Ubuntu Enterprise Summit

A one-day conference for enterprise technologists and decision-makers

The cloud is disrupting the enterprise computing world, while the use of open-source software continues to grow. As a result, new opportunities are emerging; it’s time to exploit them.

At this year’s event, analysts and technologists will join key figures from Canonical, to discuss the new best practice and the road ahead for enterprise IT. Book your ticket today

How flexibility creates
business value

IT managers must resist lock-in to proprietary providers, opting instead for infrastructure based on open standards. Only then can the economic benefits of the cloud be realised.

Choosing which bandwagon
to board

Cloud has certainly put the ‘hype’ in hyperscale - but distributed IT can no longer be dismissed as a fad. Find out which technologies are really ready for the enterprise - and why.

The way ahead, from client
to cloud

As the cloud replaces the physical server, so the traditional PC gives way to thin clients, tablets and smartphones. Learn how your business can make the most of this trend.

The morning session is aimed at all Enterprise Summit delegates. After lunch,
everyone is invited to attend the Plenary Sessions on the main stage of the Ubuntu Developer Summit, before returning to the Enterprise Summit at 3pm. Following a break, the rest of the afternoon is divided into two streams: Business and Technology. Please state which stream you would prefer to attend when reserving your ticket.

Morning track (all attendees)

• 8.00 – 8:45am

  Badge Collection

  Collect your Enterprise Summit badge, and enjoy coffee before the event kicks off.

• 9.00am – 9.15am

  Welcome

  Jane Silber, Canonical

  Canonical and Ubuntu are at the forefront of the changes in computing today. Canonical’s CEO will introduce the company and outline the content of the day ahead.

• 9.15am – 10.00am

  The Rise and Rise of Open Source

  Chris Ingle, IDC

  The growing adoption of cloud and the emergence of devops have been driven by open-source technologies. Hear where analyst firm, IDC, believes these trends will take us next.

• 10.00am – 10.45am

  A Technology Vision for the Enterprise

  Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical

  From the consumerisation of IT to the management challenges posed by scale-out computing, hear the founder of Ubuntu outline his end-to-end vision for business IT.

• 10.45am – 11.00am:

  Coffee break

• 11.00am – 11.30am

  The Business Value of an Ubuntu-based Global Thin-client Standard

  Paweł Zięba, Capgemini

  Hear how Capgemini’s BPO division moved from a disparate IT environment to an Ubuntu-based hybrid thin client concept that brought security, flexibility and compliance with global standards.

• 11.30am – 12.00pm

  The Benefits of the Open Cloud

  Kyle MacDonald, Canonical

  Canonical’s Vice President of Cloud explains how open-source cloud technologies enable rapid deployment and management for private, public and hybrid cloud services.

• 12.00pm – 12.30pm

  Service Orchestration and Management with Ubuntu

  Mark Baker, Canonical

  Ubuntu is designed for hardware provisioning, service deployment and ongoing management in a scale-out world of hyperscale servers and cloud architectures. Learn how it works in practice.

• 12.30pm – 1.00pm

  Business Class Ubuntu

  Martin Stadtler, Canonical

  Ubuntu has come a long way in less than 10 years. Martin will talk through the history of the OS, outlining the key milestones that took it from obscurity to the enterprise mainstream.

• 1.00pm – 2.00pm:

  Lunch

• 2.00pm – 2.30pm

  UDS Main Stage Plenary

  Chris Kenyon, Canonical

  Ubuntu Means Business: a whirlwind tour of Ubuntu as used in organisations around the world.

• 2.30pm – 3.00pm

  UDS Main Stage Plenary

  Paul Morgan, HP
  Paolo Faraboschi, HP

  Project Moonshot and Beyond: HP Innovations for Low-Power Hyperscale Computing.

• 3.00pm – 3.15pm:

  Coffee break

• Business track

  • 3.15pm – 3.45pm

    Hyperscale Computing for the Enterprise

    Dave Russell, Canonical

    It’s all change in the datacenter. As innovations from ARM and others drive the industry towards high-density, low power chipsets, new opportunities arise to create business value.

  • 3.45pm – 4.15pm

    An Open-cloud Solution for Latin America’s Biggest Auction Website

    Alejandro Comisario, Mercadolibre

    Why Mercadolibre moved from a virtualisation environment to a real cloud OS based on Ubuntu Server and Openstack. Latin America’s e-commerce leader explains why they chose Ubuntu and OpenStack, the issues they faced and the benefits they realised.

  • 4.15pm – 4.45pm

    Real time, high-performance Big Data

    David Mytton, Server Density

    How Server Density built an infrastructure for handling high volume, real time data analysis, using high availability cloud and dedicated Ubuntu instances.

  • 4.45pm – 5.45pm

    Interactive Q&A panel discussion

    Mark Baker, Canonical
    Kyle MacDonald, Canonical
    Paweł Zięba, Capgemini
    Kjetil Fleten, Fleten.net

    Your chance to put your questions to our panel of experts, including many of the speakers who delivered the day’s presentations.

  Technology track

  • 3.15pm – 3.45pm

    Ubuntu 12.10 Thin Client

    Stéphane Verdy, Canonical

    Take a technical tour of the latest Ubuntu thin-client solution. See how any app – including proprietary software from Microsoft and Adobe – can be delivered to your users via the network.

  • 3.45pm – 4.15pm

    The 15-Minute OpenStack Cloud

    Robbie Williamson, Canonical

    Watch Robbie Williamson, Canonical’s Vice President, Core Dev Ops, deploy an OpenStack cloud in just 15 minutes.

  • 4.15pm – 4.45pm

    Cloud Configuration with Horizon and Juju

    Nick Barcet, Canonical

    Building on the infrastructure deployed in the preceding session, Canonical’s cloud product manager will show how Juju and Horizon, the OpenStack dashboard, can work together.

  • 4.45pm – 5.15pm

    Landscape Dedicated Server

    Dean Henrichsmeyer, Canonical

    See how package management, RBAC and compliance reporting can be achieved quickly and easily in the latest version of Landscape, the Ubuntu systems management tool.

  • 5.15pm – 5.45pm

    Juju Deep Dive

    Mark Ramm-Christensen, Canonical

    Learn how Juju simplifies service orchestration by encapsulating deployment best practice into charms, saving time and effort in the handovers between development, testing and production.

• 5.45pm – 8.00pm:

  Drinks and networking

End of day

Secure your place today

Tickets, including lunch, refreshments and drinks afterwards, cost just €75 (until 30th September), and will be slightly more afterwards – but space is limited.

The Ubuntu Enterprise Summit takes place on 30 October 2012 at Bella Center.

The event will be held alongside the Ubuntu Developer Summit, at which developers from all over the world will discuss the next version of Ubuntu. The Developer Summit is free to attend – if you’re interested, you just need to register for both events.

Ubuntu Developer Summit