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Red Hat Summit: Connect 2024

September 12, 2024Johannesburg, South AfricaMarriott Hotel Melrose Arch
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Boston Children's Hospital Case Study 
by Dr. Rudolph Pienaar, Assistant Professor in Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital
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Intel Enterprise AI for Openshift AI 
by Nathan Reddy, Industry Technical Specialist, Intel Corporation & Burak Borhan, Regional Director, Head of Middle East and Africa Partner Ecosystem, Red Hat
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by Ruth O'Brien, Automation Specialist and Change Catalyst, SSP META
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World of Intel AI & Openshift 
by Nathan Reddy, Industry Technical Specialist, Intel Corporation
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Mission Critical Automation 
by Nuno Martins,Principal Technical Marketing Engineer - Ansible Automation, Red Hat
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Modernizing Virtualization for the Future
by Bruce Busansky, Application Platform Specialist, Red Hat
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Multichoice's Migration & Modernisation Journey with OpenShift Virtualization
by Hitesh Govind, VOD Engineering Manager at MultiChoice Group
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Portworx & Red Hat OpenShift
by Chris Swanepoel, Senior Systems Engineer
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Experience Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization: A modern application platform for virtual machines
by Francis Viviers, Solution Architect, Red Hat SSA
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Red Hat vision for AI & Open Source
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Find the right mix of sessions for you

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

8:00 - 8:45

Registration & Sponsor Expo

9:00 - 09:20

Country Event Welcome

Dion Harvey,

Regional General Manager, Red Hat SSA

Hans Roth,

Senior Vice President and General Manager, EMEA, Red Hat

09:20 - 09:40

Red Hat vision for AI & Open Source

Brian Gracely,

Senior Director, Portfolio Strategy, Red Hat

09:40 - 10:00

Demonstrating Red Hat AI Vision

Brian Gracely,

Senior Director, Portfolio Strategy, Red Hat

10:00 - 10:20

Modernizing Virtualization for the Future

Bruce Busansky,

Application Platform Specialist, Red Hat

10:20 - 10:30

Intel Enterprise AI for Openshift AI - Intel Q&A

Nathan Reddy,

Industry Technical Specialist, Intel Corporation

Burak Borhan,

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

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:20

Multichoice's Migration & Modernisation Journey with OpenShift Virtualization

Hitesh Govind,

VOD Engineering Manager at MultiChoice Group

11:20 - 11:40

Mission Critical Automation

Nuno Martins,

Principal Technical Marketing Engineer - Ansible Automation, Red Hat

11:40 - 12:05

Public Cloud Innovation with South Africa's Big 3

Google

AWS

Microsoft

12:05 - 12:25

Exploring the Data - Momentum's Move from CentOS to RHEL

Johann Barnard,

Infrastructure manager, Unix, Linux Storage, Momentum Metropolitan Holdings Limited

12:25 - 12:40

Boston Children's Hospital Case Study

Dr. Rudolph Pienaar,

Assistant Professor in Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital

12:40 - 13:00

Keynote Close

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 16:30

Automation Track  (Track 1)

14:00 - 14:30

Ansible Roadmap - Key changes

Nuno Martins,

Principal Technical Marketing Engineer - Ansible Automation, Red Hat

14:30 - 15:00

Workload Portability – Navigating Complexities From Legacy to Modern Architectures

Matthias Zieger,

Digital.ai - Field CTO International

15:00 - 15:30

COFFEE BREAK

15:30 - 16:00

A Journey Through Time - Where technology partnerships have stood the test of time and how that is a benefit for you

Muggie van Staden,

CEO, Obsidian Systems

Pieter van der Merwe,

Regional Manager Sales and Business Development Africa and Middle East, Stratus

16:00 - 16:30

Automation Drivers for 2024

Ruth O'Brien,

Automation Specialist and Change Catalyst, SSP META

AI Track  (Track 2)

14:00 - 14:30

INTEL (Sponsor) - World of Intel AI & Openshift

Nathan Reddy,

Industry Technical Specialist, Intel Corporation

14:30 - 15:00

Harnessing AI with OpenShift: Accelerate Innovation and Efficiency

Chris Mulder,

Solution Architect, Red Hat SSA

15:00 - 15:30

COFFEE

15:30 - 16:00

We Need a Red Hat for AI

Alex Reiniger,

RHEL SSP, Red Hat

16:00 - 16:30

Hybrid by Default, Hybrid by Design

Anantha Janakiraman,

Hybrid Cloud Platform SME, IBM

Brian Gracely,

Senior Director, Portfolio Strategy, Red Hat

Virtualization Track  (Track 3)

14:00 - 14:30

Experience Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization: A modern application platform for virtual machines

Francis Viviers,

Solution Architect, Red Hat SSA

14:30 - 15:00

Vodacom’s Modernisation Journey with Red Hat and LSD Open

Guido de Villiers,

Systems Specialist, Vodacom

Deon Stroebel,

Chief Commercial Officer

15:00 - 15:30

COFFEE

15:30 - 16:00

Portworx & Red Hat OpenShift

Chris Swanepoel,

Senior Systems Engineer

16:00 - 16:30

Dell Data Centre Modernization with Red Hat

Ryan Rautenbach,

Systems Engineer, Dell Technologies

16:30 - 18:00

Networking Drinks & Lucky Draw

Sponsors

Innovation

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

Dell Technologies

We create technologies that drive human progress. Our story began with a belief and a passion: that everybody should have easy access to the best technology anywhere in the world. That was in 1984 in Michael Dell’s University of Texas dorm room. Today, Dell Technologies is instrumental in changing the digital landscape the world over. We are among the world’s leading technology companies helping to transform people’s lives with extraordinary capabilities. From hybrid cloud solutions to high-performance computing to ambitious social impact and sustainability initiatives, what we do impacts everyone, everywhere.

LSD OPEN

LSD OPEN was started in 2001, focusing on open source software. We have spent the last decade becoming a trusted digital acceleration partner for customers across the globe, highlighting a pattern of similar questions, similar problems and similar pain points. LSD OPEN’s value is the ability to accelerate the innovation journey for customers by delivering optimised, scalable and reliable technology platforms to support their goals. LSD Open is a Red Hat Premier Business Partner, a Red Hat Certified Cloud and Services Provider (CCSP) and is part of the Red Hat Partner Practice Accelerator (PPA) Program.

Obsidian

Obsidian has expanded its knowledge base in partnership with subsidiaries Autumn Leaf and RadixTrie, a software development house. The expansion of skills has seen the establishment of a formidable team with expertise aligning our Enterprise Open Source solution for financial services, retail, supporting technology and consulting services across enterprise-ready open source infrastructure, big data, collaboration, and Hybrid IT strategies for your business.

Pure Storage

Pure Storage® is a leading provider of enterprise-grade, all-flash block, file, and object storage. Pure delivers a Modern Data Experience™, allowing you to rely on innovative, cloud-ready solutions and the best experience in technology to transform data into powerful outcomes.

9th BIT

A bit – a contraction of binary digit – is the basic capacity of information in computing and telecommunications. A bit represents either a 1 or 0, and a value represented by 8 bits is referred to as a byte. 9TH BIT was started by a group of individuals passionate about Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). On EAI projects our team always find itself confronted with emerging technology and the established applications and technology that operate within most enterprises. Our unique position has enabled us to identify technology vendors that compliment each other in all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle to the benefit of our customers. We partner with you to implement technologies that best suit your business and the maturity of your software supply chain.

Silver

Veeam

Veeam®, the #1 global market leader in data protection and ransomware recovery, is on a mission to help every organization not just bounce back from a data outage or loss but bounce forward. With Veeam, organizations achieve radical resilience through data security, data recovery, and data freedom for their hybrid cloud. The Veeam Data Platform delivers a single solution for cloud, virtual, physical, SaaS, and Kubernetes environments that gives IT and security leaders peace of mind that their apps and data are protected and always available. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 450,000 customers worldwide, including 73% of the Global 2000, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Radical resilience starts with Veeam. Learn more at www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and X @veeam

NGINX (part of F5)

NGINX, now a part of F5, Inc., is the company behind the popular open source project, NGINX. F5 NGINX delivers cloud-native, Kubernetes-friendly open source and enterprise solutions that drive mission-critical apps and APIs with scalability, visibility, security, and governance.

CyberArk

Say hello to CyberArk CORA AI™ CyberArk CORA AI™ is your central hub of identity security-focused artificial intelligence capabilities — helping you work smarter and accelerate identity security across your entire enterprise.​

Bronze

HPE

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) is the global edge-to-cloud company that helps organizations accelerate outcomes by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere. Built on decades of reimagining the future and innovating to advance the way people live and work, HPE delivers unique, open and intelligent technology solutions delivered as a service – spanning Compute, Storage, Software, Intelligent Edge, High Performance Computing and Mission Critical Solutions – with a consistent experience across all clouds and edges, designed to help customers develop new business models, engage in new ways, and increase operational performance. For more information

Tanzanite

IBM

IBM is a leading provider of global hybrid cloud and AI, and consulting expertise. We help clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. Thousands of government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM's hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM's breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and consulting deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM's legendary commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity and service.

Lucky Draw

AXIZ (PTY) LTD

Axiz is a prominent IT infrastructure and software distributor. The company was established in 2011 as a result of the merger between Axiz and Workgroup, both of which were founded in 1989. With a firm commitment to delivering top-tier service and customer satisfaction, Axiz has evolved into a respected leader within the industry with a presence in 22 African countries.

Venue information

We have reached the capacity for this event and have closed the registration. Without a registration confirmation you will not be able to attend the event. We thank you for your interest and hope to connect with you at a different time and location.

Date: September 12, 2024

Time: 09:00 - 17:00

Location: Marriott Hotel Melrose Arch,
42 The High St,
Melrose,
Johannesburg, 2076
South Africa

If you have any questions about the event, contact us via 
EMEA-Summit-Connect@redhat.com