AI SRE / AIOps strategy session

with Akram Riahi

Every vendor is pitching an "AI SRE" right now, and it's nearly impossible to tell what actually works in production from what only works in demos. This session gives you … Read more

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Akram Riahi

Lead SRE/Speaker at Talend

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About this session

Every vendor is pitching an "AI SRE" right now, and it's nearly impossible to tell what actually works in production from what only works in demos. This session gives you a clear-eyed, hype-free assessment of where LLMs and agents genuinely help your operations today — and where they'll burn your budget and your on-call team's trust.

What we'll cover:

- Map your incident lifecycle and find the real leverage points: alert enrichment, incident summarization, runbook automation, postmortem drafting, log and trace analysis — ranked by ROI for your stack
- Where AIOps fails: root-cause guessing, auto-remediation without guardrails, hallucinations in high-stakes moments — and the failure modes to design against
- Build vs. buy: an honest look at the current AI SRE tool landscape versus building with agents on top of your own observability data
- Guardrails that make it safe: human-in-the-loop patterns, blast-radius limits, permissions, and how to evaluate whether the AI is actually helping
- Data readiness: why the quality of your runbooks, alerts, and telemetry decides whether any of this works before a single model is involved

Your mentor

Akram Riahi is a leader, international speaker, and community leader specializing in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Kubernetes, Platform Engineering, DevOps, AI SRE and Observability. With extensive experience leading global engineering teams and modernizing cloud-native platforms, he helps organizations improve reliability, scalability, and operational excellence at enterprise scale.

Beyond his day-to-day leadership, Akram is an active mentor, and advocate for the cloud-native community. He regularly shares his experience at international conferences, including Devoxx France, DevOps Pro Europe, Conf42, Chaos Carnival, and many other global events, where he speaks about Kubernetes, observability, platform engineering, DevOps, and modern SRE practices.

Certifications: CKA, CKAD, Terraform Associate, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate , Vault: Certified HashiCorp Implementation Partner, GitLab Certified Associate, Certified Chaos Engineering Professional, Prometheus Certified Associate, Mongodb optimization and performance certified, CAPA(Certified Argo Project Associate).
Github: https://github.com/akria18

What mentees say

5.0 (25 reviews)

“Akram has been mentoring me for over half year now, helping me build stronger skills in DevOps. He gave me guidance and is always motivating and helping! He is a crucial part in my transition from being a simple devel…”

Stefan Georg

Lite Plan · 11 months

“Akram played a huge role in helping me reach my goals. He didn’t just give advice, he helped me build skills and confidence. I’m genuinely grateful for his support and the impact he had on my technical growth.”

Laz

Standard Plan · 1 month

“I colaborated 1 month with Akram, and it was a very pleasant experience, always proactive, and very available for my questions, we crafted a plan together that suits my needs. Very recommended!”

Aris

Lite Plan · 1 month

“Akram is a good person and a great mentor.”

Jean

Standard Plan · 1 month

“Akram is a professional mentor who can guide you in the right direction. Even within just one month, he has already helped me find clarity. I need to pause the mentorship for now due to my current workload, but I fully …”

Martin

Standard Plan · 1 month

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