Red Hat Summit 2019

Boston, MA May 7–9

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This year's session topics

There's a lot going on in open source, and we need your help to talk about it. Please submit an abstract based on one of the topics we will feature this year.

Cloud-native app dev

Best practices, tools, & frameworks for developers on containers and Kubernetes
Service mesh/Istio
Microservices: Development, deployment, monitoring, tracing, & management patterns
Serverless computing: Event-driven development
Serverless computing: Knative overview
Serverless computing: Roadmap and best practices
Microservices: Data patterns & event sourcing/CQRS
Microservices: Consumer-driven contract (CDC), data streaming, & caching strategies
Microservice development: How to build an enterprise service architecture
DevOps for developers: CI/CD and continuous testing & deployment
Language runtimes, frameworks guidance, and best practices (including Java, Node.js, MicroProfile, SpringBoot, Vert.x Reactive toolkit, and more)
Updates on Java frameworks, Microprofile, Jakarta EE, and OpenJDK
Security for developers: DevOps, DevSecOps
Security for developers: Application security, SSO, autentication and authorization patterns
Security for developers: Tools, frameworks, and best practices
Application transformation: Optimization, revitalization, modernization
Application transformation: Integration
Application transformation: Migration
Mobile application development
MBaaS
Mobile application integration
Customer implementation, architectures, and case studies related ot any or all of the above
Low code development: Rules-driven development, process automation development

Integration and the API economy

Process & decision automation
Streaming APIs
API life cycle
Data-driven APIs
Istio & API management
Open banking/GDPR
Red Hat Fuse's role in building data pipelines for AI
Red Hat Fuse Ignite and the role of citizen integrators
Reactive messaging & streaming

IT optimization

Hyperconverged infrastructure
Tuning Red Hat Gluster Storage
Modernizing infrastructure
Tuning Red Hat Ceph Storage
Migrating infrastructure from VMware
Customer/partner feature: A modernization journey
Software-defined storage customer use cases
How to get started managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat Insights, Red Hat Ansible Automation)
Security responses, CVEs
Overview of identity management
Red Hat OpenShift on Red Hat Virtualization
SELinux overview
Red Hat Virtualization solutions overview
Value of a Red Hat subscription
Simplifying storage deployments
Healthcare (ERP, EMR) or web server workloads on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Migrating from VMware virtualization to Red Hat Virtualization
Red Hat Enterprise Linux's ease of use
Managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux at scale
Moving from virtualization to a container world
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Performance tuning
Infrastructure as code
SQL Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
SAP HANA on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Virtualization: Customer case study
Using Red Hat Insights with Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Hybrid cloud infrastructure

Security and compliance in the hybrid cloud
Hybrid cloud workloads
Costs and the hybrid cloud
Network function virtualization
How the cloud drives emerging technologies
The future of the cloud
Big data cloud deployments
Hybrid cloud to a hybrid cloud environment
DevOps with Red Hat OpenShift
OpenShift in a multi-datacenter environment
Red Hat OpenShift and OpenStack
Improving service and operations management in a hybrid environment
Multicloud infrastructure
A cloud-native approach to secure your Cloud
Cloud trends
How Red Hat Cloud portfolio fits together
Role of automation in cloud
Hyperconverged storage
Data lakes
Self-service provisioning
Operating systems in the hybrid cloud
Networking integration with OpenShift and OpenStack
Scalable application platforms
Cloud strategy: Public, private, and/or hybrid
Automation & management in the cloud
Securing the private cloud
Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the best guest OS for any cloud
How the operating system secures the cloud
OpenShift Container Platform on OpenStack Platform: Containers on cloud
Planning application lifecycle and the infrastructure needed
High-performance computing in the cloud

IT automation and management

Red Hat Management demos and use cases
Optimizing& securing across hybrid clouds
Red Hat Ansible use in enterprises
Red Hat Ansible for IT infrastructure (config and provision)
Red Hat Ansible for networking
Red Hat Ansible: Getting started
Red Hat Ansible: Making the case
How to operationalize your DevOps infrastructure
Insights and data concerns
Red Hat Management at mega scale
Customer/partner feature: Automation solutions
Extensibility of Red Hat management solutions
Managing and automating your Red Hat hybrid/multicloud environments

Emerging technology

The social impact of artificial intelligence
AI and machine learning strategies
Security strategy
Trends in the developer community
Storage strategies
The future of networking
The future of container platforms and Kubernetes
Open source data & data policies (e.g., OpenData)
Distributed computing & unified platforms
Research and customer influence on the future
Blockchain
Making hardware cool again

Digital transformation

Moving development from Waterfall to Agile & DevOps
Change fatigue: How to tell if you have it and what to do about it
Agile & DevOps transformations that pass an engineer's "stink test"
How to collaborate in any environment
How to use open source development in your organization's digital transformation
Effective Agile leadership
Building the right products in a volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous (VUCA) world
Top open source projects that will accelerate your digital transformation
Integrating security, architecture, and/or design into an Agile & DevOps workflow
The technology, processes, and culture of digital transformation
How to succeed and what to avoid in a digital transformation
Product planning and development in an Agile/DevOps environment

Culture of collaboration

Open culture in practice
Creating an open organization
How to collaborate effectively within a team
Diversity in open source: Gender, race, sexuality, age, ability, and more
Building a neurally diverse team
Leading in an open source environment
Multi-generational organizations

Keynote highlights from 2018

Red Hat Summit 2018 featured executives, open source leaders, and some of our most innovative customers discussing trends, telling stories, and anticipating the future.

Jim Whitehurst

President and chief executive officer, Red Hat

Saron Yitbarek

Founder, CodeNewbie

Burr Sutter

Director of developer experience, Red Hat

Kerry Peirse

General manager, Infrastructure and Operations, Cathay Pacific

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