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GrafanaCON Local meetup: Toronto

**[GrafanaCON Local](https://grafana.com/events/grafanacon-local/) Toronto - featuring the latest in AI Observability** Join us for a local edition of GrafanaCON — a recap of the keynote highlights combined with fresh voices from the Toronto community, all with an AI twist. We'll dig into actually useful uses of AI in observability, and how to add observability for AI workloads. Free to attend. Pizza and drinks provided. **Talks** 🎤 **Grafana 13: The road to AI-native observability** — Marylia Gutierrez, Principal Software Engineer @ Grafana Labs This talk will walk through Grafana 13 and the most impactful improvements across the platform. Learn how Grafana is continuing to invest in AI to become the first fully AI-native observability platform, and the default choice for agents. 🎤 **Scaling Grafana Assistant: Context, confidence, and AI observability** — Edward Qian, Staff Software Engineer @ Grafana Labs AI agents are only as powerful as the context they receive. In this session, we'll share lessons from building Grafana Assistant and offer practical tips for bringing the right context to get the most out of AI agents. 🎤 **AI tools to optimize your development workflow** — Cristiano Ventura, Senior Software Engineer @ Grafana Labs The way we write software has changed. AI systems read code, plan, execute shell commands, run tests, open PRs, and ship work end-to-end. This talk will showcase useful AI tools and concepts to improve your development workflow. **Agenda** 5:30 PM — Doors open, food + networking 6:00 PM — Talks begin \~8:00 PM — Networking continues 8:30 PM — Wrap *Note that by registering for this event you consent to related event & product communications from Grafana Labs and agree to our [code of conduct](https://grafana.com/events/events-code-of-conduct/).*

GrafanaCON Local meetup: Toronto is listed for Tuesday, May 26, 2026 at lodge on queen.

**[GrafanaCON Local](https://grafana.com/events/grafanacon-local/) Toronto - featuring the latest in AI Observability** Join us for a local edition of GrafanaCON — a recap of the keynote highlights combined with fresh voices from the Toronto community, all with an AI twist. We'll dig into actually useful uses of AI in observability, and how to add observability for AI workloads. Free to attend. Pizza and drinks provided. **Talks** 🎤 **Grafana 13: The road to AI-native observability** — Marylia Gutierrez, Principal Software Engineer @ Grafana Labs This talk will walk through Grafana 13 and the most impactful improvements across the platform. Learn how Grafana is continuing to invest in AI to become the first fully AI-native observability platform, and the default choice for agents. 🎤 **Scaling Grafana Assistant: Context, confidence, and AI observability** — Edward Qian, Staff Software Engineer @ Grafana Labs AI agents are only as powerful as the context they receive. In this session, we'll share lessons from building Grafana Assistant and offer practical tips for bringing the right context to get the most out of AI agents. 🎤 **AI tools to optimize your development workflow** — Cristiano Ventura, Senior Software Engineer @ Grafana Labs The way we write software has changed. AI systems read code, plan, execute shell commands, run tests, open PRs, and ship work end-to-end. This talk will showcase useful AI tools and concepts to improve your development workflow. **Agenda** 5:30 PM — Doors open, food + networking 6:00 PM — Talks begin \~8:00 PM — Networking continues 8:30 PM — Wrap *Note that by registering for this event you consent to related event & product communications from Grafana Labs and agree to our [code of conduct](https://grafana.com/events/events-code-of-conduct/).*

The address on file is 251 queen street west, 2nd floor, Toronto, ON, Toronto, ON, ca in 251 queen street west, 2nd floor, Toronto, ON, Toronto, ON, ca.

Price information: See listing.

Organizer listed in the source data: Grafana & Friends Toronto.

The original listing is from Meetup Tech.

Date Tuesday, May 26, 2026
Start 21:30
Venue lodge on queen
Address 251 queen street west, 2nd floor, Toronto, ON, Toronto, ON, ca
Area 251 queen street west, 2nd floor, Toronto, ON, Toronto, ON, ca
Category tech
Price See listing
Organizer Grafana & Friends Toronto
Source Meetup Tech
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Date Tuesday, May 26, 2026
Start time 21:30
Time window 21:30
Venue lodge on queen
Area 251 queen street west, 2nd floor, Toronto, ON, Toronto, ON, ca
Price See listing
Organizer Grafana & Friends Toronto

Event context

Listing type Toronto Event Page
Category tech
Tags tech, toronto
TorontoList section Events

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Source Meetup Tech
Source domain meetup.com
Record ID discovery_meetup_tech-fdbc0d6e5e0c
Slug grafanacon-local-meetup-toronto-2026-05-26
Added May 24, 2026
Discovery Score 16

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GrafanaCON Local meetup: Toronto