Red Hat Summit Connect: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Get ready for innovation like never before! Red Hat Summit Connect is landing in Dubai on April 30, 2024. Save the date for a day of groundbreaking insights and collaboration!

With technology constantly evolving, it’s on all of us to know what’s happening now and help shape what’s coming next. Red Hat Summit: Connect brings you to the forefront of that evolution, so you can turn knowledge into innovation.

This event will provide the opportunity to join your peers to explore the latest Red Hat technologies, collaborate with industry leaders, and learn how the future of open source will impact your organisation.

Join us at Armani Hotel Dubai on 30th April 2024 for Red Hat Summit: Connect Dubai.

Agenda

10:00 - 11:00	Registration and Networking
11:00 - 11:15	Summit Walk in
11:15-11:30	Welcome Keynote & Regional Perspective Adrian Pickering, Senior Regional Director MENA, Red Hat
11:30 - 11:50	Digitisation at Speed Ali Rey, Senior Vice President, ENBD
11:50 - 12:05	Red Hat Future Technology Nick Barcet, Global CTO, Red Hat
12:05 - 12:25	Enabling Customers to Thrive in an AI-Driven Digital Era Andreas Bergqvist, Application Platform Sales Specialist, Red Hat Martin Isaksson, Senior Business Development AI, Red Hat
12:25 - 12:40	Automation as the key to unlocking the potential of AI and beyond Belkacem Moussouni, EMEA Automation Business Development Lead, Red Hat
12:40 - 12:55	Accelerating Innovation: Expanding the DevOps Mindset Natale Vinto, Developer Advocate Lead, Red Hat
12:55 - 13:15	Scaling Infrastructure with Intelligence: From DataCenter to Cloud to Edge Morten Rohlfes, Global Director, Red Hat Guest Speaker: Rajesh Natarajan, Chief Innovation Officer, Gorilla Technologies
13:15 - 14:00	Standing Lunch
14:00- 14:30	Key Trends and Insights: Impact of GenAI on the digital initiatives in MENA Harish Dunakhe, Research Director, IDC Middle East and Africa
14:30 - 14:45	Moro Cloud - Containers as a service: Next Generation Application Modernization Platform Sujit Nair, Director, MoroHub
14:45 - 15:00	Shifting Towards Software Driven, Silicon Enhanced World Volga Simsek, Senior Solutions Architect, Intel
15:00 - 15:45	Ecosystem Panel Discussion The power of partnerships Panel: Creating value through partnerships Moderator: Burak Borhan, Director Ecosystem For MEA, Red Hat Dr. Natarajan Gnanasekar, CTO & Head of AI and Data, Alpha Data Niall Meany, Director of Cloud and Strategic initiative, Temenos Penny Philpot, Vice President, EMEA Ecosystem Sales, Red Hat Rajesh Natarajan, Chief Innovation Officer, Gorilla Technologies Sultan Al Ali, Director of Digital Business, MoroHub
15:45 - 16:05	Coffee Break
16:05 - 16:20	Put AI to Work with IBM Mostafa Zafer, Vice President of AI, IBM
16:20 - 16:35	Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) Walid Shaari, Solution Architect, AWS
16:35 - 16:50	Shifting Security Left with F5 NGINX and Ansible in an OpenShift environment Kostas Skenderidis, Solution Architect, F5
16:50 - 17:05	Accelerated path to AI and Cloud agnostic approach Mohammad Makadmeh, Senior Cloud Native Architect, Pure Storage (Portworks)
17:05 - 17:20	Accelerating Application Modernization with Red Hat & deliver digital services to citizens and businesses. Ossama El Samadoni, General Manager, GBM Dubai
17:20 - 17:35	Unlocking Hybrid Cloud Potential: Optimizing Efficiency with Kasten Ali Idriss, Senior Presales Consultant, Veeam
17:35 - 18:15	Closing and Awards
18:15 - 19:15	Dinner

Flagship

Morohub

With a clear vision to truly accelerate the UAE into the future, several important initiatives and plans, including Dubai Plan 2021, UAE Centennial 2071, and Dubai 10X were initiated by Dubai Leaders. As part of 10X, DEWA mobilised its innovation unit to create a new entity called Digital DEWA, which uses innovation in artificial intelligence and digital services to meet the current and future requirements brought about by the 4th industrial revolution. This entity required an innovative, agile data hub, and thus Moro Hub was established on 2018. Forming the backbone of Digital DEWA, Moro Hub was established to fulfil the need for an innovative and agile data centre. Through its purpose-built, industry-accredited data hub, Moro Hub uses its expertise, capabilities and alliances to contribute to the digital transformation of society. Trusted to secure, manage, and integrate data, Moro Hub is committed to providing value through customer-centric innovation, creating new opportunities now and in the future.

Alphadata & Intel

Software defined, Silicon enhanced. Spanning more than 25 years, Intel and Red Hat’s long history of engineering achievements includes advanced software-defined infrastructure and industry-standard platforms that improve datacenter agility and flexibility. Together, Red Hat and Intel build agile, cloud-ready network architectures based on high-performance, industry-standard platforms and open, software-defined infrastructure. Intel Privacy Note