Progress Elevate South Africa
20 October 2026, Johannesburg
22 October 2026, Cape Town
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As technology landscapes evolve, organizations face increasing pressure to modernize infrastructure, strengthen cyber resilience, accelerate innovation and prepare for the opportunities and challenges of AI.
Progress Elevate South Africa brings together our partners and customers, for a day of strategic insights, real-world customer experiences and practical guidance from Progress’ leading technology portfolio.
Discover how organizations are simplifying complexity, automating operations, securing critical data and building the resilient foundations needed to thrive in the age of AI.
Agenda
From Configuration Management to Infrastructure Automation: Modernizing with Chef 360
Many attendees know about the Progress® Chef® platform through configuration capabilities. This session builds on that familiar foundation, showing how Progress Chef 360 can help organizations modernize while preserving their existing investments and advancing infrastructure governance, compliance and automation.
OpenEdge Roadmap: Building on What You Have, Preparing for What’s Next
This session gives customers and partners a clear view of where the Progress® OpenEdge® solution is heading and how the platform is evolving to support the next generation of applications. We’ll unveil plans for the OpenEdge 13.1 Innovation release, the OpenEdge 13.2 Long Term Support (LTS) release and beyond, and explore the key technology focus areas shaping the future of OpenEdge: including AI-driven developer productivity, modernization, security and platform innovation.
High-Performance ADC Without Complexity, Security Without Compromise, Scale Without Limits
Modern applications demand availability, security and scale. Learn how the Progress® Kemp® LoadMaster® application delivery controller (ADC) helps organizations simplify application delivery while maintaining performance and resilience across hybrid environments. Combined with the Progress® Chef® platform, teams can automate and standardize application infrastructure as part of a broader modernization strategy.
From Manual Rules to AI-Driven Experiences: How to Build Effective Hyper-Personalization
Most personalization never moves beyond intent. The data exists but turning it into meaningful customer experiences remains a challenge. Traditional journeys relied on customers finding information themselves, today, AI is changing the model. By understanding intent, delivering relevant content and guiding next best actions, AI can help customers achieve outcomes faster and with less effort with the Progress® Sitefinity® solution.
Progress WhatsUp Gold: Observe. Detect. Respond.
Visibility is the foundation of reliable operations. Discover how the Progress® WhatsUp® Gold infrastructure monitoring solution provides actionable insight across networks, helps teams identify issues faster and maintains service health. Paired with the Chef platform, organizations can connect monitoring insights to automated operational workflows, moving from reactive management to proactive infrastructure operations.
OpenEdge Reimagined: AI-Powered Innovation Without the Rewrite
Discover how the latest innovations in the OpenEdge platform are helping organizations modernize existing applications, accelerate development and unlock the value of enterprise data with AI. This session covers OpenEdge 13.2, the AI Toolkit and introduces the OpenEdge MCP Server, which securely connects business applications to AI agents and assistants. Evolve your applications, empower developers and bring AI to your business without replacing what already works.
Digital Agility Meets Cyber Resilience: Protecting Customer Data and Managing Risk in the Age of AI
Many organizations are modernizing secure file transfer (MFT) strategies to help meet today’s compliance, cyber risk and digital agility demands. As regulatory expectations rise and threat actors become more sophisticated, traditional file transfer solutions pose significant vulnerabilities — particularly within complex supply chains. Organizations are shifting toward modern, policy-driven MFT approaches that align with zero trust architecture and support real-time operations without compromising security.
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Idea to Automation, Idea to Report, Idea to Respond: Progress AI Across the INFRA Portfolio
"Too many tools, too little time." Infra AI turns infrastructure data and institutional knowledge into guided decisions, automated action and modernized infrastructure. This session ties the Chef, LoadMaster and WhatsUp Gold products together.
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Why Attend?
At Progress Elevate South Africa, you'll gain actionable insights into:
- Modernizing infrastructure without disrupting existing investments
- Building cyber resilience in an increasingly complex threat landscape
- Simplifying application delivery and security
- Leveraging AI-driven automation to improve operational efficiency
- Reducing downtime and improving visibility across critical systems
- Transforming secure file transfer into a strategic business advantage
- Preparing your organization for AI-ready infrastructure at scale