Red Hat Road Tour | Chicago

Agenda

Information about Keynotes and Breakout Sessions

1:15pm-2:00pm

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

Matt Hicks, Vice President, Engineering, Red Hat

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.

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2:00pm-2:30pm

Solutions for IT Organizations on the Journey to the Digital Enterprise

James Labocki, Sr. Manager, Product Management, Red Hat

Your business needs to embrace the move towards a digital enterprise to not just survive, but thrive. In this session, attendees will see common challenges and solutions that IT organizations can overcome as they look to lead their business towards becoming a digital business. This includes both delivering existing applications faster and optimizing their infrastructure as well as building new cloud native applications and infrastructure. This session will include specific examples and success stories.

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2:45pm-3:15pm

Data Center Transformation: The Bridge Between New & Old IT

Brian Peterson, Vice President, Forsythe Technology

Companies that will succeed in the future will be the most agile, secure digital businesses, the ones that use new and traditional IT effectively. The key is finding the perfect balance of the two to meet your business’s current and future needs cost-effectively. In this session, we will explore new and innovative approaches to enterprise IT.

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3:15pm-3:45pm

The Roadmap for Containers & DevOps

Brian Gracely, Director of Product Strategy
Joe Fernandes, Senior Director of Product Management

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.

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) is Director of Product Strategy for Red Hat Openshift Container Platform. He is also the co-host of The Cloudcast.

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3:45pm-4:15pm

Delivering value together. Increase visibility, manageability, and control through cloud management and automation

James Rankin, Senior Solution Architect, Cloud, Red Hat

As you evaluate various technologies and how they fit within their environment, it is important to understand how they can be implemented and produce results for your organization. This session will walk you through how to leverage tools such as CloudForms and Ansible, that will result in improved business process automation and faster time to delivery.

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4:30pm-5:00pm

How we Accelerate Innovation at Red Hat Innovation Labs

Mike Walker, Dir. Open Innovation Labs, Red Hat

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.

About Mike Walker: Mike Walker leads Red Hat's Open Innovation Labs, whose vision is to empower customers to rapidly deliver the most innovative software success stories of the 21st century, by leveraging the power of open source, emerging technology, and world-class expertise. Mike has more than 15 years of consulting experience encompassing application development, middleware, infrastructure, and cloud computing solutions.

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5:00pm-5:30pm

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

Gunnar Hellekson, Director Product Management, Red Hat

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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