IT leaders and business leaders are constantly being asked to make strategic decisions and make difficult tradeoffs to meet business goals. This year the challenges are even more challenging as they balance growing AI opportunities and increasing IT infrastructure costs. Learn how Red Hat is helping customers build solutions that address today’s challenges and establish a foundation for a future that includes standardized IT Infrastructure, Mission-Critical Automation, modernization, Cloud and AI.

The cloud is hybrid. So is AI. It all started when a team at Boston Children's Hospital had an idea for how technology could improve patient care. Red Hat’s collaborative project with Boston Children’s Hospital intersect the worlds of AI, cloud technology, and open source. Join our guests from Boston Children's Hospital as they share how they leveraged an open source platform to transform healthcare with the help of AI.

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, innovation is essential for business survival and growth. Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, machine learning, containerization, and automation are reshaping industries and redefining customer expectations. This panel will explore how organizations are leveraging these technologies to drive innovation, streamline operations, and enhance customer experiences. Our panel of industry experts will share insights into their digital transformation journeys, the challenges faced, and the tangible benefits realized through adopting cutting-edge solutions.

Expanding on the AI theme at Red Hat Summit Connect, this panel discussion will explore how Azure complements Red Hat's capabilities to drive business outcomes through a strong partnership, featuring insights from a customer sharing their experience with our joint solutions.

As enterprises seek to accelerate their AI journey's, HPE and Red Hat combine together to present their Hybrid Solutions that provide cloud-native modernization for AI workloads with HPE GreenLake, the cloud that comes to you.

This session will provide an in-depth look at how NxtGen is leveraging open-source technologies to deliver scalable solutions for both national and enterprise-level needs. From hosting large-scale modern applications to deploying AI on OpenShift, open source has been a critical enabler of innovation and performance. Key examples include the use of open-source during the Lok Sabha elections to ensure seamless digital operations and the development of SpeedCloud and SpeedCloud AI on OpenShift to empower businesses with scalable, secure, and high-performing infrastructure. The session will showcase how open-source not only addresses immediate challenges but also lays the foundation for growth and modernization, encouraging enterprises to adopt open-source as a strategic tool.

Maintaining security is a priority for every enterprise, but it can be hard to keep up with constantly evolving cybersecurity threats, let alone the controls provided by the OS to mitigate them. You will walk away from this session with practical knowledge of how to implement security controls on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, from disk encryption to application whitelisting, security hardening, and more. We’ll also remind you why you should stop disabling SELinux!

Learn about ROSA with Hosted Control Planes, a new service architecture and deployment option improves resiliency, security and introducing OpenShift multi-version management. Experience OpenShift Virtualization on ROSA, a modern platform allowing to modernize VM workloads by running them alongside containers within ROSA. Discover the benefits of AWS Graviton on ROSA with multi-architecture tooling and workloads price-performance improvements.

OS deployments and upgrades are fundamental to any sysadmin’s job, and they aren’t going away any time soon. In this session we take you through Red Hat’s approach to making this simple and scalable today by using the right tools, including Image Builder, in-place upgrades, Satellite, and Automation. Then we will give you a glimpse into the future of RHEL… What if you could build and upgrade systems at scale using bootable containers?

Whether you're exploring AI solutions or are ready for full-scale adoption, this is a session you don’t want to miss. From choosing the right model and customization techniques to deploying AI-enabled applications where you need them, this session will cover how Red Hat helps simplify your AI adoption journey. We’ll cover how Red Hat’s AI platforms - Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI), current and future capabilities help organizations to develop, test, and run both predictive and gen AI models and power enterprise use cases across the open hybrid cloud.

This session will gather insights from leaders at Red Hat, Veeam, VDA Infosystems, and a customer to discuss innovative strategies for modern data resiliency in containerized environments. Focusing on OpenShift and Kubernetes, the panel will delve into key challenges and solutions for data protection, risk mitigation, and scalability in hybrid and multi-cloud ecosystems.

Applications are the foundation of the most innovative products and customer experiences. Building and modernizing applications for multicloud and hybrid infrastructure can be challenging, despite—or perhaps because of—the sheer amount of innovation taking place in Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects. Developers are faced with myriad new technologies to learn, and platform engineering teams struggle to maintain control, compliance, and governance in the build and delivery process. In this session, we’ll share:The journey of an application, from build or refactor to deployment in a production multicloud environment.How curated Red Hat OpenShift cloud-native technologies—such as Istio, Knative, Tekton, Argo CD, Backstage, and more—help teams balance a delightful developer experience with security and governance.What’s next in the roadmap for Red Hat OpenShift.

Join us as we share extemely successful business transformation usecases with OpenShift, the Red Hat's industry-leading Application Modernisation platform. In this session, our experts will share the stories and reference architectures of OpenShift's role in business transformation usecases. Learn how OpenShift will continue to empower enterprises to build, deploy, and manage containerized as well as virtualised workload with ease.

Join Hitachi Systems India to discover how integrating Dynatrace Observability with Red Hat Ansible can revolutionize your IT operations. This session will showcase how automated diagnostic data collection (e.g., thread dumps, AWR reports, network logs) triggered by observability alerts can lead to faster root cause analysis (RCA) and streamlined incident resolution. Learn how this integration minimizes manual intervention, improves operational efficiency, and offers potential pathways to self-healing systems, setting new standards for proactive IT management.

The Banking Industry is undergoing Digital Transformation at a faster pace. This session provides insights on various trends in BFSI for serving its end Consumers. It also provides an insight into Payment Transformations for Customers. Red Hat OpenShift Application Platform today hosts multiple Business and Mission critical applications today across multiple Banks. Red Hat portfolio of solutions provide Trusted platform across Open Hybrid Cloud Solutions for building and running Cloud Native Applications in automated way.

OpenShift is best known for running container-based applications at scale. However, not every application can be or should be containerized. Resource-constrained corporate IT shops now contend with supporting modern, cloud-native applications, monolithic databases, and virtual machine-based solutions.OpenShift Virtualization closes the gap between modern cloud-native architectures and those virtual-machine based solutions. Join members of the OpenShift Virtualization product team and Red Hat’s IT department for an overview of OpenShift Virtualization and hear first hand how Red Hat uses OpenShift Virtualization internally for everything from hosting COTS applications to building RHEL.In this session, we will cover OpenShift Virtualization, some newer features that have just been released, and how Red Hat IT is leveraging OpenShift Virtualization across both internal data centers, as well as in the public cloud.

Showcasing SpeedCloud- India’s most advanced application services platform. This session will demonstrate how NxtGen is making AI accessible to all professionals across India. By showcasing multiple publicly available AI models on SpeedCloud, running seamlessly on OpenShift AI, attendees will witness the power of open-source AI technology in action. These models are free to use for developers, marketers, and other professionals, democratizing AI like never before. The session will underline how NxtGen is paving the way for widespread AI adoption across India, empowering professionals from all sectors.

Learn how the InstructLab project aims to simplify GenAI model alignment tuning and enable a community-based approach to model development. We will discuss how IBM Research has partnered with Red Hat to open source IBM Granite LLMs & InstructLab model alignment tools, based on the LAB (Large-scale Alignment for chatBots) methodology. We will also cover how RHEL AI delivers this as an enterprise supported foundation model platform, to help users seamlessly develop, test and deploy GenAI models.

In this session, you will learn automation strategies for incorporating AI into an existing enterprise technology stack, with insights into removing siloes, improving governance and leveraging the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to drive operational efficiency. You'll get a better understanding of how enterprise automation and AI adoption will impact individuals and teams, alongside transformation lessons you can apply for your organization.

It’s hard to know how to translate the current hype about AI into a plan for enterprise AI adoption at your organization. In this session, we’ll discuss the end-to-end needs for enterprise AI platforms and how Red Hat’s AI platforms can help navigate your adoption journey, including the unique benefits of bringing Red Hat OpenShift AI and RHEL AI to: Help you get started with gen AI. Manage the requirements of your full AI/ML lifecycle deployment at scale. Using Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines and Red Hat OpenShift GitOps in tandem with OpenShift AI to create a single MLOps and DevOps platform. Connect your full AI/ML lifecycle to data without risking your organization’s intellectual property (IP). Create production-ready AI/ML models and connect them with core business applications following GitOps best practices.

For many IT leaders, the changing virtualization landscape is a forcing function for them to re-evaluate their IT estate, especially around virtual machine management. Now is the opportunity to accelerate the migration, management, and ongoing operations of your virtualization platforms. This session will detail how Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform can help with virtual machine management with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and beyond.

If you're seeking a powerful enterprise solution tailored for developers, integrators, and architects to manage hybrid workloads—supporting both traditional and modern technologies—using tools that have empowered the largest BFSI customers in India and globally to streamline software development by optimizing the build, integration, and SDLC processes, join us as we share Red Hat's contributions and insights with technologies such as: Red Hat Build of Quarkus - an optimized Java framework for GraalVM and OpenJDK, designed for fast startup times and low memory use. It supports reactive programming, integrates with Red Hat services, and is ideal for containerized, Kubernetes-native, and traditional environments. Quarkus enables efficient, scalable Java applications and can save up to 64% more cloud resources compared to other popular Java frameworks. Red Hat Build of Apache Camel - a robust integration framework designed for modern application development. It supports various deployment models, including Quarkus and Spring Boot, allowing developers to create efficient data flows and integrate diverse systems seamlessly. The latest version of Camel enhances enterprise integration with over 100 hardened components and improved support for cloud-native architectures, making it suitable for both traditional and microservices applications. Red Hat Build of Keycloak - an identity and access management solution providing secure authentication and authorization across enterprise applications and services. It offers features like single sign-on, user federation, and social login, supporting modern authentication methods like OAuth, OIDC, biometrics, OTP, etc. Seamlessly integrating with Red Hat products, Keycloak enhances security and simplifies user management in hybrid environments.

As software development environments grow increasingly complex, the need for efficient and scalable infrastructure has become paramount. Platform engineering emerges as a transformative discipline that enables development teams to accelerate their productivity by streamlining workflows, standardizing toolsets, and automating repetitive tasks. By creating self-service platforms, developers can focus more on innovation and writing code, rather than infrastructure management. This session explores how platform engineering tools and technology from Red Hat acts as a force multiplier for development teams, empowering them to achieve "10x productivity" through integrated DevOps practices, infrastructure as code, and automation.

Telecom operators are at the forefront of digital transformation, adapting to the demands of 5G, edge computing, and next-generation services. To meet these evolving challenges, telcos are embracing cloud-native architectures, automation, and scalability. In this session, we explore how leading telecom operators are leveraging Red Hat’s powerful hybrid cloud solutions—such as OpenStack, OpenShift, and Ansible—to transform their operations. Discover how these technologies enable seamless container orchestration, AI-driven automation, and DevSecOps practices, empowering operators to accelerate innovation, enhance service agility, and meet the growing demands of the telecom landscape. Join us as we delve into real-world examples of transformation, showcasing how Red Hat’s cloud solutions are revolutionizing telco environments for a smarter, more connected future.