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⚡️ Perform 2027 Lightning Talks: Present your Productivity Tip in 5 Minutes

andreas_grabner — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:22:39 GMT

Hi community!

After two incredible years of Lightning Talks at Perform, we're bringing them back for Perform 2027!

What started as a fun experiment has become one of the most popular community-driven sessions at this event. Over this time, you've shared practical tips, automation wins, observability lessons, AI experiments, and engineering stories that inspired fellow Dynatrace users around the world.

From building powerful dashboards, workflows and mastering OpenTelemetry, to creating apps with Dynatrace APIs, automating incident response, and helping developers work smarter with AI, our community has proven that some of the best ideas can be shared in just 5 minutes. Read more about the Lightening Talks 2026 edition by checking this article.

Now it's your turn!

🗣️ Got a story to share at Perform 2027?

We're looking for community members who want to present a 5-minute lightning talk and share something that made a real impact in their organization.

Topics we're particularly excited about include:

AI-powered observability
Dynatrace MCP and agentic workflows
Practical GenAI use cases
Developer productivity
Platform engineering
Automation and auto-remediation
OpenTelemetry and Open Source
Tool integrations
Dashboarding and reporting
Cost optimization
SRE best practices
Kubernetes and cloud-native operations

💡Need inspiration?

Here are a few examples of talks we'd love to see:

My Top 5 Dynatrace MCP Prompts That Save Me Hours Every Week
The AI Agent We Built to Solve Incidents Before Engineers Wake Up
How We Reduced Alert Noise by 80% Using Automation
A Dynatrace Workflow Every Platform Team Should Have
What I Learned Running OpenTelemetry at Scale
How Our Developers Use Dynatrace Every Day Without Opening Dynatrace
The Coolest Dynatrace App I Built in a Weekend
One Dashboard That Changed How Our Team Operates
Three Mistakes We Made with AI and What We Learned
The Integration Nobody Talks About, But Everyone Should Use

➡️ Ready to submit?

Share with us:

A proposed title
A short abstract (2-3 sentences)
Why you think the topic could help fellow practitioners

Submit your idea by commenting below or emailing team-guild@dynatrace.com

😬 First-time speaker? No problem.

Don't worry if you've never spoken at a conference before. The Dynatrace Guild team team will help you refine your story, build your slides, and prepare for the stage. Whether you're a seasoned presenter or sharing your first community talk, we'll support you every step of the way.

Some of our most memorable lightning talks came from first-time speakers.

Hope to see you at Perform 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣7️⃣!

Share your experience, inspire your peers, and help the community learn from real-world success stories, as we can't wait to hear what you've built, automated, optimized, or discovered.

Andi and the Dynatrace Guild Team

Re: ⚡️ Perform 2027 Lightning Talks: Present your Productivity Tip in 5 Minutes

andreas_grabner — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:23:01 GMT

Hi all. Perform CfPs are closed - but - we are just getting started to collect ideas for our onsite meetup in Vegas. Please drop your id

Re: ⚡️ Perform 2027 Lightning Talks: Present your Productivity Tip in 5 Minutes

dylan_taelemans — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:59:59 GMT

Hey @andreas_grabner
I’d be happy to share a productivity tip around a custom Lookup Management app I built for Dynatrace in a weekend. 🙂

The app makes it easier to manage and maintain Dynatrace lookup tables directly from a simple UI, including editing, adding, deleting, updating and versioning of lookup data inside of dynatrace.

I think it could make for a nice 5-minute lightning talk, especially around how a small custom app can simplify everyday Dynatrace administration and save some work.

Happy to share a quick demo at Perform 2027! 🙂
"A Weekend, a Pain Point, and a Dynatrace App"

Re: ⚡️ Perform 2027 Lightning Talks: Present your Productivity Tip in 5 Minutes

m3tomlins — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:24:35 GMT

I'd like to give a talk to share how my boss used the Dynatrace Remote MCP to create an interactive game - World of ObservabilityCraft? Age of Infrastructure? Game of Hosts?

After nearly 20 years trying to recover and heal myself from an unhealthy XBOX360 addiction ever since Top Spin 4 came out, I'm now getting my life-long love of performance and observability properly gameified. Help me.