The evening starts at 19:00 with a welcome and introduction by Thierry Cornette, Head of business development at Mind OSS. At 19:05, Jasper Nuyens, CEO of Linux Belgium, gives a clear technical introduction to Proxmox VE, including its open-source roots, web-based management interface, and how it compares conceptually with VMware and Hyper-V.

The programme then moves into a Proxmox demonstration and a tour of features that matter in a professional context: integrated clustering and live migration, high availability, built-in backup with Proxmox Backup Server or Bareos, storage backend choices such as Ceph, ZFS, NFS, and iSCSI, and the difference between the subscription model and the free community version.

From 19:25, the focus turns to migration from VMware to Proxmox. Topics include phased migration strategy, VM classification tiers, wave-based execution from development to production, application owner validation, and practical differences between Windows and Linux VM migrations.

The final part of the session covers field use cases, considerations before adopting Proxmox, hardware requirements, the learning curve, community versus enterprise support, and how HA practices translate from vSphere HA and DRS to Proxmox HA. The evening closes with open Q&A and informal networking.