Red Hat Forum Zürich, 2019, some impressions

Currently the Red Hat Forum 2019 in Zürich is ongoing and people just finished lunch before the more technical sessions are starting.

As expected a lot is around OpenShift 4 and automation with Ansible. As dbi is a Red Hat advanced business partner we took the opportunity to be present with a booth for getting in touch with our existing customers and to meet new people:

All the partners got their logo on a huge wall at the entrance to the event:

As the event is getting more and more popular, Red Hat moved to the great and huge location, the Stage One in Zürich Oerlikon. So all of the 850 participants found their space.

There is even space for some fun stuff:

Important as well: the catering was excellent:

The merger with IBM was an important topic and Red Hat again stated several times: Red Hat will stay Red Hat. Let’s see what happens here, not all people trust this statement. All in all it is a great atmosphere here in Oerlikon, great people to discuss with, interesting topics, great organization and a lot of “hybrid cloud”. Technology is moving fast and Red Hat is trying to stay at the front. From a partner perspective the Forum is a great chance to meet the right people within Red Hat, no matter what topic you want to discuss: Technology, marketing, training, whatever. I am pretty sure we will attend the next forum as well.