Virtual Executive Forum

From Silos to Strategy:

Democratising Business Insight with Grafana

Together we’re advancing observability with OpenTelemetry, bringing data across systems to empower teams and reduce operational complexity.

Setting the Scene

In large and complex organisations, the challenge is no longer collecting data but making sense of it. Business KPIs, application metrics and telemetry are often scattered across different tools and teams, creating blind spots, slower responses and higher operational costs. What enterprises need is not more data but a shared foundation that connects insights and aligns action.

Grafana provides an open, vendor-neutral observability platform that unifies metrics, logs and traces across your entire environment. With native OpenTelemetry support, Grafana helps enterprises standardise how they observe, govern and act. This unified approach accelerates detection and resolution, reduces tool sprawl and enables clear visibility for every function—from engineering teams to the boardroom.

Join us at the Virtual Forum to explore how leading organisations are using AI-assisted observability to reduce response times, eliminate silos and future-proof their investments with open standards. Discover how Grafana and OpenTelemetry are reshaping enterprise observability by connecting systems, empowering teams and reducing operational complexity.

Expert Speakers

Rich Perez

VP for EMEA, Grafana Labs
Rich Perez is the VP for EMEA at Grafana Labs, leading the company’s regional growth and customer engagement strategy across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. With over 25 years of experience in enterprise technology, including leadership roles at Datadog, PagerDuty, Informatica and Gartner, Rich has a proven record of building high-performing teams and fostering lasting customer partnerships. He is passionate about helping organisations harness the power of open observability and data-driven collaboration.
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John Dee

Strategic Engagement Lead, Somerford
John served for 35 years in the British Army's Intelligence Corps before retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2019. During that time he served in Northern Ireland, the Balkans, the Gulf, Afghanistan and Pakistan. After leaving the Army he joined Somerford Associates in a new post as the Strategy Director, a role that sees him straddle the public and private sector through senior stakeholder engagement, translating strategic business risk to current and emerging technologies. Whilst he does not profess to be a cyber SME, he does know the importance of information and its criticality to support the decision-maker.
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Additional Resources

Who are Somerford Associates?

We are a passionate group of people delivering innovation to our customers on their digital transformation journey.

Grafana Partner

Somerford are a Grafana partner based in the UK and the Middle East.

Somerford in the Public Sector

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