Join Rick as he sits down with Kate Canestrari to discuss her career journey from sales to leading Red Hat’s global partner marketing. Kate shares insights into the importance of understanding partners’ businesses, collaborating on marketing strategies, and the launch of Red Hat’s new global partner program, which standardizes incentives and aligns efforts. Plus, Kate offers her perspective on navigating challenges in virtualization and AI, the value of advisory councils, and how she balances work and family life with clarity, focus, and strong relationships.


Kate Quinn Canestrari is the Vice President of Global Partner Marketing at Red Hat

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Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future. Learn more at www.redhat.com