Red Hat Partner Conference EMEA

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Breakout sessions
Breakout sessions are 30-minute presentations by subject matter experts focused on a particular topic.

Hands-on labs
Labs are instructor-led courses that allow you to test drive tools and technologies.

Red Hat Examination
Free of charge training certifications.

Developer Hackathon
★ Launch: Sunday, June 18, 16.00 ★
A fully functional OpenShift-based hackathon development environment. Including Red Hat Mobile, 3Scale and other Red Hat technologies. Available from Sunday afternoon until Tuesday evening with onsite Red Hat support.

Ashesh Badani
Vice President, OpenShift, Red Hat

Ashesh Badani is responsible for the OpenShift PaaS business and overall Cloud Business Unit. Previously, he oversaw product line management and marketing for the Red Hat JBoss middleware portfolio. Prior to joining Red Hat, Badani served as director of product management and product marketing of integration and application platform products at Sun Microsystems. With 15 years of experience in the technology and finance industries, Badani holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor's degree from Cornell University.

Paul Cormier
Executive Vice President and President, Products and Technologies, Red Hat

Paul Cormier leads Red Hat's technology and products organizations, including engineering, product management, and product marketing for Red Hat's technologies. He joined Red Hat in May 2001 as executive vice president, Engineering.

Cormier's leadership and experience in enterprise technology has led to the introduction of Red Hat's acclaimed line of enterprise products, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux®. He has been instrumental in forging tight partnerships with many leading technology companies.

Before Red Hat, Cormier served as senior vice president of research and development at BindView, helping the company achieve market leadership in 2000.

Margaret Dawson
Director of Global Product Marketing, Platform & Solution Marketing, Infrastructure, Red Hat

A 20-year tech industry veteran, Margaret is a frequent author and speaker on cloud computing, big data, open source, women in tech, and the intersection of business and technology. Currently, Margaret leads global product marketing at Red Hat, the world's leading open source software company.

Prior to Red Hat, she was Vice President of Product Marketing and Cloud Evangelist for the cloud computing division of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise. Margaret has worked and traveled extensively in Asia, Europe, and North America. She was a foreign correspondent for BusinessWeek magazine, and spent ten years in the Greater China region, consulting with many technology companies and governmental agencies.

Petra Heinrich
Vice President Partners & Alliances EMEA, Red Hat

Petra Heinrich joined Red Hat in January 2007 and is responsible for the development and execution of Red Hat's partner strategy and sales across EMEA. This includes the indirect go-to-market strategy and execution with distributors, solution providers, system integrators, OEMs, ISVs, CCSP's (Certified Cloud Solution Provider) and associated programs. With over 20 years experience in partner management and business development, Petra Heinrich is a champion for open source collaboration to deliver innovative solutions for today's business challenges leveraging Red Hat's business partner network and global alliances. Previous stations in her career included Lotus, IBM, Suse and Novell.

Gunnar Hellekson
Director of Product Management, Linux and Virtualization, Red Hat

Gunnar Hellekson is the Director of Product Management for Red Hat's Linux, Virtualization, and Atomic container product lines. Before that, he was Chief Strategist for Red Hat's US Public Sector group. He is a founder of Open Source for America, one of Federal Computer Week's Fed 100 for 2010,and was voted one of the FedScoop 50 for industry leadership. He was a founder of the Military Open Source working group, a member of the SIIA Software Division Board, the Board of Directors for the Public Sector Innovation Group, the Open Technology Fund Advisory Council, New America's California Civic Innovation Project Advisory Council, and the CivicCommons Board of Advisors. He perks up when people talk about commoditization and the industrial mobilization of World War II.

Michel Isnard
Vice President EMEA, Red Hat

Michel Isnard is responsible for leading the regional management team and managing the relationship with Red Hat customers and partners, as well as promoting Red Hat's innovative value-proposition to answer the challenge of Digital Transformation that all Enterprises are facing together with a focus on shifting enterprise computing from proprietary to open source technology solutions across the entire region.

Werner Knoblich
Senior Vice President and General Manager EMEA, Red Hat

Werner Knoblich is responsible for developing and executing Red Hat’s business strategy across Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). His primary focus is on sales, marketing, and services. Since joining Red Hat in 2003, Werner has led the EMEA region to consistently exceed financial targets and deliver innovative solutions to overcome customer business challenges in both established and emerging markets.

Prior to joining Red Hat, Werner spent more than 6 years working in the IT asset management sector for MainControl and MRO in the United States. Werner began his sales career working for USU Softwarehaus in Germany.

Franz Meyer
Vice President, Strategic Business Development, EMEA, Red Hat

Franz Meyer joined Red Hat in 2001 and is based in the Paris office. For the first 12 years of his career at Red Hat, Franz held responsibility for the development of Red Hat's business opportunities in Western and Southern Europe, Middle East and Africa. He now leads a strategic initiative to accelerate new business opportunities and the adoption of new products in Red Hat's portfolio (Middleware, Virtualization & Cloud, Storage) across the EMEA region.

Craig Muzilla
Senior Vice President, Application Platforms Business, Red Hat

Craig Muzilla is responsible for Red Hat's application platform, middleware, and Platform-as-a- Service (PaaS) businesses. He leads the OpenShift and Red Hat JBoss Middleware businesses and is also responsible for Red Hat's overall developer programs across Red Hat's product lines. Muzilla is leading Red Hat's efforts in cloud computing for application development through its PaaS offering, OpenShift, and middleware services for PaaS.

Prior to his current position, Muzilla was vice president and general manager of the Red Hat JBoss Middleware business, which he helped grow to 12 products in five different market segments. He helped establish the strategy for Red Hat's middleware portfolio and helped Red Hat expand beyond Linux to other infrastructure market segments. He also executed several acquisitions to grow the business and to add broader capabilities to Red Hat's product lines.

Prior to Red Hat, Muzilla held senior positions with many emerging and established infrastructure and middleware software businesses. He was senior vice president, Marketing and Business Development at MetaMatrix when it was acquired by Red Hat. He is on the Board of Directors of ownCloud, Inc.

Arun Oberoi
Executive vice president, Global Sales and Services, Red Hat

Arun Oberoi leads Red Hat's Global Sales and Services organization, including Red Hat's commercial and public sector sales, channel, and alliance sales, as well as Red Hat's consulting services. He joined Red Hat in May 2012. Before joining Red Hat, Oberoi led and repeatedly built rapidly scaling businesses for multiple technology organizations, from start-up companies to midsized and multibillion-dollar global organizations.

Before joining Red Hat, Oberoi led and repeatedly built rapidly scaling businesses for multiple technology organizations, from start-up companies to midsized and multibillion-dollar global organizations.

Mike Piech
Vice President and General Manager, Middleware, Red Hat

Mike Piech is vice president and general manager of Middleware at Red Hat, where he is responsible for leading the product marketing, program marketing and product management teams responsible for the JBoss section of enterprise middleware products.

Prior to Red Hat, Mike was vice president of product marketing at Magnet Systems, where he developed Magnet's platform messaging and open source strategy. Before Magnet, Mike was vice president of product management and marketing at Engine Yard, following five years at Oracle and BEA with product responsibility for Java, WebLogic, Exalogic, GlassFish, Coherence, Tuxedo, and developer tools. Before BEA Mike ran product management at Dorado (acquired by First American CoreLogic), a SaaS solution for mortgage banking. Mike began his career at Sun Microsystems in engineering roles in areas ranging from MPEG video coding to development tools before moving to product marketing for Enterprise Java.

Hans Roth
Vice President Services, EMEA, Red Hat

Hans Roth joined Red Hat in 2016 and is based in Munich. He is leading Red Hat's services business across EMEA. Red Hat Services is supporting Red Hat's customers with consulting, training and certification to succeed with Red Hat technology.

Prior to Red Hat, Hans was Vice President Service Delivery unit for Hewlett-Packard Enterprise for Central Europe. He was holding several positions within the Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services EMEA Management Team before. Hans is a leader for Business Process Management, IT Strategy, System Integration and Strategic Outsourcing for many years. He has managed large, complex and multinational team during his 20+ years in the IT industry.

Tim Yeaton
Executive Vice President Marketing, Red Hat

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry leading technology company that enables customers to go further, faster. With the industry's most comprehensive portfolio, spanning the cloud to the data center to workplace applications, our technology and services help customers around the world make IT more efficient, more productive and more secure. HPE helps companies generate business value faster in the idea economy by transforming to a Hybrid Infrastructure, protecting their digital enterprise, empowering the data-driven organization and enabling workplace productivity. For more information visit www.hpe.com

Dell EMC serves a key role in providing the essential infrastructure for organizations to build their digital future, transform IT and protect their most important asset, information. Dell EMC enables our enterprise customers’ IT and digital business transformation through trusted hybrid cloud and big-data solutions, built upon a modern data center infrastructure that incorporates industry-leading converged infrastructure, servers, storage, and cybersecurity technologies.
www.dell.com/redhat

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is a Cloud first, Mobile first company delivering technologies that help businesses worldwide take advantage of mobile, enterprise social, and cloud computing trends to drive growth. Microsoft helps you to move to the cloud on your terms using any App, any Dev environment on any OS.
www.microsoft.com

Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 90 fully featured services trusted by millions of active customers around the world, including the fastest growing startups, largest enterprises, and government, to power their infrastructure, make them more agile, and lower costs.
aws.amazon.com

Dynatrace has redefined monitoring digital ecosystems. AI-powered, full stack, completely automated; it’s the only solution that provides answers, not just data, based on deep insight into every user, every transaction, across every application. Thousands of customers use Dynatrace to optimize customer experiences, innovate faster and modernize IT operations with confidence.
www.dynatrace.de

Fujitsu is the largest IT services provider in Japan (and 5th in the world), offering a full range of technology products, solutions, and services. We use our experience and the power of ICT to shape the future of society with our customers in more than 100 countries.
www.fujitsu.com

NTT DATA is a leading IT services provider and global innovation partner headquartered in Tokyo, with business operations in over 40 countries. Our emphasis is on long-term commitment, combining global reach with local intimacy to provide premier professional services varying from consulting and systems development to outsourcing. For more information, visit www.nttdata.com.

Nuage Networks has partnered with Red Hat to deliver SDN-based hybrid cloud solutions that maximize the effectiveness of the datacenter infrastructure by making them more agile, flexible and automated. The solution leverages Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack® Platform (RHEL OSP), an open, and scalable platform for building public and private clouds.
Learn more: www.nuagenetworks.net/partners/nuage-networks-and-red-hat

Tech Data is one of the world's largest wholesale distributors of technology products, services and solutions. Its advanced logistics capabilities and value added services enable 115,000 resellers to efficiently and cost effectively support the diverse technology needs of end users in more than 100 countries. To learn more, visit www.techdata.com.

Veracomp Group is a leading value added distributor in the scope of ICT solutions. The Group's companies are directly present in Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Croatia and Bulgaria and conduct distribution business in 17 countries in Central and Eastern Europe. The Veracomp Group supplies comprehensive IT solutions which are applied in all business sectors.
www.veracomp.eu

Dupaco Distribution B.V. is established in 1985 and has grown into a leading True Value Added Distributor in the Dutch ICT market. Since December 2015 we are part of Ingram Micro the Netherlands. On top of its primary focus, the distribution of software, Dupaco Distribution B.V. supports her business partners in sales-, technical support and marketing activities. Dupaco’s strength is its continuing focus on new developments in the ICT market.
www.dupaco.nl

Eurotech solutions combine hardware, firmware, operating systems, IoT middleware and device cloud services that drive business success. A global leader in connecting distributed devices that make up the Internet of Things, Eurotech collaborates with customers, partners, and integrators to bring rugged, reliable and cost effective data management solutions to market.
www.eurotech.com

Itway VAD - Mosaico is specialized in the Value Added Distribution of ICT Security and Open Source solutions. It employs a team of specialists able to provide 20years worth of experience and skills. Is 100% controlled by Esprinet Group (leader in Italy and Spain in the B2B distribution of technology products).
www.itwayvad.com