Conference Benelux 2025 Agenda

Connect, explore, and enhance your knowledge. Zabbix Conference Benelux is a premier two-day event that's designed to help monitoring professionals and industry leaders stay ahead in the rapidly evolving world of monitoring.

DAY 1 (March 6)

Central European Time (CET)
09:30

Opening remarks

09:40

Keynote speech

Alexei_Vladishev
Alexei Vladishev

CEO and Founder, Zabbix

Alexei is the author of Zabbix, an enterprise-class, open-source monitoring solution, and also the Founder and CEO of Zabbix LLC, the company that develops Zabbix.
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10:20

Zabbix Dashboard Widget Tips and Tricks: Gaining Additional Insights and Enabling New Use Cases

Arturs_Lontons
Arturs Lontons

Zabbix Trainer, Courses Content Creator, Zabbix

With over 6 years of experience as Zabbix engineer, consultant and trainer, Artūrs has experience with Zabbix instances of various sizes and versions and in-depth knowledge of various Zabbix features and use cases.
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10:50

Utilizing the New Netconf Monitoring Options

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Brian van Baekel

Zabbix Trainer and Consultant, Opensource ICT Solutions, Netherlands

Brian founded Opensource ICT Solutions to provide Zabbix services in a market that was missing experts on this subject. He singlehandedly expanded the business to multiple countries around the world. He is also an official certified Zabbix trainer and provided trainings for more than 7 years already!
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11:20

Feeding Zabbix with MQTT data

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Ivo Schooneman

Open Source Consultant, Xifeo ICT B.V., Netherlands

Ivo is a IoT enthusiast and Open Source consultant at Xifeo, with a focus on automation and monitoring.
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11:50

Going beyond the basic: The importance of monitoring business metrics and other stories

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Francys Nivea Alves de Souza

Cloud engineer, Railcube, Netherlands

Brazilian, fan (and working) with Zabbix since 2016, I started with Zabbix 2.4, a deskserver, 0 knowledge of Zabbix or database and a lot of courage. Skip forward a few years, and I had the pleasure of working on several Zabbix (creative) projects, including the honor of working on Zabbix itself.
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12:10

Lunch

13:10

How Zabbix can solve monitoring challenges for businesses

Samir_Dzavadov
Samir Dzavadov

Partner Relations Manager, Zabbix, Latvia

Samir is a passionate individual who has had a love for technology since childhood. With a problem-solving mentality, he has been responsible for partnerships at Zabbix for over 4 years. On a daily basis, Samir assists all Zabbix partners with a variety of matters and works to spread the word about Zabbix.
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13:40

Introducing the Open-Source Zabbix Book

Patrik Uytterhoeven and Nathan Liefting

Zabbix Consultants and Trainers, Open-Future B.V, Opensource IT Solutions

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14:00

Automated template management and versioning is dumb. Let's change that!

Wouter_de_Bruijn
Wouter de Bruijn

Software Engineer, Retigra, Netherlands

As a Software Engineer at Retigra, I am responsible for developing and maintaining a network automation platform. Combining various tooling like Netbox, Zabbix, Git, and custom scripts to automate network monitoring.
Raymond_Kuiper
Raymond Kuiper

Product Developer, Retigra, Netherlands

As an Infrastructure Engineer, I was introduced to Zabbix in 2006 and I've been working with the product and involved with the community ever since. At Retigra, I'm using my Zabbix and automation experience to build the best monitoring platform for our customers.
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14:20

Using Frontend Scripts to the Max

Rick_van_der_Ploeg
Rick van der Ploeg

Zabbix consultant, Opensource IT, Netherlands

After starting with Zabbix 4.4 about six years ago, Rick recently transitioned into a full-time Zabbix consultant role at Opensource ICT Solutions. With a background in Linux system administration and DevOps automation, he now specialises in designing, implementing, and optimising Zabbix environments.
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14:40

Coffee Break

15:10

Automating Zabbix Component Deployment with Docker Overview and Use Cases

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Jānis Eidaks

Zabbix Trainer and Course Content Creator, Zabbix, Latvia

He is passionate about monitoring, teaching, tinkering with electronics and bridging the analog world with digital.
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15:30

Using FluentD with Zabbix API for Log Monitoring

Patrik_Uytterhoeven
Patrik Uytterhoeven

IT consultant and Zabbix trainer, Open-Future B.V., Belgium

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16:00

Migrating Nagios to Zabbix: Lessons Learned

Nathan_Liefting
Nathan Liefting

IT Consultant and Zabbix Trainer, Opensource ICT Solutions, Netherlands

My first introduction into Zabbix was back in 2016 when we had to upgrade an existing installation from version 2 to 3. I was working as a Network Engineer at the time and was immediately sold on Zabbix it’s usefulness for network monitoring. Since then I have always worked with Zabbix and in 2020 I went on to become a full-time Zabbix consultant and trainer. Writing books, blog posts and helping out the Zabbix community in various places.
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16:20

Coffee Break

16:50

Zabbix_utils Reminder and What's New

Aleksejs_Abrosimovs
Aleksejs Abrosimovs

Integration Engineer, Zabbix, Latvia

Aleksejs work in Zabbix just a year, he already become Zabbix 7.0 Certified Expert. Integration team is a perfect place to utilize his broad knowledge and collected over the year expertise in various IT fields.
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17:20

Best practices upgrading Zabbix

Raimond_Kollman
Raimond Kollman

Consultant, Xifeo ICT B.V., Netherlands

25+ years working and experience in open source. Always very fond of monitoring and observability, specialized in Zabbix since 3 years (ZCS/ZCP 6 & 7.0) and working towards becoming a Zabbix trainer.
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17:40

Report Engine for Zabbix

Nick_Corne
Nick Corné

CTO, Codeharbor, Netherlands

I'm a Linux DevOps / Automation engineer and Zabbix certified expert. Together with my collegue, we are starting a company (CodeHarbor) which focusses on integrating Zabbix with clean PDF reports.
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18:00

Networking

DAY 2 (March 7)

Central European Time (CET)
08:30

Zabbix Exam

09:30

Zabbix Optional Upgrade Patches Workshop (Double Precision and Primary Key)

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Artjoms Rimdjonoks

C Developer, Zabbix, Latvia

Artjoms is a Zabbix 6.0 Certified Expert with 10+ years of experience as a C/C++ developer (6 years in Zabbix). He previously, worked in the financial markets sector in the UK, developing low-latency trading systems. He brings with him an MSc in Software and Systems Security and a GCHQ certification from the University of Oxford.
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10:30

Trying to Knock Grafana off the Throne with Zabbix 7.2 Dashboard Widgets

Nathan_Liefting
Nathan Liefting

IT Consultant and Zabbix Trainer, Opensource ICT Solutions, Netherlands

My first introduction into Zabbix was back in 2016 when we had to upgrade an existing installation from version 2 to 3. I was working as a Network Engineer at the time and was immediately sold on Zabbix it’s usefulness for network monitoring. Since then I have always worked with Zabbix and in 2020 I went on to become a full-time Zabbix consultant and trainer. Writing books, blog posts and helping out the Zabbix community in various places.
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11:30

Coffee Break

12:00

Hands-On with Zabbix_utils

Kristaps_Naglis
Kristaps Naglis

Integration Engineer, Zabbix, Latvia

Kristaps like open-source software and self-host everything that he can. Bachelor's degree in IT. 3+ years of experience at MikroTik as an R&D and hardware and software test engineer for LTE and 5G networking devices. And now, I have been working at Zabbix as an integration engineer, for more than 2 years.
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13:00

Zabbix API

Bert Van de Poel

Linux and Open Source Consultant, Open-Future B.V.

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14:00

Lunch


Central European Time (CET)
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