VIRTUAL EVENT

Azure Red Hat OpenShift Innovation Series

November 22-24, 2022 | 10:00 AM 

OVERVIEW

Welcome to ARO Innovation Series

Your chance to see how businesses are using transformational technologies to make a difference

Coming up on 22-24th November, we’re excited to bring together innovators, partners and leaders from across industry and specialism to talk about one thing: How can we use managed cloud services with Microsoft to deliver transformational value for our customers and IT users?

Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) Innovation week is a three-day event providing a platform for customers and partners who are using or considering (ARO) our platform to grow revenue, supercharge customer experience and think bigger when it comes to all things Kubernetes. The event is suitable for all existing customers looking to innovate or new customers considering or just starting out.

It's your chance to hear some of the most innovative applications the technology is enabling today, as well as future-focused ideas for where hybrid cloud can take us next. 

Don’t miss out. Register here!

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What is Azure Red Hat OpenShift?

ARO provides highly available, fully managed, on-demand Red Hat OpenShift clusters, monitored and operated jointly by Microsoft and Red Hat. It delivers an integrated support experience with a specialised team to manage the full stack from infrastructure to daily operations. Together, it helps to cut down on operational complexity, boost your speed-to-market and give you more time back to focus on what’s critical to your business success.

Tuesday 22nd November
10:00 - 12:30
BUSINESS TRACK
Wednesday 23rd November
10:00 - 12:00
TECHNICAL TRACK
Thursday 24th November
10:00 - 13:30
DEVELOPERS TRACK
 
Business Track - Tuesday 22nd November
Join Red Hat and Microsoft leadership to learn more about our partnership and the business value Cloud Services can drive. Hear about customers already using ARO and how this has helped their business reduce costs and time to value.
 
This track is ideal for:
  • IT C-Suite and IT decision makers
  • C-Suite, Vice Presidents, Directors
  • Business analysts
10:00 AM – 12:30 PM
  SESSION GUESTSSPEAKERS
10:00 - 10:10 Welcome and introduction Rob Hall, Senior Alliance Manager, Microsoft EMEA, Red Hat
10:10 - 10:30
Building containerised applications on Microsoft Azure
 
Containers provide a small, fast, and portable way to run your applications. The Microsoft Azure portfolio enables you to deliver cloud-native and containerised applications securely and at scale. But how do you select the best container solution for your workloads? In this session, we will explore the Azure container portfolio, including Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Container Apps, and Azure Red Hat OpenShift.
Jeremy Winter, CVP, Azure Cloud Native and Hybrid, Microsoft
10:30 - 11:00
How to get business value from Cloud Services
 
Companies are rushing into the cloud and have encountered mixed experiences. Some had difficulty to obtain the expected cost reductions, some are encountering an array of new challenges in complexity they were not prepared for, some did not yet find significant improvements allowing them to react faster to market changes. During this session we will provide feedback on lessons learned from real life examples and what made the difference for customers who did achieve real business value, whether in cost reductions and/or revenue growth.
Francis Werquin, Red Hat
11:00 - 11:30
Do more with less and focus on innovation? - The Microsoft story
 
Listen from Roy de Milde, Cloud Native Black Belt at Microsoft, the latest in innovation use cases with Azure Red Hat OpenShift. Meet Dennis Van de Laar,
Roy de Milde, Cloud Native EMEA Blackbelt, Microsoft
Dennis Van de Laar, Azure App Dev Specialist in the STU Netherlands team, Microsoft
11:30 - 11:50
Helping customer win with ARO
 
Learn how we are helping customers to innovate with Azure Red Hat OpenShift and the investments being made to drive our business offerings forward with managed Cloud services. Hear about examples from existing customers and how they implemented ARO in their business.
Mark Hosking, Director, EMEA Sales Specialists, Red Hat
Duncan Curry, Global Director, Strategic Alliances Hyperscalers, TME, Red Hat
11:50 - 12:20
Meet our Customer Success team
 
Hear from our Customer success team, who are they and what do they do? How do they help customers? Listen to their success stories with existing ARO customers.
Ali Sogukpinar, Director, Global CSA Strategy And EMEA Cloud Services Lead, Customer Success, Red Hat
Michelle Perz, Senior Manager Cloud Services, Red Hat
12:20 - 12:30 Closing of the event  
Technical Track - Wednesday 23rd November
Join Red Hat and Microsoft leadership on an Azure Red Hat OpenShift business value conversation
 
This track is ideal for:
 
  • IT Operations leaders and IT decision makers
  • AppDev ITDM
  • System administrators
  • Enterprise Architects
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
  SESSION GUEST SPEAKERS
10:00 - 10:05
Welcome and Introductions
James Read, EMEA Principal Solution Architect, Red Hat
10:05 - 10:40
A look into Upcoming Azure Red Hat OpenShift Enhancements
 
What’s new and what’s coming to Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) ARO is a native Microsoft Azure service that is jointly managed and supported by Red Hat and Microsoft, offering a turnkey application platform that helps customers accelerate their journey towards containers and the cloud. In this session, you will learn more about the recently released features in ARO as well as upcoming features to launch.
Jerome Boutaud, Red Hat
Puneet Konghot, Microsoft
10:40 - 11:20
Build, Deploy & Scale Apps with Confidence in Azure Red Hat OpenShift
 
The Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift service enables you to deploy fully managed OpenShift clusters. Join this event to learn more about how you can simplify the cluster operations so that you can focus on building, deploying and scaling apps with confidence. You will deep dive on how to deploy and operate an Azure Red Hat OpenShift cluster, how to deploy, what commando's to use, how to leverage operators and scale on your terms.
 
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
We will demonstrate how to set up an Azure RedHat OpenShift cluster and show you how to leverage and deploy operators.
-What you can configure during deployment
-The Azure CLI commando's
-Showing the OC CLI
-Using the webconsole
-Installing operators
-How to scale
-and much more
James Read, Red Hat
11:20 - 11:50
Meet the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team
 
Organizations can move more efficiently with cloud services supported by SRE practices that make IT work at scale. Meet the team and listen to some customer success stories.
 
In this talk you will learn about Site Reliability Engineering practices. You will hear roles and responsibilities for a Site Reliability engineer. There will focus on the Red Hat ARO SRE team. Red Hat team works closely with the Microsoft SRE team, there will be details on how both teams work together on ARO service. There will be details around success stories for this SRE team.
Vikas Kumar, Red Hat
11:50 - 12:00 Closing remarks James Read
 
Developers Track - Thursday 24th November
Join Red Hat and Microsoft leadership on an Azure Red Hat OpenShift business value conversation
 
This track is ideal for:
  • Developers
  • Application Architects
  • Enterprise Architects
  • Cloud Architects
10:00 AM – 13:30 PM
  SESSION GUEST SPEAKERS
10:10 - 10:05 Welcome and introductions James Read, Red Hat
10:05 - 10:35
Going Serverless with ARO
 
There's little that sparks that much confusion and discussion than Java in Containers. Join Ian and Markus for an overview of what you can do with ARO, Java, Quarkus and Serverless and why this combination helps you to not get lost in Kubernetes and container configuration so you can be productive and efficient to get business requirements glued into code. From local developer services to container images without a hassle to running services for your end users. Get ready for a demo packed session which not only gets you started on the topic but hopefully hooks you up to your new favorite development stack.
 
Markus Eisele, Red Hat
Ian Lawson, Red Hat
10:35 - 13:30
Azure Red Hat OpenShift Hands-on Workshop
 
Join us for a 3-hour hands-on experience for you to work directly with our Red Hat and Microsoft experts to try Azure Red Hat OpenShift without commitment. Ask questions, follow along with the demo and create your project in the console to get a feel for how Azure Red Hat OpenShift will work for your team and workloads.
 
James Read, Red Hat
 
 

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