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Gordon Haff

Technology Evangelist
Red Hat
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United States (Massachusetts)
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Languages 
English
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Bio

As a former industry analyst and high-end computer system product manager, I have a perspective that spans from hands-on tech through macro trends. I've presented at many customer and industry events, authored books, written research notes, and been frequently quoted in technical and business publications as an industry expert. I was involved with technologies such as virtualization and cloud early-on.. Today, I'm most focused on open source, DevOps, IoT, cloud-native computing, and emerging technology areas such as blockchain and AI.

Current position (1)

Technology Evangelist

Red Hat

Degrees (3)
MBA
Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management
1983 to 1985
ME
Dartmouth College
1978 to 1980
SB, Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1974 to 1978

Presentations

Presentations (2)
A Short History of Packaging: From the Functional to the Experiential

Big changes are well underway in how software gets packaged and delivered. But even relatively modern takes on packaging goods and services for sale and consumption go back hundreds of years. In this talk, Gordon Haff will take you on a whirlwind tour of packaging. What forms has packaging taken? What problems were being solved? What kinds of trade-offs need to be made? What lessons can we learn? The goal is to step back from specific technology and consider the fundamental objectives and solutions involved in moving from disaggregated one-off things to bundled, standardized, or homogenized packaged goods. And don’t worry. This isn’t another talk about container ships.

AI: The Good, the Bad, and the Practical

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, neural networks. We’re in the midst of a wave of excitement around AI such as hasn’t been seen for a few decades. But those previous periods of inflated expectations led to troughs of disappointment. This time is (mostly) different.

Applications of AI such as predictive analytics are already decreasing costs and improving reliability of industrial machinery. Pattern recognition can equal or exceed the ability of human experts in some domains. It’s developing into an increasingly commercially important technology area. (Although it’s also easy to look at wins in specific domains and generalize to an overly-optimistic view of AI writ large.)

In this session, Red Hat Technology Evangelist for Emerging Technology will examine the AI landscape and identify those domains and approaches that have seen genuine advance and why. He’ll also discuss some of the specific ways in which both organizations and individuals are getting up to speed with AI today.

Past talks (4)
A Short History of Packaging: From the Functional to the Experiential
Monkigras
London
January 10, 2017
That's not a metric! Data for cloud-native success
Linux Foundation LC3
Beijing
January 10, 2017
Open: Beyond Code
Google Next Community Day
San Francisco
July 23, 2018
AI: The Good, the Bad, and the Practical
BCBS North Carolina Tech Summit
Charlotte, NC
March 23, 2018
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Monki Gras 2017: Gordon Haff - A short history of packaging
DevOps Summit Power Panel | DevOps and Security
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DevSecOps: The open source way
Artificial Intelligence: The Good, the Bad, and the Practical
The Interesting IoT: Digitizing Operations
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Books & Articles (6)

From Pots and Vats to Programs and Apps: How Software Learned to Package Itself
Amazon Createspace,
2017
How Open Source Ate Software
Apress,
2018
Blockchain: 3 things people get wrong
The three warning flags of DevOps metrics
When building a DevOps culture, go slowly and don't force it
We've heard of data gravity – we're just not sure how to defy it yet

Expertise (12)

Technology
Cloud computing Enterprise Software Product Management Application delivery Containers Culture and Collaboration DevOps Digital Transformation Emerging technologies Hybrid cloud infrastructure Open Source Communities

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Testimonials (1)
  • Gordon has a way of taking new and popular topics and presenting them in a unique way. His depth of experience and knowledge means he can draw from a tremendous amount of resources and put topics in a broader and business value context. Everywhere I meet with Gordon I find people that know him and respect him.
    William Henry
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