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Virtual Event Series
Our series, Transformation LIVE: Q&A with Red Hat experts, will feature open discussions where our transformation experts will tackle your biggest questions. Join us for a virtual conversation with some of Red Hat’s most experienced and accomplished leaders.
Transformation LIVE is a recurring monthly event with different experts in each session, focusing on current issues in the industry like DevOps, customer experiences, automated governance, change management, and more.
Psychological safety is the "shared belief that the team is safe for interpersonal risk taking" (Dr Amy Edmondson, 1999), and is the single most important factor in team performance, according to Google's Project Aristotle (2016). People, teams, and organisations that possess high levels of psychological safety will innovate faster, suffer fewer major incidents, and will adapt to changes faster than the competition.
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When teams are forced to work remotely, collaboration must expand well beyond using chat. Similarly, transparency must have implications beyond video conferencing. But after 9+ months of working from home, isolation and virtual meeting fatigue are real. Join Avi Ghosh and Dereck Vanlandingham, experts on open source culture, for tips and tricks on how to succeed in not only working together, but also how to keep fostering a productive remote team culture during the months ahead.
January 14, 2021
Join Jabe Bloom and Matt Stratton of the Red Hat Transformation Office for a discussion on enhancing the resilience of an organization’s socio-technical systems. They will provide use cases and techniques applicable to technology organizations looking to enhance their resilience and adaptive capacity. This session should be useful to anyone working to create more resilient technology teams and organizations.
November 19, 2020 | 4:00 p.m. ET
Join Kevin Behr, Senior Director of Global Transformation, Red Hat® and co-author of The Phoenix Project, and Yasir Syeed, Account Manager for Civilian Middleware, Red Hat, in an engaging discussion about lessons from the field that are proven to work in organizations around the world.
September 24, 2020 | 4:00 p.m. ET
Join Rob Sedor, Chief Architect, Red Hat and Tushar Kartarki, OpenShift Product Manager, Red Hat, to discuss some of the questions around transformation using AI/ML architectures and practices.
March 11, 2021 | 4:00 p.m. ET
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Sr Dir, Global Transformation Author, DevOps Handbook, Beyond the Phoenix Project CIO, CTO IT Strategist | Founder Speaker | Author
John Willis is Senior Director of the Global Transformation Office at Red Hat Prior to Red Hat, he was the Director of Ecosystem Development for Docker, which he joined after the company he co-founded (SocketPlane, which focused on SDN for containers) was acquired by Docker in February 2015. Previous to founding SocketPlane in Fall 2014, John was the Chief DevOps Evangelist at Dell, which he joined following the Enstratius acquisition in May 2013. He has also held past executive roles at Chef and Canonical. John was one of the earliest cloud evangelists and is considered one of the founders of the Devops movement. John is the author of 7 IBM Redbooks. He is also the co-author of the “Devops Handbook” and “Beyond the Phoenix Project” along with author Gene Kim.
Sr Dir, Global Transformation Author, Phoenix Project, Visible Ops CIO, CTO IT Strategist | Speaker Enterprise CXO Advisor
Bringing 30 plus years of technology and management experience, Kevin joined the Red Hat Global Transformation Office in the fall of 2019 while celebrating the 10th anniversary of Devopsdays in Ghent, Belgium. Prior to Redhat Kevin was the co-founder, general manager and chief science officer of PraxisFlow, a consultancy focused on addressing the complex problems inherent in transforming large IT organizations and creating better flow through designing cross-functional-alignment. A serial CIO and CTO in both public and private companies, he is also the author and co-author of six IT management books, including The Phoenix Project and The Visible Ops Handbook, and is (he's) often looked to as a visionary in balancing sustainable technological growth that serves human learning and organizational improvement processes.
Sr Dir, Global Transformation CSTO, CTO SocioTechnical Systems | Speaker Critical Irritant | Transition Designer
Jabe Bloom has been transforming and researching the organizational dynamics and interactions of management, design, development, and operational excellence for over 20 years as an executive, academic and consultant. As a part of Red Hat’s Global Transformation Office, Jabe’s insights and criticism are sought after by a diverse set of communities and clients. His research, constant theoretical exploration, and practical experience shape his own unique perspective, provocative insights and practical advice.
Jabe is currently in the final stages of writing his PhD dissertation at Carnegie Mellon in Transition Design.
VP, Global Transformation Founder: Puppet, DevOpsDays, Author Web Operations IT Optimizer | Change Agent Founder | Organizer
With over 20 years experience, Andrew Clay Shafer VP of Red Hat's Global Transformation Office, has a long history helping people deliver software with better tools and processes. Andrew evangelized DevOps tools and practices before DevOps was a word and helped to organize DevOpsDays events globally since 2009. He’s been involved in a number of infrastructure focused open source communities including Puppet, OpenStack, Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. At Red Hat, his focus is helping customers modernize their processes and behaviors to make the most of their technology investments.
