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Red Hat Summit: Connect 2024

11 de noviembre de 2024Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaJW Marriott Hotel, King Fahad Road
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Shape the future of your organization

With technology constantly evolving, it’s on all of us to take the lead on IT innovation by engaging your curiosity with our fully interactive event. Red Hat Summit: Connect brings you to the forefront of that evolution, so you can turn knowledge into application.

Our event in Riyadh will provide you the opportunity to join your peers, explore the latest Red Hat technologies, and collaborate with industry leaders to explore the future of technology.

Join us at JW Marriott King Fahad Road on 11 November for Red Hat Summit: Connect Riyadh

Find the right mix of sessions for you

Engage with Red Hat thought leaders, technologies, and solutions or participate in activities like breakout sessions and instructor-led labs. View your options in this year’s agenda.

Agenda

9:00

Registration Open

10:00

Welcome Keynote & Regional Perspective

Feras Al AlShaikh,

Regional Director, KSA Region, Red Hat

10:20

Red Hat Vision for AI and Open Source

Emphasizing the importance of the AI Era, and how Red Hat is bringing open source to AI

Udo Urbantschitsch,

Vice President, GEO Technology Sales EMEA, Red Hat

10:30

Open Hybrid Cloud Portfolio Updates

New announcements and key areas of focus for Red Hat products, aligning to customer challenges (Virtualization, AI, Hybrid Cloud, Security, CentOS to RHEL)

Martin Zierer,

OpenShift Platform Director EMEA, Red Hat

10:40

Demonstrating Red Hat AI Vision

(Shortened version of the “Parasol” AI lifecycle demo that was shown at RH Summit in Denver)

Johan Robinson,

Senior Manager - AI & Cloud Services - EMEA, Red Hat

Max Murakami,

AI Platform Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat

11:00

Modernizing Virtualization for the Future

How OpenShift Virt and Ansible can help customers modernize their VMs off VMware

Didier Vitiello,

EMEA Director of the OCP-V core Team, Red Hat

11:15

Mission Critical Automation

Updates to Ansible around EDA, Policy-as-Code, Lightspeed, etc.

Belkacem Moussouni,

Business Development Lead, EMEA - Automation, Red Hat

11:30

The Business Value of Working with Red Hat

Summary of focus areas for customers, customer stories, etc.

Pierre-Alain Liegeois,

Business Value Director, Red Hat

11:45

Coffee Break + Networking

12:00

How Red Hat helped Aramco in their digital transformation Journey

Aramco Guest Speaker

12:15

Customer Panel - The role of open-source in Saudi Arabia's quest to achieve Vision 2030

Mohamad Idriss,

Head of Technology Sales MEA, Red Hat

Jamil Barakat,

EVP, Business Technology Division, Riyad Bank

Ahmad Alabduljabbar,

General Manager, Intel

STC Guest Speaker

Saudi Payment Guest Speaker

12:30

Red Hat Partner's Eco-System

Burak Borhan,

Director Ecosystem For MEA, Red Hat

12:45

Accelerate your Enterprise AI journey with OpenShift AI & Intel technology

Taha Khalifa, GCC Country Manager,

Intel

Mohamad Idriss,

Head of Technology Sales, Red Hat

13:00

HPE GreenLake for Red Hat®OpenShift®Container Platform

Saleh Al Nemer,

CTO, HPE

13:15

Lunch

14:00

Accelerate App Development and Delivery with Nutanix Cloud Native

Abdullah AbuSaadih,

Senior System Engineer, Nutanix

14:15

From Data to Deployment: Portworx's Role in AI Success

Joe Gardiner,

AVP - International Sales, Portworx

14:30

Confidently operate microservices at scale using Dynatrace with Red Hat OpenShift

Bassem Ben Jemaa,

Lead Solution Engineer, Dynatrace

14:45

IBM Fusion HCI - An integrated application platform optimized for Red Hat OpenShift

SBM Guest Speaker

15:00

Beyond the Cloud Lift and Shift: Modernization Matters

Ahmed AbdelSamei,

Director, Head of Cloud Centers of Excellence, Ejada

15:15

Coffee Break

15:30

OpenShift AI: Fueling the Next Generation of Intelligent Applications

Ahmad Hussain,

Solution Architecture Team Leader, Red Hat

15:45

Redefining Infrastructure with OpenShift Virtualization

Karam Abu Ataya,

Specialist - Cloud Native Applications, Red Hat

16:00

Dynamic Automation with Ansible Event-Driven Architecture

Ahmad Natsheh,

Senior Solution Architecture, Red Hat

16:15

Take control of LLMs with RHEL AI

Ali Abbas,

Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat

16:30

Emerging Tech in Telecom Service Provider

Ahmad Raba,

Telco Principal Solution Architect - EMEA, Red Hat

16:45

Award + Early Dinner

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Gold

Dynatarce
Dynatarce
Nutanix
Nutanix
HPE
HPE
SBM
SBM
portoworx
portoworx
Ejada
Ejada

Silver

iVolve
iVolve
Redington
Redington
Veeam
Veeam
Dell
Dell
Nahil Computers
Nahil Computers
QDS
QDS

Venue information

Date: November 11, 2024

Time: 09:00 - 17:00

Location: JW Marriott Hotel Riyadh
King Fahd Rd
Sahafah District
Riyadh 11564
Saudi Arabia

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