Biographical Sketch: Filipe Miranda is the global lead for System z Sales, Strategy and Marketing at Red Hat. He joined Red Hat seven years ago when Red Hat opened the first Red Hat office in Latin America. His last position he was senior solution architect for the alliances team in Latin America having the key responsabilities to build trustful relationships with hardware vendors, system integrators and independent software vendors. His key responsibilities as the global lead for System z is to set the overall System z strategy and direction at Red Hat.