Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the winners of the Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards 2025 for Hong Kong. This year, Red Hat is celebrating Hutchison Telecommunications (Hong Kong) Limited and HKT for their forward thinking use of open source to drive innovation, enable transformation and create meaningful impact across their organisations.
The pace of change in Asia Pacific shows no signs of slowing, especially as AI becomes a core driver of business transformation. Despite these demands, our customers have delivered remarkable results, showing that innovation thrives when paired with open source. The Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards 2025 are an opportune time to recognise and celebrate these achievements, highlighting how our customers are unlocking what’s next and shaping a future defined by creativity, resilience, and impact.
Embodying this year’s theme, “Unlock what’s next,” the Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards 2025 celebrates customers turning these trends into tangible results. The awards recognise 30 winners across the region whose inventive use of open source technologies has sparked innovation, strengthened competitiveness, and delivered lasting value for their industries, customers, and employees. These organisations demonstrate how open source empowers enterprises to reimagine possibilities, navigate complexity, and seize new opportunities in an evolving landscape to define future competitiveness.
The awards comprise five categories: Digital Transformation, Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud-native Development, Automation – and the newly added AI and Emerging Tech.
Category: Digital Transformation
Winner: Hutchison Telecommunications (Hong Kong) Limited
Hutchison Telecommunications (Hong Kong) Limited (“HTHK”), a leading mobile operator in Hong Kong, offers diverse and advanced mobile telecoms services under the 3 Hong Kong, 3SUPREME, SoSIM and MO+ brands, addressing different needs of the consumer market. HTHK is also dedicated to developing business and enterprise solutions under the 3Business brand in the corporate market spanning mobile commerce, information technology, smart city, the Internet of Things and big data. HTHK channels the latest technologies into innovations that set market trends and steer industry development.
With rapid growth in mobile business and rising demand for agile, feature-rich services, HTHK launched its digital transformation strategy, a long-term and thoughtful roadmap to modernise IT and accelerate business transformation. During this journey, HTHK collaborated with Red Hat strategically to transform its legacy infrastructure into a cloud-native one-cloud architecture powered by Red Hat OpenShift. The new foundation improves service agility, enables faster application development, and consolidates diverse systems to reduce complexity. By shifting investment from legacy infrastructure to business innovation, HTHK is strengthening its competitiveness and laying the groundwork for future advancements in virtualisation and AI.
Category: Automation
Winner: HKT
HKT is a technology, media, and telecommunication leader with more than 150 years of history. As the city’s true 5G provider, HKT connects businesses and people locally and globally. The Group’s end-to-end enterprise solutions make it a market leading digital transformation partner of choice for businesses, whereas its comprehensive connectivity and smart living offerings enrich people’s lives and cater for their diverse needs for work, entertainment, education, well-being, and even a sustainable low-carbon lifestyle. Together with its digital ventures which support digital economy development and help connect Hong Kong to the world as an international financial centre, HKT endeavours to contribute to smart city development and help the community tech forward.
To continue driving innovation and improve service delivery, HKT launched an initiative to expand automation internally. This initiative has accelerated service delivery, reduced downtime, and improved productivity. By embedding automation at the core of its operations, HKT is enhancing reliability, strengthening compliance, and empowering teams to deliver faster, more consistent experiences for customers across Hong Kong and beyond.
Supporting Quotes
Marjet Andriesse, senior vice president and general manager, APJC, Red Hat
“The pace of change in Asia Pacific shows no signs of slowing, especially as AI becomes a core driver of business transformation. Despite these demands, our customers have delivered remarkable results, showing that innovation thrives when paired with open source. The Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards 2025 are an opportune time to recognise and celebrate these achievements, highlighting how our customers are unlocking what’s next and shaping a future defined by creativity, resilience, and impact.”
Damien Leong, Chief Technology and Transformation Officer, Hutchison Telecommunications (Hong Kong) Limited
“Building upon a cloud-native foundation with Red Hat OpenShift has provided us a strong platform to consolidate operations and modernise applications, helping to enhance our data infrastructure. This shift has given us the agility to release new features faster and respond more effectively to market demands, while strengthening the reliability and coordination of our deployments. In line with our one-cloud architecture, Red Hat’s open source technology enables innovation with our partners and fosters stronger collaboration within our teams. With this foundation in place, we are well positioned to focus on our AI building capabilities, supporting our long-term growth and competitiveness.”
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