Event Overview
Red Hat at Open Source Summit North America 2026
Visit the Red Hat Booth #G/S5 to speak with our open source experts. As the largest open source company in the world, we build and support open source products from open source projects. With open source, we equip our customers for success.
Connect with our subject matter experts to discuss AI, security, RHEL® and OpenShift®, and talk all things open with our team.
In-booth Demo
Smarter LLM Inference: Faster Tokens, Lower Latency, Better GPU Utilization
Wednesday May 20 | 10:30am - 10:40am CDT |
In this demo, Philip Hayes, Principal AI Platform Architect - AI Customer Adaption and Innovation, will discuss llm-d. Highlighting benchmark-driven gains over naive load balancing with vLLM. Compare side-by-side results showing lower tail latency, faster time-to-first-token, and more consistent throughput under load—demonstrating how intelligent scheduling delivers smoother streaming and better GPU utilization for production-scale LLM inference.
Stick around after the demo to see if you are our raffle winner!
Speaking Sessions
Monday, May 18 |
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11:20am CDT |
Building Community in the Age of AIBrian Proffitt, Senior Manager, Community Outreach, Red Hat |
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1:30pm CDT |
Being a Maintainer in the Age of LLM ManiaKevin Hannon, Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat |
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4:30pm CDT |
Why Is It Always DNS? Rethinking & Engineering Node-Level DNS Resolution in KubernetesShaheen Sayyed, Site Reliability Engineer, Red Hat Ankur Singh, Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Red Hat Quantum Computing for AI Engineers: Foundations, Limits, And Future PossibilitiesAlireza Rahmani, Senior Cloud Architect, Red Hat |
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5:15pm CDT |
Lightning Talk: The Era of Agentic Continuous DeliveryVibhav Bobade, Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat |
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Tuesday, May 19 |
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11:00am CDT |
Driving Kubernetes' Global Adoption and Contributions With DocumentationRey Lejano, Solutions Architect, CNCF Ambassador, Red Hat |
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Wednesday, May 20 |
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2:10pm CDT |
Is Maven Safe for Production?Adam Kaplan, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Manfred Moser, Sr Principal DevRel Engineer, Chainguard |
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4:20pm CDT |
Day 2 of Neurodiversity: Moving Beyond Fundmentals With Merge ForwardRyan Etten, Senior Architect & Team Lead, Red Hat Diana Todea, Developer Experience Engineer, VictoriaMetrics |
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How to Participate in an Open Source Community
As open source grows in popularity, many organizations are starting to explore the different ways they can become active and engaged in open source projects that are driving much of the innovation we see in technology today. In this presentation from Red Hat's Open Source Program Office, readers can review basic open source community concepts, explore factors that determine whether to participate in a project, identify common ways to get started in an open source community, and discuss the kinds of contributions open source projects need.
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Open Unlocks the World's Potential
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