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Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 Utrecht

15 de octubre de 2025Utrecht, NetherlandsNBC, Nieuwegein
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PRESENTATIONS

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Agenda

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8.00 - 9.30

Welcoming & Registration

9.30 - 11.00

Keynote

Innovate freely, operate efficiently: build on a unified AI and application platform

Keynote speaker: Ashesh Badani,

Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer, Red Hat

Keynote hosts: Elizabeth Gabster & Marcel Timmer,

Red Hat

11.00 - 11.30

Coffee Break & Networking

11.30 - 12.10

Breakout Sessions Round 1

Infrastructure

Room 1

Customer Session - Technical: Alliander: Red Hat in the Electrification Market, Alliander's Journey to Software-Defined OT

Learn how Red Hat's Edge portfolio supports the electrification market. Alliander will speak about their journey to software-defined OT, boosting critical infrastructure efficiency, reliability, and innovation.

Marc Budie,

Product Owner Transportation, Alliander

Stefan Richter,

Sr. Business & Ecosystem Development Manager - Grid Modernization, Red Hat

AI

Room 3

Partner Session Intel - Technical: Agentic AI in Action: Red Hat & Intel Shaping the Future of Enterprise AI

Red Hat & Intel: Deploy & scale Agentic AI with trusted, open infrastructure. Leveraging Intel Gaudi 3 & Model Context Protocol for production efficiency & sovereignty.

Jurgen Eijmberts,

Enterprise Technology Specialist, Intel

Kyra Goud,

Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat

Room 4

Partner Session - Dell: Dell Private Cloud for Red Hat Openshift & AI

Dell Automation Platform automates enterprise workloads, containers, Kubernetes, AI, and edge—delivering agility, efficiency, and future-ready operations.

Laura Dragan ,

Cloud Engineer | Multicloud Specialty Team, Dell Technologies

App Platform

Room 5

Partner Session EDB - Technical: PostgreSQL bij de Belastingdienst: Leuker kunnen we het niet maken, wel moderner

Note: session is in Dutch. De Belastingdienst deelt de lessen van hun OpenShift transitie. Een eerlijk verhaal over governance, compliance en cultuurverandering.

Rick Venema ,

Senior System Engineer Databases, Belastingdienst

Peter Broshuis,

PostgreSQL / Openshift - System Engineer, Belastingdienst

Automation

Room 2

Red Hat Expert Session - Business: Building bridges, reaching out with automation

A unique session brought by our Vice President & GM - Ansible Business Unit and his team.

Satish Balakrishnan ,

Vice President & GM Ansible Business Unit, Red Hat

Richard Henshall ,

Director of Product Management, Ansible Business Unit, Red Hat

12.15 - 13.00

Breakout Sessions Round 2

AI

Room 1

Red Hat Expert Session - Business: Navigating AI/ML Adoption with OpenShift AI

This session outlines a structured approach to building AI-ready infrastructure, covering architecture, platforms, and governance for scalable and responsible AI adoption.

Adnan Drina ,

Associate Principal Specialist Solution Architect, Application Platform, Red Hat

App Platform

Room 2

Partner Session HCS Company & Kangaroot - Technical: Container Chaos to Platform Power: de Engineering Reis van de Belastingdienst

Note: session is in Dutch. Leer van de Belastingdienst: de lessen van run naar scale, voor een schaalbaar Kubernetes platform.

Jeroen Wolff ,

OpenShift Solution Architect, Belastingdienst

Gerben Welter,

Senior DevOps Engineer, HCS Company

Virtualization

Room 5

Red Hat Expert Session - Technical: : Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization at scale with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Learn to automate critical tasks for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. Configure, migrate, and manage virtualized workloads from day 0 with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Migration Factory.

Janine Eichler,

Senior Architect, Red Hat

Martijn ten Heuvel,

Principal Architect, Red Hat

Infrastructure

Room 4

Red Hat Expert Session - Business: Managing your Linux in a Hybrid Cloud Environment

We need to do more with less. How do we achieve that when we have server sprawl across data centres and in the cloud. We can help you with your Linux servers.

Alessandro Rossi ,

RHEL Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat

Automation

Room 3

Partner Session Conclusion – Strengthen your Automation & Observability strategy with insights from ProRail

Discover how Conclusion future-proofs ProRail’s mission-critical IT with automation & observability, where every second matters for millions.

Laurens Conjarts ,

Senior Consultant, Conclusion Xforce

Oliver Heesakkers,

Architect, Conclusion Mission Critical

13.00 - 14.00

Lunch

14.00 - 14.45

Breakout Sessions Round 3

Automation

Room 2

Red Hat Expert Session - Technical: People, process and technology blueprints for Ansible Automation Platform

A review of an operational model for Ansible Automation Platform, featuring good practices for people, process and technology for a central automation service.

Magnus Glantz ,

Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat

Christian Jung ,

EMEA Principal Specialist Adoption Architect Ansible, Red Hat

Infrastructure

Room 3

Red Hat Expert Session - Technical: RHEL 10! Zero Trust, Zero Touch, Zero Drift

RHEL 10 was released in 2025 that brings new technology to the market for security, change control and management. We present and demonstrate the three zeros!

Alessandro Rossi,

RHEL Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat

App Platform

Room 1

Red Hat Expert Session - Business: Workload flexibility in the age of digital sovereignty

Workload flexibility is more than avoiding vendor lock-in. Learn how to turn digital sovereignty into a competitive advantage with a unified, open platform.

Marc Sheermohamed,

Senior Specialist Solution Architect , Red Hat

Room 4

Red Hat Expert Session - Technical: Platform engineering your way to software supply chain security - Red Hat Advanced Developer Suite

Balance security and innovation for faster, compliant code development and deployment - with security guardrails embedded in every step of the supply chain.

Markus Nagel ,

Senior Architect, Red Hat

AI

Room 5

Red Hat Expert Session - Business: AI-Powered Telecommunications: Driving Efficiency and Innovation

Unlock open source AI for telecom. Accelerate innovation, network performance, and operational efficiency with Red Hat AI. Your roadmap starts here.

Fer Alvarez ,

Telco Solutions Architect, Red Hat

14.15 - 15.15

Coffee Break & Networking

15.15 - 16.00

Breakout Sessions Round 4

Virtualization

Room 4

Partner Session - Portworx: From Concept to Scale: Real-World OpenShift Virtualization Lessons

Learn how organizations design and scale OpenShift Virtualization with Portworx. Get practical insights and customer stories to build resilient VM applications.

Erik Zandboer ,

Cloud Native Architect, Portworx

AI

Room 2

Red Hat Expert Session - Business: Unleashing AI's potential with Red Hat AI: Model-as-a-Service while maximizing GPU cost effiëncy

Demystify GPU-as-a-Service & vLLM. Learn to run fast, cost-effective LLMs for your AI/Data teams and embed these technologies into your digital infrastructure.

Sander Snel,

sr. Specialist Solution Architect Openshift AI, Red Hat

App Platform

Room 1

Partner Session - Business: Ilionx with Rabobank Running file transfers at scale within Rabobank by using Openshift

Rabobank's RFTM platform hit scalability limits. Learn how they migrated to an OpenShift-based stack to run and operate their platform at scale.

Ton Swieb ,

Senior Consultant, Ilionx

Room 5

Partner Session - AWS: Simplify, Scale, Succeed: Future-Proof Your IT with AWS + Red Hat

Accelerate your transformation: Red Hat + AWS combine to advance hybrid cloud, AI, and modernization. Get actionable insights on RHEL, ROSA, and Ansible integration.

AWS Expert,

AWS

Automation

Room 3

Red Hat Expert Session - Technical: From Vision to Reality: The LEGO City Police’s End-to-End Automation Success

Deploy, Update and Remediate LEGOCity Police multi-tier Web application in this gamified automation journey with AAP, EDA, Satellite, Prometheus and ServiceNow.

Ismail Dhaoui ,

Principal Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat

Fred van Zwieten ,

Associate Principal Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat

16.00 - 16.45

Closing Session DE SPELD LIVE - De Speld is a Dutch satirical news website. Their team brings unique live performances: join us for a light and breezy view on the current IT landscape!

16.45 - 19.00

Reception & Networking, Drinks & Appetizers

Sidetracks

Join our all day demos at the Red Hat Demo Zone

Looking for live action? You're at the right place! During our event, we will show you our technology at the Red Hat Demo Zone. The demos are open for everyone to join. Check out the timetable here. You will also receive the schedule at the registration. Time: all day, Expo Hall.

Learn all about improving DevOps Productivity in the Path to Production

Throughout the day, we're offering you inspirational rounds and workshops on productivity. Check out the timetable here and join us! This track is open for everyone to join. Time: all day, Entresol 2 (First Floor).

Do you want to learn more about edge technologies? Join our inspirational session 'Scale Innovation at the Edge'

We're organizing an inspirational session for those interested in the OT-domain. The session is open for everyone to join, but seats are limited. Learn about Red Hat edge technologies and get inspired on how the Haagse Trammaatschappij uses these technologies in their trams. Time: 13.00 - 14.30, Room 16.

Red Hat VPs

Ashesh Badani

Red Hat

Ashesh Badani

Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer, Red Hat

Keynote Speaker

Ashesh Badani is the Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer at Red Hat. In this role, he is responsible for the company’s overall product portfolio and business unit groups, including product strategy, business planning, product management, marketing, and operations across on-premise, public cloud, and edge. His product responsibilities include Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®, Red Hat OpenShift®, Red Hat Ansible Automation, developer tools, and middleware, as well as emerging cloud services and experiences.

Marcel Timmer

Red Hat

Marcel Timmer

Country Manager Red Hat the Netherlands, Red Hat

Chairman of the Day

Marcel Timmer is Red Hat's country manager in the Netherlands. Together with Elizabeth, he will welcome you to our Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025. 

Penny Philpot

Red Hat

Penny Philpot

VP Partner Ecosystem Business EMEA , Red Hat

Richard Henshall

Red Hat

Richard Henshall

Director of Product Management, Business Unit Automation , Red Hat

Sathish Balakrishnan

Red Hat

Sathish Balakrishnan

Vice President, Strategic Business Unit Automation, Global, Red Hat

Sponsors

Lead sponsor

Intel logo

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. 

Diamond

HCS & Kangaroot

HCS & Kangaroot

Where HCS company builds dreams, Kangaroot runs them smart! Together with more than 25 years of Open Source Expertise, we'll design, build & manage your Open Source Platform! We can provide you platform engineering & enablement in the areas of Containerization, Automation & Observability. But it does not stop there. We manage your Open Source Platform & support 24/7 with the help of a local team of experts. Our expertise spans across all key areas of Open Source technologies. Today we stand here as proud Red Hat Diamond Partner! Make sure to drop by our booth & join our sessions!

Conclusion

Pleased to meet you, we are Conclusion: the ecosystem of expert companies that provides complete support in the fields of business transformation and IT services. Together with our customers, we respond to their greatest challenges, make a lasting impact at the heart of society and inspire each other to personal growth. Sometimes by using the specialist knowledge of one of our companies, but much more often by combining our expertise.

Gold

AWS

AWS is the world's largest cloud provider with the most comprehensive set of services. Whether you're looking for generative AI, compute power, database storage, content delivery, or other functionality, AWS has more than 200 services to help you build applications with unparalled security, reliability and performance. Together AWS and Red Hat empower organizations with a comprehensive hybrid cloud platform that combines the flexibility of AWS with the power of Red Hat open-source technologies. The longstanding partnership has been providing innovative solutions and running mission-critical workloads for over 17 years.

EDB

EDB Postgres® AI is the first open, enterprise-grade sovereign data and AI platform—secure, compliant, and scalable, on-premises and across clouds. Built on Postgres, the world’s leading database, it unifies transactional, analytical, and AI workloads, enabling organizations to operationalize their data and LLMs while maintaining control over sovereign environments. EDB PG AI is supported by a global partner network and delivers up to 99.999% availability, hybrid management and a built-in AI factory. As one of the most active contributors, EDB is deeply invested in the PostgreSQL community.

Dell
Ilionx
Pure Storage

Portworx by Pure Storage is the leading container data management platform, trusted by enterprises to address complexity and resiliency challenges in the data infrastructure of mission-critical modern applications. Portworx provides a fully integrated solution to automate, protect, and unify container data management across hybrid and multi-cloud environments to accelerate time to market, ensure data resiliency, and enable data agility at enterprise scale. Hundreds of Global 2000 enterprises rely on Portworx to unlock the value of Kubernetes data, ensuring robust and scalable operations for modern applications.

Silver

Devoteam

Devoteam is a premium consultancy firm driving digital business and transformation through innovative technology. Tech native for over 30 years, we deliver lasting results in Cloud, Data, Cyber and AI for industries and public institutions across EMEA. At Devoteam, tech entrepreneurship is at the core of our values, fostering our spirit as a learning company. Within this culture, we attract and train top professionals, creating high talent density across our 11,000 specialists. Strong partnerships have always been central to our DNA, which is why we collaborate closely with both well-known tech giants and emerging innovative startups. This ecosystem enables us to provide long-lasting solutions that help clients lead in their industries.

f5

F5, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV) is the global leader that delivers and secures every app. Backed by three decades of expertise, F5 has built the industry’s premier platform—F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP)—to deliver and secure every app, every API, anywhere: on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge, and across hybrid, multicloud environments. F5 is committed to innovating and partnering with the world’s largest and most advanced organizations to deliver fast, available, and secure digital experiences. Together, we help each other thrive and bring a better digital world to life.

HashiCorp

Most organizations are not doing cloud right. Traditional approaches for managing infrastructure and security have resulted in complicated processes that vary across cloud vendors, over-spend on their cloud resources, and increase security risks due to an ever-increasing matrix of potential attack vectors. This limits organizations ability to drive innovation and stay ahead of their competitors, resulting in not realizing the true value of their cloud investment. The Infrastructure Cloud from HashiCorp helps organizations realize this value by simplifying and automating this complexity at scale. It does this by establishing a single system of record for lifecycle management of the infrastructure and security that powers organizations’ most important applications and services. This enables developers to respond to market opportunities more quickly while also providing a centralized approach to controlling costs and protecting access to sensitive systems and information.

IBM

IBM Fusion is a modern application data platform designed to streamline the integration of AI, containerized workloads, and virtual machines through automated orchestration. It supports gradual modernization while minimizing operational complexity and is available both as software and as Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI). Built on the robust foundation of Red Hat OpenShift and a hybrid cloud data architecture, IBM Fusion offers a powerful, scalable, and resilient solution. It empowers organizations to efficiently run containerized applications and AI workloads, simplify management, and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO).

ITQ

ITQ began with a bold idea: IT could be done better, faster, and smarter. Since our founding in 2001, ITQ has always been at the forefront of building IT infrastructures, now evolved into modern platforms. With a team of 250 experts, we help organizations build, run, and secure platforms across Private-, Public-, and Hybrid Clouds, from VMs to Kubernetes to Private AI. Over the past three years, ITQ has expanded beyond The Netherlands, opening offices in Belgium, Luxembourg, France, and Germany, and successfully completing over 900 projects for more than 450 customers. We embrace open source and deliver future-ready solutions.

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.

SLTN
Veeam

Veeam, the #1 global market leader in data resilience, believes every business should control all their data whenever and wherever they need it. ​ ​We’re obsessed with creating innovative ways to help our customers achieve data resilience. We do that by offering purpose-built solutions that provide data backup, data recovery, data portability, data security, and data intelligence. ​Headquartered in Seattle, with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and X @veeam

Bronze

Axians
Checkmk

Checkmk ensures that IT infrastructures run at peak performance, providing advanced monitoring of cloud, hybrid, and data center infrastructures, as well as modern containers and networks. Our IT monitoring solution seamlessly integrates within open observability ecosystems and other applications, combining enterprise-grade scalability and automations with the extensibility of open source software. Tens of thousands of users in more than 50 countries rely on Checkmk to obtain high availability from their IT systems, by preventing outages and minimizing Time-To-Resolution.

Vijfhart

Vijfhart is the largest independent IT educator in the Netherlands, with over 40 years of experience. We have already trained more than 500,000 people to become IT professionals. Our portfolio includes more than 500 courses, 80 of which are guaranteed to run. All our courses are available in Dutch and English. We offer a variety of learning formats, including: classroom (physical, online or hybrid, active learning, e-learning, and guided self study. Together, we are making the Netherlands smarter.

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Venue information

Date: 15 October 2025

Time: 08.00 - 18.30  

Location: NBC, Nieuwegein (Utrecht),
NBC Congrescentrum,
Blokhoeve 1,
3438 LC Nieuwegein

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