Michael Cucchi

Speaking

Talks & Keynotes

Available for conference keynotes, corporate events, executive roundtables, and panel discussions on AI-driven security operations, data infrastructure, observability, and digital operations.

Topics

Observability at Internet Scale

How the largest systems in the world approach observability — and what you can apply to your own architecture. Covers data collection strategies, storage architecture, query patterns, and the real economics of running observability at scale. Draws on experience across Hydrolix, Sumo Logic, and PagerDuty.

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AI-Driven Security Operations

AI is fundamentally changing how threats are detected, identified, and remediated — but most organizations are not yet equipped to take advantage of it. This talk draws on first-hand experience co-inventing and launching Dojo AI, Sumo Logic's first agentic security operations product, to explore how AI agents are transforming SOC workflows, what the data and analytics infrastructure requirements actually look like at scale, and how security teams can move from reactive to autonomous operations.

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Digital Operations Maturity

A practical framework for understanding where your organization sits on the digital operations maturity curve — and a clear roadmap for advancing. Business-focused and tool-agnostic. Suitable for executive and mixed technical/business audiences. Based on work done at PagerDuty scaling ARR from $130M to $300M+.

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The Economics of Telemetry Data

Log and metrics data is growing 30–40% annually. This talk breaks down the real costs of telemetry — storage, query, tooling, and engineering time — and presents a framework for building programs that deliver insight without runaway spend. Includes case studies from Sumo Logic and Hydrolix.

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Past Appearances

Digital Operations at Scale

PagerDuty Summit·San Francisco, CA·2022

The Future of Digital Operations

theCUBE / SiliconANGLE·San Francisco, CA·2022

Logic at the Event Layer

Techstrong TV·Virtual·2022

Managing Tech Burnout

The Cloudcast Podcast·Virtual·2021

Perspectives on Digital Operations: Real-Time Work on the Front Lines

PagerDuty Webinar·Virtual·2020

Automation for the People

PagerDuty Webinar — Forrester·Virtual·2020

Autumn Product Launch: New Capabilities for EMEA

PagerDuty EMEA Product Launch·Virtual·2020

Pivotal's Big Data Platform Strategy

O'Reilly Strata + Hadoop World·New York, NY·2014

Pivotal's Hadoop Ecosystem Strategy

Hadoop Summit / theCUBE·San Jose, CA·2015

Open Source and the Future of Enterprise Infrastructure

EMC World / theCUBE·Las Vegas, NV·2015

Marketing & Messaging at Hydrolix

Digital Doorways Podcast·Virtual·2026

Modern Data Architecture in Practice: What's Actually Working in 2026

DBTA Webinar·Virtual·2026

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