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OpenShift Commons Gathering at Red Hat Summit 2023

May 22, 2023 | 8:00 AM6:00 PM EDT | Boston, Massachusetts

Where users, partners, customers, contributors and upstream project leads come together to collaborate and work together across the OpenShift Cloud Native ecosystem.

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Red Hat Summit and OpenShift Commons 2023 Recap

Red Hat distinguished engineers Derek Carr and Jeremy Eder reflect on how much Red Hat solutions have evolved since their first Red Hat Summit presentation five years ago.

OpenShift Commons Gathering at Red Hat Summit: Welcome to the Commons - Collaboration in Action

Karena Angell (Red Hat) welcomes the community to a lively OpenShift Commons Gathering at the 2023 Red Hat Summit.

OpenShift Commons Gathering at Red Hat Summit: OpenShift - The Road Ahead

Mike Barrett (Red Hat) and Derek Carr (Red Hat) openly discuss the decisions they must make when a technology evolves including navigating the constraints, cluster boundaries, application networking, AI workloads and open source collaborations.

Executive Fireside Chat at OpenShift Commons Gathering at Red Hat Summit 2023

Chris Wright (Red Hat), Tracy Rankin (Red Hat), Joe Fernandes (Red Hat), and Karena Angell (Red Hat) discuss innovation in open source, the offerings they are investing in on top of OpenShift, and the latest innovations in edge and AI.

Audi's Digital Transformation: to reduce friction and boost time to market

Audi's digital transformation focuses on 'people first.' Sebastian Kister, Product Team Lead for Audi AG's Container Competence Center & Platforms, discusses his effort to bring a startup mentality into an enterprise.

OpenShift Commons Gathering at Red Hat Summit: OpenShift Futures - Containerized WASM

Dan Walsh (Red Hat) discusses what Red Hat is doing with WASM in OpenShift.

Case Study: Safely navigating storm clouds with OpenShift

Deploying 150 OpenShift clusters to collect weather data and issue storm alerts across the country? John Call (Red Hat) and Sean Webb (NOAA/Raytheon) discuss how the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Association plans to use Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes to manage its complex infrastructure. They join us at the OpenShift Commons Gathering at Red Hat Summit.

Case Study - Taming the pets: Managing a heterogenous and sovereign multi-cloud container platform

Michael Gruener (SBB) Lukas Reusser (SBB), part of Swiss Federal Railways' container platform team present at the OpenShift Commons Gathering at Red Hat Summit

OpenShift Commons Gathering at Red Hat Summit: Case Study - Overcoming Fake Cloud in Telco

Jerrad DeBolt (SaskTel) and Aaron Chartier (SaskTel) discuss Telco cloud and how SaskTel manages its container platform.

Case Study: The Use of Development Services and Enablement Teams to Guide Technical Implementation

Jim Wittermans, ABN AMRO Clearing Bank speaks at the OpenShift Commons Gathering at Red Hat Summit about how to enable the global landscape on a global platform.

Case Study: Citizen Banks' journey to modernization through culture and technology

John Maciocci (Citizens Bank) and Suresh Ganesan (Citizens Bank) discuss Citizen Banks' cloud platform features and capabilities at the OpenShift Commons Gathering at Red Hat Summit 2023.

Case Study: Driving the evolution of Banco Original financial services

Henrique Romao Oliveira (Banco Original) and Gabriel Sampaio (Red Hat) discuss how Pix, the Brazilian Instant Payment service runs in the background. They join us at the OpenShift Commons Gathering at Red Hat Summit 2023.

OpenShift Commons Gathering at Red Hat Summit: User Experience Design at Red Hat

Andy Braren (Red Hat) discusses how Red Hat brings users into the process when designing their platform experience.

OpenShift Commons Boston Panel: Backstage Developer Platform

How do you bring developer experience to your organization and modernize the platform? Discussing this and more are Serena Chechile (Red Hat), Satish Puranam (Ford Motor Company), Randeep Khaund (Deloitte Consulting), Adam Sykes (Deloitte Consulting) and Christophe Fargette (Red Hat).

Red Hat and NVIDIA Partner to Bring AI to the Enterprise

How do you take generative AI and bring it into the enterprise sphere where it has all the support, all the ecosystem engagement, and all the accelerated infrastructure required to run it? NVIDIA's Amanda Saunders discusses how Red Hat and NVIDIA are partnering to make this possible.

Meeting Sustainability Goals with Project Kepler

Sandro Mazziotta demonstrates project Kepler, an open-source upstream project that measures and optimizes workload energy consumption. The goal: to lower a company's carbon footprint.

Cockroach Labs and Red Hat Partner to Modernize Applications with a Cloud Native Database

CockroachDB, a cloud-native, distributed SQL database, helps Red Hat OpenShift users on their path to the cloud.

SaskTel's Cloud Native Journey

Jerrad DeBolt and Aaron Chartier discuss how SaskTel implemented its cloud native Telco Cloud and some of the key features of its cloud deployment.

OpenShift Commons Denver: Accelerating AI: Visions, Trends, and OpenShift

Erwan Gallen (Red Hat), Raghu Moorthy (Intel), Adam Tetelman (NVIDIA), and Ramine Roane (AMD) join us from the Community Day and OpenShift Commons Gathering at Red Hat Summit 2024 in Denver Colorado. OpenShift Commons Gathering May 6, 2024, Live from Red Hat Summit 2024 in Denver, Colorado Join us: commons.openshift.org

OpenShift Commons Denver: Scaling OpenShift cluster lifecycle management at Garmin

Brett Summers (Garmin) and Jonathan Regehr (Garmin) discuss how they leverage Jsonnet, Tekton & ArgoCD to scale OpenShift cluster lifecycle management at Garmin. They join us from the Community Day and OpenShift Commons Gathering at Red Hat Summit 2024 in Denver Colorado. OpenShift Commons Gathering May 6, 2024, Live from Red Hat Summit 2024 in Denver, Colorado Join us: commons.openshift.org

Event Overview

This OpenShift Commons Gathering is on May 22 on Eastern Standard Time (EST)

This OpenShift Commons Gathering will be held live in Boston, Massachusetts. As always, our focus is on creating a space for peer-to-peer interactions. This Gathering will focus on Case Studies from and by End Users with production deployments of OpenShift sharing their use cases, insights into their workloads and lessons learned along the way. Topics covered during this Gathering include hybrid cloud infrastructure, cloud-native development, and new Emerging technology initiatives.

Where

Boston, Massachusetts
The Westin Boston Seaport Hotel

When

Monday, May 22, 2023

Price

Included in your Red Hat Summit Registration

This OpenShift Commons Gathering will be held on Eastern Standard Time (EST). Please note: Attendees are required to register for Red Hat Summit. OpenShift Commons Partner Reception is open to all registered OpenShift Commons Gathering attendees and starts at 5:00 p.m. Red Hat Summit Reception follows the OpenShift Commons Partner Reception.

Schedule

Code of Conduct: We follow the Code of Conduct of other events such as KubeCon + CloudNativeCon. Similarly we are dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for participants at all of our events, whether they are held in person or virtually. All event participants, whether they are attending an in-person event or a virtual event, are expected to behave in accordance with professional standards, with both this Code of Conduct as well as their respective employer's policies governing appropriate workplace behavior and applicable laws.

COVID-19 Health + Safety Information: We are committed to our attendee's health and safety and follow the Healthy and Safety policies of the events we are co-located with or by default those of the CNCF.

See sessions from previous gatherings

8:00 AM
Registration Opens
9:00 AM
Welcome to the Commons: Collaboration in Action
9:10 AM
OpenShift: The Road Ahead Mike Barrett (Red Hat)Derek Carr (Red Hat)
9:40 AM
OpenShift Futures: Containerized Wasm Dan Walsh (Red Hat)
10:00 AM
Key Note: Application Modernization Journey Sonia Pereira (Advance Auto Parts)
10:20 AM
Case Study: Audis Digital Transformation to reduce friction and boost time-to-market Sebastian Kister (Audi AG)
10:30 AM
User Experience Design at Red Hat Andy Braren (Red Hat)
10:50 AM
Coffee Break
11:10 AM
Case Study: Safely navigating storm clouds with OpenShift John Call (Red Hat)Sean Webb (NOAA/Raytheon)
11:30 AM
Case Study: Overcoming Fake Cloud in Telco Jerrad DeBolt (Sasktel)Aaron Chartier (Sasktel)
11:50 AM
Case Study: Taming the pets: Managing a heterogenous and sovereign multi-cloud container platform Michael Gruener (SBB)Lukas Reusser (SBB)
12:10 PM
Case Study: How IBM TechZone Manages thousands of OpenShift clusters with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management David Stacy (IBM)Dmitry Zhukovski (IBM)
12:30 PM
Lunch Break
2:00 PM
Case Study: The journey to modernization through culture and technology John Maciocci (Citizens Bank)Suresh Ganesan (Citizens Bank)
2:20 PM
Case Study: CI/CD Blocks - A guide to scalable, consistent, composable CI/CD Leigh Grealis (Lloyds Banking Group)Sal Elrahal (Red Hat)
2:40 PM
Case Study: Driving the evolution of Banco Original financial services Henrique Romao Oliveira (Banco Original)Gabriel Sampaio (Red Hat)
3:00 PM
Coffee Break
3:20 PM
Case Study: The Use of Development Services and Enablement Teams to Guide Technical Implementation Jim Wittermans (ABN AMRO Clearing Bank)
3:40 PM
Case Study: How Brightly is Synergizing Its Product Portfolio with Technical, Product and Culture Transformation Shane Rowley (Red Hat)
4:50 PM
Closing and Opinionated Guide to Red Hat Summit Karena Angell (Red Hat)

Speakers

Aaron Chartier
Sasktel

Adam Sykes
Manager | Deloitte Engineering - Cloud App Dev

IntroAdam Sykes is a Deloitte Engineering leader in building Developer Platforms in the Cloud and an overall Developer Experience for enterprise. He serves customers across Government and Commercial sectors and strives to bring acceleration to environments for happy developers.

Andy BrarenUser Experience Design
Red Hat

Chris WrightCTO and SVP, Global Engineering
Red Hat

Christophe FargetteProduct Manager
Red Hat

IntroChristophe Fargette is a Product Manager at Red Hat, specializing in the development and enhancement of the Red Hat Developer Hub. With a passion for empowering developers and optimizing workflows, Christophe leads initiatives to create user-centric solutions that streamline internal development processes. With his extensive expertise in developer experience, Christophe brings a unique blend of technical expertise and strategic vision to his role. He is committed to understanding the diverse needs of developers within the organization and works closely with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative tools and resources that enhance productivity and collaboration.

Cloudera

Cockroach Labs

Couchbase

Crunchy Data

Dan WalshSenior Distinguished Engineer
Red Hat

David StacyCloud Architect and DevOps Strategist
IBM

Dell Technologies

Derek CarrSenior Distinguished Engineer
Red Hat

IntroDerek Carr is a Senior Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat. He is the lead architect for OpenShift products and services. He has worked in the Kubernetes and related cloud-native open source communities since 2014. In the Kubernetes community, he is an emeritus member of the Kubernetes Steering committee, and a co-chair for Architecture and technical lead for Node special interest groups.

Dmitry ZhukovskiPrincipal Solution Architect
IBM

Gabriel Sampaio
Red Hat

Henrique Romao Oliveira
Banco Original

Intel

Jeff BrentDirector of Product, Red Hat ACM
Red Hat

Jeremy EderDistinguished Engineer
Red Hat

Jerrad DeBolt
Sasktel

Jim Wittermans
ABN AMRO Clearing Bank

Joe FernandesVP and GM, Hybrid Cloud Platforms
Red Hat

John CallSolutions Architect
Red Hat

John Maciocci
Citizens Bank

Ju LimSenior Manager, OpenShift Product Manager
Red Hat

IntroJu Lim is a Senior Manager, OpenShift Product Management and Distinguished Engineer. She works on the core Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for hybrid and multi-cloud environments to enable customers to run Red Hat OpenShift anywhere. Ju leads the product management teams responsible for installation, updates, provider integration, and cloud infrastructure.

Karena AngellPrincipal Product Manager, OpenShift
Red Hat

Kirsten NewcomerDirector, Security Product Management, Hybrid Platforms
Red Hat

IntroKirsten Newcomer leads the Security Pillar PM team for the Hybrid BU platforms BU. Our team is responsible for RH ACS, OpenShift and OpenStack security and compliance and we work closely with OCP PMs and security professionals across Red Hat.

Kong

Leigh GrealisSenior Engineering Manager
Lloyds Banking Group

Lukas Reusser
SBB

Michael Gruener
SBB

Mike BarrettVice President and General Manager, Red Hat Hybrid Platforms
Red Hat

IntroMike Barrett is the Vice President and General Manager of Red Hat Hybrid Platforms. He looks after Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Cloud Services, Red Hat OpenStack and most of Red Hat’s Cloud Native Computing Foundation investments. He joined Red Hat in 2013 and specializes in accelerating application platforms through the use of operating systems, cloud and hardware technologies. Mike has more than 25 years of experience in datacenter architecture. He previously worked in both services and product management roles at Sun Microsystems and Oracle before joining Red Hat.

Peter LauterbachSenior Principal Technical Product Manager
Red Hat

IntroPeter is a product manager in Red Hat Hybrid Platforms, focused on OpenShift, virtualization, and performance & scale. He’s been building high-tech solutions for enterprise storage, virtualization, databases, hyperconverged infrastructure, and cloud for longer than he cares to admit.

Pure Storage

Randeep KhaundSenior Manager, Cloud Engineering
Deloitte Consulting

Sal Elrahal
Red Hat

SAS

Satish PuranamTechnical Leader – Cloud
Ford Motor Company

Sean Webb
NOAA/Raytheon

Sebastian KisterKubernetes Competence Center Lead
Audi AG

Serena ChechileHead of Design and Research | Enterprise Technology
JPMC

Shane RowleyTransformation Architect
Red Hat

Sonia PereiraLead Architect
Advance Auto Parts

Suresh Ganesan
Citizens Bank

Tracy RankinVice President, Software Engineering
Red Hat

Tushar KatarkiDirector of Product Management for OpenShift Core Platform
Red Hat

World Wide Technologies

Venue

May 22, 2023 | 8:00 AM6:00 PM EDT

The Westin Boston Seaport Hotel
425 Summer Street Boston, Massachusetts 02210
Boston, Massachusetts