CNCF has published the full schedule for the Observability Summit North America 2026, running May 21-22 in Minneapolis alongside Open Source Summit NA. Six tracks cover AI and MCP integration in observability, OpenTelemetry and OTTL, community development, end-user case studies from Comcast and Reddit (which processes over 10 million spans per second), DevOps integration, and scalability patterns. The summit serves as a concentrated gathering for platform and SRE practitioners working with open observability tooling. The end-user case studies — particularly Reddit's scale — offer practical signal for teams evaluating OpenTelemetry at high ingestion volumes. Attendance is relevant for anyone building or operating observability pipelines anchored to CNCF projects.