Beyond the Stage: Taming Agentic Workflows with Dapr and OpenTelemetry, A Deep Dive with the Speakers
At KubeCon EU 2026, Kasper Borg Nissen and Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino took the stage to show how Dapr Workflows and OpenTelemetry can work together to make complex, agentic, event-driven systems actually observable without making developers' lives harder.
Now we're going deeper.
Join Julia Furst Morgado as she sits down with Kasper and Mauricio to revisit the talk, answer the questions that didn't make it into the session, and dig into the details that 30 minutes on stage couldn't cover. We're diving into the world of AI and agentic workloads. The demo features a complex pizza store managed by multiple agents - handling cooking and delivering pizzas. This demo will serve as the backdrop for a deep discussion on how to tame the complexity of mcp servers, tool calls, and skills in a world of agentic workloads. We will openly discuss what worked in the implementation, the fixes we had to make, and where the current gaps lie. We'll also go deep on no-touch instrumentation and async trace propagation, where the OTel support still has gaps, and what the community is doing about it.
Whether you were in the room in Amsterdam or watched the recording after, this is your chance to go beyond the slides.
You'll walk away understanding:
- How to observe AI and agentic workloads
- How the OTel Operator + Dapr observability fit together in practice
- Where auto-instrumentation breaks down across agent boundaries and what to do about it
- The current gotchas across all the tooling, and what's coming
- How to build vendor-portable observability that developers will actually adopt
Speakers
Julia Furst Morgado
Principal Developer Relations Engineer at Dash0
Julia Furst Morgado is a cloud-native community builder and practitioner who believes the best systems are built in the open. As Community Manager for OpenTelemetry and a CNCF Ambassador, she works at the intersection of developer advocacy and modern infrastructure, helping teams adopt the tools and practices that make systems more reliable, observable, and scalable. She's also an AWS Container Hero, Docker Captain, Google Women Techmakers Ambassador, and Girl Code Ambassador, and co-organizes KCD NY, AWS Community Day NY, and the Cloud Native Meetup NYC.
Mauricio Salatino
Ecosystem Engineer at Dash0
Mauricio Salatino, also known as salaboy is a Java Champion, Cloud Native Ambassador, international keynote speaker and book author. Before working at Dash0, Mauricio spent the last 10 years building tools for Cloud-Native developers at companies such as Diagrid, Red Hat and VMware. When he is not writing tools for developers or contributing to open source projects in the Cloud Native space, he teaches about Kubernetes and Cloud-Native via his Blog salaboy.com and/or LearnKube and writes books such as the Platform Engineering on Kubernetes.
Kasper Borg Nissen
Director of Product Marketing & Developer Relations at Dash0
Kasper is a CNCF Ambassador, former KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Co-Chair, Golden Kubestronaut, KCD Organizer, and CNCG Group Organizer. He co-founded Cloud Native Nordics to unite meetups across the region. At Dash0, he helps make observability easy for developers by advocating for better tooling, best practices, and seamless integrations. Bridging observability and platform engineering, he ensures developers stay productive and gain actionable insights exactly when needed.
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