| 10:30 AM - 10:40 AM |
Welcome to Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 |
| 10:40 AM - 11:25 AM |
Innovate Freely, Operate Securely: Your AI & Hybrid Cloud Journey with Red Hat
In an era of rapid AI advancement and evolving geopolitical landscapes, choosing the right partner for your IT strategy is paramount. Red Hat, built on the power of open source, delivers the trusted Open Hybrid Cloud platform and cutting-edge AI solutions enabling you to innovate with speed, maintain IT sovereignty, optimise operations, and secure your digital future.
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| 11:25 AM - 11:45 AM |
Fireside chat: What’s next in the Red Hat ecosystem |
| 11:45 AM - 12:05 PM |
Fireside chat: Voice of Red Hat Customers - Tech innovators shaping tomorrow |
| 12:05 PM - 12:10 PM |
Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards Presentations |
| 12:10 PM - 12:15 PM |
Closing |
| 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM |
Lunch in solution showcase |
| 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM |
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Session |
| 1:15 PM - 1:45 PM |
Next Generation Platforms - Red Hat's Approach to Hybrid Cloud
Let's examine the core business advantages stemming from our recent product introductions, focusing on how they empower regional organisations with enhanced capabilities. Our hybrid cloud evolution is fundamentally rooted in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, with version 10 offering crucial advancements in security and deployment adaptability essential for current demands. Automation plays a pivotal role in optimising operational efficiency, extending beyond infrastructure to cultivate proactive responses to issues and threats. While OpenShift is establishing itself as the leading platform for cutting-generation applications, OpenShift Virtualisation is accelerating its adoption for managing conventional workloads. Furthermore, initiating your organisation's AI path involves achieving tangible business results while effectively managing container expenses and operational complexities.
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| 1:40 PM - 2:00 PM |
Technology Partner Session |
| 2:00 PM - 2:25 PM |
Red Hat AI Roadmap: Our Vision and Strategy
Generative AI is transforming business, but success requires solutions that are open, portable and economical. In this strategy session, learn how Red Hat empowers developers to build, train and run models anywhere—from data centre to public cloud to edge—using Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI, Inference Server and OpenShift AI.
We will:
- Unpack Red Hat’s blueprint for making AI more accessible and energy-efficient without locking you into proprietary models and technology stacks.
- Preview upcoming features that bridge predictive and generative workloads.
- Show real-world pathways for accelerating time-to-value while keeping governance, security, and cost firmly under control across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Join us to see how Red Hat AI turns bold ideas into production reality—fast, open, on any model, any accelerator and in any cloud.
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| 2:25 PM - 2:45 PM |
Technology Partner Session with IBM Consulting: Triple Your ROI
Strategic Insights into Hybrid Architecture Design in the Age of AI
As organisations adapt IT architectures for the AI era, integrating new hardware like GPUs and enabling services such as "model-as-a-service" across hybrid and edge environments is critical. This session reveals how intentional hybrid architecture design generates over three times the ROI compared to reactive or default adoption.
Join IBM Consulting and Red Hat to explore how starting with your business's customer-centric product goals and applying design thinking identifies capability gaps, shaping a clear roadmap for new technology adoption. You'll gain strategic insights into maximising ROI and discover how open source software uniquely contributes to a flexible, scalable hybrid cloud architecture, enabling significant financial returns. Learn best practices for enterprise architects tasked with integrating new technologies effectively.
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| 1:15 PM - 1:45 PM |
Slice of OpenShift: Diving into some of our latest key enabling technologies
With a decade of unparalleled success, serving more than 3,000 customers across diverse industries and hundreds of strategic partnerships, Red Hat OpenShift has established itself as a cornerstone of innovation and reliability. In 2025 and beyond, we continue to innovate to meet the challenges of tomorrow, and deliver solutions that address emerging use cases. Join us as we take a closer look at just a slice of those enabling features: - Connectivity Link: Next generation kubernetes native gateway. - OpenShift Lightspeed: Super charge your admin skills on OpenShift - Advanced Developer Suite: Integrated solutions supporting builders. - Zero Trust Workload Identity: Unified identity framework. - Confidential Containers: Encrypt and protect data in-use.
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| 1:45 PM - 2:05 PM |
Technology Partner Session |
| 2:05 PM - 2:35 PM |
Operating RHEL from the Data Centre to the Edge in 2025: Image Mode, RHEL Lightspeed, Post Quantum Cryptography
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is trusted by organisations across the globe to securely and consistently support applications from the datacenter to the edge. In this session we'll take a look at how you can take advantage of the latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10 capabilities to support your organisation: RHEL 10 Image Mode: Enables a container-native approach that unifies OS and application delivery. RHEL Lightspeed: An AI-powered assistant designed to augment system administration with context-aware guidance and actionable recommendations directly within the command line. RHEL at the Edge: Explore the latest capabilities to manage RHEL fleets from the datacenter to the edge. Join this 30-minute session to learn how RHEL 10 confronts tomorrow's challenges today.
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| 2:35 PM - 2:45 PM |
Technology Partner Session |
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| 2:45 PM - 3:10 PM |
Afternoon tea in solution showcase |
| 3:10 PM - 4:20 PM |
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Session |
| 3:10 PM - 3:35 PM |
Protecting platforms in the "harvest now, decrypt later" age
Advances in quantum computing and AI are rapidly changing the threat landscape. What was once a distant threat is now right around the corner, and threat actors are actively looking to harvest data now, and crack encryption following "Q-Day". In this session we'll dive into some of the latest security capabilities available in Red Hat platforms, including: - Post-quantum Cryptography: Easily enable a post-quantum cryptographic profile across the entire operating system. - Zero Trust Workload Identity: Unified identity framework that supports machine identity and spans cross-cloud domains. - Confidential Containers: Encrypt and protect data in-use, leveraging trusted execution environments. - Creating trusted application pipelines, and seamlessly integrating supply-chain security into developer workflows. - Automating security incident and response and orchestrating operations.
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| 3:35 PM - 3:55 PM |
Technology Partner Session |
| 3:55 PM - 4:20 PM
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Operational efficiency with intelligent automation
In today's rapidly evolving IT landscape, operational efficiency and agility are paramount. This session will explore how Red Hat's core technologies can drive transformative automation across your organisation. We will unpack the power of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as our element of your hybrid cloud strategy, and introduce Red Hat Insights for proactive system management and threat detection. Discover how Red Hat AI integrations can elevate your operational response, moving beyond reactive fixes to intelligent, predictive action. The session will highlight the critical role of Ansible in automating infrastructure and application deployment, and touch upon the strategic integrations with Terraform. Learn how to leverage these tools to reduce operational complexities, free up valuable IT resources, and accelerate the delivery of business-critical capabilities in your organisation.
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| 3:10 PM - 3:35 PM |
Automate to accelerate: Ansible Automation Platform for virtualisation
Ansible Automation has now become the standard for achieving repeatable and consistent IT operations across infrastructure, applications, and cloud environments. Virtualised environments have been a key operational platform for modern IT, and Ansible has been a key component of day-2 virtual infrastructure operations - from provisioning, to patch management, and application configuration. As organisations unify virtualised and containerised workloads, migrating virtual machines (VMs) with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation is transformative. In this session, we want to look at unifying automation across the application stack - using Ansible to automate everything from networks, to virtual machines on OpenShift Virtualisation, and importantly day-2 operations for containers, VMs and cluster management.
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| 3:35 PM - 3:55 PM
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Technology Partner Session |
| 3:55 PM - 4:20 PM
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Red Hat AI Inference Server: Fast, cost-optimised LLM serving powered by vLLM
Many companies chase AI functionality while overlooking cost and efficiency. Agentic AI’s high-volume prompts drive inference bills and carbon emissions soaring. Red Hat AI Inference Server uses open source vLLM to pack and parallelise GPU requests, turning idle silicon into work and leveraging pre-compressed, accuracy-validated models to cut costs and boost performance without sacrificing quality. Amplifying these gains across fleets, the llm-d initiative provides a Kubernetes-native service for distributed GPU inference and training, using vLLM to run any model efficiently on any hardware. Attend this session to learn how: - vLLM’s engine keeps GPUs saturated, reducing latency and energy draw. - Model compression and ready-to-run libraries translate into capacity savings and confidence. - llm-d paves the way for large-scale, sustainable AI services.
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| 4:20 PM - 4:35 PM |
Closing |
| 4:35 PM - 6:00 PM |
Red Hat Summit: Connect after party |
| 6:00 PM |
Event concludes |
