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This year's agenda has six paths to help you identify the sessions that will be most useful to you: Optimize, Manage, Deploy, Strategize, Develop, and Secure. Choose the paths that best fit your goals, and follow the color coding for those paths throughout the agenda.

Optimize

Manage

Deploy

Strategize

Develop

Secure

Tuesday, June 17

6:00 - 9:00 pm

Welcome Reception

Wednesday, June 18

7:30 - 8:30 am	Breakfast
8:30 - 9:00 am	Opening Keynote	Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat President and CEO
9:00 - 9:30 am	Visionary Keynote	John Halamka, CIO, Harvard Medical School
9:30 - 10:00 am	Partner Keynote	Jim Stallings, General Manager, IBM Enterprise Systems Division
Coffee Break

	Labs  [ - ]
10:15 am Linux Lab: Red Hat Training and Certification Hands-on Virtualization lab Marc Curry 1:30 pm Linux Lab: Linux for IBM System z Installation Workshop (Room 305) Richard Lewis 1:30 pm Middleware Lab: A Quick Tour through the JBoss Developer Studio David Ward
10:15am	Morning Sessions for Wednesday, June 18 [ - ]
Track Session Presenter(s) What's New (Infrastructure) Auditing and IDS Steve Grubb Decoding the Code Tips, tricks, and best practices RHEL Kernel Performance Optimization - Part I John Shakshober & Larry Woodman Beyond the Operating System PARTNER: Learn How Blackboard ASP is Using Linux to Ensure Maximum Agility Peter Waterman Middleware JBoss Enterprise Platforms & Roadmap Rob Cardwell OSS A Tour of the Eclipse Ecosystem Andrew Overholt What's Next Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update & Roadmap Daniel Riek & Andy Cathrow What's Next Server Solutions from Red Hat and the Intel® ESAA Program Madhu Bramharouthu Peer to Peer Perspectives PARTNER: Harvard Medical School Case Study Rob Hurst Hot Topics Why Computers Are Getting Slower (And What We Can Do About It) Rik Van Riel
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	Morning Sessions for Wednesday, June 18 [ - ]
Track Session Presenter(s) What's New (Infrastructure) Fedora - Images & Live CDs Jeremy Katz Decoding the Code Tips, tricks, and best practices RHEL Kernel Performance Optimization - Part II John Shakshober & Larry Woodman Beyond the Operating System Cluster Failover for any Application - Demonstration: A High Availability Cluster Installation Thomas Cameron & Lon Hohberger Middleware Performance Tuning JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Andy Miller OSS Fedora 9 Overview & Demonstration Bill Nottingham What's Next Systemtap: Current Features & Roadmap Frank Eigler Peer to Peer Perspectives A Global Network Simplified: RHN Satellite Server & PMC-Sierra Michael Yingbull Hot Topics The Virtualization Toolbox. Open Source Solutions for Managing Virtual Environments Dan Berrange & Rich Jones
Lunch
Exhibit Hall Dessert
1:30 pm	Afternoon Sessions for Wednesday, June 18  [ - ]
Track Session Presenter(s) What's New (Infrastructure) On-line Storage Reconfiguration on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Chip Coldwell Decoding the Code Tips, tricks, and best practices Best Practices for Implementing Red Hat Enterprise Linux & Virtualization in the Enterprise Jan Mark Holzer & John Shakshober Beyond the Operating System Getting in the Fast Lane with Red Hat Support Jeff Bastian & Guy Streeter Middleware Open Source Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Strategies & Value Pierre Fricke OSS How to Make Good RPM Packages Tom Callaway What's Next Free IPA: Benefits now & in the future Karl Wirth & Kevin Unthank Peer to Peer Perspectives Linux for Business Critical Workloads Jeff Smith, IBM Hot Topics BPM-driven Enterprise Transformation Kevin Sherry
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	Afternoon Sessions for Wednesday, June 18  [ - ]
Track Session Presenter(s) What's New (Infrastructure) PARTNER: SELinux Technology Introduction Paul Moore, HP Decoding the Code Tips, tricks, and best practices Diagnosing & Troubleshooting Problems with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Virtualization Jan Mark Holzer and John Shakshober Beyond the Operating System Laptop Power Management Richard Hughes Middleware PARTNER: Optimizing the SOA Enterprise: Using JBoss & RHEL Virtualization Isaac Christoffersen, Booz Allen Hamilton OSS Fedora Directory Server Project Update Rich Megginson What's Next Building Appliances with the Red Hat Appliance Operating System Bryan Kearney & Andy Cathrow Peer to Peer Perspectives The Future of Linux Server Backup: Near-Continuous Data Protection David Wartell, R1Soft Hot Topics TBD TBD
3:45 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Afternoon Sessions for Wednesday, June 18  [ - ]
Track Session Presenter(s) What's New (Infrastructure) Desktop: New Features and Futures Jonathan Blandford & Kevin Martin Decoding the Code Tips, tricks, and best practices Securing your Red Hat Enterprise System Steve Grubb Beyond the Operating System Managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in a Virtual World with RHN Satellite Todd Sanders and Cliff Perry Middleware Extending the Application Footprint into the Network David Bernstein, VP/GM Network Applications Infrastructure Business Unit OSS Func - the Fedora Universal Network Connector Michael DeHaan & Adrian Likins What's Next IBM Real Time for Deterministic Workloads Benjamin S. Vera-Tudela, IBM Peer to Peer Perspectives PARTNER: Employing Realtime Security to Bolster Mail Server Defenses Florian von Kurnatowski Hot Topics PARTNER: Alfresco's 2008 Barometer Survey Ian Howells, Alfresco
4:00 - 6:30 pm	Cold Beer! - Exhibit Hall
7:00 pm	Fenway Park Party, Sponsored by IBM

Thursday, June 19

7:30 - 8:30 am	Breakfast
8:30 - 9:00 am	Opening Keynote	Brian Stevens
9:00 - 9:30 am	Partner Keynote	Boyd Davis, Intel GM, Server Platforms Group Marketing
9:30 - 10:00 am	Visionary Keynote	Joel Cohen, Co-Creator of The Simpsons
Coffee Break

	Labs  [ - ]
10:15 am Linux Management Lab: Maximizing your RHEL Environment in a Virtualized World Todd Sanders and Tom Madden 1:30 pm Middleware Management Lab: Improving TCO Through Effective Management of Your JBoss Middleware Environment Greg Hinkle and Jason Dobies
10:15am	Morning Sessions for Thursday, June 19 [ - ]
Track Session Presenter(s) What's New (Infrastructure) SELinux Update Dan Walsh Decoding the Code Tips, tricks, and best practices Network Performance: 10GB Ethernet Mark Wagner Beyond the Operating System PARTNER: Implementing Grid-Enabled Services Infrastructure (GESI) with Red Hat, JBoss, and MetaMatrix Christopher Dale, Booz Allen Hamilton Middleware How Low Can You Go? JBoss TCO Ross Ford OSS Exploiting Parallelism in CPUs Ulrich Drepper What's Next Cobbler: Provisioning for Bare Metal and Virtualization Michael DeHaan Peer to Peer Perspectives PARTNER: Exchange Strategies for OSS Paul Oh, Sugar CRM Hot Topics The OOXML Battle: Who Really Won? Moderator: Tom Rabon, Red Hat
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	Morning Sessions for Thursday, June 19  [ - ]
Track Session Presenter(s) What's New (Infrastructure) Technical Introduction to Red Hat IPA Simo Sorce Decoding the Code Tips, tricks, and best practices Database Performance and Scaling Sanjay Rao Beyond the Operating System Zmanda: Open Source Backup and Recovery Chander Kant - CEO, Zmanda Middleware Agile Business Processes Follow the Rules Burr Sutter & Jeff Delong OSS Managing Updates and Upgrades Michael Stahnke What's Next oVirt: An Open Management Framework for Virtualized Environments Hugh Brock & Perry Myers Peer to Peer Perspectives Switching from Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RM 305) Vinod Kutty, Associate Director, Open Systems Group, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Hot Topics Patent Failure Michael Meurer, author of "Patent Failure" and Professor at the Boston University of Law
Lunch
Exhibit Hall Dessert
1:30 pm	Afternoon Sessions for Thursday, June 19 [ - ]
Track Session Presenter(s) What's New (Infrastructure) Making the Best of the Global File System Curtis Zinzilieta Decoding the Code Tips, tricks, and best practices SELinux Policies and Domains Daniel Walsh Beyond the Operating System Augeas: a Linux Configuration API David Lutterkort Middleware Stop Swivel Chair Integration with JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform Kevin Barfield OSS Realtime Linux: Who, What, When, Where and Why Clark Williams What's Next ATI Graphics on the Desktop John Bridgman Peer to Peer Perspectives Expert Panel on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Virtualization Jan Mark Holzer, Brian Stein, Daniel Riek, Dan Berrange, John Shakshober, Andy Cathrow, Stephen Tweedie Hot Topics A Look at GPL Licensing Presenter TBD
Break
2:45 pm	Afternoon Sessions for Thursday, June 19 [ - ]
Track Session Presenter(s) What's New (Infrastructure) GNU Compiler and GCC Update Tom Tromey Decoding the Code Tips, tricks, and best practices Tips and Tricks for Installation Support for Large Scale Deployments David Cantrell Beyond the Operating System Introduction to Frysk Andrew Cagney Middleware Liberate Your Data with MetaMatrix Chuck Mosher OSS Fedora Packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Karsten Wade What's Next Locking Down Applications in RHEL David Zeuthen Peer to Peer Perspectives Microsoft Desktop Alternatives for the Business - The Winning Equation Nallu Reddy, John Walicki, IBM Hot Topics Improve application performance with AMD CodeAnalyst and Instruction-Based Sampling Paul J. Drongowski
3:45 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Afternoon Sessions for Thursday, June 19 [ - ]
Track Session Presenter(s) What's New (Infrastructure) Red Hat Enterprise MRG Overview Carl Trieloff Decoding the Code Tips, tricks, and best practices Understanding a RHEL Security Advisory Mark Cox & Josh Bressers Beyond the Operating System The Sybase Availability Agent for Red Hat Clustering Rick Linden, Sybase Middleware Customer Case Study Presenter TBD OSS Getting the Bits Out: Fedora Mirror Manager Matt Domsch What's Next Linux Wireless: What's Next in Fedora & RHEL Daniel Williams Peer to Peer Perspectives Tools and Methodologies That Aid the Migration to JBoss Timothy Geary Hot Topics Get IT Faster, Run IT Better, Grow IT Smarter Peter Lillian, Sr. Product Manager for Dell's HPC and HA Clustering Solutions
4:00 - 6:30 pm	Cold Beer! - Exhibit Hall
5:30 - 7:30 pm	RHCE Reception
7:00 pm	SkyWalk Lounge Party, Sponsored by IBM

Friday, June 20

7:30 - 8:30 am	Government Breakfast, sponsored by DLT Solutions, Inc.
7:30 - 8:30 am	Breakfast
8:00 - 9:00 am	Red Hat Executive Q&A Panel

9:00am	Morning Sessions for Friday, June 20 [ - ]
Track Session Presenter(s) What's New (Infrastructure) Dynamic Grid Computing With Red Hat Enterprise MRG & Amazon EC2 Bryan Che Decoding the Code Tips, tricks, and best practices Red Hat Enterprise Linux iSCSI Update Mike Christie Beyond the Operating System PARTNER: GNU Telephony and the Network David Sugar, GNU Telephony Middleware PARTNER: Active Endpoints and ActiveVOS Chris Keller OSS What's the Fuss About Fastboot and New Kernel Crash Dumping? Vivek Goyal What's Next Virtual Directory: Real World Scenarios Jim Yang, Indentyx Peer to Peer Perspectives Red Hat Certificate and Directory Server: Real World Deployments Srini Satyavarpu Hot Topics PARTNER: My Wiki Won't Talk to My Blog Jeff Whatcott, Acquia
10:00 am	Break
10:15am	Morning Sessions for Friday, June 20 [ - ]
Track Session Presenter(s) What's New (Infrastructure) An Introduction to RHEL 5 Tools and Utilities Thomas Cameron Decoding the Code Tips, tricks, and best practices Understanding Application Memory Performance Ulrich Drepper Beyond the Operating System Implementing Oracle11g Database over NFSv4 from a Shared Backend Storage Bikash Choudhury and Steve Dickson Middleware Everything You Need to Develop Web 2.0 Rich Applications David Ward OSS Red Hat's Open Source Certificate System Kevin Unthank What's Next Improving TCO through management of your JBoss Enterprise Middleware Environment Greg Hinkle Peer to Peer Perspectives RHCE-only Focus Group and Planning Session Hot Topics Cloud Computing with Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon EC2 Mike Ferris
11:30 - 1:30 pm	Innovation Awards & Closing Ceremony