Innovate Together
21/04/2026 | 09:00 - 15:00 | Bucharest | Romania
Event overview:
Today’s organizations face complex challenges that demand innovative technology solutions.
Take part in Innovate Together, a live event where experts and IT leaders come together to collaborate and share insights and strategies for accelerating innovation, maximizing ROI, and delivering unmatched value to your enterprise and customers.
Join us on April 21, 2026 in Bucharest for a true VIP experience and a day of conversations and networking at Grand Hotel Bucharest.
Discover how Red Hat® automation, infrastructure, application development, and AI software tools and services, in collaboration with our trusted ecosystem of partners, can empower you to achieve:
- 32% more efficient IT infrastructure teams1
- 29% faster application development life cycles2
- 72% less unplanned downtime1
Don’t miss this chance to connect in a relaxed setting with Red Hat innovation experts and your peers to gain actionable insights for shaping your IT future and turning challenges into opportunities. Reserve your spot today.
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Agenda
Registration and welcome coffee
Welcome and Opening
Stanisław Leszczyński, Regional Sales Manager, Red Hat
The Industrialization of Innovation
Dinko Eror, Vice President EMEA, Central, North and Eastern Europe, Red Hat
Razvan Sighinas, Managing Director in Quantarion IO, ex ING Global Head of Infrastructure and Engineering
Building Trust in the Age of Sovereign AI with Red Hat and Intel
Sonel Popatlal, Director, Data Centre Group, Intel
Dinko Eror, Vice President EMEA, Central, North and Eastern Europe, Red Hat
As AI adoption accelerates and regulatory expectations increase, organisations are rethinking how they design cloud and data platforms. The focus is shifting from traditional security toward sovereignty, control, and verifiable trust—ensuring sensitive workloads can run securely while meeting compliance requirements across hybrid environments. We will introduce how Intel and Red Hat are working together to bring these capabilities to life, combining Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) for hardware-based protection with Red Hat OpenShift and Confidential Containers (CoCo) to enable secure workload execution at scale. We will also touch on how attestation and Trustee-based controls can help ensure that only trusted workloads are allowed to access sensitive data and services.
Put Your Hands on Red Hat Technology. Exclusive Level
Mihai Canciu, Red Hat System Engineer, Exclusive Networks
Wojciech Furmankiewicz, Head of Technology Sales CEE, Red Hat
What's New and What's Next in Your Red Hat Journey
Andrzej Kowalczyk, Principal Solution Architect, Red Hat
Patrik Plachý, Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat
Jacek Skórzyński, Principal Solution Architect, Red Hat
In the world where IT complexity keeps rising and business expectations move faster than ever, the real question isn’t just what’s new - it’s what’s next and how it creates real value. This keynote will take you on an exciting journey through the Red Hat solutions, showing how open hybrid cloud, AI, application platforms, automation, and virtualization come together on one open, consistent foundation.
Break
Unlocking the Full Potential of Your Red Hat Subscriptions
Stefan Nemeth, Technical Account Manager, Red Hat
Modernize your Virtualization OpenShift Way
Andrzej Kowalczyk, Principal Solution Architect, Red Hat
Virtualization isn’t going away, but the way we run and modernize it is changing fast. In this session, you’ll learn how to modernize your existing virtual machines using Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, bringing VMs and cloud-native applications together on one consistent, Kubernetes-based platform.
Enterprise Data Protection for Red Hat Virtualization: Powered by Veeam Kasten
Alexandru Ionescu – Senior Manager, Inside Sales Kasten by Veeam
Automate Anything: Powering Hybrid Environments with Ansible Automation Platform
Jacek Skórzyński, Principal Solution Architect, Red Hat
Explore the core of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. Discover new features like Event-Driven Ansible and more. See how they revolutionize IT operations, driving smarter, faster automation. Dive into practical use cases of AAP, from deploying and managing virtual platforms to integrating ITSM/CMDB and implementing GitOps. Understand how AAP becomes the universal language for "Everything as Code".
Break
From Pilot to Platform : Scaling OpenShift Kubernetes Across Delivery Units
Ciprian Patriciu Filipas Head of DevOps & CCoE, Banca Transilvania
We’ll discuss about the move from an early Pilot to a repeatable OpenShift Platform across multiple Delivery Units by standardizing environment enablement, and the “golden path” for Delivery Teams
We’ll focus on what made it scalable and sustainable in a highly regulated setting - governance for GitOps, secrets management and observability, plus operational handover and a reliable DR strategy.
Romania Sovereign Cloud - Building Large Scale Infrastructure with Red Hat Technology
Alexandru Darie, Cloud Architect, Metaminds
Alexandru Petcu, Cloud Engineer. Metaminds
This presentation outlines the design and implementation of a highly available private cloud infrastructure for a segment of the Romanian Government. The solution leverages the full Red Hat technology stack — combining containerization, virtualization, and infrastructure-as-a-service capabilities — deployed across four geographically distributed data centers.
The architecture delivers geographic redundancy, operational resilience, centralized identity management, automated lifecycle operations, and enterprise-grade security.
How to address the requirements of security policies such as DORA or NIS2 for new container applications?
Artur Pająk, Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat
During my presentation, I will demonstrate the tools and procedures we can use to build applications in cloud-ready architectures. The presented methods significantly improve the security of built applications while implementing the security procedures required for applications operating in key market segments (e.g., DORA or NIS2 requirements).
Lunch
Sponsors
Venue Information
Grand Hotel Bucharest
4 Nicolae Balcescu Boulevard | Bucharest | Romania
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