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Red Hat Summit: Connect 2024

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EVENT HIGHLIGHTS

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Engage with Red Hat thought leaders, technologies, and solutions or participate in activities like breakout sessions and instructor-led labs. View your options in this year’s agenda.

Agenda is subject to change

AGENDA

8.00 - 9.30

WELCOME & REGISTRATION

9.30 - 9.45

Welcome to Red Hat Summit: Connect 2024 - Unlock what's next

Stef Schampaert ,

Country Manager, Red Hat

Dinko Eror,

Vice President, EMEA Central Europe, Red Hat

9.45 - 10.30

Enabling Open enterprise AI, and modernizing infrastructure

Chris Morgan,

Vice President, Hybrid Platforms Customer & Field Engagement, Red Hat

10.30 - 10.40

Bringing AI Everywhere

Henning Eid,

Senior Director Global Accounts, Intel

Stef Schampaert,

Country Manager, Red Hat

10.40 - 11.10

Smooth Sailing: How Red Hat's Service Mesh Kept Our Ship Afloat

Koen Tourné,

IT Manager Digital Channels, Crelan

Koen Piedfort,

Head of Technology & Innovation, Crelan

Dieter Van Nuffel,

Director IT Strategy, Architecture & Security, Crelan

11.10 - 11.15

Red Hat Summit: Connect 2024 - Unlock what's next

Stef Schampaert,

Country Manager, Red Hat

11.15 - 11.45

Coffee Break

11.45 - 12.50

TRACK: INFRA & OPS  (Keynote Room)

11.45 - 12.15

Making Automation mission-critical with Ansible Automation Platform

Belkacem Moussouni,

Head of Business Development, EMEA – Automation, Red Hat

Seb Wains,

Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat

12.20 - 12.50

FOD Financien Automation Journey

Paul Ondafe Matock,

Technical Lead Automation, Fod Finance

TRACK OPENSHIFT  (Breakout Room 1)

11.45 - 12.15

OpenShift at Delen Private Bank

Vincent Vlieghe,

DevOps, Delen Private Bank

12.20 - 12.50

Partner session Dell: Enterprise Ready AI – Powered by Dell Technologies & Red Hat

Partner expert session - Artificial Intelligence, business Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat® OpenShift® is an on-premise infrastructure jointly engineered by Dell and Red Hat to accelerate time to value, simplify management, and assist in creating a security focused environment for Red Hat OpenShift. The Dell APEX Cloud Platform and Red Hat OpenShift AI help data scientists with the agility, flexibility, portability, and scalability needed to design, build, and deploy AI-enabled applications on a large scale.

Wicher Scholten,

Senior Sales Executive PowerFlex, DELL

Paul Bootsma,

Senior Consultant Cloud Solutions, DELL

TRACK DEV & AI  (Breakout Room 2)

11.45 - 12.15

Partner session Intel: OPEA-based retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) on Intel Gaudi with OpenShift AI

Understand the technical underpinnings of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in AI systems, including how Open Platform for Enterprise AI provides a framework for AI building blocks and facilitates the integration of LLM

Jurgen Eijmberts,

Intel

12.20 - 12.50

An Introduction to Podman AI capabilities - rapid hosting and development of LLM based applications

Ian Lawson,

Developer Advocate, Red Hat

12.50 - 13.50

Lunch

13.50 - 14.55

TRACK: INFRA & OPS  (Keynote Room)

13.50 - 14.20

Euroclear: Red Hat's compliance as code and OpenSCAP in regulated environments

Alexis Leroy,

Linux architect, Euroclear

Nick Van Rompuy,

Linux senior engineer, Euroclear

14.25 - 14.55

Partner session ASP: Unifying Networks: Building a Vendor-Agnostic Source of Truth with Ansible & NetBox

Discover how to leverage Ansible facts and NetBox to build and maintain a dynamic, vendor-agnostic source of truth for your networks. While some network vendors can propose similar proprietary solutions for their own product lines, Ansible and NetBox can solve the source of thruth challenges in a vendor agnostic way across many IT domains

Arnaud Ghyssens,

DevOps Lead, ASP

Seb Wains,

Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat

TRACK OPENSHIFT  (Breakout Room 1)

13.50 - 14.20

Partner session Kangaroot: (Ab)Using CI/CD for self-service access requests

Giving consultants access to customers internal documentation, infrastructure and secrets is a sensitive matter that we deal with regularly. Consultants need to get access quickly to be able to get up to speed and become productive for any given customer. Customers want to know who their data and infrastructure is exposed, and ensure access is limited to those that need it. We've solved this issue in true DevOps fashion by leveraging the mechanisms behind Ansible, GitLab and CI/CD. Our implementation provides for an auditable self-service process that allows consultants to onboard themselves, while still ensuring all access is traceable. GIT ensures all changes are always logged and can be limited through the use of pull requests and approvals. Ansible provides the configuration management that allows us to provision the access for a new user in an automated fashion for a wide variety of tools.

Ruben de Smet,

Software Engineer, Systems Administrator, Solution Architect and Security Enthusiast, Kangaroot

14.25 - 14.55

Clearstream - Service Mesh

TRACK DEV & AI  (Breakout Room 2)

13.50 - 14.20

Partner session Piros: Effortless AI Scaling: Red Hat OpenShift and LLM Integration Production-grade AI

Let’s unlock the potential of your AI applications by leveraging the power of NVIDIA GPUs and the flexibility of Red Hat OpenShift. During our session, you discover how Red Hat OpenShift AI, powered by cutting-edge open-source technology, helps you scale AI workloads more effectively. Learn why open-source is at the heart of AI advancement and how Red Hat serves as a trusted partner on this innovative journey. Explore the seamless integration of NVIDIA GPUs, while we demonstrate how Red Hat OpenShift enables you to maximize its performance for AI workloads. Find out the advantages of using Universal Base Images (UBI) for containerized applications, backed by Red Hat’s reliable support to ensure smooth deployment and management. Discover why Red Hat OpenShift is the ideal platform for hosting large language models (LLMs). Its scalability, security, and flexibility make it a perfect fit for the demanding needs of LLMs. Join us in exploring how these technologies elevate your AI applications, fuel innovation, and drive success in your organization.

Jorge De Corte,

Rebatch

Indy Van Mol,

Piros

14.25 - 14.55

Production-grade AI

AI/ML is more than just developing a model. Making it production-ready involves various challenges, such as where and how to host it, dealing with security, monitoring, and more. In this session, we will show how to build, deploy, and monitor a production-ready model and data platform using OpenShift and OpenShift AI. The session will be accessible and won't dive too deeply into technical details, making it suitable for a broader audience.

Maarten Vandeperre,

Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat

14.55 - 15.25

Coffee Break

15.25 - 16.30

TRACK: INFRA & OPS  (Keynote Room)

15.25 - 15.55

What is new in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Platform?

Red Hat not only provides the world's leading enterprise Linux platform but also an ecosystem around RHEL to make managing your Linux platform as easy as possible through tools such as Image Builder, which is part of RHEL, Insights, and Satellite. Discover what is new and planned for the next releases of RHEL, Insights, and Satellite during this session, where we will cover existing new announcements and features.

Juan van der Breggen,

Senior Specialist Solution Architect, RHEL, Red Hat

Seb Wains,

Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat

16.00 - 16.30

TBC

TRACK OPENSHIFT  (Breakout Room 1)

15.25 - 15.55

Partner session HPE: The Journey of modernizing traditional workloads, the HPE approach

In this session we will uncover how HPE Services can help you modernise your legacy mission critical applications by following a proven approach that goes through discovery, analysis, extraction, engineering and onboarding processes to make sure that your core business functions are not lost in the process of converting your workloads to a cloud native ecosystem.

Alejandro Tesch,

APJ Cloud Consultant, HPE

16.00 - 16.30

What's new in OpenShift Virtualization

Dieter De Moitié,

Senior Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat

TRACK DEV & AI  (Breakout Room 2)

15.25 - 15.55

Partner session Dynatrace: Remediate performance issues with event-driven automation

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Dynatrace Davis AI, and the Dynatrace observability and security platform enables closed-loop remediation to automate the process from detecting a problem, identifying the root cause, and executing corrective actions. This way, disruptions are minimized, MTTR is significantly decreased, and DevSecOps and SREs collaborate efficiently to boost productivity.

Melvin Visch,

Solution Engineer, Dynatrace

16.00 - 16.30

Accenture Data & AI Lab in collaboration with Red Hat

In this joint presentation by Red Hat and Accenture Data & AI Studio from Brussels, we will introduce the capabilities of the studio and discuss the growing importance of sovereign AI in today’s digital landscape. The session will highlight a collaborative project “AI in a Box”, utilizing Red Hat OpenShift AI, to build an integrated infrastructure that tackles complex sovereign AI challenges. A featured use case will demonstrate how we leverage advanced decompression techniques to efficiently process the massive data volumes generated by satellite imagery. Attendees will gain insights into the intersection of AI and data sovereignty through practical examples and industry-leading solutions.

Scott Nichols,

Associate Director, Accenture

16.30 - 18.30

Networking, drinks & bites

Sponsors

Innovation sponsor

Intel

Intel

Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) is an industry leader, creating world-changing technology that enables global progress and enriches lives. Inspired by Moore’s Law, we continuously work to advance the design and manufacturing of semiconductors to help address our customers’ greatest challenges. By embedding intelligence in the cloud, network, edge and every kind of computing device, we unleash the potential of data to transform business and society for the better. To learn more about Intel’s innovations, go to newsroom.intel.com and intel.com. (Intel Privacy Notice)

Gold

Piros

As we strongly believe in Red Hat, we set up Piros 15 years ago, to take your IT to the next level.

Kangaroot

Since 2000, Kangaroot designs, implements, maintains & supports IT infrastructures based on Linux & Open Source software throughout the Benelux. Innovation & creativity are key when our certified engineers start searching for that perfect tailor-made solution. We were lucky to assist amongst other: TVH, Pfizer, Smals, Telenet, European Parliament, etc.

ASP

ASP is an IT service provider with 50 employees. We deliver IT services within a selected range of products, and we have more than 20 years of successful project delivery experience. ASP offers IT infrastructure solutions (on premise and/or in the cloud) and ITSM cloud software. We have a team of experts dedicated to Ansible automation solutions to ensure the efficiency, cost reduction and security of our customers' IT environments.

HPE
Dynatrace
Dell

Silver

Venue information

Date: October 24, 2024

Time: 08:30 - 19:00

Location: Event Lounge,
Generaal Wahislaan 16/F,
1030 Brussels,
Belgium

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