IN-PERSON EVENT

Swiss Dev Confederation

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OVERVIEW

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We serve the builders. The problem solvers who create careers with code.

Red Hat organizes the first Swiss Dev Confederation. Learn from engineers, practitioners & open source committers and get the latest insights into cloud native development.

Join us if you’re a developer, software engineer, web designer, front-end designer, UX designer, computer scientist, architect, tester, product manager, project manager or team lead.

This full day event will start with inspiring keynotes and roadmaps, followed by 3 different tracks in the afternoon. Listen to customers, partners and Red Hat experts talking about their experiences and the latest developments or get your hands dirty in the hands-on track.
 
Topics that will be covered:
  • Gen AI
  • Developer Productivity / Experience
  • Software Supply Chain
  • Platform Engineering
  • Hands-on in Quarkus, Developer Hub and Trusted Application Pipeline
 
Our speaker lineup:
 

Questions? Please contact Red Hat EMEA at emeaevents@redhat.com

Agenda

Time

SESSION

09:00 - 09:30 Registration & Welcome Coffee
09:30 - 09:35 Welcome and Introduction
09:35 - 10:05
Supercharge your cloud-native Applications with GenAI
Alex Soto Bueno, Director of Developer Experience & Natale Vinto, Developer Advocate Lead, Red Hat
10:05 - 10.35
Enhancing Enterprise AI with RAG: Boost your AI's intelligence by seamlessly merging real-time data with LLM's 
Hind Azegrouz, EMEA AI Inference Lead, Intel Corporation & Natale Vinto, Developer Advocate Lead, Red Hat
10:35 - 11:00
Networking Break
11:00 - 11:30
Navigating the Cloud in Complex Organizations - a Framework for Engineering Productivity
Christian Menz & Mathieu Imfeld, Distinguished Engineers, UBS AG
11:30 - 12:00
Developer Joy == Developer Productivity (really!)
Holly Cummins, Senior Principal Quarkus Software Engineer, Java Champion, Red Hat
12:00 - 12:30
Software Supply Chain Security - Perspective, Approach and what's next?
Alexey Loubyansky, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break

 

Track 1: Developer Productivity

Track 2: Hands-on Workshops

Track 3: OpenShift Community

13:35 - 14:15
MLOps at scale with OpenShift AI: a model journey from experiments to app development

Matteo Mortari, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
OpenShift Inner and Outer Loop Development with Developer Hub [Beginner]
 
Alex Soto Bueno, Director of Developer Experience & Wolfgang Kulhanek, Principal Architect, Red Hat
OpenShift Roadmap Update
 
Simon Reber, Senior Principal Technical Account Manager, Simon Krenger, Principal Technical Account Manager & Chris Eberle, Senior Principal Solution Architect, Red Hat
 
OpenShift Virtualization - what is the fuzz all about?
Ioannis Loukaidis, Senior Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat
14:20 - 15:00
Enter Developer Hyperspace with Golden Path Templates
 
Josie Pfeiffer, Consultant & Janina Sutter, DevX Team, Red Hat
VP Bank 's Journey with Service Mesh

Peer Eisele, Head of IT Integration & Development, VP Bank
 
15:00 - 15:30
Break
 
 
15:30 - 16:10
Local Builds on Steroids 💊 Turbocharge Your Local Build for a Large Codebase
 
Graziano Felline, Solution Architect Software Engineering & Gregor von Flüe, Senior Software Engineer, Adcubum
Crafting Intelligent Application with Quarkus - Harness the power of LLMs [Intermediate]
 
Dimitris Andreadis, Director Software Engineering, Red Hat
Declarative Networking in a Declarative World
Mat Kowalski, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
16.10 - 16.20 Break
16:20 - 17:00
Empowering Developers: Tools & Techniques for Cloud Native Productivity
 
Raffael Hertle, Software Architect, tim&koko

Breakout Sessions

- OpenShift Virtualization

- ServiceMesh

- Networking in OpenShift

 

 
 
 
 

Location
JED Events
Zürcherstrasse 39
8952 Schlieren, Zurich, Switzerland

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