2026 Predictions: The Future of AI and Observability | In the Sphere

Описание: Welcome to In the Sphere — Chronosphere’s virtual fireside chat series featuring leaders navigating the biggest shifts in cloud-native observability and AI in production.

In this first 2026 session, Chronosphere Co-founder & CEO Martin Mao and ThoughtWorks CTO (Americas) Thomas unpack what actually happened with AI in 2025 — what delivered real value, where it fell short, and what executives should prioritize to enter 2026 with trustworthy, governable, cost-controlled AI systems.

You’ll hear practical perspectives on AI agents, agentic / multi-agent systems, the convergence of Observability + SecOps, and why the biggest differentiator isn’t the model — it’s the data layer, instrumentation quality, and telemetry-backed governance.

What you’ll learn

🧩 Why foundation model gains are showing diminishing returns — and where innovation is moving next

🧩 The rise of AI agents and why trust-building is the real bottleneck to production adoption

🧩 How observability becomes the guardrail system for AI: performance, security, and token cost governance

🧩 Why “development is about speed, operations is about clarity” — and how AI changes both

🧩 Where AI fell short in 2025: confidence without context, security risk, and POC/pilot purgatory

🧩 The executive playbook: show the work, create an incident “narrative,” and operationalize trust

🧩 Why “observability is the brakes that let you go faster” — and how to de-risk non-deterministic systems

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