OPEN'25 (BE)

Open Source in motion: the past year & what’s next for Kangaroot!

Peter Dens - Managing Director - Kangaroot.

CLdN, a leading provider of integrated quay-to-quay and door-to-door logistics solutions, continues to innovate in the industry.

Bart Coucke, IT Infrastructure Manager at CLdN IT SA, will share the key business challenges they faced, the reasons behind their decision to adopt open source solutions, the impact on their operations, and what lies ahead in the coming years.

KEYNOTE: Platform Engineering from a strategic point of view 

Ludovic Aelbrecht, App Platform & AppDev Advisor at Red Hat

In today’s fast-paced IT landscape, automation is essential for improving efficiency, reducing human error and ensuring scalability. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) stands out as a leading automation solution due to its simplicity, flexibility and enterprise-grade capabilities.

Ivo, engineer at Kangaroot, will be sharing his best practices, quick wins in AAP. 

NGINX Connectivity Stack for Kubernetes delivers built-in security, availability, and visibility for AI/ML workloads across hybrid and multi-cloud Kubernetes environments, reducing complexity, improving uptime, and gaining better insight into app health and performance at scale.

Renaud Larsen - Sr Solutions Engineer - F5

With the shifting virtualization landscape, many among you are evaluating open source alternatives to VMware.

In this session, Kangaroot will share its expertise & hands-on experience with Proxmox VE, OpenStack & KubeVirt. We’ll explore their strengths, key use cases, and real-world implementation insights, helping you understand which solution best fits your infrastructure needs.

Discover how these technologies can optimize your IT environment, backed by practical knowledge from Kangaroot’s open source specialists.

AI in software development isn't just about generating code. It's about transforming every phase of the software development lifecycle. GitLab Duo integrates AI assistance seamlessly into your software development lifecycle, empowering teams to code faster and smarter.

Join us to discover how GitLab Duo enhances developer productivity through context-aware AI assistance, code suggestions, automated vulnerability detection, agentic approaches and many more. all while keeping your code secure and compliant within your existing GitLab environment.

Salahddine Aberkan, Solution Architect at GitLab

Tech Break-out session Virtualization incl. demo!

Kenny Tordeurs, Solutions Architect Telco at Red Hat

Managing PostgreSQL across hybrid environments can be complex—but it doesn’t have to be. EDB Hybrid Control Plane (HCP) gives you a centralized, Kubernetes-based solution for effortless deployment, scaling, and monitoring.

🔹 Automate PostgreSQL operations to reduce manual effort
🔹 Gain real-time insights with 200+ performance metrics
🔹 Maintain full control over security, compliance, and infrastructure

No more juggling multiple tools or struggling with complex database operations. With EDB HCP, you can simplify, optimize, and future-proof your PostgreSQL environment—whether on-prem, in the cloud, or across both.

Ready to experience a smarter way to manage PostgreSQL? 

Kevin Li & Niels van Noort

If you're dealing with observability in a multi-cluster setup, you know it's not always easy. Hugo De Vries, Solution Architect at SUSE, will share his insights and provide a practical demonstration of how SUSE Observability, working seamlessly with Rancher Prime, simplifies the process.

Join us as he walks through the challenges and shows us the solution in action.

Hugo de Vries, Solution Architect at SUSE

Are you in control of the security of your Linux environment? This talk will discuss some key security questions that you should be able to answer about your environment, why opt for Open Source, and provide a high-level overview of which tools exist to help you answer them.