Red Hat Summit: Connect Hong Kong 2025
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Explore, connect, and grow, together
Advances in enterprise IT are accelerating at a rapid pace, and organisations 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. Hear from Red Hat experts and technologies to help take your teams to the next level.
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Keynote Sessions
These sessions provide a roadmap for Generative AI success. We'll start with Digital Sovereignty and the foundational role of Open Source for trust and control. Learn how to build a unified AI platform with Red Hat, balancing innovation and efficiency while embedding Responsible AI. Hear a customer story from HTHK emphasizing a people-first approach to AI transformation. Finally, get insight of Alibaba's strategic path to achieving AI transformation.
Opening Remarks
Digital Sovereignty is an important criterion for strategic GenAI adoption in HK. Learn why Open Source is foundational in delivering the transparency, trust, and control necessary for AI solutions. Watch this video to learn more.
Speaker:
- Peter Man, General Manager, Hong Kong, Taiwan & Macau, Red Hat
Innovate freely, operate efficiently: Build on a unified AI and application platform
As the world shifts to the Generative AI era, leaders seek pragmatic strategies. Join us to learn how Red Hat helps companies balance innovation with efficiency, bridge existing cloud investments with future AI capabilities, ensure Responsible AI, and turn uncertainty into strategic advantage using unified platforms.
Speakers:
- Andreas Spanner, Chief Architect, CTO Office of APAC, Red Hat
- Frankie Ng, Associate Principal Solution Architect, Hong Kong & Macau, Red Hat
Voice of Red Hat Customers - Empowering Corporate Growth with AI
HTHK’s AI journey highlights a fundamental truth: transformation begins with people. Human insight drives meaningful impact beyond technology such as cloud solutions and data analytics. With our robust in-house capabilities and proven successful implementations, we aim to help enterprises unlock full potential of AI, shaping a future defined by innovation, collaboration, and a people-first approach.
Speaker:
- Damien Leong, Chief Technology & Transformation Officer, Hutchison Telecommunications (Hong Kong) Limited
From Vision to Implementation: Alibaba Cloud on the Strategic Path to AI Transformation
The fireside chat uncovers Alibaba Cloud's strategic vision for AI transformation - Bosco Fung, Head of Financial & Telecom Sectors at Alibaba Cloud, discussed Alibaba Cloud's commitment to AI, including a 380 billion RMB investment in infrastructure. He outlined a three-stage evolution towards superintelligent AI and highlighted global expansion with new data centers. Bosco also emphasized collaboration with Red Hat to enhance enterprise AI deployment through OpenShift, focusing on efficiency and compliance in data privacy and security.
Speakers:
- Bosco Fung, Head of Financial & Telecom Sectors, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Hong Kong
- Andrew Li, Head of Ecosystem, Hong Kong & Taiwan, Red Hat
Track A
Watch now and learn how Red Hat empowers technology leaders to architect future-ready infrastructure through open, scalable, and adaptive platforms.
Next Generation Platforms - Red Hat's Approach to Hybrid Cloud
This session explores how recent product innovations empower regional teams. From RHEL 10's secure, flexible foundation to automation, OpenShift, and AI adoption, we’ll examine how these advances address modern needs and drive business outcomes.
Speaker:
- Albert Law, Director & Head of Solution Architecture, Hong Kong & Taiwan, Red Hat
Innovate with Red Hat OpenShift on AWS : How Financial Institution Deploy Applications at Scale with Robust Infrastructure on AWS and ROSA
This session will share a financial usecase leveraging both AWS and ROSA for different nature and industrial workloads, and accelerate the delivery of applications.
Speakers:
- Lok Yeung, Partner Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
- Frankie Ng, Associate Principal Solution Architect, Hong Kong & Macau, Red Hat
Operational Efficiency with Intelligent Automation
Explore how Red Hat drives automation with RHEL, Insights, AI, and Ansible. Learn to shift from reactive to predictive ops, reduce complexity, and accelerate delivery with strategic integrations like Terraform in your hybrid cloud strategy.
Speaker:
- Tim Lam, Enterprise Automation Sales Specialist, Hong Kong & China, Red Hat
Triple Your ROI: Strategic Insights into Hybrid Architecture Design in the Age of AI
Learn how intentional hybrid architecture drives 3x ROI vs. reactive approaches. IBM Consulting and Red Hat share how design thinking and open source tools align tech adoption with business goals for scalable, high-impact AI-ready IT environments.
Speakers:
- Stanley Tam, Senior Cloud Architect, IBM Consulting
- Anthony Hon, Senior Consulting Manager, Red Hat Services, Hong Kong & Taiwan, Red Hat
Track B
Watch now and learn how Red Hat empowers teams to innovate faster, accelerating next generation business applications with the tools, trust, and technologies they need
Operating RHEL from DC to Edge in 2025: Image Mode, RHEL Lightspeed, Post Quantum Cryptography
Discover how RHEL 10 supports secure, consistent operations from datacenter to edge. Explore Image Mode for unified delivery, AI-powered Lightspeed for smarter admin, and new edge management tools—all built to tackle tomorrow’s IT challenges today.
Speaker:
- Joey Lau, Associate Principal Solution Architect, Hong Kong & Macau, Red Hat
Integrated Security & Data Protection for Red Hat OpenShift by Veeam Kasten
This session explores data protection for containerized and VM workloads in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. Chris will share strategies beyond basic backups and demonstrate how Kasten’s integration enhances application recovery and strengthens overall data security.
Speakers:
- Chris Wong, Principal Systems Engineer Lead, Channels & Alliances, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan & Mongolia, Veeam Software
- Hayden Chow, Solution Architect, Hong Kong & Macau, Red Hat
Red Hat's AI Strategy and the Red Hat AI Inference Server: Powering the Future of LLM Serving with vLLM
Examine how Red Hat AI enables customers to deploy AI workloads across clouds, AI accelerators, and models. Learn how Red Hat AI Inference Server (RHAIIS) optmize LLM inference performance while reducing costs. Finally, explore how OpenShift AI helps to scale AI as a centralized AI platform.
Speaker:
- Peter Ho, Senior Solution Architect, Hong Kong & Macau, Red Hat
Modernization with Next-Generation Data Infrastructure
Modernize data with Red Hat OpenShift & NetApp ONTAP for a portable, secure, AI-ready platform. OpenShift standardizes Kubernetes, while ONTAP offers dynamic storage, snapshots, & hybrid cloud mobility. SnapMirror enables hybrid cloud mobility; managed cloud options scale globally.
Speaker:
- Alex Ma, Solution Engineer, NetApp
- Alex Lee, Senior Solution Architect, Hong Kong & Macau, Red Hat
Slice of OpenShift: Diving into Some of Our Latest Key Enabling Technologies
With 10 years of success and 3,000+ customers, OpenShift continues to lead in innovation. Discover new features for 2025: Connectivity Link, Lightspeed, Dev Suite, Zero Trust Identity, and Confidential Containers—all built for emerging challenges.
Speaker:
- Kelvin Cheung, Cloud Solutions Platform Director, Strategic Development, Red Hat
Additional Resources
Red Hat AI Bootcamp
In this immersive learning program, Red Hat experts guide your teams through the fundamentals of enterprise AI, real-world Generative AI scenarios, and deployment strategies that scale. Over five days, you’ll gain not just skills, but the clarity and confidence to operationalize AI for business impact. Fees apply.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Trial
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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Trial
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Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine Trial
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