As this Spring's 2016 OpenStack Summit in Austin, TX nears, the Foundation has posted the final session agenda, outlining the week's schedule of events. I am pleased to see that based on your voting, Red Hat continues to remain in sync with the current topics, projects, and technologies the OpenStack community and customers are most interested in. With the expectation of the largest attendee crowd yet, and some exciting advancements around containers, storage, networking, compute, and more, we look forward to sharing the 35+ generally accepted sessions, workshops, and BoFs that will be included in the weeks agenda.

Red Hat is a Headline sponsor in Austin this Spring and along with the general sessions, workshops, and breakout track, Chris Wright, VP of Software Engineering, will be giving a keynote presentation and update on our OpenStack technologies on Monday April 25th during the main keynote session segment, between 9:00-10:45am. If you're planning to attend Jonathan's main keynote on Monday, you'll be able to catch Chris's keynote as well. To learn more about Red Hat's accepted sessions, have a look at the details below. Be sure to visit us at the below sessions, at our booth in the Marketplace, which starts on Monday evening during the booth crawl, 6-7:30pm, or come by and see us for some beer and sausage on Tuesday evening for the evening party event on Rainey St. Either way, we look forward to seeing you in Austin, Texas this April!

For more details on each session, click on the title below:

Monday April 25th

Red Hat Breakout room (Level 4, MR 18 C/D)

Panel: Deploying OpenStack for Telecommunications Darell Jordan-Smith (Red Hat) with customer panelists from Verizon, AT&T, Telus 11:15am - 11:55am
Going Beyond OpenStack - The integrated cloud solution stack Jacob Liberman (Red Hat), Richard Haigh (Betfair), John Quigly (ORNL) 12:05pm -12:45pm
How to Quickly and efficiently migrate legacy workloads to the Cloud Vijay Chebolu (Red Hat) 2:00pm - 2:40pm
Making Ceph the powerhouse you know it can be! Neil Levine (Red Hat) 2:50pm - 3:30pm
Co-Engineering an Enterprise-Grade OpenStack by Rackspace and Red Hat Kent Wolfe (Rackspace), Nick Gerasimatos (Red Hat), Jeff Ekstrom (Red Hat), John Fulton (Red Hat) 3:40pm - 4:20pm
Take advantage of key OpenStack services for NFV and the Telecommunications industry Drew Schulke (Dell), Sanjay Aiyagari (Red Hat) 4:40pm - 5:20pm
Red Hat & Cisco - Providing OpenStack Choice Karthik Prabhaker (Red Hat), Vishwanath Jakka (Cisco) 5:30pm - 6:10pm

General sessions

Panel: Pros and cons of various OpenStack consumption models Jonathan Gershater (Red Hat), Cody Hill (Platform9 Systems, Inc), VS Joshi (EMC), Ashish Nadkarni (IDC) 11:15am - 11:55am
Contributing to the Success of OpenStack Mark McLoughlin & Alexis Monville 11:15am - 11:55am
Expanding DBaaS Workloads with OpenStack Trove and Manila Sean Cohen, Amrith Kumar (Tesora), Andrew Kutner (NetApp) 12:05pm - 12:45pm
Elephant in the Room: What's the TCO for an OpenStack Cloud? Massimo Ferrari & Erich Morisse 12:05pm - 12:45pm
Performance Measuring Tools for the Cloud D Shakshober (Red Hat), Nicholas Wakou (Dell), Arek Chylinski, Wang Xiaofei (AWCloud), Yuting Wu 12:05pm - 12:45pm
What science knows about happiness that could transform OpenStack Alexis Monville 12:05pm - 12:45pm
OpenStack Infrastruture for Beginners Paul Belanger (Red Hat), Elizabeth K. Joseph (HPE), Christopher Aedo (IBM) 2:00pm - 2:40pm
Workshop: Hands on to configure your cloud to be able to charge your users using official OpenStack components! Julien Danjou, Christophe Sauthier, Stéphane Albert, Gauvain Pocentek & Maximiliano Venesio 2:00pm - 3:30pm
OpenStack Stable: What it actually means to maintain stable branches Ihar Hrachyshka (Red Hat), Matt Riedemann (IBM), Matthew Treinish (HPE) 2:50pm - 3:30pm
The omniscient cloud: Bare metal inspection status update Dmitry Tantsur 3:40pm - 4:20pm
OpenShift and OpenStack: Delivering Applications Together Scott McCarty 4:40pm - 5:20pm
Deep dive into Neutron upgrade story Artur Korzeniewski (Intel), Ihar Hrachyshka (Red Hat), Rossella Sblendido (SuSE) 4:40pm - 5:20pm
Swisscom in Production with OpenStack and CloudFoundry Chris Wright (Red Hat), Chip Childers, Marcel Haerry, Pere Monclus & Ros Roseboro 4:40pm - 5:20pm

Tuesday April 26th

Integrate Active Directory with OpenStack Keystone Martin Lopes 12:05pm - 12:45pm
How to troubleshoot OpenStack without losing sleep Sadique Puthen & Dustin Black 12:05pm - 12:45pm
Introduction to Container Security Thomas Cameron  2:50pm - 3:30pm
Manila: Experience it Through Demos! Dustin Schoenbrun, Akshai Parthasarathy (Netapp) 2:50pm - 3:30pm
Advances in Keystone's Role Based Access Control Adam Young (Red Hat) and Henry Nash (IBM) 3:40pm - 4:20pm
RDO Community Meetup Rich Bowen & RDO Community 4:40pm - 5:50pm
Using open source security architecture to defend against targeted attacks Dan Lambright (Red Hat), Alexander Adamov (Mirantis) 5:30pm - 6:10pm
CephFS as a service with OpenStack Manila John Spray 5:30pm - 6:10pm

Wednesday April 27th

Zaqar Messaging for Microservices and IoT Fei Long Wang (Catalyst), Ryan Brown (Red Hat), Victoria Martinez de la Cruz (Red Hat) 9:00am - 9:40am
TryStack: The Free OpenStack Sandbox for Earth Will Foster & Kambiz Aghaiepour 9:00am - 9:40am
Service Function Chaining – Technology Analysis and Perspective Tim Rozet(Red Hat), Bin Hu (AT&T) 9:50am - 10:30am
Debugging OpenStack failure scenarios with Ansible and Oslogmerger Miguel Angel Ajo (Red Hat), Gorka Eguileor (Red Hat) 11:50am - 12:30pm
Is that a Cloud in your Pocket? Steven Ellis 11:50am - 12:30pm
Tired of iptables based security groups? Here's how to gain tremendous speed with Open vSwitch instead! Jakub Libosvar (Red Hat), Rodolfo Alonso (Intel) 1:50pm - 2:30pm
Achieving Five-Nines of VNF Reliability in Telco-Grade OpenStack Cloud Rimma Iontel (Red Hat), Eoin Walsh (Intel) 1:50pm - 2:30pm
Designing for NFV: Lessons Learned from Deploying at Verizon Radhesh Balakrishnan (Red Hat), Kyle Forrester (Big Switch), Chris Emmons (Dell) 3:30pm - 4:10pm
Protecting the Galaxy - Multi-Region Disaster Recovery with OpenStack and Ceph Sean Cohen, Federico Lucifredi, Sebastien Han 4:30pm - 5:10pm

Thursday April 28th

Lab: Deploy Microservices Architecture on OpenStack using Kubernetes, Docker, Flannel and etcd Al Kari 9:00am - 10:30am
Orchestrated Containerization with OpenStack Lars Herrmann 9:00am - 9:40am
The Notorious M.T.U. Kevin Benton (Mirantis), Sean Collins (Mirantis), Matthew Kassawara (IBM), Ihar Hrachyshka (Red Hat) 9:00am - 9:40am
CephFS in Jewel: Stable at last Greg Farnum 11:00am - 11:40am
Using a Service VM as an IPv6 vRouter Bin Hu (AT&T), Sridhar Gaddam (Red Hat), Prakash (Huawei) 11:00am - 11:40am
Neutron Quality of Service, new features and future roadmap. Miguel Ángel Ajo (Red Hat), Victor Howard (Comcast), Sławek Kapłoński (OVH Group) 1:30pm - 2:10pm