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About Summit

Convince your boss

Red Hat Summit is the premier open source technology event. Keynotes, breakout sessions, hands-on labs, and more provide the training and insight that developers and IT professionals—like you—need to be successful.

So how is Red Hat Summit valuable to your business? And how do you communicate the value of attending to your manager?

What to expect

  • Experience the newest technology offerings available now from Red Hat and our partners.
  • Connect with fellow open source enthusiasts.
  • Boost your skills in technical deep-dive sessions and hands-on labs.
  • Hear Red Hat's technology vision from the entire product and technology leadership team.
  • Learn best practices from your peers in customer panel sessions.
  • Develop new strategies and get your support questions answered by the Red Hat Global Support team.

Is Red Hat Summit right for you?

From education to retail, and government to entertainment, Red Hat has the innovative, reliable solutions you need to power your business. And Red Hat Summit offers the training and knowledge-sharing you need to make those solutions work for your organization.

See how your industry can benefit from the content at the 2015 event.

  • Education

    Teaching and research requires data&and that means data management and storage. The University of Reading stores more than 200TB of data related to climate research. Is your research limited by how much data you can handle?

    Students and staff need to be connected. Can they share applications and information across systems, anywhere on campus? YTL Communications and Red Hat created educational systems that span an entire nation.

  • Energy

    Office and field teams need fast access to critical networks, even when the power goes out. Horizon Power chose Red Hat's virtualization platform for real-time management, monitoring, and control. Customers want to see and do more with their utilities billing and records. Learn how others have created better ways to self-serve using Red Hat solutions

  • Financial services

    Leave old, slow, monolithic systems behind. Make trades and transactions in real time, and give customers more and better ways to tackle their finances. Learn how ING-DiBa got ready for the financial future.

  • Government

    Everyone wants new, self-directed services—but government budgets are tight. Working with Red Hat saved the DoD millions on private cloud and elastic infrastructure. See how other state and federal organization are doing more.

  • Media

    Many modern films require animation rendering at a massive scale. Dreamworks began adopting Linux in 2000 to do the heavy lifting, and is still using open source today to create mind-blowing feature films. Could you make more movies with open solutions for load-sharing and middleware in your animation pipeline?

  • Retail

    From sophisticated point-of-sales environments to complete purchase histories at your fingertips, how customers shop has changed drastically in this data-driven age. The UK's largest home delivery courier, Hermes, has an automated tracking data process that gets customers the info they need in 60 seconds or less. Can your customer service compete?

  • Technology

    IT changes rapidly, and it's your job to keep up with it. From cloud to containers, DevOps to the dark side—you've got challenges, no matter which direction you're headed. Building your infrastructure on a flexible, open, and standard foundation can make the hard roads ahead a little less bumpy. We can help.

Justify the expense

What's included in a full conference pass? You'll have access to:

  • 12 breakout sessions:
    12 hours of best practices and technical demos spanning the complete Red Hat portfolio
  • 5 hands-on labs:
    10 hours of instructor-led training
  • 3 keynote sessions:
    4.5 hours of industry insight from 9 executives
  • Partner Pavilion:
    11.5 hours of access to Red Hat’s partner ecosystem
  • Customer Support:
    18 hours to collaborate with Red Hat support experts
  • Networking:
    2 receptions, 1 offsite party, and 1 pub crawl to make connections with peers and Red Hat rockstars

You've done your research and understand the value of Red Hat Summit. Do you still need to convince your boss? Download our justification email template, fill in a few blanks regarding your organization's objectives, and pack your bags for the 2015 event.

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