Welcome to RHOCK!!!

The next meetup will be a new, reinvigorated, reenergized event following Red Hat Summit Connect at CodeNode, 10 South Place, London EC2M 7EB from 4:00pm to 5:30pm

Agenda:

• 4:00 pm - Welcome to RHOCK - time to restart the OpenShift, Containers and Kubernetes meetup
• 4:05 pm - What’s new in OpenShift 4.12 - An update on the latest version of OpenShift that was released in January - Mark Roberts

Mark is a Solution Architect at Red Hat focussing on helping customers get the best from the OpenShift platform and associated solutions.

• 4:30 pm Guest Speaker - James McLeod - Open Source in Financial Services: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Get an overview of the state of the open source movement in financial services as well as hear the good, the bad, and the ugly of where the community is today from James McLeod, FINOS Director of Community. The audience will learn about the opportunities, and quirks, of a fast-growing movement that has the potential to revolutionize the very fabric of the financial industry. This talk is highly recommended for developers, stakeholders and the curious who are looking to adopt and grow their open source offerings within the financial services industry.

James is the Director of Community at FINOS and wholeheartedly believes the transformation of Financial Services can only be fulfilled if Open Source is embraced under the three pillars of Contribution, Consumption and Community.

• 4:55 pm Skupper - a different way of getting applications to talk to each other - Phil Prosser

Phil is a Solution Architect at Red Hat focussing on Red Hat integration technology running on OpenShift.

• 5:20 pm Plans for the next Meetup
• 5:30 pm Close, refreshments and pub

If you would like to propose a talk or have ideas on what you would like to hear about, please let us know.

Mark, Ian, Dario, Anthony

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