Accelerate innovation with modern applications

Session title: Reducing the friction of technology to make the business run faster.

Session abstract: In this session, Brian will cover the various business drivers he has encountered and the mechanisms to use technology to achieve objectives and growth. 

Speaker: Brian Gracely, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Red Hat  

About speaker: Brian Gracely is Senior Director of Product Strategy in the Red Hat® Hybrid Cloud Business Unit, focused on OpenShift. He brings more than 20 years of experience in strategy, product management, systems engineering, marketing, and mergers and acquisitions. He hosts the #1 cloud computing podcast, The Cloudcast. 

Session title: Top considerations for selecting a modern application platform 

Session abstract: Containers and Kubernetes are the de facto standard for building, delivering, and managing modern, cloud-native applications. With so much hype and an ever-changing landscape, it can be daunting to evaluate your choices. This session will help you gain the knowledge that you need to make the best container orchestration infrastructure decision for cloud-native application development—a foundation to accelerate your company’s innovation and better serve customers. In this session, we’ll discuss the what, how, who, and why of selecting a container orchestration infrastructure; the relationship between Linux® and containers; the different options available for your organization if you want to move to Kubernetes for container orchestration; automation as a key function of delivering and managing containers and container-based applications; as well as customer patterns of success.  

Speaker: Stuart (Stu) Miniman, Director, Product Marketing Global, Red Hat

About speaker: Stu Miniman is Director of Market Insights on the Red Hat Cloud Platforms team. Prior to joining Red Hat, Stu was an analyst and host of theCUBE where he wrote about and interviewed thousands of industry leaders about the intersection of business and enterprise tech.

Session title: Top considerations for selecting a modern application platform (Co-presenting with Stuart Miniman)

Speaker: Ben Scheerer, Senior Principal Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat

About speaker: Ben is a member of the portfolio marketing team at Red Hat, Inc., focused on product marketing, competitive marketing, and research. Ben’s 20+ years of industry experience includes competitive marketing at VMware, product marketing at Quest Software, and software sales, consulting, product, and solutions marketing at CA Technologies. Ben’s contributions include numerous speaking engagements, published articles, and white papers on IT management-related topics. Ben is ITIL® V3 Foundation certified.

Session title: Responsible Innovation with OpenShift 

Session abstract: Let’s chat about responsible innovation and applying that to the implementation of Red Hat OpenShift in a safe and sustainable way. Join Joe Giordano as he discusses his experiences from the field and shares some thoughts, approaches, and experiences. 

Speaker: Joe Giordano, Chief Architect, Red Hat

About speaker: With more than 20 years in IT-related roles, Joe Giordano brings a wealth of experience with specializations in cloud, automation, and compute. He has directly contributed to the success of a wide range of organizations from startups to the largest financial institutions in the world. Currently serving as a Chief Architect for Red Hat’s strategic customers, Joe helps organizations deliver on their transformation and modernization initiatives. Evangelizing the concept of open innovation, he focuses on accelerating the adoption of open source in an innovative, safe, and sustainable way. Joe’s five years of experience supporting large, U.S.-based financial services organizations have given him a solid perspective on how to help some of the most complex organizations succeed both culturally and with open hybrid cloud, distributed computing, and containers at scale. Joe has participated in the evolution of computing from traditional Unix Infrastructure in the 90s up through the current container revolution that’s transforming the infrastructure landscape. Joe has spoken at various public and company events sponsored by The Linux Foundation, ListNet, and Red Hat.

Session title: Strangling the problems of migration through cloud services and intelligent innovation

Session abstract: Join Joe Dickman, SVP Vizuri, as he discusses his experience working with clients to chart the path of application migration to cloud services using the strangler pattern to break a grand design into a series of smaller deliverables.

Speaker: Joe Dickman, Senior Vice President and Co-Founder, Vizuri, Red Hat Services Partner

About speaker: Joe Dickman is a Senior Vice President and Co-founder at Vizuri. He is a business executive who works with organizations to understand how to innovate for increased business agility. An early adopter of open source, he started and has grown Vizuri to be an award winning, premier services partner with Red Hat. He is an active member and speaker within the Open Source community, with more than 35 years of experience as a technical architect, developer, and business leader. He specializes in helping visionaries, large and small, implement innovative, pragmatic technology solutions that address real-world challenges.
 
As the founder and head of Vizuri, Joe is responsible for its overall strategic direction. Through a hands-on approach, he offers customers more than thirty years of experience as a technical architect, developer, and business leader. Joe specializes in helping executives solve complex business problems by mapping their business processes and adopting new technologies when appropriate. He frequently speaks at industry events and contributes his perspective to news outlets and research firms such as Forrester.