Event Overview
Date: 15/10/2026 | 08:30 - 14:00
Location: Hilton Al Khobar | Al Khobar | Saudi Arabia
Join senior technical leaders and engineering specialists from Red Hat and Google Cloud for an immersive half-day architectural showcase and live demonstration session.
Enterprise infrastructure is undergoing a pivotal shift. Balancing the high costs and rigid architectures of legacy virtualization stacks with the urgent demand for AI workloads requires an agile hybrid cloud platform.
In this custom technical briefing, you will gain direct insights into how Red Hat and Google Cloud technologies work together. Through architectural walk-throughs and live product demonstrations, discover how to transition off legacy virtual machines, streamline cloud-native onboarding, and optimize compute for GPU-constrained AI workloads.
What you'll learn and see
Through technical presentations and live engineer-led demonstrations, you will explore:
- Virtualization modernization: Discover how to transition traditional virtual machines directly into cloud-native VMs on Red Hat® OpenShift® Virtualization without refactoring code.
- Automated application migration: See a live demonstration of the Migration Toolkit for Applications (MTA) automating the discovery, analysis, and containerization of legacy workloads.
- Cloud-native platform management: Learn how to build a unified management layer using Red Hat Enterprise Linux® (RHEL), Ansible® Automation, and Advanced Cluster Management (ACM) on local Google Cloud infrastructure in KSA.
- GPU-optimized AI infrastructure: Explore strategies for building and scaling models with Red Hat OpenShift AI on Google Cloud, specifically designed to bypass hardware bottlenecks and lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
Who should attend
- Infrastructure architects and specialists
- Enterprise architects
- DevOps and platform engineers
- Cloud engineering leads
Registration
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Agenda
Registration Open + Light breakfast
Welcome & Opening
Modernize Without Limits: Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Strategy on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Google Cloud in KSA Capabilities and Ecosystem
Accelerate Innovation with Red Hat OpenShift on GCP (+ Demo)
Google Cloud-Optimized Compute for OpenShift: Better Performance, Lower TCO
Power Intelligent Applications with Red Hat & GCP
Deploying and Managing Cloud-Native VMs with OpenShift Virtualization on GCP
Networking Lunch and prayer break - END OF SESSIONS
Speakers
AA
Associate Principal Solution Architect
Red Hat
EG
Key Account Director
Google
FE
Customer Engineer - Infrastructure Modernization
Google
HN
Associate Specialist Solution Architect, OpenShift - Cloud Services
Red Hat
MM
Strategic Account Manager
Red Hat
Travel Information
Hilton
3828 King Fahd Bin Abdulaziz Rd, Al Hamra، 6368 | Al Khobar | Saudi Arabia
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