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Red Hat Summit: Connect

April 8, 2025Dubai, UAEAtlantis The Royal, Conference Centre entrance
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Agenda

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

09:00 - 10:00

Registration and Networking

10:00 - 10:15

Summit Walk-in

10:15 - 10:30

Welcome & Introduction

Hans J Roth,

Senior Vice President & GM EMEA, Red Hat

Adrian Pickering,

Regional Director MENA

10:30 - 10:45

Red Hat Vision for AI and Open Source

Emphasizing the importance of the AI Era, and how Red Hat is bringing open source to AI

Tushar Katarki,

Global AI Senior Director, Red Hat

10:45 - 11:00

Fireside Chat: Dubai Digital Authority

Hans J Roth,

Senior Vice President & GM EMEA, Red Hat

H.E. Khalifa Al Marri,

CEO of Shared Government Services Sector, Digital Dubai Government Establishment, Digital Dubai

11:00 - 11:15

Fireside Chat: Dubai Health Authority

Julio Guijarro,

Chief Technology Officer, EMEA, Red Hat

Dr. Mohammad Al Redha,

Director, Health Informatics & Smart Health Dept, Dubai Health Authority

11:15 - 11:30

Modernizing Virtualization for the Future

How OpenShift Virt and Ansible can help customers modernize their VMs off VMware

Ed Hoppitt,

EMEA Director - Business Value Practice, Red Hat

11:30 - 11:45

Fireside Chat: Emirates NBD

Ed Hoppitt ,

EMEA Director - Business Value Practice, Red Hat

Nicholas Justin,

Head Compute Platform, ENBD

11:45 - 12:05

Coffee Break + Networking

12:05- 12:25

Mission Critical Automation

Belkacem Moussouni,

Business Development Lead, EMEA - Automation, Red Hat

12:25 - 12:40

The Business Value of Working with Red Hat

Elizabeth Gabster,

EMEA Head of Business Value Practice, Red Hat

12:40 - 13:05

Panel Discussion

Moderator: Burak Borhan,

Regional Director, Head of Middle East and Africa Partner Ecosystem, Red Hat

Panelists:

Sabine Holl,

CTO, IBM

Penny Philpot,

Vice President, EMEA Ecosystem Sales, Red Hat

Madhav Reddy Kolli,

Director of Digital Transformation, Alphadata

Khulood Abdulrahman Alawadhi,

Director – Advanced Technology Services, MOROHUB

13:05 - 13:20

Fireside Chat: Habib Bank AG Zurich

Adrian Pickering,

Regional Director, Red Hat

Sharjeel K. Lasharie,

Global Head of Infrastructure and Operations, Habib Bank AG Zurich

13:20 - 13:35

AI Platform as a Service: Unlocking Scalable & Sustainable AI for Enterprises

Sujit Nair,

Director – Data Center, Cloud & Digital Products, Morohub

13:35 - 13:50

Accelerate your Enterprise AI journey with OpenShift AI and Intel technology

Taha Khalifa,

General Manager, Middle East and North Africa, Intel Corporation

Burak Borhan,

Regional Director, Head of Middle East and Africa Partner Ecosystem, Red Hat

13:50 - 14:50

Standing lunch

14:50 - 15:15

Leveraging Hybrid Multi-cloud in the AI first world

Harish Dunakhe,

Sr. Research Director (Software & Cloud), IDC

15:15 - 15:30

Driving Innovation and Efficiency: How Red Hat & SAP’s Partnership Delivers Customer Value

Egemen Yılmaz,

Head of Business Technology Platform Middle East and Africa South, SAP

Burak Borhan,

Regional Director, Head of Middle East and Africa Partner Ecosystem, Red Hat

15:30 - 15:45

Intelligently Monitor Microservices at scale

Ali Elmeshmeshy,

Lead Solutions Engineer EMEA, Dynatrace

15:45 - 16:00

Unlocking Kubernetes Data Resilience with Veeam Kasten

Ali Idriss,

Advisory System Engineer, Veeam

16:00 - 16:15

Building modern data platforms with Portworx

Joe Gardiner,

AVP International Sales, Portworx

16:15- 16:30

Accelerating the AI Evolution: Watsonx.ai & Red Hat

Ahmad Jishi,

Data & AI Technology Leader, GBM

16:30 - 16:45

Red Hat and HPE, the better together story

Michael Langeveld,

Technology and Business Development Lead, HPE

16:45 - 17:20

Coffee Break

17:20 - 17:35

OpenShift AI: Fueling the Next Generation of Intelligent Applications

Mohsin Raza Khan,

Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat

17:35 - 17:50

Redefining Infrastructure with OpenShift Virtualization

Mohamed Zaher,

Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat

17:50 - 18:05

Dynamic Automation with Ansible Event-Driven Architecture

Amr Alkafoury,

Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat

18:05 - 18:20

Take control of LLMs with RHEL AI

Osama Oransa,

Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat

18:20 - 19:20

Early Dinner

Venue information

Date: April 8, 2025

Time: 08:00 - 18:00

Location: Atlantis The Royal, Conference Centre entrance
Palm Jumeirah - Crescent Rd - The Palm Jumeirah - Dubai - United Arab Emirates,

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