Unlocking Innovation 8/9/2025

8/9/2025 | Lago Events, Rishon LeTsiyon

OVERVIEW

New date, same great event – Unlocking Innovation is back!

Unlocking Innovation is the premier open source event for customers, partners, and members of the open source community who are looking to explore real world solutions to complex challenges.

At the conference, you will gain firsthand insights from case studies presented by customers who have faced and solved challenges similar to yours. You will also get a behind the scenes look at how engineers develop cutting edge technologies and a sneak peek into the product roadmap for the future.

This is your chance to connect with peers tackling similar scaling challenges in today’s most critical technology domains. Through interactive sessions, technical deep dives, and hands-on experiences, you will explore the latest in AI, Hybrid Cloud, Edge Computing, Automation, Platform Engineering, Security and more.

Join us to learn from real world implementations, share best practices, and collaborate with experts shaping the future of open source innovation.

 

Agenda

Agenda is not final & may be updated.
TIME SESSION
8:00 Registration, Exhibition & Breakfast
9:00
Welcome to Unlocking Innovation
Ori Ben-Shmuel, Manager, Sales, Red Hat
9:10
Democratizing Innovation: Red Hat’s Open Source Strategy for the AI Era
Shon Paz, Manager, Solution Architecture, Red Hat
9:55 Transforming Vision To Action
Regional Solution Architecture Group, Red Hat
10:45 Innovation Awards Ceremony
Limor Afik, Country Manager, Red Hat
Shon Paz, Solution Architecture Manager, Red Hat
11:00 Coffee Break
  Track 1: Supercharging Applications With AI Track 2: Empowering Infrastructure
11:15
The Vision: Red Hat AI What's New & What's Next
Ilan Pinto, Manager, Software Engineering, Red Hat
Sharon Dashet, Senior Principal AI Architect, Red Hat
The Vision: Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization What's New & What's Next
Ronen Sde-Or, Product Manager, Red Hat
Dan Keninsberg, Director of Engineering, Red Hat
11:35 Why You Should Care About MCP: Powering Agentic AI
Eran Cohen​, Senior Principal Software Engineer​, Red Hat
Automation As a Service: Creating an Automation Standard at Scale with Ansible Automation Platform
Michael Kotelnikov, Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat
Oshri Moyal, Senior Consultant, Red Hat
11:55 Building Enterprise-Grade AI Agents: Accelerating Product Delivery with Red Hat's Platform Stack and Granite Models
Hofni Gartner, Manager, Software Engineering, Red Hat
Managing At Scale: Multi-Cluster Management & Observability Of Virtualized Workloads
Shirly Radco, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
12:15
Lightning Talk: Semantic search: Fast, Simple, and Smarter with Elastic’s Vector Innovations and OpenShift
Itay Tevel, Principal Solutions Architect, Elastic
Lightning Talk: Kubernetes Resilience at Scale: Veeam Kasten + Red Hat OpenShift
Eli Bitton, MED Technical Lead, Veeam
12:30
Transforming Business Intelligence With OpenShift and ECK
Or Lavi, CEDP manager, Clalit Healthcare Services
Alex Sokolov, DevOps engineer, Clalit Healthcare Services 
Optimize Virtual Machine Resource Management
Barak Mordehai, Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat
12:50
Securing The Public Cloud: Applying Zero-Trust To GenAI Workloads
Amnon Ilan, Director of Engineering, Red Hat
Ariel Adam, Director of Engineering, Red Hat
Strategizing a Seamless Infrastructure Experience Across The Hybrid Cloud
Laurent Nahum, VP business platforms, Deputy of the CIO, Max
Golan Maimon, Development Manager, Max
Tal Revach, DevOps Engineer, Max
13:10
Lightning Talk: AMD and Dell Empowering the AI Driven Future
Yigal Shamaev, Senior Business Development Executive, AMD
Lightning Talk: Lift, Shift, Run Anywhere with F5
Ofir Kapalushnik, Solution Engineering Manager, F5
Dvir Perets, Principal Solutions Engineer, F5
13:25
IoT At Scale: Expanding Predictive & Generative AI Workloads To The Edge
Amit Ram, Platform Department Manager, Government Of Israel
Noa Hadad,Team Lead, Government Of Israel
Hillay Amir, Architect, Red Hat 
Load Aware Rebalancing For Virtual Machines
Daniel Sionov, Associate Software Engineer, Red Hat
13:45 Lunch
 

Location

Lago Events
HaMea VeEsrim 6 St.
Rishon LeZion, Israel

 
Parking is available for free in the LAGO parking lot on a first-come, first-served basis. Additionally, there are numerous blue-and-white parking spaces near the conference venue. Shuttle services will also be provided throughout the conference hours (7:40 AM - 2:00 PM), running between the LAGO complex and the "Moshe Dayan" train station in Rishon LeZion.
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