Inside the State of Observability 2026

Last year, the observability conversation centered on a familiar question: how do organizations move AI from pilots to production?

Dynatrace's new 2026 State of Observability report shows that shift is already underway. AI is showing up in more critical systems and workflows, raising harder questions about reliability, cost, governance, trust, and business value.

Join speakers from Dynatrace, Accenture, and AWS for a live roundtable on what changed over the past year, what the latest data reveals about AI in production, and where enterprise AI may be headed as agentic systems take on more responsibility.

Key Takeaways:

What changed in the AI conversation since last year’s State of Observability report
How we're seeing 49% now report running 6–25 production AI projects, up from 42% a year ago
Where teams still struggle to prove AI reliability, cost, governance, and value
How leaders from Dynatrace, Accenture, and AWS are thinking about the future of autonomy, from human oversight to agents managing agents

Bob Wambach

VP of Market and Customer Insights - Dynatrace

Bob Wambach is Vice President, Market and Customer Insights for Dynatrace. Bob is a seasoned technology expert helping Global Enterprises and Government Agencies modernize IT strategies and processes. For more than two decades, Bob has helped many of the world’s largest enterprise customers plan IT strategies and achieve objectives to maximize the value derived from their modernization investments. Bob has five U.S. Patents for inventions in the fields of computing and networking, and has previously held leadership positions at Turbonomic (acquired by IBM), EMC (acquired by Dell) and multiple startup companies with successful exits.

Mona Chadha

AI Director of WW Infrastructure Strategic Partnerships - AWS

Mona Chadha is the Director, WW Infrastructure Strategic Partnerships for AWS's Partner Growth & Strategy organization, leading strategic category initiatives across AI, cybersecurity, data & analytics, and AWS Marketplace. A recognized leader at the intersection of AI, security, and enterprise partnerships, she champions deep integrations with Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, and Amazon Q, and is a frequent voice on generative and agentic AI, AI security, and frontier AI risk. A 13-year AWS veteran, Mona has built partner ecosystems and growth strategies driving billions in value. Prior to AWS, she held leadership roles at Microsoft, Novell, Philips Healthcare, and Texas Instruments, and founded startups in ecommerce and emerging tech. She holds an MBA from Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management and a B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering, and is based in Boston, MA.

Scott Wintermute

Lead of Global Observability - Accenture

Scott Wintermute is the Global Observability Lead at Accenture with 30 years of experience helping enterprises build, modernize, and operate complex technology ecosystems. He specializes in leveraging observability, AI, and automation to improve resilience, reliability, and operational outcomes. Scott helps organizations establish observability as the trusted foundation for resilient, AI-driven operations by unifying metrics, logs, traces, and events across traditional and emerging AI-powered workloads. His focus is on building the operational trust required for automation and agentic operating models, enabling organizations to identify root causes faster, anticipate issues before they become incidents, and confidently act on AI-driven recommendations and actions.

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