Great things happen when people and ideas come together.
Join us online for the UK & Ireland breakout sessions
during Red Hat Forum EMEA 2020 on November 3.
Presentations from Red Hat Forum UK 2018
KEYNOTES
Red Hat - Digital Transformation: The Open Organisation - Werner Knoblich & Ashesh Badani
Microsoft - How Red Hat and Microsoft Hit Refresh - Nick Wallace
Accenture - Intelligent Enterprise Unleashed - Jon Hammant
Kingfisher - Omni-channel to Customer First - Ben Briden
CLOUD NATIVE TRACK
NuoDB - Unleash the Power of Distributed SQL Database Inside OpenShift - Mark-Jones
Public Health England - Use of Open Source Technologies to Deliver Modern Public Health Services - F Giannoccaro
Red Hat - OpenShift and CoreOS Futures - Chris Milsted
Red Hat - The Beauty of the Container Revolution - Ian Lawson
Red Hat - The X Steps to Container Excellence - Ben Holmes
AGILE INTEGRATION TRACK
DevoTeam - DevOps at Scale - Graham Zabel
Red Hat - Agile Not Fragile Integration - Phil Prosser
Red Hat - Don't Worry Be API - Waqaas Kausar
Red Hat - The Goldfish Conundrum - Alex Groom & Ronald Meuwsen
HYBRID CLOUD TRACK
Atos - Seamless Smart Cities Deployment - Chris Baynham-Hughes
Paddy Power Betfair - Running and maintaining Paddy Power Betfairs OpenStack Cloud - Thomas Andrew
Red Hat - OpenShift on OpenStack - Patrick Harrison
Red Hat - Swansea Uni - Why Smart Orgnisations No Longer Procure Storage - Kurt Keifer & Simon Thompson
Red Hat - The OS Matters, Why the OS Should be at the Core of Your Cloud Strategy - Adrian Keward
SILENT THEATRE
AVI Networks - AVI Vantage for Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments - Amrik Jalif
Black Duck - Open Source Security in DevOps - Boris Cipot
Dynatrace - The Autonomous Journey with OpenShift - Manuel Wallnöfer
Estafet - When DevOps meets Machine Learning - Steve Ross-Talbot
AUTOMATION & MANAGEMENT TRACK
Red Hat - Making Your On-prem Infrastructure Look and Feel Like the Cloud - Sam Marland
Red Hat - Prevent the Zombie Apocalypse with Automation - Matt York
Red Hat - Red Hat Insights Machine Learning in Action - Phil Griffiths
Red Hat - Serverless Hyper or Reality - James Allen
DISRUPTIVE TRACK
CYBG - Engineering The Bank - Steven O'Day & Phil Ollenbuttel
HPE - Build your on-premises container platform at cloud like speed and scale with HPE Synergy - Dean Lidstone & Jason White
Red Hat - Building Smarter, Safer and More Productive Highways - Mark Sutton
Red Hat - Headless eCommerce - Iain Boyle
Red Hat - Using OpenShift is better than Building Kubernetes - Ed Seymour
BUSINESS TRACK
Red Hat - Addressing Transformation Challenges - Infrastructure Migration Solution - K Stevens
Red Hat - Blockchain, IoT and AI - Pretty Maids all in a Row - Martin Percival & Bruno Ciscato
Red Hat - Building the Business Case for App Modernisation - Chris Towndrow
Red Hat - FSI Customer Panel Discussion - Chris Milsted
Red Hat - Open Source Cultural Change - Graeme Colman
IDEAS WORTH EXPLORING
Come with questions. Leave with ideas.
Open source is collaborative curiosity. It’s about a culture with a desire to connect and the technologies to do it. Yet what draws our attention isn’t the technology alone; it’s what we can do with it. It gives us the platform for imagination, a focal point to collectively push for new possibilities.
Automation, AI, machine learning--these are a gift we gave ourselves, the luxury of reclaimed time to wonder. To ask not only “What if?” but also “What for?” and “With whom?”
Red Hat Forums are the place for these questions, a gathering of the curious, an arena of ideas to reinvent what we have and to dream of what we might. So join us in London - come with questions, leave with ideas.
Look forward to:
- Keynote presentations on industry trends
- Detailed technological implementation sessions
- Conversational sessions with industry experts
- Learning from customer references
- Live demos
See what our attendees had to say at Red Hat Forum 2017
Agenda
*Agenda subject to change
08:15 | Registration & Coffee | ||||||||||||||||||
09:15 | Welcome Martin Lentle, UKI MD - Red Hat |
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09:20 | Digital transformation & the open organization ▾ Werner Knoblich, SVP and GM, EMEA & Ashesh Badani, VP and GM, OpenShift PaaS - Red Hat |
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10:00 | How Red Hat & Microsoft Hit Refresh ▾ Nick Wallace, Director, Azure Open Source Strategy - Microsoft |
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10:20 | Explore, Think, Do ▾ Rob Hart, Group IT Modernisation Programme Director - BP |
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10:40 | Coffee Break & Networking Partner Exhibition & Red Hat Lounge |
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11:10 | Intelligent Enterprise ▾ Jon Hammant, DevOps UKI Lead - Accenture |
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11:35 | Omni-channel to customer first – Kingfisher’s digital transformation journey from the inside ▾ Ben Briden, Enterprise Architect - Kingfisher IT |
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12:00 | Lunch & Networking | Silver Sponsor Silent Theatre Partner Exhibition & Red Hat Lounge |
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Automation & Management track ▾
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Disruptive track ▾
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Business track ▾
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17:05 | Drinks Reception & Networking Exhibition Spaces & Red Hat Lounge |
SILVER SPONSOR - SILENT THEATRE
New to Forum this year, our Silver Sponsors will be delivering 15 minute presentations on a variety of topics during the breaks and lunch.
10:45 - 11:00
Open Source Security in DevOps ▾
Boris Cipot, Senior Sales Engineer - Synopsys
12:05 - 12:20
How OpenShift, Ansible and Dynatrace enable autonomous enterprise clouds ▾
Manuel Wallnöfer, EMEA Solution Sales Director for Enterprise Cloud - Dynatrace
12:25 - 12:40
In the transition from on-premise, to hybrid, multi, and now poly cloud;
how the ADC goes from an infrastructure component, to a critical enabling technology ▾
Amrik Jalif, Regional Sales Manager - Avi Networks
12:45 - 13:00
Managing Your Hybrid cloud-hosted Paas to optimise costs and maximise availability ▾
Conor Brankin, CEO - Crossvale Europe Ltd
15:15 - 15:30
When DevOps meets Machine Learning ▾
Steve Ross-Talbot, CTO - Estafet
SERVICES ZONE
Training & Services Pod
Come around our Training & Services Pod and engage with our Delivery and Training Experts to obtain updates about the most current technology practices in the market and our Certifications Curriculum with our different Training modality Options. They will assess your technology needs and offer you a high-value approach.
Red Hat Design Sprint in action
The Red Hat Design Sprint is a 5 day process where Red Hat works with our customers to clearly define their business problems, and through design and prototyping,
produce intuitive, user friendly applications capable of solving critical business use cases.
Challenge an Expert
You bring your problem; we’ll bring the experts, whiteboards and pens. Building on the successful Services ‘Ask the Expert’ from Forum two years ago, this year Red Hat Consulting would like to offer the opportunity to challenge the Red Hat team to solve or sanity check your current business or IT challenge.
OPEN INNOVATION LABS
Leverage the experience of our resident consultants, who will share with you their disruptive methodology to manage innovation and digital transformation the open way. Express your creativity and show you agile development skills in our Open Innovation Labs Lego city.
CUSTOMER ZONE
Visit CE&E in the Customer Zone for FEEDBACK and play ENGAGE
The Customer Experience and Engagement (CE&E) team is available to answer questions about Red Hat subscription value, including the Red Hat Customer Portal and its expansive knowledgebase, the certification ecosystem, the Red Hat Product Security team, committed product lifecycles, and our technical and automated support services. Visitors can also learn more about special escalations paths, collaborative support, and relationship management for strategic accounts.
LIVE ILLUSTRATOR
Watch our live Illustrator from www.inkythinking.com visually narrate the conversations and key topics at Forum. This is a an interactive experience, so please say hello and suggest topics to be added.
SOLUTIONS ZONE
Integration, application modernisation, devops, digital transformation - you can play buzzword bingo all day and get no closer to a genuine answer. Step into the Solutions Zone to watch real Red Hat products in action and discuss your own needs with our experts, before the buzzword apocalypse hits your business!
STEM
Inspiring the next generation of technologists has never been so important as we continue our digital journey - drop by the stand to chat with our team of Interns, Graduates and STEM ambassadors to hear what Red Hat is supporting and hear from you about your company initiatives.
TELCO ZONE
Virtualising network functions, automating networks, building open hybrid cloud infrastructure and why telcos should start preparing for containerisation. Stop by the Telco booth at any time to discuss your needs with our Telco experts.
Speakers

Werner Knoblich,
Senior vice president and general manager, EMEA, Red Hat
Werner Knoblich is responsible for developing and executing Red Hat’s business strategy across Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). His primary focus is on sales, marketing, and services. Since joining Red Hat in 2003, Werner has led the EMEA region to consistently exceed financial targets and deliver innovative solutions to overcome customer business challenges in both established and emerging markets. Prior to joining Red Hat, Knoblich spent more than 6 years working in the IT asset management sector for MainControl and MRO in the United States. Knoblich began his sales career working for USU Softwarehaus in Germany.

Ashesh Badani,
Vice president and general manager, OpenShift PaaS, Red Hat
Ashesh Badani is responsible for Red Hat's OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) business unit. He previously oversaw product line management and marketing for the Red Hat® JBoss® Middleware portfolio. Prior to joining Red Hat, Badani served as director of product management and product marketing of integration and application platform products at Sun Microsystems and has more than 15 years of experience in the technology and finance industries working for established and emerging companies. Badani received a bachelor's degree from Cornell University and a master’s degree in business administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Nick Wallace,
Director, Azure Open Source Strategy, Microsoft
Nick is the Open Source lead for Microsoft UK where he is responsible for driving adoption of Linux and Linux based workloads on Azure for Microsoft UK.Nick is responsible for overall Open Source strategy at Microsoft UK across partner, sales, marketing and solutions architecture. Prior to this, Nick heldvarious technical and management positions in Internet companies over his 21 year career, most recently in account management positions within theMicrosoft Azure team and previously at Amazon Web Services & Dimension Data.

Rob Hart,
Group IT Modernisation Programme Director, BP
Rob joined BP in 2006 from PA Consulting Group, where he lead IT-enabled change programmes across a range of public and private sector organisations. Over the past 12 years he has held a wide range of roles within BP’s IT function, including responsibility for IT operations for the US Retail and Global Lubricants businesses – and establishing BP’s new Advance Mobility Unit, focusing on developing new business models for the Downstream businesses. In 2018 Rob was appointed Modernize IT Programme Director, and is now leading the delivery of BP’s IT Vision 2020 through its Modernize IT programme.

Jon Hammant,
DevOps UKI Lead - Accenture
Jon Hammant Managing Director at Accenture managing the UK & Ireland Enterprise Transformation DevOps Group helping clients and Accenture via Advisory and Embedded consulting, as well as running the internal DevOps tooling for Accenture. In additional Jon is responsible for large scale cloud transformation at are largest FS customers. Before moving into consulting Jon has extensive experience in the FS space, including Head of Infrastructure, Senior Technical, Low-Latency Lead & Technical Architect. Prior to this he worked in the Egaming Infrastructure space.

Ben Briden,
Enterprise Architect - Kingfisher IT
Ben is an Enterprise Architect for Kingfisher Digital with more than 20 years’ experience in IT and 10 years in the retail industry. For the past 4 years he has been straddling the business/IT divide to help drive a strategic shift that enables Kingfisher to deliver a sustainable digital platform that meets the ever-evolving internal and external customer demands. Prior to joining Kingfisher in 2013 he had a varied career in IBM; from his early days in development through to a range of client engagement roles.
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