Top Execs from IBM, Accenture, HP, Intel and SAP to Take the Stage in
Boston
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced a lineup of keynote speakers featuring
executive thought leaders from IBM, Accenture, HP, Intel and SAP AG, for
the eighth annual Red Hat Summit and JBoss World to be held June 26-29,
2012 in Boston. Red Hat Summit and JBoss World bring together a diverse
group of senior business and technical leaders to learn, network and
experience open source and to discuss how innovative technologies and
best practices can be applied to drive business transformation.
The keynote speakers for Red Hat Summit and JBoss World 2012 are top
executives from companies at the forefront of the evolving technology
landscape, including:
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Accenture's Adam Burden, executive director, Cloud Application &
Platform Services;
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HP's Steven Dietch, vice president of worldwide cloud, HP Enterprise
Group;
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IBM's Robert LeBlanc, senior vice president, Software Group;
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Intel's Pauline Nist, general manager of Enterprise Software Strategy;
and
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SAP Sybase's Irfan Khan, senior vice president and chief technology
officer
"The IT landscape is shifting and transforming at a rapid pace," said
Paul Cormier, executive vice president and president, Products and
Technologies at Red Hat. "These leaders offer unique perspectives about
technology innovation and we look forward to these perspectives being
shared at an event that is so deeply rooted in collaboration."
In addition to the keynote speakers, the agenda
for Red Hat Summit and JBoss World 2012 present IT and business
decision-makers a holistic view of a range of topics from cost savings
to interoperability, mobile, big data and, and cloud computing, to
Linux, virtualization, storage and middleware.
IBM is the event's premier sponsor for the eighth consecutive year and
platinum sponsors include Accenture, HP, Intel and SAP. These strategic
partners will strengthen discussions around how IT organizations can
transform in order to meet the demands of tomorrow. This year's agenda
and events will allow attendees to make a plan for this transformation,
and will feature customer panels, product roadmaps, demonstrations and
hands-on labs across a range of technical difficulty levels, as well as
speaker representation from a range of professions and industries.
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S&P 500 company, is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, with
more than 70 offices spanning the globe. Red Hat provides high-quality,
affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, together with cloud, virtualization, management,
storage and service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions, including Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat
also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers
worldwide. Learn more: www.redhat.com.
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