Red Hat OpenShift Commons Gathering Amsterdam 2026
23 March, 2026 | 7:00 AM | Amsterdam | Netherlands
Event overview:
Join us in Amsterdam for a no-cost, in-person OpenShift Commons Gathering alongside KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe. This event brings together the global OpenShift community-including users, contributors, partners, and Red Hat experts-to share knowledge, build connections, and learn from real production experiences.
Hear practitioner-driven talks on app modernization, developer productivity, AI/LLM workloads, supply chain security, VM migration, GitOps, edge, and scaling OpenShift across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Expect practical insights you can bring back to your team.
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Agenda
The Platform Engineering Roadshow
SPEAKER:
Markus Nagel (Red Hat)
LOCATION:
Roadshow Room: The Beach House
The "m" in kubernetes stands for maintainability: Maintaining OpenShift in a global financial institution.
SPEAKERS:
Robbin Siepman (ING) | Rob de Boer (ING)
LOCATION:
Main Stage: The Boat House
Break
LOCATION:
Main Stage: The Boat House
How Garanti BBVA solves size challenges in a large OpenShift environment
SPEAKERS:
Emrihan Bilge Bulut (Garanti BBVA) | Gökhan Göksu (Red Hat)
LOCATION:
Main Stage: The Boat House
Sit, Stay, Deploy: Teaching a Robot Dog with OpenShift
SPEAKERS:
Johan van Amersfoort (ITQ) | Sander Harrewijnen (ITQ)
LOCATION:
Main Stage: The Boat House
Superhero Awards
SPEAKERS:
Amy Marrich (Red Hat)
LOCATION:
Main Stage: The Boat House
Lunch and Roundtable topics
SPEAKER:
OpenShift Commons (Red Hat)
LOCATION:
Lunch and Roundtables: The Restaurant
Breaking the Shackles of Legacy Payments Infrastructure
SPEAKERS:
Joerg Meyer (Diebold Nixdorf)
LOCATION:
Main Stage: The Boat House
Ask an OpenShift Expert
SPEAKER:
OpenShift Commons (Red Hat)
LOCATION:
Main Stage: The Boat House
Kickoff and Keynote
SPEAKERS:
Carolyn May (Red Hat) | Jonny Rickard (Red Hat) | Uther Lawson (Red Hat)
LOCATION:
Main Stage: The Boat House
Enabling secure AI models: Training and inference on public health sensitive datasets
SPEAKERS:
Francesco Giannoccaro (UK Health Security Agency)
LOCATION:
Main Stage: The Boat House
Workshop: Unmasking the attack: A DevSecOps capture-the-flag challenge on Red Hat OpenShift
SPEAKERS:
Michael Thirion (Red Hat) | Rachid Snoussi (Red Hat)
LOCATION:
Main Stage: The Boat House
Break
LOCATION:
Main Stage: The Boat House
Registration, Networking & Coffee Service
LOCATION:
Main Stage: The Boat House
Lift and Shift the right way: Insights from Siemens transition towards Openshift Virtualization
SPEAKERS:
Lukas Weiss (Siemens) | Max Dargatz (Red Hat)
LOCATION:
Main Stage: The Boat House
Mission-critical security: Royal Schiphol’s journey to resilient clusters with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security
SPEAKERS:
Roel Donker (Royal Schiphol) | Maxim Burgerhout (Red Hat)
LOCATION:
Main Stage: The Boat House
Travel information
Strandzuid
Europaplein 22 | Amsterdam | Netherlands
Red Hat is committed to the health and safety of our customers, partners, and employees. All attendees will be expected to follow Red Hat and local guidelines regarding COVID-19. Please do not attend if you are feeling ill or have any symptoms of a viral infection. Please note that all protocols are subject to change.
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