KubeCon NA 2025: https://www.thecube.net/events/linux-foundation/kubecon-cloudnativecon-na-2025/content/Videos/eda66ede-e815-41b6-85b6-764fb528a3e1
5. Representation takes center stage as Merge Forward amplifies underrepresented voices in open-source communities, https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/13/accessibility-meets-open-source-collaboration-kubeconna/
6. How I Went from Stage Fear to Speaking at Tech Conferences, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvlu8rL8UO8
7. AWS blog post on my certificate path: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/training-and-certification/diana-todea-lifelong-learner-with-a-philosophy-of-flexibility
8. YouTube video presenting an interview I gave for AWS: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SoQahKnKG0w