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Join us for Tech Day 2025 in Belgium

Are you ready to connect, learn, and innovate? Join our top IT experts, industry leaders,and tech enthusiasts for an exclusive event designed to fuel your expertise and elevate your insights. 

Highlights: 

  • Inspiring insights: Hear from top tech visionaries shaping the future of IT.
  • Hands-on workshops: Gain practical skills with deep-dive sessions on AI, cybersecurity, cloud computing, and more.
  • Networking opportunities:  Meet fellow professionals, potential collaborators, and industry experts.

Who should attend? 

Red Hat's Tech Day in Belgium is a perfect fit for technical professionals such as architects, platform engineers, developers, system administrators, and anyone passionate about technology and innovation. The event is suitable for Red Hat customers and anyone who is interested in learning more about using open source technology. 

Why should you attend? 

  • We will bring you the newest updates on Red Hat's technology
  • You have the chance to experience our solutions yourself
  • You will get exclusive highlights from industry pioneers
  • You will have the chance to expand your professional network

Don’t miss out on this must-attend event! Secure your spot today and take your IT career to the next level.

 

 

Questions? Please contact Barbara Descheemaecker at bdeschee@redhat.com

Agenda

Agenda might be subject to change.

Please note: 

  • the session slots do not require separate registration; you can join on the spot as long as space is available. Each session has limited capacity, so we recommend arriving early—when it's full, it's full.
  • You have the chance to experience our solutions yourself during our workshops; make sure to bring your laptop!
                                                                   
Time Room A Room B Room C
9.00 AM - 10.00 AM Welcome & Registration
10.00 AM - 10.45 AM Welcome & Summit Messages
10.45 AM - 11.45 AM New from the Summit: Discover Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

11.00 AM - 12.00 PM

Workshop: Demo: A Journey to End-to-End Automation with Event-Driven Ansible

12.00 PM - 01.00 PM

Hands-On Workshop: Get Your Hands Dirty with Event-Driven Ansible

11.45 AM - 12.15 PM OpenShift native service on Azure, by Microsoft Unifying Your Microservices: Multi-Cluster Mesh with OpenShift Service Mesh 3
12.15 PM - 01.30 PM Lunch
01.30 PM - 02.00 PM AI Meets PostgreSQL: CloudNativePG on OpenShift for the Modern Data Platform Next-Level VM Management: OpenShift Virtualization Image LifeCycle with CI/CD pipeline
01.30 PM - 03.30 PM
 
RHEL workshops. Offering participants a menu of short self-guided labs: Lightspeed, Image Mode, RHEL 10, Podman in RHEL (Satellite and Insights)
2.00 PM - 02.30 PM HashiCorp Vault and OpenShift: Discover Security and Speed in Perfect Harmony
02.30 PM - 03.00 PM Break
03.00 PM - 03.30 PM Getting started with OpenShift AI Platform Engineering 101: IDPs (think Backstage.io) – breaking barriers between dev and ops
03.30 PM - 04.00 PM Discover how to protect Virtual Machines running on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization with Veeam-Kasten  
04.00 PM - 04.10 PM Closing Remarks
04.10 PM - 05.00 PM Networking & Drinks
Sebastien Wains
Sebastien Wains

Solutions Architect & Automation Specialist, Red Hat

Seb has over 20 years of experience working with open source technologies, focusing on IT automation and streamlining operations. As a passionate automation advocate, he believes that technology is just one piece of the automation challenge. Often overshadowed, the crucial roles of standardization, people, and processes are central to his philosophy. In his current capacity, he advises organizations in Belgium and Luxembourg, operating across diverse industries and sectors.

Dieter De Moitié
Dieter De Moitié

Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat

Dieter is a Specialist Solution Architect at Red Hat, focusing on OpenShift Container Platform. He has expertise in OpenShift, Ansible Automation Platform, and Virtualization. He supports customers in designing scalable cloud-native platforms.

Roy de Milde
Roy de Milde

Cloud Native EMEA Blackbelt, Microsoft

Roy is responsible for ensuring customer success when adopting cloud-native technology in the Microsoft ecosystem. He engages with Microsoft field, partners, and customers for enablement and to drive cloud-native business across EMEA. Roy also gathers relevant feedback from customers and connects them with product and engineering teams. He works closely with Red Hat on a daily basis.

Kevin Li
Kevin Li

Director Sales Engineer at EDB

Kevin has led EMEA Sales Engineering since 2021, overseeing technical sales and solutions engineering with a focus on PostgreSQL and EDB products, including high availability, cloud, performance, and Kubernetes. He previously held roles at Oracle such as Director of Cloud Strategy & Sales Programs and brings experience in consulting and software development. Kevin holds a Computing Studies degree from London University and Oracle cloud certifications.

Juan van der Breggen
Juan van der Breggen

EMEA Associate Principal Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat

Juan is an EMEA Associate Principal Specialist Solution Architect for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. He has worked with Linux and other operating systems since the early 1990s with a career in software engineering in OS, middleware, and cloud computing.

Cojan van Ballegooien
Cojan van Ballegooien

Solutions Engineer at HashiCorp

As a Solutions Engineer at HashiCorp for more than 3 years, Cojan is serving as a trusted advisor to aligned accounts, technical teams, and business stakeholders throughout the customer lifecycle. His expertise and guidance help customers unlock the full potential of HashiCorp's solutions and achieve their desired business outcomes. Prior to HashiCorp, Cojan gained experience in development tooling, web development, middleware, cloud strategy, DevOps, and technical marketing at various companies like Oracle, Red Hat, and CloudBees.

More speakers coming

...and more to follow soon.

 

Location
Salons de Romree
Beiaardlaan 31
1850 Grimbergen, Belgium

 
Good to know: at the rear of the building there is a spacious parking lot for 80 cars (entrance via Brusselsesteenweg 39).
 
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