Opening Keynote: From Coders to Curators: Engineering in the Age of AI

Discover how modern engineers are evolving from line-by-line coders to system producers who master the art of curation, architecture, and empathy. This keynote will reshape how you see your role in an AI-driven world.

Shipping AI Without the Fear: Beating Agent Debt in the Superhuman Era

AI has lowered the barrier. to building but it has created a massive new bottleneck for shipping: Agent Debt. As LLMs generate more of our code the gap between how code looks in the IDE and how it behaves in production is causing incidents to spike. Traditional dashboards can't keep up in a world where operations are going headless. In this ession New Relic tackles the defining operational challenge of modern engineering. We'll dive deep into New Relic Autopilot (a fully automated SRE agent that triages incidents and pinpoints root causes before you even open your laptop) and New Relic Ground Truth (token-efficient API-first tools that feed high-fidelity system telemetry directly into your own custom AI agents). Learn how to ground your autonomous workflows in reality.

Inside AI Observability: Live Demo of Autopilot and Ground Truth

See New Relic's AI observability tools in action. This live demo dives into New Relic Autopilot and New Relic Ground Truth, showcasing how real-time execution visibility and preflight validation can help you tackle AI's biggest operational challenges.

Closing Keynote: Demystifying the Code, the Culture, and the Community

Community anchors us as technology evolves at lightning speed. In this closing keynote, Jemiah Sius shares his path as a self-taught engineer and community leader, offering a vision for equitable software development in the AI era. Learn how to ensure every developer has the tools, data, and confidence to build scalable systems. Gain actionable insights to thrive as an emerging engineer in a rapidly autonomous industry.

OpenTelemetry for AI Apps

How do you know if your AI app is actually working? Vibes set the stage, but real data helps you keep your app healthy and users coming back to your site. This session introduces OpenTelemetry’s GenAI semantic conventions: a vendor-neutral standard for instrumenting LLM calls, tracking token usage, capturing model latency, and tracing the full lifecycle of an AI request from user input to response. You’ll leave with a clear picture of what good observability looks like for AI-powered apps and the patterns to start applying it in your stack today.

The Vibe Coder’s Field Guide to AI

What’s actually happening when your AI feature does something weird? Everyone in this room is either building with AI or about to. But most of us are working from vibes; we know roughly what it does, but not how, which means when it breaks or behaves unexpectedly we have no framework for reasoning about it. This session gives you that framework in 25 minutes.

Shipping at the Speed of AI (Without Flying Blind)

With AI we're shipping more code faster than ever. But velocity has outpaced understanding, and when things go sideways, you don't always have the context to figure out what actually happened. What if you could get that context way earlier? This session is about pulling observability into the development phase of the SDLC (or AIDLC, if you're nasty) so you understand your code as you build it. More context, less guessing, way more robust code.

Agents, The Superhuman Layer for Your Telemetry

Microservices or AI distributed systems, they all break, they have the same challenges with ensuring performance and reliability. However, the role of AI in observability has fundamentally evolved. We have transitioned from basic telemetry scraping and passive querying to autonomous AI agents capable of predicting downtimes, executing root-cause analysis (RCA), recommending code refactors, and driving automated remediation.. In this session we will understand how the evolution has impacted observability space along with extended MCP and integrations that can help you with faster MTTR.

AWS OpenTelemetry Game Day

A game day powered by OpenTelemetry, New Relic, and AWS, featuring the Astronomy Shop (OpenTelemetry’s demo application). Solve real-world production problems, win cool prizes.

AI Monitoring Workshop

In this workshop, we will focus on leveraging New Relic's AI Monitoring to confidently build and run AI applications. You'll learn how to achieve comprehensive observability across your stack to maintain peak performance, ensure compliance, promote quality, and observe costs. Through hands-on demonstrations and practical exercises, you'll gain insights into best practices for monitoring and managing AI-driven systems, ensuring they are reliable, efficient, and compliant with industry standards. Join us to master the tools and techniques that will empower you to optimize your AI applications and drive business success.

Alerts Quality Management Workshop

Step into the shoes of a newly hired Site Reliability Engineer tasked with a critical mission: using guided missiles to protect spaceships from asteroids. In this hands-on workshop, you will master New Relic Alerts to survive the chaos. We will dive into Alert Quality Management, explore strategies to prevent alert fatigue and "alert storms," and leverage metrics, events, logs, and traces for superior signal acquisition. You'll also get a foundational introduction to Observability as Code, equipping you with the vital skills needed to keep humanity's space travels safe.

[Repeat] AI Monitoring Workshop

In this workshop, we will focus on leveraging New Relic's AI Monitoring to confidently build and run AI applications. You'll learn how to achieve comprehensive observability across your stack to maintain peak performance, ensure compliance, promote quality, and observe costs. Through hands-on demonstrations and practical exercises, you'll gain insights into best practices for monitoring and managing AI-driven systems, ensuring they are reliable, efficient, and compliant with industry standards. Join us to master the tools and techniques that will empower you to optimize your AI applications and drive business success.