This in person OpenShift Commons Gathering will be held on March 23rd live in Amsterdam, NL and co-located with CNCF's KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU.
This Gathering will focus on talks from and by Cloud Native practitioners with production deployments sharing their use cases, insights into their workloads and lessons learned along the way.
Carolyn is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Red Hat, specializing in Red Hat OpenShift, the leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes. Carolyn adopts the customer mindset to create high-value assets that bridge the gap between technical concepts and business value. She empowers enterprises to navigate their digital transformation journeys and scale with confidence in a cloud-native world.
Ian is an OpenShift fanatic who is lucky enough to work directly with the Engineers at Red Hat around developer experience and advocacy. After 30+ years of Application writing he is rabidly obsessed with telling people how good OpenShift is in such a way as to make it easy to use.
Joerg studied IT and Mathematics at Paderborn University before becoming a researcher at the Open University in Hagen. He then spent six years at Siemens as a senior solutions architect, developing portal and process technologies. In 2008, Joerg joined Diebold Nixdorf, where he is currently the Principal Solution Architect for the Vynamic Transaction Middleware Platform.
Business Development Transaction Processing, Banking
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Hans is an experienced payments sales manager and specialist with a proven track record in the Fintech sector and as CCO and relationship manager at Worldline, before his tenure at Diebold Nixdorf. In his current role, he is responsible for business development for payments middleware, across the EMEA region.
For over 14 years, Francesco Giannoccaro has been at the forefront of engineering large-scale information systems that serve the public good. Currently leading the strategic development of national scientific computing platforms that underpin critical public health services in UK, Francesco specializes in deploying highly secure, confidential computing environments for AI and pathogen genomics analysis. Francesco is dedicated to the mission of democratizing access to advanced AI and HPC systems for the public health community, and by bridging the gap between complex infrastructure and public health research, they empower epidemiologists and data scientists to solve global challenges through secure, scalable, and open-source technology solutions.
Johan is the Chief Evangelist and AI Lead at ITQ where he leads ITQs advocacy, tech marketing and some the AI-Focussed R&D initiatives. He is the author of the VDI Design Guide Book Series, Podcast Host, and a regular speaker at events like NVIDIA GTC, VMworld/VMware Explore, HashiConf, and more, and loves to use a combination story telling, showing cutting-edge technology, and (preferably live) demos to inspire the audience with the Art of the Possible!
Sander Harrewijnen is an Application Modernization Technologist at ITQ, helping teams improve developer experience and adopt cloud-native practices. He blogs at harre.dev. Sander speaks on modern software engineering, team culture, and building platforms developers love.
Amy is a Principal Technical Marketing Manager at Red Hat specializing in OpenStack. She currently serves as the Chair of the CentOS Project, as Vice-Chair of the Open Infrastructure Foundation Board of Directors and on the CHAOSS Project Governing Board. In addition she serves on the OpenStack Technical Committee, as chair of the OpenInfra Diversity and Inclusion Working Group, and contributes to several OpenStack projects, and previously served as the chair of the OpenStack User Committee.
With professional experience at various (inter)national corporations—including Transavia, ScottishPower, ING, NN, EDSN, MOSL, and ENDK—I have spent the last five years at Schiphol, where I currently serve as Technology Lead. In this role, I am responsible for defining the IT strategy and the technologies used throughout the organization. I am currently driving the development of the 'Autonomous Airport 2050' by positioning IT as a key enabler for business processes. My work focuses on platform engineering with an emphasis on reliability and availability, utilizing automated provisioning and configuration to offer platforms via self-service.
Maxim has worked in various fields, from law enforcement to academia, through being a consultant in several mid-size and large IT firms in the Netherlands, until ending up at Red Hat. At Red Hat, Maxim is part of the presales team in the Dutch region, as a principal solution architect, and part-time evangelist. Red Hat is the place where Maxim was destined to end up at: it was his ultimate goal ever since he started to work with Linux and other open source software in the early ’00s. He is very passionate about Red Hat and the way Red Hat does it’s software development: out in the open. Maxim has spoken at various conferences, both in Europe and the United States, about the Red Hat portfolio and open society in general and open source in particular. He was voted #1 speaker at Red Hat Summit 2018 in San Francisco, and runner up at Red Hat Summit 2019 in Boston.
Markus Nagel is a Principal Technical Marketing Manager at Red Hat, specializing in Software Supply Chain Security. He focuses on secure software delivery processes, including Red Hat Trusted Software Supply Chain and related open source innovations.
Active in the industry since 1997, he continues to collaborate with upstream open source communities and Red Hat engineering teams to connect evolving product capabilities with real-world customer requirements.
Michael Thirion has been with Red Hat for nearly 11 years, and has 17 years of expertise in enterprise application architecture. As a cloud-native application specialist, he plays a key role in driving the adoption of Red Hat’s hybrid cloud platform, helping top customers maximize its value and accelerate their digital transformation.
Rachid Snoussi is a solution architect and trusted advisor specializing in cloud-native architectures and application modernization. With over 15 years of experience, he provides leadership on Red Hat OpenShift and related technologies, driving adoption across EMEA markets. Rachid works closely with customers to modernize their applications, streamline development practices, and enhance business agility.
Event Information
Code of Conduct: We follow both the Red Hat Event Terms and Conditions and 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.
Please Note: All sessions are first come, first seated. Workshops and roundtables have limited capacity. Workshops are interactive and hands-on; attendees must bring their own laptop to participate.
