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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
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09:00 - 10:00 |
Registration and Networking |
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10:00 - 10:15 |
Summit Walk-in |
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10:15 - 10:30 |
Welcome & IntroductionHans J Roth, Senior Vice President & GM EMEA, Red Hat Adrian Pickering, Regional Director MENA |
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10:30 - 10:45 |
Red Hat Vision for AI and Open SourceEmphasizing the importance of the AI Era, and how Red Hat is bringing open source to AI Tushar Katarki, Global AI Senior Director, Red Hat |
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10:45 - 11:00 |
Fireside Chat: Dubai Digital AuthorityHans 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 |
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11:00 - 11:15 |
Fireside Chat: Dubai Health AuthorityJulio Guijarro, Chief Technology Officer, EMEA, Red Hat Dr. Mohammad Al Redha, Director, Health Informatics & Smart Health Dept, Dubai Health Authority |
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11:15 - 11:30 |
Modernizing Virtualization for the FutureHow OpenShift Virt and Ansible can help customers modernize their VMs off VMware Ed Hoppitt, EMEA Director - Business Value Practice, Red Hat |
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11:30 - 11:45 |
Fireside Chat: Emirates NBDEd Hoppitt , EMEA Director - Business Value Practice, Red Hat Nicholas Justin, Head Compute Platform, ENBD |
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11:45 - 12:05 |
Coffee Break + Networking |
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12:05- 12:25 |
Mission Critical AutomationBelkacem Moussouni, Business Development Lead, EMEA - Automation, Red Hat |
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12:25 - 12:40 |
The Business Value of Working with Red HatElizabeth Gabster, EMEA Head of Business Value Practice, Red Hat |
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12:40 - 13:05 |
Panel DiscussionModerator: 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 |
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13:05 - 13:20 |
Fireside Chat: Habib Bank AG ZurichAdrian Pickering, Regional Director, Red Hat Sharjeel K. Lasharie, Global Head of Infrastructure and Operations, Habib Bank AG Zurich |
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13:20 - 13:35 |
AI Platform as a Service: Unlocking Scalable & Sustainable AI for EnterprisesSujit Nair, Director – Data Center, Cloud & Digital Products, Morohub |
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13:35 - 13:50 |
Accelerate your Enterprise AI journey with OpenShift AI and Intel technologyTaha Khalifa, General Manager, Middle East and North Africa, Intel Corporation Burak Borhan, Regional Director, Head of Middle East and Africa Partner Ecosystem, Red Hat |
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13:50 - 14:50 |
Standing lunch |
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14:50 - 15:15 |
Leveraging Hybrid Multi-cloud in the AI first worldHarish Dunakhe, Sr. Research Director (Software & Cloud), IDC |
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15:15 - 15:30 |
Driving Innovation and Efficiency: How Red Hat & SAP’s Partnership Delivers Customer ValueEgemen 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 |
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15:30 - 15:45 |
Intelligently Monitor Microservices at scaleAli Elmeshmeshy, Lead Solutions Engineer EMEA, Dynatrace |
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15:45 - 16:00 |
Unlocking Kubernetes Data Resilience with Veeam KastenAli Idriss, Advisory System Engineer, Veeam |
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16:00 - 16:15 |
Building modern data platforms with PortworxJoe Gardiner, AVP International Sales, Portworx |
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16:15- 16:30 |
Accelerating the AI Evolution: Watsonx.ai & Red HatAhmad Jishi, Data & AI Technology Leader, GBM |
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16:30 - 16:45 |
Red Hat and HPE, the better together storyMichael Langeveld, Technology and Business Development Lead, HPE |
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16:45 - 17:20 |
Coffee Break |
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17:20 - 17:35 |
OpenShift AI: Fueling the Next Generation of Intelligent ApplicationsMohsin Raza Khan, Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat |
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17:35 - 17:50 |
Redefining Infrastructure with OpenShift VirtualizationMohamed Zaher, Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat |
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17:50 - 18:05 |
Dynamic Automation with Ansible Event-Driven ArchitectureAmr Alkafoury, Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat |
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18:05 - 18:20 |
Take control of LLMs with RHEL AIOsama Oransa, Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat |
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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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