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Red Hat Summit: Connect Zurich

14. Januar 2026Switzerland, ZurichThe Hall
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Explore, connect, and grow, together

Advances in enterprise IT are accelerating at a rapid pace, and organizations will either need to acquire the skills and technology to adapt or risk falling behind. Red Hat Summit: Connect invites you to be at the forefront of industry innovation by joining us in Zurich on January 14, 2026

Engage with your peers and Red Hat experts and technologies to help take your teams to the next level.

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Enhance your skills, grow your expertise, and connect with peers through interactive breakout sessions, discussion panels, and more. Browse this year's agenda to view available options.

*Agenda is subject to change

Agenda

09.30 - 09.35

Welcome & Introduction

Sandhya Prabhu,

Ecosystem Leader Western Europe, Red Hat

09.35 - 09.45

Summit Connect Opening

Richard Zobrist,

Country Manager, Red Hat

09.45 - 10.30

Innovate freely, operate efficiently: Build on a unified AI and application platform

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 like RHEL 10 and OpenShift AI, enabling you to innovate with speed, maintain IT sovereignty, optimize operations, and secure your digital future.

Chris Morgan,

Vice President Evangelism & Strategic Initiatives, Red Hat

10.30 - 10.40

Advancing AI, Virtualization and Platform Security

AI adoption is accelerating but scaling it securely requires a strong technology foundation. In this session, Intel shows how advances in virtualization and platform security unlock trusted and efficient AI deployment across open hybrid environments. We will also touch on the importance of sovereignty, highlighting how infrastructure choices impact compliance and enterprise control while enabling innovation at speed.

10.40 - 11.00

Keynote - TBA

Partner Keynote IBM & Hashicorp

11.00 - 11.20

From Legacy to Leadership: a Cloud Transformation Journey

Partner Keynote: Microsoft

11.20 - 11.45

Networking Break

11.45 - 12.45

Open Hybrid Cloud

11.45 - 12.15

Behind the Red Curtain: How Red Hat Runs Its Own IT

Ever wondered how Red Hat itself runs on Red Hat? This session takes you behind the curtains of our own IT, showing how open source powers the infrastructure that supports Red Hat globally. From internal platforms built on RHEL and OpenShift, to automation with Ansible and the use of open source tools across collaboration, development, and operations, we’ll explore how Red Hat practices what it preaches.

Chris Wright,

CTO, Red Hat

Marco Bill Peter,

CIO, Red Hat

12.15 - 12.45

Unlocking Innovation: A Demo of Hybrid Cloud Transformation

Join us to see live how Red Hat is a catalyst for change in the digital world. This demo will show you how to break free from rigid, traditional IT by embracing the open hybrid cloud. We'll show you how Red Hat's cutting-edge technology empowers your business to become more agile, intelligent, and responsive, ready to face the future of innovation head-on.

Julio Guijarro,

EMEA CTO, Red Hat

Karanbir Singh ,

Senior Distinguished Engineer, Red Hat

IT Automation

11.45 - 12.15

Ansible Automation Platform: Shaping the evolution of automation across Business and IT

This session will share the future direction of the platform, focusing on key innovations and developments shaping the next evolution of automation. The session will also explore how these developments empower organizations to achieve greater efficiency, scalability, and intelligence across their Business and IT environments.

Loic Avenel,

Senior Principal Product Manage, Red Hat

12.15 - 12.45

TBA

Developer Experience

11.45 - 12.15

The Future of Software Development

Chris Morgan,

Vice President Evangelism & Strategic Initiatives, Red Hat

12.15 - 12.45

TBA

Hands-on Lab 1

11.45 - 12.45

Day 2 operations with image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

In this lab you will manage a virtual machine running in image mode. You'll explore how bootc tracks images, changes host purposes, and rolls back changes.

Please bring your own laptop

Ahmed Dahia,

Specialist Solution Architect, RHEL, Red Hat

12.45 - 14.00

Networking Lunch

14.00 - 15.30

Open Hybrid Cloud

14.00 - 14.30

RHEL 10 – A Major Leap Forward

Explore the key innovations in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, including AI-powered RHEL Lightspeed, post-quantum security, image mode for simplified deployment, and enhanced cloud and hardware integration, making RHEL 10 a major leap forward for hybrid IT.

Ahmed Dahia,

Specialist Solution Architect, RHEL, Red Hat

Rich Jerrido,

Product Manager -Technical, RHEL, Red Hat

14.30 - 15.00

Agentic AI in Action: Red Hat & Intel Shaping the Future of Enterprise AI

In this joint breakout session and demo, Red Hat and Intel showcase how Agentic AI can be deployed and scaled across open hybrid cloud environments. Leveraging the performance of Intel® Gaudi® 3 AI Accelerators and Intel® Xeon® processor, the flexibility of the Llama Stack, and orchestration through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), we demonstrate how enterprises can move from experimentation to production with efficiency and sovereignty. Together, Red Hat and Intel enable a powerful, open ecosystem that delivers agentic AI with trusted infrastructure, optimized performance, and seamless integration across workloads.

Hind Azegrouz,

EMEA AI Inference Lead, Intel

Codrin Bucur,

Principal AI Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat

15.00 - 15.30

EFG Bank’s Blueprint for Modern and Secure Operations

Join EFG Bank and Microsoft as they share their journey to the cloud powered by Azure Red Hat OpenShift. The session explores how this collaboration enabled digital transformation, modernized workloads, and streamlined operations across hybrid environments. It also highlights how Azure Red Hat OpenShift integrates seamlessly with the broader Azure ecosystem to deliver enhanced scalability, security, and operational efficiency. Attendees gain insights into the strategic impact of leveraging Azure Red Hat OpenShift in a real-world enterprise context.

Dmytro Zadorozhnyi,

Senior DevOps Engineer, EFG Bank

Fabrice Krebs,

Senior Solution Engineer, Microsoft

IT Automation

14.00 - 14.30

Simplify and accelerate IT service delivery with automation

Telekom Security helps IT teams operating complex, multi-vendor environments go from slow, manual service provisioning, to fast, secure, and automated delivery with its customizable Customer Order Portal, built around Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

Heinz Stampfli,

Head Network Prevention, Telekom Security

Merhdad Varzandeh,

Senior IT Delivery-/Project Manager, T-Systems

14.30 - 15.00

TBA

15.00 - 15.30

People, process and technology blueprints for Ansible Automation Platform

A review of an operational model for Ansible Automation Platform, featuring good practices for people, process and technology for a central automation service.

Christian Jung,

Principal Specialist Solution Architect Ansible, Red Hat

Developer Experience

14.00 - 14.30

TBA

14.30 - 15.00

TBA

15.00 - 15.30

Cloud sovereignty concretely implemented – with Red Hat, SysEleven and secunet

Cloud sovereignty requires clear strategies and reliable partners to put them into practice. Together, Red Hat, SysEleven, and secunet show how companies and public authorities can concretely implement location, technology, and operational sovereignty – with Red Hat OpenShift, certified compliance, and cloud platforms made in Germany. A pragmatic recommendation for action for companies and public authorities that want to take control, trust, and availability into their own hands.

Tim Friedrich,

Head of Business Development & Tech Sales, SysEleven

Hands-on Lab 2

14.00 - 15.30

Event-Driven Ansible controller: Up and running

As a part of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Event-Driven Ansible provides the event-handling capability needed to automate time-consuming tasks and respond to changing conditions in any IT domain. Event-Driven Ansible can process events containing discrete intelligence about conditions in the IT environment, determine the appropriate response to the event, then execute automated actions to address or remediate the event.

Please bring your own laptop

Ismail Dhaoui,

Principal Specialist Solution Architect,Red Hat

15.30 - 16.00

Networking Break

16.00 - 17.00

Open Hybrid Cloud

16.00 - 16.30

OpenShift Virtualization at Swisscom

Swisscom is one of the most innovative companies in Switzerland in communications, IT and entertainment. In this exclusive session, we will discover how to leverage Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization to accelerate traditional infrastructure provisioning and spin up modern cloud-native applications on a unified platform.

Tripalsinh Jadeja,

Infrastructure Product Owner, Swisscom

Javier Bares Fernández,

Cloud Architect, Red Hat

Michael Vollmer,

Senior Cloud Consultant, Red Hat

16.30 - 17.00

TBA

IT Automation

16.00 - 16.30

TBA

16.30 - 17.00

The LEGO City Police’s End-to-End Automation Success Live-Demo

Join the Live-Demo to deploy, update and remediate LEGOCity Police multi-tier Web application in this gamified automation journey with Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), Event Driven Ansible (EDA), Satellite, Prometheus and ServiceNow.

Ismail Dhaoui,

Principal Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat

Developer Experience

16.00 - 16.30

The Room of Requirements for Developers: Scaling AI Magic with Internal Portals

As developers, we all love a bit of magic, especially when it makes our jobs easier. What if spinning up an AI chatbot, fine-tuned model, or RAG-based API was as easy as summoning a spell? In this session, we’ll show how Internal Developer Portals (like Backstage) can become your team’s Room of Requirement. With pre-built software templates, function-calling support, and multimodel deployment options, platform engineers can give developers everything they need: on demand, securely, and at scale. Expect a live demo, practical takeaways using Kubernetes and Tekton, and appearances from Snape (security), McGonagall (governance), and Dobby (developer self-service). Whether you’re building an AI platform or enabling teams to do so safely, this talk will help you turn your developer experience into something truly magical.

Camille Nigon,

Solutions Architect, Red Hat

Maarten Vandeperre,

Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, Red Hat

16.30 - 17.00

The journey to quantum safety: Practical path to resiliency against the quantum threat

The cybersecurity landscape has entered a transformative period: the need for migration to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) as quantum computing becomes capable breaking current cryptography universally in use. This talk examines the practical implications and measures of the large-scale transition to quantum safe cryptography, by exploring standards, tools, and methods. We’ll discuss innovations from IBM Research and highlight experiences of migration from Red Hat, while providing an outlook on what’s next.

Marc Stöcklin,

Head of Security Research, IBM Research Europe-Zurich

Hands-on Lab 3

15.30 - 17.00

Getting Started with Agentic AI and MCP servers

This lab provides a comprehensive, hands-on experience developing intelligent AI agents with OpenShift AI, Llama Stack and MCP (Model Context Protocol). You will learn to build agents capable of utilizing both internal knowledge bases and external web resources, as well as interacting directly with a live OpenShift environment. - Integrate RAG, AI agents, and MCP tools to build sophisticated automated systems, such as an incident response system within OpenShift. - Gain practical experience using AI agents for effective communication and task automation within platforms like Slack, OpenShift and OpenShift AI using MCP tools.

Please bring your own laptop

Requirements: browser, high speed WiFi, turn off VPN/Firewall/Proxy (websockets used)

Natale Vinto,

Developer Experience, Evangelism Director, Red Hat

Codrin Bucur,

Principal Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat

Secure your spot: Registration is open

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Sponsors

Lead sponsor

Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) is an industry leader, creating world-changing technology that enables global progress and enriches lives. Inspired by Moore’s Law, we continuously work to advance the design and manufacturing of semiconductors to help address our customers’ greatest challenges. By embedding intelligence in the cloud, network, edge and every kind of computing device, we unleash the potential of data to transform business and society for the better. 

Diamond

Microsoft

Microsoft empowers individuals and organizations worldwide to achieve more through innovative software, services, and devices. From essential productivity tools like Microsoft 365 and cloud computing via Azure, to enriching personal experiences through Windows and Xbox, Microsoft delivers integrated solutions that accelerate digital transformation, enhance collaboration, and fuel human ingenuity across all aspects of work and life.

Platinum

IBM/Hashicorp

Gold

AWS

AWS is the world's largest cloud provider with the most comprehensive set of services. Whether you're looking for generative AI, compute power, database storage, content delivery, or other functionality, AWS has more than 200 services to help you build applications with unparalled security, reliability and performance. Together AWS and Red Hat empower organizations with a comprehensive hybrid cloud platform that combines the flexibility of AWS with the power of Red Hat open-source technologies. The longstanding partnership has been providing innovative solutions and running mission-critical workloads for over 17 years.

SysEleven

SysEleven GmbH serves over 250 customers in the DACH market and employs over 120 people. As a cloud and Kubernetes managed service provider, SysEleven specializes in the operation of distributed and business-critical systems and the rapid scaling of workloads. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Germany’s leading cybersecurity company secunet, which supports organizations that want to complete their transformation to cloud native and value speed, flexibility, and autonomy. SysEleven’s service portfolio consists of comprehensive services, ranging from concept consulting and Kubernetes training to fully managed operations. At the heart of the vertical technology stack is “MetaKube”, a managed Kubernetes offering that enables organizations to develop and operate web-based software products. In 2018, SysEleven became a member of the Cloud Computing Native Foundation (CNCF) and a certified Kubernetes provider. SysEleven places great stock in data protection and digital sovereignty. All solutions are therefore hosted exclusively in ISO 27001- certified German data centers, enabling customers and partners to comply with the German Data Protection Regulation (GDPR/ DSGVO). The company, which was founded in 2007, offers a range of services that includes Managed Cloud Services, an OpenStack Public Cloud, Managed Kubernetes and various network services. SysEleven’s customers include Schiesser, Intersport, DFS Aviation Services, Babymarkt, FTAPI, Staffbase, Senatsverwaltung Berlin, brand eins, and Golem.de. For more information, visit

Silver

Adfinis
Bechtle

Wir gestalten die digitale Zukunft mit IT – ganzheitlich und nachhaltig. Von IT-Arbeitsplatz, Datacenter und Multi-Cloud über Security und KI bis zu Managed Services bieten wir umfassende IT-Lösungen und Strategieberatung. Dank vernetzter Dezentralität vereinen wir die Stärke eines internationalen Konzerns mit regionaler Nähe – an über 120 Standorten in 14 Ländern und weltweit mit Partnern. Unsere Multichannel-Strategie verbindet persönliche Betreuung mit digitalen Services. Mit der Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie 2030 verfolgen wir klare Ziele in ethischem Wirtschaften, Umwelt, Menschen und digitaler Zukunft – für den Erfolg unserer über 70.000 Kunden.

Dell
f5

F5, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV) is the global leader that delivers and secures every app. Backed by three decades of expertise, F5 has built the industry’s premier platform—F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP)—to deliver and secure every app, every API, anywhere: on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge, and across hybrid, multicloud environments. F5 is committed to innovating and partnering with the world’s largest and most advanced organizations to deliver fast, available, and secure digital experiences. Together, we help each other thrive and bring a better digital world to life.

Netcloud
Puzzle

Puzzle ITC is an established software and technology company with over 25 years of experience, based in Bern, Zurich, Basel, and Tübingen (DE). More than 140 passionate professionals deliver complex IT projects focused on open standards and resilient, future-ready technology. We support organizations from concept to operation with agile development and modern open source solutions. Our expertise spans Digital Transformation, Platform Engineering, Data Analytics & AI, Cloud-Native Applications, IT Security, etc. As a proud Red Hat Premier and Specialized Partner, we drive innovation with leading open source technologies. We empower businesses to thrive through innovation, collaboration, and sustainable IT.

TD Synnex
VSHN AG

VSHN - The DevOps Company We turn software into reliable online services. As Switzerland’s leading Managed Service Provider, VSHN simplifies cloud and on-prem IT operations with DevOps, Kubernetes, and OpenShift expertise. We empower teams through platform engineering, automation, and 24/7 support to ensure scalability, security, and innovation.

Bronze

I-Tracing
LC Systems

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Venue information

Date: January 14, 2026

Time: 09:00 - 18:30

Location: The Hall,
Hoffnigstrasse 1,
8600 Dübendorf,
Switzerland

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