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Envision the future. Create it now.
Great things happen when people and ideas come together. Open source technology gives us a platform for imagination, a focal point to collectively push for new possibilities. Together we will explore these ideas at the Red Hat EMEA Partner Conference 2019.
This year’s agenda brings you the latest and greatest in open source cloud computing, platform, virtualization, middleware, storage, and systems management technologies, to provide you with the knowledge to grow your revenue with Red Hat - today and in the future.
Conference highlights:
- Keynotes on the latest trends from Red Hat leadership and industry thought leaders.
- 90+ sales and technical breakout sessions focused on shared customer opportunities.
- Hands-on labs, hackathons, free exams, live demos, and a chance to experience the open organisation in action.
- Networking opportunities with Red Hat sales and partner executives.
Why attend?
Red Hat EMEA Partner Conference offers endless opportunities to build new connections, expand your technology network, and uncover new opportunities to partner with Red Hat and our ecosystem.
Whether you’re an independent software vendor, systems integrator, (cloud) service provider or sponsor, this event will demonstrate both the commercial and the technological advantages of partnering with Red Hat to meet your customers’ needs.
With tracks for multiple audiences and partner types from Middleware, Cloud & Datacenter Infrastructure, the event will provide significant business value for business leaders, sales and technical attendees.
Specialist Tracks by Role & Topic - Key Topic Areas:
GoToMarket strategies / Solution Building / Best Practice Sharing & Maximising your Red Hat Partnership.
Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure / Cloud Native Application Development / IT Optimisation & Automation & Agile Integration.
DevOps / Migrating Workload to OpenShift / Distributed Systems (Container Deployment to the edge) / Innovative Use Cases.
The Open Organisation, Talent Acquisition, plus help with Building & Retaining your Talent Pool.
Specific Route/Market Interest Areas: SAP, Developers, etc.
Key product sessions: RHEL, OpenShift, Ansible, etc.
Session catalog
There will be a plethora of content aimed at tackling the digital challenges your customers are facing during the conference. We have selected a list of sessions for you that covers the challenges below:
Tough competition in today’s talent and customer market requires organisations to be innovative and agile. The values an Open Organisation promotes, is one way to address the challenges: attract new talent, minimise attrition, enhance the overall employee experience, transformation of the salesforce.
Sessions selected to cover the Digital Transformation | Day | Time |
Talent Clinic I - How to attract talent in a market with 1000 opportunities | Wednesday | 09:45 - 10:20 |
Talent Clinic II - How to scale the power of networks | Wednesday | 15:30 - 16:05 |
Talent Clinic III - Who fits our culture and how to identify them | Wednesday | 16:45 - 17:20 |
Open Organization - How to leverage the power of an open culture inside your organization to face a fast paced industry | Thursday | 10:40 - 11:15 |
Open Organization - How to use open culture as a competitive advantage for your salesforce | Thursday | 13:30 - 14:05 |
To help you find how Red Hat can help you structure your Partner Conference journey around everything you might want to know about Red Hat’s FlagShip product RHEL, we have selected for you a list of sessions that cover the Red Hat Digital Enterprise Linux topics.
Sessions selected to cover the Digital Transformation | Day | Time |
What’s new in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Part 1 of 2 | Tuesday | 14:45 - 15:20 |
What’s new in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Part 2 of 2 | Tuesday | 15:30 - 16:05 |
Demystifying Red Hat Enterprise Linux Application Streams | Tuesday | 16:45 - 17:20 |
Proactive Incident Management with Red Hat Insights | Tuesday | 17:35 - 18:10 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Platform Advantage | Thursday | 10:40 - 11:15 |
| Value of Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions explained | Thursday | 11:25 - 12:00 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Benefits | Thursday | 13:30 - 14:05 |
| Driving strategic conversations with customers around IT Optimisation and Hybrid Cloud topics. How to position RHEL as a base for any Digital Transformation project with your customers. | Thursday | 15:00 - 15:35 |
Technical Labs | ||
| RH01 - What's new in RHEL 8 | Tuesday | 14:00 - 15:30 |
| RH04 - Building a RHEL Gold Image for Azure | Tuesday | 14:00 - 15:30 |
| RH01_R - What's new in RHEL 8 | Wednesday | 14:00 - 15:30 |
| RH03 - Learning how to configure your RHEL based infrastructure to be ahead of risks before they impact your business by leveraging Red Hat Insights (SAP as example) | Thursday | 15:00 - 16:30 |
Red Hat is a strategic and valuable partner of SAP, hence we provide solutions and business opportunities for our partners along the customer’s SAP journey.
To help you finding how Red Hat can help you facing the SAP Migration and Day 2 Operation challenges, we have selected for you a list of sessions that cover our solution portfolio.
Sessions selected to cover the Digital Transformation | Day | Time |
SAP on Red Hat - Recent Changes and Roadmap | Tuesday | 14:45 - 15:20 |
Running SAP on a public cloud - A Proven Journey to SAP HANA | Tuesday | 16:45 - 17:20 |
Proactive Incident Management with Red Hat Insights | Tuesday | 17:35 - 18:10 |
How HPE and Red Hat help SAP Customers accelerate their Innovation | Wednesday | 9.45 - 10:20 |
SAP Opportunity for Red Hat Partners | Wednesday | 15:30 - 16:05 |
| LAB: Getting Started with Ansible | Wednesday | 9:00 - 10:30 |
| LAB: Automating your SAP deployments with Ansible | Thursday | 13:30 - 15:00 |
| LAB: Learning how to configure your RHEL based infrastructure to be ahead of risks before they impact your business by leveraging Red Hat Insights | Thursday | 15:00 - 16:30 |
| Optional: Red Hat CloudForms extensibility with Ansible and how it allows for better management of on premise resources | Wednesday | 14:45 - 15:20 |
| Optional LAB: Taking IT-Automation to the next Level with Ansible Tower | Wednesday | 14:00 - 15:30 |
Sessions selected to cover the Digital Transformation | Day | Time |
The OpenShift Experience | Tuesday | 14:00 - 14:35 |
ISV Challenges: Delivering Containerized Applications | Tuesday | 15:30 - 16:05 |
OpenShift Proof of Concepts - main use cases | Tuesday | 16:45 - 17:20 |
Going beyond the Datacenter with Openshift container development and deployment up to the edge for IoT, Digital Transformation | Tuesday | 17:35 - 18:10 |
OpenShift Cloud Functions & Serverless | Tuesday | 17:35 - 18:10 |
| Running Windows Workload into Openshift Containers | Wednesday | 9:45 - 10:20 |
| From Zero to Cloud Native Development in 5 Minutes - Introducing CodeReady Workspaces for OpenShift | Wednesday | 14:00 - 14:35 |
| So You Want to Write an Operator? | Wednesday | 14:00 - 14:35 |
| Using SELinux with container runtimes | Wednesday | 16:45 - 17:20 |
| Container Platforms - Who holds the power? | Wednesday | 16:45 - 17:20 |
| Can I Contain This? | Thursday | 10:40 - 11:15 |
| Next generation IDE using a container platform | Thursday | 11:25 - 12:00 |
| IoT edge development and deployment with containers through OpenShift | Thursday | 13:30 - 14:05 |
| Red Hat Services Container Adoption Journey | Thursday | 15:00 - 15:35 |
| Openshift for Autonomous Driving Machine Learning experiments | Thursday | 15:45 - 16:20 |
| OpenShift is the ultimate development platform and you should tell to your customers! | Thursday | 15:45 - 16:20 |
To help you find how Red Hat can help you structure your Partner Conference journey around everything you might want to know around our Management and Automation portfolio, we have selected for you a list of sessions that cover the aforementioned topics.
Sessions selected to cover the Digital Transformation | Day | Time |
Hybrid Cloud Management Strategy Update | Tuesday | 16:45 - 17:20 |
Proactive Incident Management with Red Hat Insights | Tuesday | 17:35 - 18:10 |
Ansible Partner Enablement offerings | Tuesday | 17:35 - 18:10 |
Automation Everywhere - Empower Partner with Ansible | Wednesday | 09:00 - 09:35 |
Red Hat Satellite 6: Provisioning RHEL on 1200 trains in SBB | Wednesday | 14:00 - 14:35 |
| Red Hat CloudForms extensibility with Ansible and how it allows for better management of on premise resources | Wednesday | 09:00 - 09:35 |
Technical Labs | ||
| RH02 - Hands on with Red Hat Satellite 6.5 | Tuesday | 16:00 - 17:30 |
| AN01 - Getting Started with Ansible | Wednesday | 09:00 - 10:30 |
| AN02 - Taking IT-Automation to the next Level with Ansible Tower | Wednesday | 14:00 - 15:30 |
| RH02 - Hands on with Red Hat Satellite 6.5 | Wednesday | 16:00 - 17:30 |
| AN03 - Advanced Ansible Tower | Wednesday | 16:00 - 17:30 |
| AN02_R - Taking IT-Automation to the next Level with Ansible Tower | Thursday | 10:30 - 12:00 |
| AN04 - Automate your Network with Ansible | Thursday | 13:30 - 15:00 |
| SAP01 - Automating your SAP deployments with Ansible | Thursday | 13:30 - 15:00 |
To help you find how Red Hat can help you structure your Partner Conference journey around everything you might want to know about the Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure topic, we have selected for you a list of sessions that cover the aforementioned topic.
Sessions selected to cover the Digital Transformation | Day | Time |
Hybrid Cloud Management Strategy Update | Tuesday | 16:45 - 17:20 |
Red Hat CloudForms extensibility with Ansible and how it allows for better management of on premise resources | Wednesday | 14:45 - 15:20 |
Building a public cloud using Red Hat technology | Thursday | 14:15 - 14:50 |
Driving strategic conversations with customers around IT Optimisation and Hybrid Cloud topics. How to position RHEL as a base for any Digital Transformation project with your customers. | Thursday | 15:00 - 15:35 |
Modern Storage for the Cloud Era | Thursday | 15:00 - 15:35 |
To help you finding how Red Hat can help you facing the IoT challenges, we have selected for you a list of sessions that cover this topic.
Sessions selected to cover the Digital Transformation | Day | Time |
| Tuesday | 14:00 - 14:35 |
| Tuesday | 15:30 - 16:05 |
| Tuesday | 17:35 - 18:20 |
Automation Everywhere - Empower Partner with Ansible | Wednesday | 09:00 - 09:35 |
Red Hat Satellite 6: Provisioning RHEL on 1200 trains in SBB | Wednesday | 14:00 - 14:35 |
| IoT edge development and deployment with containers through OpenShift | Thursday | 13:30 - 14:05 |
| Business Process Management in the age of agile everything | Thursday | 14:15 - 14:50 |
| Agile Integration: Transforming Enterprises One Integration at a Time | Thursday | 15:00 - 15:35 |
| Simplify solution building and increase sales with the Red Hat Middleware bundles | Thursday | 15:00 - 15:35 |
| OpenShift is the ultimate development platform and you should tell to your customers! | Thursday | 15:45 - 16:20 |
To help you finding how Red Hat can help you facing the Digital Transformation challenges, we have selected for you a list of sessions that cover the Red Hat Digital Transformation topic.
Sessions selected to cover the Digital Transformation | Day | Time |
Solving the Digital Transformation challenge of intelligence ubiquity with Red Hat MW | Tuesday | 14:00 - 14:35 |
Fuse Online: Empower your citizen developers in the world of Agile Integration | Tuesday | 15:30 - 16:05 |
ISV Challenges: Delivering Containerized Applications | Tuesday | 15:30 - 16:05 |
Going beyond the Datacenter with Openshift container development and deployment up to the edge for IoT, Digital Transformation | Tuesday | 17:35 - 18:20 |
Driving strategic conversations with your Middleware customers - why the community vs. enterprise conversation is still important | Wednesday | 9:45 - 10:20 |
| The future of digital transformation in finance | Wednesday | 15:30 - 16:05 |
| Can I Contain This? | Thursday | 10:40 - 11:15 |
| Next generation IDE using a container platform | Thursday | 11:25 - 12:00 |
| IoT edge development and deployment with containers through OpenShift | Thursday | 13:30 - 14:05 |
| Business Process Management in the age of agile everything | Thursday | 14:15 - 14:50 |
| Agile Integration: Transforming Enterprises One Integration at a Time | Thursday | 15:00 - 15:35 |
| Simplify solution building and increase sales with the Red Hat Middleware bundles | Thursday | 15:00 - 15:35 |
| OpenShift is the ultimate development platform and you should tell to your customers! | Thursday | 15:45 - 16:20 |
| Openshift for Autonomous Driving Machine Learning experiments | Thursday | 15:45 - 16:20 |
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Rates and discounts
Registration is now closed.
Regular: 990 EUR* (May 4 - June 24**)
Group rates: 5+ persons of the same company are eligible for a 10% discount.
** Between June 15-24 you can purchase your ticket only via credit card.
Agenda at a glance
All agenda information will be available via the conference event app.
TUESDAY
| 09:00 - 19:00 | Registration open |
| 14:00 - 14:35 | Breakouts I ▾ |
| 14:45 - 15:20 | Breakouts II ▾ |
| 15:30 - 16:05 | Breakouts III ▾ |
| 16:05 - 16:45 | Coffee break |
| 16:45 - 17:20 | Breakouts IV ▾ |
| 17:35 - 18:10 | Breakouts V ▾ |
| 17:00 - 23:00 | Robot car hackathon |
| 18:00 - 23:00 | Welcome reception dinner & networking evening |
WEDNESDAY
| 09:00 - 09:35 | Breakouts VI ▾ |
| 09:45 - 10:20 | Breakouts VII ▾ |
| 10:20 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 12:40 | Keynotes
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| 12:40 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 13:30 - 17:30 | Open Innovation Lab |
| 14:00 - 14:35 | Breakouts VIII ▾ |
| 14:45 - 15:20 | Breakouts IX ▾ |
| 15:30 - 16:05 | Breakouts X ▾ |
| 16:05 - 16:45 | Coffee break |
| 16:45 - 17:20 | Breakouts XI ▾ |
| 17:35 - 18:30 | Keynotes
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| 18:30 - 20:00 | Get-together with snacks & drinks |
THURSDAY
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Keynotes
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| 10:00 - 10:40 | Coffee break |
| 10:40 - 11:15 | Breakouts XII ▾ |
| 11:25 - 12:00 | Breakouts XIII ▾ |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 - 14:05 | Breakouts XIV ▾ |
| 14:15 - 14:50 | Breakouts XV ▾ |
| 15:00 - 15:35 | Breakouts XVI ▾ |
| 15:45 - 16:20 | Breakouts XVII ▾ |
| 16:20 - 17:00 | Coffee break |
| 17:00 - 18:20 | Keynotes & Awards
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| 20:00 - 01:00 | Dinner & Party |
Hands-on Labs are 1.5 to 3 hour instructor-led sessions with a particular product or solution focus, allowing you to test drive innovative tools and technologies at first-hand. With more than twenty-five labs on offer, delegates can choose from a wide choice of topics including Automating your SAP deployments with Ansible to Cloud-Native Development, and the latest on Next Generation Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
Register for Hands-on Labs
Please note that only Partner Conference registered attendees can register for a lab. The first labs will be open for registration towards the beginning of May. Registration for each lab is limited to 20 delegates. If the 20 attendee limit is exceeded, any additional registrants will be put on a waiting list and notified if a space becomes available.
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Every Partner Conference sees the return of Free Training Certifications and this year is no exception. There are three free exams available which will run over 5 sessions over the course of the conference and with a limited capacity of 20 candidates per exam. The following free exams will be on offer (pre-requisites may apply):
- EX283 - Red Hat Certified Enterprise Microservices Developer Exam
- EX200 - Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) Exam
- EX294 - Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) Exam
- To enroll your Partner Conference 2019 registration ID is required.
- All candidates applying for a free exam will be required to complete and successfully pass a pre-exam assessment.
Only one exam per person will be allocated.Not applicable from 5th June onwards.Only one exam per company will be allocated.Not applicable from 5th June onwards.- If the 20 attendee limit is exceeded, any additional registrants will be put on a waiting list and notified if a space becomes available.
Please note that only Partner Conference registered attendees will be allowed to take the pre-exam assessment and ultimately be eligible for a free exam.
This year’s EMEA Partner Conference is more exciting than ever! In addition to over ninety carefully crafted breakout sessions covering all the latest Red Hat product updates, go-to-market strategies and knowledge share topics, we have crammed in even more fun-packed activities during your 3 days at the conference. The following activities are open to all registered delegates but be quick, you may need to register for some and places are limited.
“Robot Car” Hackathon
The Robot Car Hackathon is an amazing learning experience for developers and non-developers to develop not too complex code in a team to guide a robot car through a labyrinth. Leverage, OpenShift, 3Scale, Eclipse Che and more Red Hat technology. Each group will comprise of four people per car. A maximum of 15 groups will have the opportunity to take part.
All Around Open Innovation - An Innovation Labs Experience for Red Hat Partners
A dedicated four hour slot where you can experience at first-hand how Red Hat helps partners to drive business transformation projects for their customers. Learn more about how you can leverage open innovation lab practices when planning for conferences and agenda setting.
Network and Connect with One-Another at the Partner Meeting Wall
Are you looking to connect with experts, peers or network during the conference? The Partner Meeting Wall is a special meeting area to enable you to congregate, meet with, search for and directly set up meetings with like-minded delegates or potential business partners. To participate, you will need to complete a “partner profile” on what you offer and the type of partner you are interested in engaging with at the conference. Profiles will be displayed on the Partner wall during conference days and our team of trusted Red Hatters will be on hand to help you find the best match.
Experience and Feel the Power of OpenSource Projects
Get a unique and exclusive opportunity to liaise, collaborate, brainstorm and provide direct feedback to Red Hat’s Brno developer team in a mini-exhibition format around open source technologies. This small exhibition area will comprise of meeting points, each dedicated to a specific topic such as RHEL, Security, Cloud-native applications etc. where Red Hat engineers will provide insight into upstream processes.
All Around an Open Organisation
OpenSource is about more than technology, it’s a way of life and the heart of an organisation. Learn how the benefits of an open organisation can inspire energy and creativity within their people. Find out how speed, agility and close collaboration with customers, vendors, and partners can contribute to the success of your organisation.
Learning and Demo Corner - Get Trained and Present Red Hat Technology
Get up to speed and explore easy ways to learn and demo Red Hat technology. Discuss your preferred learning path through Red Hat Enablement in this dedicated learning zone with our experts. Participants will have the chance to leverage online training, play with product demos and select the right hands-on training and certifications to fit their career and business goals.
