Host: Stu Miniman Guest: Ashesh Badani Production: Rohan Venkatram Across industries and business sectors, senior leadership has to execute at an ever-increasing pace, and today's technology decisions must balance short-term risk with long-term gains. Join host Stu Miniman as he leads insightful and candid discussions with a broad spectrum of experts, executives, and decision-makers on diverse and hot technology topics. Red Hat Summit 2024 is around the corner, taking place next month between the 6th to 9th of May in Denver, Colorado. Packaged with AnsibleFest 2024. As we normally do on this show, we want to give you a taste of what to expect at the show. This episode, Stu is in conversation with Senior Vice President of Red Hat, Ashesh Badani. They will cover all things Summit, and ask the questions where, when, what and why. The ‘what’ will cover what is one to expect at this year’s show - sessions, speakers, sponsors, partners, topics. They will discuss this year’s focus on Artificial Intelligence and Red Hat’s place in the technological landscape. The ‘why’ will cover why you should be attending or looping in on the sessions, and how it can help your company in future. Red Hat® Summit and AnsibleFest bring together IT professionals, customers, partners, and peers to provide you the tools, connections, and knowledge to support your technology goals. Register now and join us May 6-9 in Denver, Colorado, to solve difficult challenges, grow your expertise, and learn ways to meet the demands of your customers with less, not more, complexity. You’ll leave with new ideas to help you and your company excel. Ashesh Badani is the Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer at Red Hat. In this role, he is responsible for the company’s overall product portfolio and business unit groups, including product strategy, business planning, product management, marketing, and operations across on-premise, public cloud, and edge. His product responsibilities include Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®, Red Hat OpenShift®, Red Hat Ansible Automation, developer tools, and middleware, as well as emerging cloud services and experiences. Previously, Badani was Senior Vice President of Cloud Platforms, where he helped solidify the company as a hybrid cloud and enterprise Kubernetes leader. Under his leadership, Red Hat has also expanded OpenShift from an award-winning Platform-as-a-Service solution to the industry’s leading enterprise Kubernetes platform, with 1,000+ customers spanning all regions and industries. Badani started at Red Hat overseeing product line management and marketing for the Red Hat JBoss® Enterprise Application Platform middleware portfolio. Badani has played a significant role around strategy, analysis, and integration for key Red Hat acquisitions—including StackRox in 2021, CoreOS in 2018, and FuseSource in 2012—to bolster the company’s integration portfolio. Prior to joining Red Hat, Badani served as Director of Product Management and Product Marketing of Integration and Application Platform Products at Sun Microsystems. He has more than 20 years of experience in the technology and finance industries at both established and emerging companies. Don’t miss this forward looking episode. Feel free to drop any technical or thought provoking questions. Want to learn more? Red Hat Summit 2024: https://www.redhat.com/en/summit FAQ: https://www.redhat.com/en/summit/about/faq Red Hat Summit 2023 Sessions: Deploying a business-critical application with mixed ARM/x86 CPUs in Red Hat OpenShift Try Red Hat OpenShift: https://red.ht/3Haxapr OpenShift Virtualization: https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing/openshift/virtualization Follow us: Stu Miniman https://twitter.com/stu Ashesh Badani https://twitter.com/asheshbadani Subscribe to Red Hat's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/redhat/?sub_confirmation=1 About OpenShift: Red Hat OpenShift is an open source container application platform based on the Kubernetes container orchestrator for enterprise application development and deployment. OpenShift on redhat.com https://red.ht/3JBaOia OpenShift on GitHub https://github.com/openshift/ #RedHat #OpenShift #HybridCloud #AI #RedHatSummit

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