Name: Red Hat Summit: Connect 2026 Dubai
Start: 2026-10-20T04:00:00
End: 2026-10-20T11:00:00
Location: One And Only Zaabeel hotel

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8:30 - 9:30

Registration and networking

09:30 - 09:40

Event Opening

09:40 - 09:55

Welcome Keynote & Regional Perspective

Adrian Pickering,

Regional Director, Red Hat

09:55 - 10:10

Keynote: The AI Era

Ashok Samal ,

AI Techno Business Lead MEA, Red Hat

10:10 - 10:20

Business Resilence and Security in the AI Era

Julio Villarreal Pelegrino,

Director, Global Services Cross-Platform Leader, Red Hat

10:20 - 10:30

Red Hat and the customer modernization Journey

Sam Marland,

OpenShift Virtualization Leader, EMEA, Red Hat

10:30- 10:40

Customer Perspective

Nicholas Grimm ,

Head of Cloud Compute, ENBD

10:42- 10:52

Keynote: Sovereign Cloud

Anirban Mukherjee,

Director, Solutions Architecture, MENA, Red Hat

10:52 - 11:02

Regional Sovereignty context

Sujit Nair,

Head of Technology Products & Services, Moro Hub

11:08- 11:33

Customer Panel: Modernization with Innovation

Annudeep Singh Sandhu,

Regional Commercial Manager MENA, Red Hat

RameshKumar Ponram,

VP Head, Infrastructure & Operations, NeoPay

Sharjeel Lasharie,

Global Head Infrastructure Operations, Habib Bank

Syed Ashar Ahmed ,

CIO, Bloom Holding

11:38 - 11:58

Break

12:03 - 12:33

Ecosystem Panel: Sovereign AI

Burak Borhan ,

Regional Director, Head of Middle East and Africa Partner Ecosystem, Red Hat

Michael Langveld,

UAE Country Director, HPE

Mohamed Al Malik,

CISO, Moro Hub

Sajeev Perunnelly,

EVP, Alpha Data

12:38 - 12:53

Trusted, Open, Sovereign — The New Foundation for Enterprise AI

Arathi Ajay,

Regional lead - Partnerships & Strategic Alliances Middle East & Africa, Intel

Mohsin Khan,

Senior Enterprise Architect, Red Hat

12:58 - 13:13

HPE and the AI era

Mujahid Khaleel — ,

Sales Leader AI and HPC META, HPE

13:18 - 13:43

Break

13:43 - 14:43

TRACK A

13:43 - 14:03	Standardize, Secure & Migrate (RHEL) with SAP Focus on OS & Cloud Migration Alex Reiniger, BDM/SSP Red Hat Enterprise Linux for EMEA
14:03 - 14:23	Data-Ready OpenShift: Simplifying Enterprise Kubernetes Storage with NetApp Trident Focus on VM Modernization Rahul Sharma, NetApp Field CTO EMEA Amr Alkafoury, Senior Account Solutions Architect, Red Hat Sam Marland, OpenShift Virtualization Leader, EMEA
14:23 - 14:43	Modern App Platforms Focus on Container Management Hassan Koura, Technical Manager, Everpure Taher Shaker, Senior Accoun Soloution Architect, Red Hat

Track B

13:43 - 14:03	Automate at Scale & AIOps Focus on Ops Optimization Ruth O'Brien, Automation Specialist and Change Catalyst, SSP MENA, Red Hat Ahmad Jishi, Technical Manager, GBM
14:03 - 14:23	Scalable AI inference with agentic intelligence Focus on the AI Lifecycle Jad Hajj Obeid , GM, MDS Erwan Lefranc, Associate Principal Account Solution Architect, Red Hat
14:23 - 14:43	DevSecOps & Platform Engineering Focus on the Secure Software Supply Chain Rejin Saju, Head of Technology, Integra Hatem Odeh, Application modernization Specialist, Red Hat

14:45 - 15:45

Lunch

15:45 - 17:55

Technical Hands on Labs

	Lab 1 : Red Hat AI + Automation
	Lab 2: OpenShift Virtualization aGitOps

Diamond

Morohub

About Moro Hub: As part of 10X, Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (PJSC) mobilised its innovation unit to create a new entity called Digital DEWA, which uses innovation in artificial intelligence and digital services to meet the current and future requirements brought about by the 4th industrial revolution. This entity required an innovative, agile data hub, and thus Moro Hub was established. Forming the backbone of Digital DEWA, Moro Hub was introduced to fulfil the need for an innovative and agile data centre. Through its purpose-built, industry-accredited data hub, Moro Hub uses its expertise, capabilities and alliances to contribute to the digital transformation of society. Trusted to secure, manage, and integrate data, Moro Hub is committed to providing value through customer-centric innovation, creating new opportunities now and in the future. For more info, please visit www.morohub.com.

Gold

Integra

As a Red Hat Premier Partner, Integra empowers enterprises to modernize, automate, and scale with confidence across the Red Hat ecosystem. We architect and optimize Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to build secure, high-performance hybrid cloud platforms. We accelerate VMware-to-Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization migration and offer flexible purchasing through AWS Marketplace and Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Today, we are proud to serve leading government entities, large enterprises, and AI-first startups across the UAE, KSA, and the wider Middle East, supporting mission-critical workloads, sovereign transformation initiatives, and next-generation AI platforms at scale.