Richard Simon | Observability In The Age Of AI

Speaker: Richard Simon - CTO, T-Systems Talk Title: "Observability In The Age Of AI" Event: Cloud Native & Open Source Global Summit 2026 Date: Tuesday 13th October 2026, Online AI is changing both the systems we need to observe and the way we observe them. In this session, Richard Simon explores what observability looks like in the age of AI. Drawing on decades of experience across cloud native, open source and AI, Richard looks at how observability practices need to evolve as AI becomes part of modern platforms, and what engineering teams should be thinking about now. About the Speaker: Richard is CTO at T-Systems and an advocate for cloud native, open source and AI, with 35 years in the IT industry, the last 15 of them focused on cloud computing. He runs The Cloud Therapist YouTube channel and is a regular keynote speaker, known for challenging audiences with thought-provoking takes on where the industry is heading. About the Summit: This session was part of the Cloud Native & Open Source Global Summit, a free, single-track online summit bringing together engineers, maintainers, platform teams and open source contributors from around the world. It covered the full breadth of the cloud native and open source ecosystem, from Kubernetes and CNCF tooling to open source AI, inference infrastructure, developer tooling and project governance. The summit is part of the Community Stack Cloud, Platform & Open Source ecosystem. 🔗 Watch the full livestream:    • Cloud Native & Open Source Global Summit   🔗 Summit page: https://www.communitystack.io/confere... Sponsors & Partners We'd like to thank Colibri Digital, our headline Data & AI ecosystem sponsor, Overmind, our platinum sponsor, and Nearform, our AI Native sponsor. Interested in speaking, sponsoring or hosting a future event? Email ethan.sumner@communitystack.io About Community Stack Community Stack connects ecosystems across AI, Cloud, Data and modern engineering through user groups, events, conferences and Community Engine. 🔗 Website: https://www.communitystack.io/ 🔗 LinkedIn:   / community-stack-hq   🔗 Community Engine: https://www.communitystack.io/engine Stay Connected Subscribe for more talks from Community Stack meetups and conferences. Like this video if you found it helpful, and share it with your network. #CommunityStack #CloudNative #OpenSource #Observability #AI #SRE #AIOps #Monitoring