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Red Hat Summit: Connect 2024

16 de octubre de 2024Utrecht, NetherlandsNBC Congrescentrum
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Shape the future of your organization

With technology constantly evolving, it’s on all of us to take the lead on IT innovation by engaging your curiosity with our fully interactive event. Red Hat Summit: Connect brings you to the forefront of that evolution, so you can turn knowledge into application.

Our event in The Netherlands will provide you the opportunity to join your peers, explore the latest Red Hat technologies, and collaborate with industry leaders to explore the future of technology.

Join us at the completely renewed NBC Convention Center in Nieuwegein on 16 October 2024 for Red Hat Summit: Connect 2024! 

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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 is subject to change

Main agenda

8.00 - 9.30

Opening & event registration

9.30 - 10.55

Official opening & keynote 2024 'Enabling Open enterprise AI, and modernizing infrastructure'

Joining us live on stage:

Jeff Lo, Vice President Portfolio Marketing & Learning at Red Hat, Dr. Rudolph Pienaar from Boston Children's Hospital & many others

10.55 - 11.20

Coffee break & networking

11.20 - 12.00

Track IT Automation

Red Hat customer session - FSI, IT automation, technical

ABN AMRO Ansible Automation Platform Journey

Giving an insight into ABN AMRO’s Automation strategy and journey, Ansible Automation Platform setup, using Ansible automation for mission critical infrastructure and network automation tasks, benefits of Ansible Automation in our IT organization and the challenges we face(d).

Sarvesh Sushant,

DevOps & Cloud Engineer, ABN AMRO

Track Application Platform & Cloud Services

Red Hat Expert session - Virtualization, business

Regain control over your virtualization strategy

In the last 18 months, the virtualization landscape has undergone seismic changes. High-profile acquisitions and shifting commercial strategies have significantly impacted the software and platforms that have long been the backbone of enterprise IT infrastructures. As this disruption reshapes the market, organizations are reevaluating their virtualization and platform strategies. In this session, Ed Hoppitt, EMEA Director of Business Value Practice, will talk about how this industry shift is influencing customer decisions and discuss how Red Hat’s can help organizations navigate these changes, and manage risk. By leveraging Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and supporting Red Hat and partner products organizations can not only navigate these industry headwinds but also position themselves for success with a modern unified platform designed for the future.

Ed Hoppitt,

EMEA Director - Business Value Virtualization, Red Hat

Partner expert session - Telco, Application platform, business

HCS Company, Building 7 Million 5G Connections: VodafoneZiggo's Journey with disconnected bare-metal clusters

Key Lessons from VodafoneZiggo's 5G Project: Avoiding Pitfalls and Streamlining Success. With the move from VMWare & Openstack towards the Openshift platform, VodafoneZiggo encountered multiple challenges. But together with HCS Company, they succeeded in installing a platform that allows for 7 million critical connections. During this presentation they share the key lessons of a disconnected bare-metal Openshift platform.

Wouter Bouvy ,

Product Owner Container as a Service for Telco, VodafoneZiggo

Christiaan Lips,

DevOps / Openshift Consultant, HCS Company

Track The Power of AI

Red Hat customer session - Healthcare, technical, demo

Boston Children's Hospital Unleashing the power of hybrid cloud & AI: tech impact with Boston Children's Hospital

Convergent development of open source edge cyberinfrastructure and medical analysis software will increase equitable access to research outcomes. Across global deployments, the ChRIS project takes up various roles from supporting translational imaging research at Boston’s leading hospitals to enabling cost-effective and advanced analytics, including AI workflows, in under-resourced communities. The portability, pervasive open source underpinnings, native integration with OpenShift, and ease of distribution of ChRIS deployments is a significant driver.

Dr. Rudolph Pienaar ,

Staff Scientist and Assistant Professor of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital

Track Cloud & Infrastructure

Partner expert session - Business

Capgemini, Agile and secure software development in sensitive areas

Agile software development has been successfully implemented in a wide variety of areas for years. The transformation towards agile is often driven forward by young colleagues for whom dealing with cloud, innovation and agility is a matter of course.But if we look at particularly protected areas, the availability of such employees tends to decrease. Not every developer is willing or able to accept the appropriate security check, approval and any associated restrictions. Likewise, the need for innovation and transformation in sensitive areas such as security, sovereign tasks, energy supply and defense is immense. The concept works according to the ""Dev Low / Run High"" principle - which means nothing other than that software is developed in areas with little or no regulation and then handed over to a secure operations team for operation in isolated areas. This sounds obvious at first, but the devil is in the detail. The advantage of ""DEV Low"" is the easy use of agile tools and innovation based on public cloud infrastructures. This speeds up development while reducing costs. Release cycles are greatly reduced, which can increase the quality and innovation of the entire environment. We resolve this balancing act with our concept of the ""Secure Software Factory".

Stefan Zosel,

VP Cloud Lead Global Public Sector / Sovereign Cloud, Capgemini

John Ogden,

Cloud Architect, Capgemini

12.05 - 12.45

Track IT Automation

Red Hat expert session - IT Automation, technical

Unlocking the Power of Ansible for Microsoft Azure and Windows Administrators

Join this expert session to discover how the Ansible Automation Platform empowers Microsoft Azure and Windows Administrators to enhance efficiency through automation. We’ll explore how Ansible Automation Platform’s components, including Event-Driven Ansible, simplify tasks such as patch management, application deployment, and configuration management, enabling seamless operations across environments. The session includes a live demo showcasing how to create responsive automation workflows that react to real-time events, reducing manual effort and boosting productivity while optimizing Azure and Windows environments for greater agility and cost-effectiveness.

Ismail Dhaoui ,

EMEA Associate Principal Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat

Track Application Platform & Cloud Services

Partner session - technical introductory

Conclusion, Building Highly Available Integrations for Mission Critical Applications

The processes and services that together form the vital infrastructure are the foundation on which Dutch society runs. Organizations that are part of the vital infrastructure of the Netherlands have mission-critical processes and chains that must not be disrupted in the event of a disaster. Mission-critical chains typically require a Recovery Point Objective of 0 and a Recovery To Operation of close to 0. In other words, no data should be lost or business operations seriously disrupted in the event of a disaster. Meeting these requirements within complex hybrid cloud infrastructures requires a collaboration of measures at infrastructure, middleware and application level. What do you need to do to be a resident against failure of a cluster or even an entire cloud? Virtual Sciences Conclusion takes you through how we achieved this at one of the largest Dutch carriers with Red Hat products such as Red Hat Fuse, AMQ Broker and Service Interconnect.

Marc Hesselink,

Architect at Virtual Sciences, Conclusion

Track The Power of AI

Red Hat expert session - Artifical Intelligence, technical

How to accelerate Artificial Intelligence in production with Red Hat's portfolio for AI

This presentation covers Red Hat's AI portfolio and how to lower barriers and accelerate AI in production, addressing common questions on GPUs, deployment (cloud or on-prem), and what the results are. Red Hat offers RHEL AI for model training with synthetic data and InstructLab for model alignment. OpenShift AI enables scalable, secure AI deployments using Open Datahub tools with and helping you to develop your own ML Ops cycle.

Adnan Drina,

Associate Principal Solution Architect

Kyra Goud ,

Specialist Solution Architect, OpenShift

Partner session - Artificial Intelligence

Intel, Accelerate your Enterprise AI journey with OpenShift AI & Intel technology

Streamline Your AI Journey with Intel and Red Hat OpenShift AI and explore the seamless integration of Intel's enterprise AI software and hardware solutions with the robust Red Hat OpenShift AI platform. Leverage the sturdy foundation of OpenShift to unlock the full potential of your AI initiatives. Integrate cutting-edge Intel AI technologies, including OpenVINO, AI tools, and the optimized Gaudi software suite, to enable effortless scale-out and distributed AI model training, fine-tuning, RAG, and inferencing. Empower your developers and data scientists with a unified environment that optimizes cluster utilization based on their specific power, performance, and cost preferences. Discover the robust capabilities of the Intel AI Enterprise Software Distribution, equipped with a comprehensive suite of tools designed to accelerate your organization's AI journey. Harness the power of Intel Xeon, GPU Flex/Max, and Gaudi platforms to drive unparalleled efficiency and innovation across your enterprise.

Jurgen Eijmberts,

Enterprise Technology Specialist

Ruud Zwakenberg,

Partner Solution Architect, Red Hat

Track Cloud & Infrastructure

Red Hat expert session - Infrastructure, technical

Introducing Image Mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a new deployment method that takes a container-native approach to deliver the OS from a container image. Image mode builds on the success of open source projects such as bootc, which manages the installation and updating of hosts in any part of the hybrid cloud, to create a deployment model that fits seamlessly into container-native workflows[, reduces complexity and increases security and consistency. During the session, we will introduce the core concepts and building blocks of RHEL Image mode and use cases, and you will see it in action.

Juan van der Breggen,

Senior Specialist Solution Architect, RHEL, Red Hat

Alessandro Rossi,

Senior Specialist Solution Architect, RHEL, Red Hat

12.45 - 13.45

Lunch

13.45 - 14.30

Track IT Automation

Red Hat expert session - IT automation, business

Automation platform engineering to improve automation adoption

In a large enterprise, if you are automating on your own, you might be doing it wrong. There. I said it. It's a difficult message to hear, because even in isolation, automation is obviously beneficial to the individual team that uses automation. But if you take a step back, and look at the bigger picture, automation can help you achieve great things, things that impact your whole organization. And if you are limiting the scope of automation to a single team, you are missing out on that. This is why, at Red Hat, we look at automation from a holistic perspective. We look at automation as a means to reach goals that go beyond the individual or the individual team, but instead extend across technology domains and actually support achieving business goals. During this session we will explore what a holistic perspective on automation means, and how to implement an automation strategy that benefits your whole organization, including your business.

Maxim Burgerhout ,

Automation Strategy Specialist, Red Hat

Track Application Platform & Cloud Services

Customer session - Application Platform - technical

Politie, De Politie vraagt uw aandacht voor het volgende

NOTE: session is in Dutch In een interactieve sessie neemt Politie ons mee op reis naar cloud-native development van kritische Politie toepassingen met OpenShift als accelerator.

René Kuss ,

DevOps Engineer, Politie

Ebbo Dam,

DevOps Engineer, Politie

Marcel Booms,

OpenShift Platform Architect, Politie

Marco de Kaper,

Productmanager OpenShift Dienstverlening, Politie

Track The Power of AI

Partner expert session - Artifical Intelligence

Ilionx, Navigating the GenAI Landscape: From Theory to Practical Application

This talk presents a comprehensive safari through the world of Generative AI (GenAI), offering a practical explanation of Large Language Models (LLMs). We will explore the fundamental principles necessary for designing modern applications with LLM integrations. By highlighting specific use cases and examining real-world examples and best practices, attendees will gain valuable insights into leveraging GenAI to enhance their own projects and workflows. Additionally, we will discuss the crucial role of the OpenShift AI platform in setting the foundation for deploying and running GenAI applications at scale.

Bas van Oudenaerde ,

Business Unit Manager, Data Driven, Ilionx

Red Hat expert session - Artifical Intelligence, business

AI for tech leadership

What are your expectations from AI? How can we create an environment where ideas, experiments, line of business (LOB), and operations collaborate to generate the best solutions for your business? The goal of AI is not just to promote AI, but to drive innovation, efficiency, and collaboration. AI requires a platform that supports, drives, and enhances your AI-infused applications. This involves training your AI, refining your model to add value, and identifying the requirements. Platform overview, purpose, and value plan.How do you manage your AI lifecycle, including pipelines, training, tuning, and more? LLMs (Large Language Models) are significant, not just as a trend. Whats next?

Marc Loos,

Principal Account Solution Architect, Ecosystem, Red Hat

Track Cloud & Infrastructure

Red Hat expert session, technical

Automating Deployment at the Edge

Deployment of systems at the edge come with it’s own set of challenges, from varying hardware platforms and restrictions to physical access challenges. This session aims to show the capabilities of Red Hat’s technologies that can be utilised to streamline and harden the edge. Featuring ArgoCD, AAP, and RHDE.

Hendrik van Niekerk,

Emerging Specialist Solution Architect, EDGE, Red Hat

14.30 - 15.00

Coffee break & networking

15.00 - 15.40

Track IT Automation

Partner expert session - IT Automation, business

Kyndryl, Optimize IT with AIOps: reliable outcomes through real-time insights

Join us for an insightful Kyndryl session on Enterprise IT Automation with Red Hat’s Ansible Automation Platform. Kyndryl leverages over 30 years of expertise in managing mission-critical IT environments to deliver next-generation automation solutions Learn in our session about significant workload optimization and cost improvements achieved for over 1000 clients and explore the new IT services model that enhances availability, reliability, security, and performance with AI insights. Don't miss this opportunity to embark on a comprehensive automation journey and scale solutions across your organization. See you there!

Mark Koerts,

Senior Consultant Observability & Automation, Kyndryl

Track Application Platform & Cloud Services

Red Hat expert session - Technical

Trusted Application Pipeline - Developer Hub - Lower your developers time to value in a secure way

Red Hat Developer Hub, More info will be published soon

Kevin Dubois ,

Software engineer, author and international speaker, Red Hat

Track The Power of AI

Partner expert session - Artificial Intelligence, business

DELL, Journey to Openshift (AI) made easy

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.

Ruud Zwakenberg ,

Partner Solution Architect, Red Hat

Paul Bootsma,

Senior Consultant Cloud Solutions, DELL

Track Cloud & Infrastructure

Red Hat expert session - Technical

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

Colin Fisher ,

Senior Director, EMEA Cloud Ecosystem, Red Hat

Partner expert session - Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS, Building the most resilient, cost-efficient, secure, and sustainable infrastructure with Red Hat and AWS

AWS and Red Hat continue to invest heavily to make it easy for customers to optimize to run their workloads in the most resilient, secure, cost-effective, and sustainable way. In this session we will focus on some of the latest innovations that we have delivered together – ranging from AWS’ investment in extending hybrid infrastructure with RHEL and Red Hat Openshift, high performance graviton instances, our joint investment in ROSA, and security enhancements and confidential compute.

Jurgen Hofkens ,

EMEA Head of Compute Solutions Architecture, AWS

15.45 - 16.30

Closing session - Special guest: Victor Mids

Victor Mids is an illusionist and doctor (not practicing). With this innovative combination he brings illusion and science together in a unique way. During our Summit: Connect, he will touch themes such as influencing, collaboration, neuromarketing and communication. Let yourself be taken into his world, where nothing is as it seems...

16.30 - 19.00

Music, networking, drinks & appetizers

EVENT ACTIVITIES

Red Hat Village

Open all day and for everyone to join, is our Red Hat Village in the expo hall.

Talk to Red Hat experts, meet with other like-minded parties and join us for live demos throughout the day! 

Red Hat Escape Room

Escape to Your Future: Unleash Your Potential

Are you ready to collaborate in order to solve the puzzles and learn key takeaways that will help you, your team and company to gain a competitive advantage? 

Special guest

Victor Mids

Victor Mids is an illusionist and doctor (not practicing). With this innovative combination he brings illusion and science together in a unique way. During our Summit: Connect, he will touch themes such as influencing, collaboration, neuromarketing and communication. Let yourself be taken into his world, where nothing is as it seems...

Victor Mids

Game Zone

Keep your options open Game Zone

Want to win exclusive Red Hat swag? Join our Game Zone throughout the day and make sure you don't go home empty-handed. 

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)

Platinum

Conclusion Group

Conclusion is an IT service provider which operates as a builder of bridges between strategy, business, and technology. This company distinguishes itself thanks to the ecosystem comprising over 25 Dutch expert companies in the area of business transformation and IT services. Each of these companies holds a position of authority in their own area of expertise. Together, they supervise companies and governments ranging from mid-sized to large on their respective digital journeys to tomorrow. Conclusion takes on responsibility for mission-critical company processes and systems as well as company processes and systems that are vital to society, in the heart of Dutch society.

Gold

AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.

Dell
HCS Company

HCS Company is the hybrid platform specialist of The Netherlands. We love open source! Nothing more, nothing less. Our focus? Containerisation, Automation and Observability. And it doesn’t stop at technology, we also help with enablement. Our 65+ specialists are passionate and purpose driven: helping our clients is in our DNA. Check our Open Source projects on Gitlab, especially the HCS OpenShift Installer! Openness is key. Together we deliver business value. Powered by teamwork!

Kyndryl

Kyndryl

Kyndryl works at the core of businesses that move the world. With a global network of experts serving customers in over 60 countries, we design, build, manage and modernize the mission-critical technology systems that the world depends on every day. With our partners and thousands of customers, we co-create solutions to help enterprises reach their peak digital performance. To learn more, visit www.kyndryl.com.

Silver

Adfinis

Adfinis

Jouw go-to tech-partner met meer dan 24 jaar diepgaande open source expertise. Wereldwijd zetten we bedrijven in de turbo-stand met technologieën zoals Red Hat, HashiCorp en GitLab. Als bedrijf creëren wij een wereld van innovatieve, duurzame en veerkrachtige IT-oplossingen, gebaseerd op betrouwbare open source-technologie. Onze missie? IT-transformaties sneller laten gaan dan je koffiezetapparaat in de ochtend en het volledige potentieel van onze klanten ontketenen, waar ook ter wereld.

Axians
CyberArk
Dynatrace
EDB

EDB

EDB provides a data and AI platform leveraging Postgres for transactional, analytical, and AI workloads across any cloud. Serving 1,500+ customers globally, EDB supports major industries and contributes to the PostgreSQL community. EDB ensures high availability, security, compliance, and observability, helping enterprises modernize and scale efficiently. Visit www.enterprisedb.com.

F5
Gitlab
iShare
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.

Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is a leading platform and productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world, and its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft helps you to move to the cloud on your terms, getting the most value from your existing IT investments while giving you the flexibility to respond quickly to changing business needs.

NGINX (F5)
Nutanix

Keeping up with change is exhausting, especially if your technology infrastructure is absurdly complex. You need one platform to run apps and data anywhere – in public and private clouds, datacenters, on-premises and at the edge. Nutanix offers one platform for everything – enterprise apps, cloud-native apps, analytics and machine learning, databases, desktops, and critical services. We give you the freedom to choose the cloud, apps, and technology you want and manage it all as a single entity from one unified platform. That’s the extraordinary power of simplicity. That’s Nutanix.

Proxy
TTNL

TTNL

We believe that data, technology and knowledge become truly valuable when they are applied strategically by a team of dedicated experts who go to great lengths to achieve your goals. Elevate your data strategy – ttnl.io.

Veeam
Vijfhart

Venue information

Date: October 16, 2024

Time: 08:00 - 18:00

Location: NBC Congrescentrum,
Blokhoeve 1,
3438 LC Nieuwegein,
Netherlands

Registration