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Who should attend: Anyone whose responsibilities include planning modern innovation, DevOps, microservices, enterprise architecture, or IT strategy.
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Agenda
7:15am-8:00am | Registration and Breakfast | |||
8:00am-8:15am | Welcome and Opening Remarks Speakers: Rob Peterson, Vice President, Central Region Sales, Jeff Rogers, EMCEE |
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8:15am-9:00am | Keynote: Fast, Flexible Future How Red Hat can help you build an agile IT organization, from infrastructure to practice Speaker: Thomas Cameron, Global Cloud Strategy Evangelist, Red Hat |
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9:00am-9:30am | Solutions for IT Organizations on the Journey to the Digital Enterprise Speaker: James Labocki, Sr. Manager, Product Management, Red Hat |
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9:30am-9:45am | Break | |||
9:45am-10:30am | The Roadmap for Containers & DevOps Speakers: Brian Gracely & Mike Barrett |
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10:30am-11:00am | Solving real business problems through rapid integration and data consumption Speaker: Jack Britton, Product Manager, Integrated Solutions |
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11:00am-11:30am | How we Accelerate Innovation at Red Hat Innovation Labs Speaker: Mike Walker, Dir. Open Innovation Labs, Red Hat |
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11:30am-11:45am | Closing Comments Rob Peterson, Vice President, Central Region Sales Jeff Rogers, EMCEE |
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12:00pm-1:00pm | Lunch | |||
1:00pm-3:00pm | Track 1: Modernization S1: Many Paths to Infrastructure Modernization Thomas Cameron, Global Cloud Strategy Evangelist, Red Hat S2: Delivering value together: Increase visibility, manageability, and control through cloud management and automation Mike Dahlgren, Senior Cloud Solutions Architect, Red Hat |
Track 2: Security S1: SELinux Fundamentals: A Practical Guide to Implementation Peter Beniaris, Senior Solutions Architect, Red Hat S2: Red Hat in Energy and Utilities; Open Source for security from the Control System to the Enterprise Chad McIntyre |
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3:00pm-3:45pm | Networking and Happy Hour |
Information about Keynotes and Breakout Sessions
8:15am-9:00am
Keynote: Fast, Flexible Future
How Red Hat can help you build an agile IT organization, from infrastructure to practice
How Red Hat can help you build an agile IT organization, from infrastructure to practice
Thomas Cameron, Global Cloud Strategy Evangelist, Red Hat
You face a lot of business challenges in these rapidly changing times. You need to optimize the IT you have; integrate data, apps, and processes; build new cloud infrastructure; and develop more modern apps. Red Hat's culture, leadership, and ecosystem are why you're part of the 78% of enterprises running on open source. Whether it's infrastructure software, app services, development, systems management, or services—we can help.
9:00am-9:30am
Solutions for IT Organizations on the Journey to the Digital Enterprise
James Labocki, Sr. Manager, Product Management, Red Hat
Your business needs to embrace the move towards a digital enterprise to not just survive, but thrive. In this session, attendees will see common challenges and solutions that IT organizations can overcome as they look to lead their business towards becoming a digital business. This includes both delivering existing applications faster and optimizing their infrastructure as well as building new cloud native applications and infrastructure. This session will include specific examples and success stories.
9:45am-10:30am
The Roadmap for Containers & DevOps
Brian Gracely & Mike Barrett
Linux Containers continue to grow in popularity and are at the center of a number of emerging trends in IT. Organizations are using Containers to accelerate DevOps processes, to deploy both existing apps and cloud-native microservices, and to enable a hybrid cloud infrastructure. This session will explore Red Hat’s roadmap for Containers, how it enables these trends and how we are delivering new Container innovations through OpenShift, RHEL and across our product portfolio.
10:30am-11:00am
Solving real business problems through rapid integration and data consumption
Jack Britton, Product Manager, Integrated Solutions
As the amount of data being produced continues to climb, the ability to consume information and apply to business needs becomes more complicated. Jack Britton, Integrated Solutions Product Manager at Red Hat, will walk through solutions available that are helping organizations across industries better consume data across devices.
11:00am-11:30am
How we Accelerate Innovation at Red Hat Innovation Labs
Mike Walker, Dir. Open Innovation Labs, Red Hat
Innovation has always been at the core of we do; our open source communities stand for no less. Red Hat Open Innovation Labs is a new medium to deliver tangible, community-powered innovation. In an eight-week teaming engagement focused on accelerating application development, you can modernize traditional apps or develop contemporary ones, and leave with a solid understanding of the principles of modern software development. During this session, we will provide an overview of life in a Labs residency, show examples of what can be rapidly built at Labs, and demonstrate the push button infrastructure that allows developers to do DevOps and build innovative solutions from day one.
About Mike Walker: Mike Walker leads Red Hat's Open Innovation Labs, whose vision is to empower customers to rapidly deliver the most innovative software success stories of the 21st century, by leveraging the power of open source, emerging technology, and world-class expertise. Mike has more than 15 years of consulting experience encompassing application development, middleware, infrastructure, and cloud computing solutions.
1:00pm-3:00pm
Many Paths to Infrastructure Modernization
Thomas Cameron, Global Cloud Strategy Evangelist, Red Hat
Traditional IT infrastructures are typically saddled with a heavy burden of technical debt. These past-generation technologies require substantial maintenance and management, lengthy deployment cycles and specialized skills making it costly and difficult to keep your infrastructure operational. But despite these drawbacks, your organization has deep investments in traditional systems. Learn how to unload your technical debt, decrease OpEx, and standardize your infrastructure and the core set of skills so that your IT organization can scale to deliver cloud-like services across multiple physical, virtual, and cloud environments with visibility and control.
Delivering value together: Increase visibility, manageability, and control through cloud management and automation
Mike Dahlgren, Senior Cloud Solutions Architect, Red Hat
As you evaluate various technologies and how they fit within their environment, it is important to understand how they can be implemented and produce results for your organization. This session will walk you through how to leverage tools such as CloudForms and Ansible, that will result in improved business process automation and faster time to delivery.
1:00pm-3:00pm
SELinux Fundamentals: A Practical Guide to Implementation
Peter Beniaris, Senior Solutions Architect, Red Hat
Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is a Linux kernal security module. This session will provide an:
- introduction to SELinux,
- a review of discretionary vs. mandatory access controls,
- how to enable & manage SELinux,
- the best methods for protecting your resources,
- tips for fine tuning and creating a virtual sand box.
Reiseinformationen
Date: September 22, 2016
Time: See agenda for start and end time details.
Location:
The Westin Houston, Memorial City
945 Gessner Road
Houston, TX 77024
www.westinhoustonmemorialcity.com