Red Hat Day Ireland – The Power of Open Source: Connection, Aggregation & Collaboration

When and where is red hat day on?

Date: June 6, 2019

Time: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM (GMT+01:00) Greenwich Mean Time : Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London

Location: The Convention Centre Dublin, Spencer Dock, Dublin 1, County Dublin  D01 T1W6 Ireland

How many years has it been going?

This is the kick-off/first Ireland-based Red Hat event.

What was the inspiration to start it?

To connect Irish open source leaders/enterprises with the wider tech community, and unlock Ireland’s potential as a leader of open organisations.

What exciting things can people look forward to?

Red Hat Day Ireland will bring the latest and greatest in open source cloud computing, platform, virtualization, middleware, storage, and systems management technologies.

Attendees will be allowed to ask questions, learn from those leading digital transformation and discover industry trends.

Deep dive into open source solutions & hear from industry leaders about useful use cases and successful implementations across industries (e.g. Ericsson, Bank of England).

Relevant topics: Open Source, Digital Transformation, DevSecOps, Containers, Hybrid Cloud and many more.

What opportunities are on offer for those attending?

Enterprises wanting to learn about open source – whether it’s the basics or how to successfully implement a hybrid cloud strategy across platforms.

Helping enterprises standardise across environments, develop cloud-native applications, and integrate, automate, secure, and manage complex environments with award-winning support, training, and consulting services.

Interviews with attending spokespeople

Who will be speaking?

Jeremy Brown, Director of Red Hat Open Innovation Labs EMEA

Keith Lynch, Country Manager of Ireland

Vincent O’Dwyer, Head of Hosting for Bank of Ireland’s Core Banking Systems Programme

Michael Browne, Senior Manager, Services

Ben Van Der Puil, Cloud Architect, Ericsson

What tips would you give to people attending to get the most out of it?

Be open to learn & ask questions.

How can people book tickets / when does it usually sell out?

https://events.redhat.com/profile/form/index.cfm?PKformID=0x39483abcd

What is open source and why should I care about open source?

Open source development promotes stability, security, and innovation.  By opening the code to widespread examination, more people take part in finding its bugs and security flaws, in testing for broad compatibility across platforms, and in providing new ideas. When a serious problem is discovered, a wide community of developers work together to fix it.

The open source way is so effective that it attracts tremendous technical talent. Much of the innovation in technology is taking place in the open source community, and people all over the world end up using open source software. Behind many popular websites and applications, you can find projects like Linux®, Kubernetes, and Git, and people access the internet with open source browsers like Firefox and chromium.

What is Red Hat?

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps standardize across environments, develop cloud-native applications, and integrate, automate, secure, and manage complex environments with award-winning support, training, and consulting services.

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