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Introduction to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
Discover how Nokia and Red Hat enable seamless 5G Core upgrades through OpenShift design patterns, resilient workload strategies, and automation. Achieve zero downtime, accelerate execution, and reduce operational risk while maximizing resource efficiency. Presented by Janos Szebegyinszki, Nokia Cristian Mandras, Red Hat
János Szebegyinszki brings over 30 years of telecommunications experience across key leadership and technical positions, including account management, product management, and system architecture. In his current role at Nokia, János leads cross-functional alignment across internal product teams, R&D units, and key industry partners—such as Red Hat—to deliver streamlined, reliable solutions for global customers. His focus is on standardizing and optimizing in-service upgrades for complex, cloud-native telco environments, ensuring maximum stability across high-availability workloads and underlying platform architectures.
Cristian Mandras has been working for the last 20 years in the Telco industry, mainly on cloud architecture for radio and core network functions. In his previous role as Chief Architect at Nokia, he managed the architecture specification to build the cloud infrastructure with relevant telco grade features to support Nokia’s real-time radio and core network functions.