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 [email protected]
😬 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
