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ITQonnect Days & ITQon! 2026

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Friday, September 25
 

13:30 CEST

Kargo the CD evolution in action
LIMITED
Friday September 25, 2026 13:30 - 13:50 CEST
Limited Capacity seats available
In this demo, you'll explore how Kargo transforms your artifact journey from dev to production through declarative, auditable promotions. See real-time pipeline orchestration, automated verification, and intelligent stage progression in action.
Speakers
avatar for Menno Sanders

Menno Sanders

Cloud Native Engineer, ITQ
Menno Sanders, 35 years old! Married and 2 kids who are discovering the world. I'm a happy man, with lots of fun topics to talk about. Always in for new tooling and curious to see what it can do! Hope to talk to you soon!

Friday September 25, 2026 13:30 - 13:50 CEST
(6) Lobby 1 ITQ Hotel

13:30 CEST

Bring Your Own Agent - We’ll Bring the Cluster(s)
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Friday September 25, 2026 13:30 - 14:15 CEST
Limited Capacity filling up
This keynote explores the rapid evolution of the AI agent ecosystem. It details the shift toward agentic workflows supported by the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and the standardization of reusable agent "Skills." The session emphasizes that as AI agents transition from experimental tools to enterprise-grade assets, there is a critical requirement for robust, secure infrastructure. 
By introducing concepts like OpenClaw and secure sandboxing—specifically leveraging Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat AI—the session outlines a defense-in-depth strategy for managing autonomous agents at scale, drawing parallels between the current agent revolution and the historical maturation of Linux and container orchestration.
Speakers
avatar for Natale Vinto

Natale Vinto

Technical Director, Hybrid Platforms, Red Hat
Natale Vinto is a Technical Director, Global at Red Hat, focused on Hybrid Platforms and Enterprise AI. With over a decade of experience in IT and ICT, his background includes telecommunications, DevSecOps, Linux and AI. Previously, Natale was a Director of Developer Advocacy, Solutions... Read More →
Friday September 25, 2026 13:30 - 14:15 CEST
(4) Levante 1 ITQ Hotel

13:30 CEST

Odin's Ravens: A VCF platform for Stormgeo
LIMITED
Friday September 25, 2026 13:30 - 14:15 CEST
Limited Capacity seats available
In this session, we will break down the VCF implementation for Stormgeo. We will explore how VCF acts as the foundational platform powering their data analytics platform, providing the infrastructure required to handle the compute and orchestration demands of their weather and satellite image processing workloads.
Speakers
avatar for Stijn Vermoesen

Stijn Vermoesen

Teamlead Galia, ITQ
Stijn Vermoesen is a Team Lead at ITQ, leading the consultants team in Belgiu,. He specializes in VCF and related technologies, helping organizations design and run reliable, scalable infrastructure.
avatar for Michaël Van de gaer

Michaël Van de gaer

Cloud Native Consultant @ ITQ, ITQ
Hi! My name is Michaël and I've been tinkering in the world of IT for about 12 years now. I mainly focus on designing & building Kubernetes based Platforms and the Automation around it. When I'm not working you can find me hiking or riding a motor cycle. I also love automating everything... Read More →
avatar for Dirk-Jan Alken

Dirk-Jan Alken

Technologist Private Cloud, ITQ
Dirk-Jan Alken is Technologist Private Cloud at ITQ, specializing in VCF-based SDDC solutions. He’s passionate about sharing knowledge within ITQ and the broader VMware community.
Friday September 25, 2026 13:30 - 14:15 CEST
(3) Mestral 3 & 4 ITQ Hotel

13:30 CEST

AVI and VKS: better together
LIMITED
Friday September 25, 2026 13:30 - 14:15 CEST
Limited Capacity seats available
An overview of how AVI enhances VKS and provides advanced Layer 4 and Layer 7 capabilities, including GSLB, Gateway API, ...
Speakers
avatar for Wouter De Kimpe

Wouter De Kimpe

Cloud Native Consultant
Friday September 25, 2026 13:30 - 14:15 CEST
(5) Levante 2 ITQ Hotel

13:55 CEST

the platform engineer is dead, long live the platform engineer
FULL
Friday September 25, 2026 13:55 - 14:15 CEST
Limited Capacity full
Adding this to your schedule will put you on the waitlist.
It started as a "let's see how far this goes." It didn't stop where I expected.
This is the story of how I rebuilt my homelab — from vSphere 7 to vSphere 9.1 with VKS — on a single 4-CPU, 64GB Supermicro box, almost entirely with the help of Claude Code. From bare metal to a cloud-native platform running FluxCD, Concourse CI, HashiCorp Vault, cert-manager, platform pipelines: built, deployed, and maintained with AI as a hands-on collaborator, not just an autocomplete.
A live look at what changes when AI moves from "helping you write code" to "helping you run infrastructure" — and a starting point for the conversation about where that leaves platform engineers.
Speakers
avatar for Bart Lievers

Bart Lievers

Consultant, ITQ Consultancy B.V.
A modern apps platform consultant. Passionate about platform-as-a-product concept.  Fiddling around with VCF 9.1 VKS on my homelab and using Claude AI to assist and implement solutions to mimic a platform-as-a-product environment on 64 GB.
A proud husband and a proud father of tw... Read More →
Friday September 25, 2026 13:55 - 14:15 CEST
(6) Lobby 1 ITQ Hotel

14:20 CEST

VCF Private AI Services: A Peek Behind the Curtain
Friday September 25, 2026 14:20 - 15:05 CEST
AI infrastructure is moving beyond simply hosting models. The next generation of platforms must support complete AI systems: model serving, intelligent routing, shared inference services, agents, tools, memory, and isolated execution environments.
In this session, we take a look behind the curtain at where VMware Private AI Services (PAIS) is heading. We will introduce the new VMware AI Factory initiative, walk through the PAIS Model Runtime 4.0 architecture, and show how its components work together to provide models as a scalable platform service.
We will then expand the view beyond model inference and examine VCF as a platform for agentic workloads. We will look at where agents run, how they consume shared model endpoints, why agents need isolated execution environments, and which infrastructure services are required to support them.
The goal is to connect the individual technologies into one architectural picture and show how VCF, PAIS, and the VMware AI Factory fit together as the foundation for enterprise AI.
Speakers
avatar for Frank Denneman

Frank Denneman

Distinguished Engineer, Broadcom
Frank Denneman is a Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technologist for AI at VMware Cloud Foundation, where he helps shape the architecture and strategy for private AI infrastructure. His work focuses on making AI workloads operational at scale, with particular emphasis on GPU infrastructure... Read More →
Friday September 25, 2026 14:20 - 15:05 CEST
(1) Tramuntana 1 & 2 ITQ Hotel

14:20 CEST

The journey of the ING Private Cloud towards multi country VCF9
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Friday September 25, 2026 14:20 - 15:05 CEST
Limited Capacity filling up
The journey of ING in the Private Cloud from NSX-v to NSX-T in to the VCF 9 design for multiple countries.
The development, challenges and size
Speakers
avatar for Toine Eetgerink

Toine Eetgerink

Cloud Architect / Cloud Developer, ITQ Consultancy
ITQ, Developing Architect from the NetherlandsWorking in IT since 1996. I am with ITQ since 1 July 2016. part of the SDDC team, with a foot in the CNA team.Passionated with Tech
avatar for Robin van Altena

Robin van Altena

Private Cloud Consultant at ITQ, ITQ
Robin van Altena is an SDDC consultant at ITQ. With over 20 years of experience in virtualisation. He love to discover new technologies and share the knowledge. Robin knows his way through all parts of the VMware Cloud Foundation components, especially related to components touching... Read More →
Friday September 25, 2026 14:20 - 15:05 CEST
(6) Lobby 1 ITQ Hotel

15:35 CEST

Eight months to move the brain of an airport. No downtime.
Friday September 25, 2026 15:35 - 15:55 CEST
Imagine being one of Europe's busiest airports, IT being the foundation of your day to day operations.
That makes high availability and business continuity a key principle of every system you implement, everything you do actually.
Now imagine getting a call from the commercial datacenter that provides you with that crucial availability.
"We sold the place, you are to vacate in eight months"

Not only did the airport need to procure and fit out a datacenter, they also needed to move all systems, while keeping the lights on.
Our Everpure storage arrays were one of the pillars of the environment, so they needed to keep running while we moved.
Let's talk about some of the challenges we faced and how we used the Everpure toolkit to address those.
Speakers
avatar for Eric Honcoop

Eric Honcoop

IT Consultant, ITQ
I grew up with computers. Literally — on my dad's lap. He worked at a pension fund service provider, surrounded by some of the very first ones.An Olivetti the size of a school desk, with 8" floppies and a two-line display. Or that Compaq 386 — the first "portable."An uncle got... Read More →
Friday September 25, 2026 15:35 - 15:55 CEST
(3) Mestral 3 & 4 ITQ Hotel

15:35 CEST

How a PoC becomes production and the scaling pitfalls of a PoC
LIMITED
Friday September 25, 2026 15:35 - 15:55 CEST
Limited Capacity seats available
Building an AI proof of concept today is surprisingly easy. With the right tools and platforms, you can get something working in no time.

But turning that PoC into a production system is where the real work begins.

Suddenly, it’s about privacy, scalability, reliability, cost, and automation. Tools that worked fine in a prototype start to show their limits.

In this talk, I’ll walk through what to consider in that transition based on a ‘how-not-to’ and how to move from a quick demo to a robust, scalable AI solution.
Speakers
avatar for Remco Stolwijk

Remco Stolwijk

Cloud Native Consultant, ITQ
Friday September 25, 2026 15:35 - 15:55 CEST
(6) Lobby 1 ITQ Hotel

15:35 CEST

VCF Storage & Data Unleashed: Roadmap, Futures, and Agentic AI Demos!
Friday September 25, 2026 15:35 - 16:20 CEST
The world of IT is changing rapidly, so the VCF Storage and Data roadmap also constantly evolves. In this session Duncan Epping will share with you what you can expect for Storage and Data services in the upcoming releases of VCF. And, of course, it wouldn’t be a VMware session without mentioning  AI, but instead of fluffy slides, I will bring some demos for you!
Speakers
avatar for Duncan Epping

Duncan Epping

Distinguished Engineering Architect, Broadcom
Duncan Epping is a Distinguished Engineering Architect at Broadcom’s VMware Cloud Foundation division, specializing in storage and disaster/cyber recovery. Duncan is the author of Yellow-Bricks.com, the vSAN/Clustering Deep Dive book series, and the host of the Unexplored Territory... Read More →
Friday September 25, 2026 15:35 - 16:20 CEST
(1) Tramuntana 1 & 2 ITQ Hotel
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16:00 CEST

Customer case HMC
LIMITED
Friday September 25, 2026 16:00 - 16:20 CEST
Limited Capacity seats available
The road to 2603. The upgrade path from VMware horizon to Omnissa Horizon 2603
Speakers
avatar for Niels Geursen

Niels Geursen

Consultant, ITQ - EUC Team
Niels is a Senior IT Consultant at ITQ, specialized in Digital Workspace and End User Computing. He helps clients navigate everything from Omnissa to Citrix, turning complex virtualisation challenges into workable solutions. Outside of work, he likes to do some CrossFit when possible... Read More →
Friday September 25, 2026 16:00 - 16:20 CEST
(6) Lobby 1 ITQ Hotel

16:00 CEST

You vibecoded a cool AI app. Now what.. ? Meet the ITQ AI Use Case Factory
Friday September 25, 2026 16:00 - 16:20 CEST
We have seen or been there: an afternoon of vibecoding and you've got an app with an AI feature that actually impresses people. Then the real questions start. Where does the model run, and is it allowed to see that data? How does it reach our tools? Who stops it from saying something embarrassing to a customer? The one-day demo quietly turns into a quarter of platform work — while AI itself moves on weekly.

The ITQ AI Use Case Factory is built for that exact moment: the plumbing (models, tool access, retrieval, guardrails) solved once, on private infrastructure, so an app with Private AI features goes from laptop to production in a day, not a quarter. Internally first, then at our customers.

This talk is for you if you:
  • build or vibecode apps and want your AI feature hosted, secured and used by real people — not stuck on your laptop
  • sell, and keep hearing "great PoC, but how do we get this into production?"
  • lead a team or the business and want a concrete picture of where AI at ITQ is heading

I will open the hood for an honest tour: what's inside, what we dropped, and what we'd build differently.
Speakers
avatar for Maxime Colomès

Maxime Colomès

AI Platform Engineer, ITQ
Friday September 25, 2026 16:00 - 16:20 CEST
(2) Garbi 1 ITQ hotel

16:25 CEST

Empowering VMware HCX OS Assisted Migration (OSAM)
Friday September 25, 2026 16:25 - 16:45 CEST
Discover how VMware HCX OS Assisted Migration (OSAM) can simplify and accelerate workload migrations into a modern VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment.

In this session, we will share a real-world customer experience migrating Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machines hosting Oracle Databases into a new VMware Cloud Foundation Workload Domain using VMware HCX OSAM at SFIL.

Through this field-driven use case, we will cover:

Key architecture and design considerations for HCX
Migration workflow, challenges encountered, and lessons learned
Operational impacts, downtime expectations, and validation steps
Best practices and recommendations for future VCF migration projects

This session is aimed at VMware architects, consultants, and looking for practical guidance and real operational feedback on leveraging HCX OSAM in enterprise migration scenarios involving business-critical workloads.
Speakers
avatar for Leonardo Coscia

Leonardo Coscia

Regional Practice Lead GALLIA, ITQ
Friday September 25, 2026 16:25 - 16:45 CEST
(3) Mestral 3 & 4 ITQ Hotel

16:25 CEST

Workspace ONE Linux Enrollments
LIMITED
Friday September 25, 2026 16:25 - 16:45 CEST
Limited Capacity seats available
A short session where I dive into the cool and wacky world of Workspace ONE UEM Linux enrolments. Covering the basics with things such as profiles, apps and common pitfalls.
Speakers
avatar for Jeroen Kouwenhoven

Jeroen Kouwenhoven

Engineer, ITQ
Hi! I’m Jeroen. Born and raised in Beverwijk. Joined ITQ in ’22. Interested in everything IT. Mostly focused on Digital Workspace, with a bit of Hybrid Cloud and everything else in between.
Friday September 25, 2026 16:25 - 16:45 CEST
(6) Lobby 1 ITQ Hotel

16:25 CEST

The Efficient AI Stack: Building Faster, Smarter Agentic Systems
Friday September 25, 2026 16:25 - 17:10 CEST
A technical, demo-driven session on the new generation of enterprise AI building blocks—from open models and intelligent routing to inference optimization and agent orchestration. See how these capabilities work together to deliver higher-quality AI experiences with greater performance, control, and efficiency at scale.

Speakers
avatar for Igor Soltysik

Igor Soltysik

Solutions Architect, NVIDIA
Igor Soltysik is a Solution Architect for Benelux & Nordics at NVIDIA, helping partners and customers design and deploy AI infrastructure for the next wave of accelerated computing. His work focuses on AI Factory design, agentic AI, and harnessing AI agents to turn enterprise use... Read More →
Friday September 25, 2026 16:25 - 17:10 CEST
(1) Tramuntana 1 & 2 ITQ Hotel

16:25 CEST

Cloud-native Virtualization
Friday September 25, 2026 16:25 - 17:10 CEST
I want to talk about the differences between traditional (VMware) and cloud-native (Kubevirt) virtualization. In doing so, I want to show the WoW, the skills, the use case, and possibly the actual implementation. I especially want to give our VMware people a behind-the-scenes look, as this is often still a blind spot.

This is not a session to convince people of KubeVirt, but primarily to show how cool it is in a Cloud-Native environment.
Speakers
avatar for Wessel Hulleman

Wessel Hulleman

Cloud-native Consultant, ITQ
Friday September 25, 2026 16:25 - 17:10 CEST
(2) Garbi 1 ITQ hotel

16:50 CEST

What do you get when vHST, RVTools and Live Optics meet vibe coding?
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Friday September 25, 2026 16:50 - 17:10 CEST
Limited Capacity filling up
It all started with one fading PowerBI report and a stubborn afternoon. What VHST, RVTools and Live Optics became when they met vibe coding is the rest of the story. What if vSphere Insight stopped being vSphere Insight?
Speakers
Friday September 25, 2026 16:50 - 17:10 CEST
(6) Lobby 1 ITQ Hotel
 
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