Red Hat Road Tour | Charlotte

Agenda

Information about Keynotes and Breakout Sessions

7:30am-8:30am

Financial Services: Migrating workloads to containers
(open to all Financial Service attendees only)

Eric Sauer, Red Hat Consulting

As more organizations consider container adoption to support accelerated service delivery, a sound approach to workload migration is necessary to ensure the successful introduction of a container-based Paas. In this session, we will discuss the essentials to building a successful strategy around migrating workloads to containers, including the advantages and impacts of a container-based PaaS, evaluating and prioritizing the right applications to migrate, and how to begin to develop your project plan for container migration.

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9:15am-10:15am

Keynote: Fast, Flexible Future
How Red Hat can help you build an agile IT organization, from infrastructure to practice

Bryan Che, Sr. Director, Cloud Product Strategy

You face a lot of business challenges in these rapidly changing times. You need to optimize the IT you have; integrate data, apps, and processes; build new cloud infrastructure; and develop more modern apps. Red Hat's culture, leadership, and ecosystem are why you're part of the 78% of enterprises running on open source. Whether it's infrastructure software, app services, development, systems management, or services—we can help.

About Bryan: Bryan Che runs Cloud Product Strategy at Red Hat and is responsible for the overall strategic direction and go-to-market of Red Hat's entire product portfolio and how it comes together to deliver an open hybrid cloud. Previously, Bryan was the General Manager of Red Hat's Cloud Business Unit and brought to market many of Red Hat's products beyond Red Hat Enterprise Linux. He has been with Red Hat since 2002. Bryan graduated with his bachelor's and master's degrees in Computer Science from MIT. You can follow his blog at http://tentenet.net/ or on Twitter at @bryanwche.

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10:15am-11:00am

Understanding Security Risks & Migigation across the Virtualization Stack

Robin Price, Senior Solutions Architect, Red Hat

Virtualization is one of the most sought-after technologies in the industry, with massive adoption growth over the past few years. While its wide-spread adoption has made it a critical system component, it has also led to increased complexity and risks. Rarely do people talk about virtualization and security, but its weaknesses have made it a prime target. Find out why and what to do about it.

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11:15am-12:00pm

Management & Automation: reduce complexity and increase efficiency with Ansible by Red Hat

Justin Nemmers, Senior Manager, Ansible Product Marketing

Lack of automation, extended release cycles, error-prone releases, and systems and solutions unauthorized by IT all prevent businesses from more quickly delivering better products to remain competitive. We'll discuss how to discover, assess, and prioritize automation opportunities to streamline your IT processes and establish a standard approach to automation.

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1:00pm-1:45pm

The Roadmap for Containers & DevOps

Brian Gracely, Director of Product Strategy,
Steve Spiecher, Principal Product Manager

Linux Containers continue to grow in popularity and are at the center of a number of emerging trends in IT. Organizations are using Containers to accelerate DevOps processes, to deploy both existing apps and cloud-native microservices, and to enable a hybrid cloud infrastructure. This session will explore Red Hat’s roadmap for Containers, how it enables these trends and how we are delivering new Container innovations through OpenShift, RHEL and across our product portfolio.

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1:45pm-2:30pm

How we Accelerate Innovation at Red Hat Innovation Labs

Michael Walker, Director Red Hat Open Innovation Labs

Innovation has always been at the core of we do; our open source communities stand for no less. Red Hat Open Innovation Labs is a new medium to deliver tangible, community-powered innovation. In an eight-week teaming engagement focused on accelerating application development, you can modernize traditional apps or develop contemporary ones, and leave with a solid understanding of the principles of modern software development. During this session, we will provide an overview of life in a Labs residency, show examples of what can be rapidly built at Labs, and demonstrate the push button infrastructure that allows developers to do DevOps and build innovative solutions from day one.

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2:45pm-3:30pm

Building an Architecture for Continuous Innovation
Infrastructure for real-life app dev, ops, and management

Michael Solberg, Chief Architect

Your IT organization's architectures, processes, and platforms must let you build new kinds of apps in response to ever-evolving business demands. Incremental innovation doesn't seem like enough anymore--you must be able to innovate continuously through rapid development and modern operations. Red Hat^® solutions, tools, and process expertise can help you create usefully hybrid environments, automate and streamline workflows, and develop better solutions faster. But don't take our word for it—we'll show you how our customers are leading the way.

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