Red Hat Developer Day: build the future of open source.
Join us in Stockholm on October 15th, 2025, for a free, full-day event for developers, architects, and platform engineers passionate about open source and technology trends. Dive into innovation, build, and connect with a vibrant community.
What to Expect:
Inspirational Keynotes: Hear from industry leaders on cloud-native and open source development.
Interactive Hands-on Labs: Gain practical experience with new technologies, guided by experts.
Live Demos: See innovative solutions in action and understand their real-world applications.
Why attend?
Designed for developers, software engineers, application architects, data scientists, architects, and platform engineers eager to expand their skills. Collaborate with peers, share experiences, and gain practical knowledge to enhance your cloud journey.
Our focus is on learning, sharing, and having fun! Explore hot topics including:
Questions? Please contact Red Hat EMEA at emeaevents@mail.events.redhat.com
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| 08:00-08:45 | Registration and coffee | |
| 08:45-09:00 | Welcome & intro | Speaker: Peter Gustafsson & Martin Östmark |
| 09:00-09:45 | Keynote | Speakers: Burr Sutter, Natale Vintos |
| Track 1: Getting started | Track 2: AI for Developers | |
| 09:55-10:40 |
Seamless tracing, metrics, and logs without touching a single line of code
Roger Florén, Magnus Bengtsson
OpenShift's Observability suite offers auto-instrumentation for deep performance insights without rewriting applications. This talk covers how Red Hat OpenTelemetry integrates with OpenShift to capture traces, metrics, and logs, enabling full-stack observability in minutes. |
Everything You Need to Know About Running LLMs Locally
Cedric Clyburn
As LLMs become accessible, running them locally offers privacy & tailored models. This session explores local LLM deployment, from open-source model selection to optimizing performance on consumer hardware & integrating with your data. We'll cover quantization, API integrations, and RAG.
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| 11:00-11:40 |
Backstage Software Templates for Developers. Scaffolding for cloud native
Natale Vinto, Magnus Eklund
Streamline your development workflow with Software Templates in Backstage! Templates let you standardize and automate project setup by generating services, repositories, and components in seconds. Save time, reduce manual work, and accelerate delivery while improving consistency across teams. Join us for live demos and tips to supercharge your developer self-serve experience.
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Blazing Fast LLMs with vLLM: Turbocharge Your AI Inference
Cedric Clyburn Power your AI apps with vLLM, the high-performance inference server built for modern LLMs. It's fast, efficient, and requires fewer resources to serve AI models at scale. Join us for insights and live demos to see vLLM in action and learn how to get started quickly and easily!
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| 11:40-12:40 | Lunch | |
| 12:40-13:20 |
Authentication Made Easy: Practical Security with Keycloak
Torbjörn Dahlén
Red Hat build of Keycloak, based on the Keycloak project, secures web apps with Web SSO based on OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, and SAML 2.0. It acts as an IdP, using standards-based security tokens. Built with Quarkus for flexibility and modularity, Keycloak is optimized for a container-first approach. We'll cover Realms, Clients, Authentication, Identity Brokering, and User Federation.
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Llama Stack: One API to rule them all
Natale Vinto and Sheryl Wang
Step into the world of Llama Stack — your ultimate AI sidekick! One API to rule them all: Inference, RAG, agents, safety, and more. Join us for a fast-paced mix of insights and live demos as we show you how to launch, customize, and deploy Llama Stack from zero to production-ready magic!
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| 13:30-14:10 |
GitOps in Action: Delivering Apps at Light Speed with Argo CD
Siamak Sadeghianfar, Martin Östmark Modern teams must ship fast without losing reliability. GitOps meets this challenge, and Argo CD is a leading tool to make it real. This sessions goes beyond theory to show GitOps in action, including the new Argo CD agent for pull-based multi-cluster delivery. Learn how to configure fleets and deploy apps acrsoss clusters reliably, repeatably, and with control.
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The 100x Migration: Scaling Modernization with AI
Shaaf Syed
Tailored for experts modernizing applications, this talk details the transition to cloud-native tech with Developer Lightspeed. It boosts productivity & efficiency via Gen-AI for automated code transformation. Developer Lightspeed offers migration paths from simple to complex, scaling to 100x. Experience cloud-native deployment advantages in environments like OpenShift and OpenShift AI.
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| 14:30-16:00 | Hands-on Lab: Predictive AI and ArgoCD | |
| 16:05-16:50 | Closing Keynote Burr Sutter | |
| 16:50-17:00 | Closing Peter Gustafsson & Martin Östmark | |
| 17:00-18:30 | Mingle and refreshments | |
Location:
Stockholm Waterfront
Nils Erikson Plan 4
111 64 Stockholm, Sweden
