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On 3 September 2026, join technology leaders and open source pioneers at Red Hat Summit: Connect, APAC’s leading enterprise open source event.
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Agenda
Keynote Session Red Hat Summit: Connect Mumbai 2026
Welcome session
Keynote: Built for impact: AI, security, and the infrastructure decisions that matter
Enterprise IT teams are being asked to do more than ever, with less room to fail. They’re being asked to deploy AI at a pace the business demands, defend against a threat surface that AI itself is expanding, and modernize infrastructure without disrupting what the business depends on. And do it all without adding headcount or risk. This session is for the teams living that reality. We'll cover what's working, what the fastest-moving organizations are doing differently, and what's now possible that wasn't six months ago.
APAC innovation awards
Customer spotlight
Customer panel discussion
Partner spotlight sessions
Track A Red Hat OpenShift: Your intelligent platform for applications and virtualization
Join our Red Hat OpenShift roadmap session for an overview of its evolution into an intelligent application platform.
Discover how OpenShift integrates agentic AI to streamline operations, accelerate troubleshooting, and improve efficiency for container, VM, and AI/ML workloads. We will also cover new support for post-quantum cryptography, native multi-cluster capabilities, extended lifecycles, and digital sovereignty.
Learn how these built-in capabilities simplify development and management across hybrid cloud environments, positioning OpenShift as your catalyst for innovation and success in today’s digital ecosystem.
Track B Turning AI ambition into AI reality
Join Red Hat as we tackle why most AI initiatives stall, not because the models don't work, but because organisations can't operationalise them.
We'll identify the four barriers to real AI value: spiralling economics, safety and trust gaps, inconsistent quality, and the struggle to reach production.
Underlying all four is one root cause: embedding non-deterministic models into business processes that demand predictability. We'll unpack the six controls that resolve this tension and turn ambition into reliable, governed AI systems, and introduce GenAIOps: the discipline, practices, and platform capabilities that make those controls real at enterprise scale.
Walk away with a clear framework for assessing where your own AI initiatives stand and what's needed to get them to production with confidence.
Track C Secure, Scalable, and Compliant: Driving Digital Banking Innovation at Scale
Discover how Red Hat's comprehensive open-source portfolio empowers BFSI organizations to architect and scale ultra-resilient, future-proof financial systems. Join us at Red Hat Summit Connect Mumbai to explore real-world use cases demonstrating successful deployments that drive continuous innovation and ensure regulatory compliance across the financial sector.
Track APowering the future: The next-generation IT automation platform
Already have automation in place but unsure how to integrate AI? You don't need to start from scratch. Instead, you can build directly on your existing investments.
In this session, we will demonstrate how to converge task-driven, event-driven, and AI-driven automation to solve complex operational challenges.
You will learn:
- How to harmonize task-driven, event-driven and AI-driven automation into a unified workflow.
- How Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform serves as the central orchestration engine across these different types of automation.
- Why existing governance and security policies are critical when scaling AI.
Through a practical, real-world walkthrough, discover how to operationalize AI without disrupting your production infrastructure. If you want to leverage AI while maintaining operational stability, this session is for you.
Track BBecome your organization's AI provider: Private model-as-a-service with Red Hat AI
AI adoption often leads to siloed models, fragmented infrastructure, and governance challenges. This session explores how Red Hat AI enables organizations to become their own Private Model-as-a-Service provider, delivering secure, governed AI models through self-service APIs.
Learn how to centralize model serving, optimize GPU utilization, enforce governance, and provide a scalable AI platform across hybrid cloud environments, empowering developers to consume AI without managing the underlying infrastructure.
Track CTop floor to shop floor: Bridging IT and OT for smart manufacturing
Join us for an insightful session on "Top Floor to Shop Floor Modernization" tailored specifically for manufacturing and conglomerates. We will explore the vital convergence of Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT), spanning from headquarters data centers down to shop floor devices, PLCs, and sensors.
Track ANavigating the AI and quantum frontier with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
The next generation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is here, designed to accelerate IT operations while future-proofing your critical infrastructure. This session explores how the latest RHEL updates help you balance rapid innovation with uncompromising security.
Key highlights include:
- AI-Powered Operations: Streamline maintenance and reduce toil with advanced AI-driven tools and AI-guided upgrades.
- Next-Gen Security: Protect your environments against emerging threats using Sealed Images and quantum-resistant certificates.
- Hybrid Cloud Efficiency: Scale seamlessly with robust image-mode enhancements and deep Red Hat Satellite lifecycle management integration.
Join us to discover how to maintain rock-solid stability while empowering modern enterprise workloads across any scale.
Track BImplementing a trusted agentic software factory
Join Red Hat as we explore how AI agents are reshaping software development and why the security foundations built for human-speed development can't keep pace with machine-speed risk.
Regulators are raising the bar for secure software supply chains and AI governance as autonomous coding agents move from novelty to mainstream practice, creating both opportunity and risk at speed. We'll introduce the Trusted Software Factory: an SLSA Level 3-aligned architecture that embeds security, policy enforcement, and traceability directly into the build pipeline, built on Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus and the Red Hat Advanced Developer Suite. We'll then look ahead to the agentic SDLC spectrum, from simple copilots to autonomous, self-directed development agents, and to what it takes to safely operationalise agentic coding at enterprise scale.
Walk away with a practical model for securing software as development itself becomes agentic.
Track CThe rise of neoclouds: Building the AI infrastructure of tomorrow
The session explores the emergence of Neoclouds, the factors accelerating its adoption, and why it represents a significant opportunity for Telco operators, Cloud service providers, and infrastructure providers. We will cover key architectural building blocks, design considerations, operational challenges, and future trends, while highlighting how Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenShift AI help organizations build secure, scalable, and enterprise-ready AI infrastructure.
Track ANavigating the challenges of sovereign AI: From principles to deployment patterns
As organizations transition AI from experiments to core applications, they face complex mandates. True Sovereign AI requires more than data localization, it demands a unified strategy across data, operations, assurance, and technology. Many leaders mistakenly assume this requires fully isolated, on-premise deployments that stall scalability and create fragmentation.This session demonstrates how to translate sovereign constraints into scalable architectures using a pattern-based approach. We will explore deployment models, such as the Sovereign Cloud Pattern, to balance regulatory compliance with AI innovation. Attendees will learn to establish a layered architecture for a closed-loop AI lifecycle, keeping models and data within legal boundaries with verifiable audit trails. Join us to discover how to leverage open hybrid foundations to deploy policy-driven Sovereign AI at scale.
Track BOperationalizing the full AI stack with Red Hat AI: From bare metal to Agentic AI
Agentic AI is reshaping enterprise development, but realizing its value requires an operational platform spanning infrastructure, inference, model serving, evaluation, and governance. This session explores how Red Hat AI operationalizes the full stack, including Model as a Service, AgentOps, and AI Safety for production workloads. Attendees will learn how Red Hat AI provides a secure, scalable foundation for building, deploying, and governing AI applications across hybrid clouds. We will examine trends in open weight models, token economics, and agentic AI. Through architectural guidance and real-world examples, participants will gain practical strategies for operationalizing enterprise AI with continuous observability and governance while maintaining flexibility and control.
Track COpen. Secure. Sovereign: Powering India's Digital Future
Open. Secure. Sovereign: Powering India's Digital Future is an executive briefing positioning digital sovereignty as the next evolution of India's digital journey. Grounded in scale -1.44B identities and 21.7B UPI transactions, this foundation must be secured as cyber threats surge, AI transforms governance (₹10,371Cr IndiaAI Mission), and the DPDP Act mandates strict data protection. The briefing introduces a five-dimensional framework (digital, data, cloud, AI, technology) and advocates for an open hybrid cloud architecture spanning sovereign and hyperscale environments to avoid lock-in and geopolitical risk. Digital sovereignty is not isolation, but a strategic choice: decisions made today on cloud, AI, and security will define India's digital independence for decades.
Track AFrom zero CVE to zero trust
The Mythos moment has arrived, and frontier AI is now capable of autonomously discovering, chaining, and exploiting vulnerabilities at machine speed. How do you defend your infrastructure, when the time to exploit vulnerabilities is now measured in hours, not on weeks?
In this session we'll explore how Red Hat takes a Defence in Depth approach across our products. We'll explore new capabilities like Red Hat Hardened Images, the Zero Trust Workload Identity Operator, and even using AI to better secure AI.
Join this session to learn how you can better use the batteries included security capabilities with your Red Hat subscriptions.
Track BUnlock AI-driven automation: From AIOps insights to trusted action
Your observability and AI platforms are generating insights faster than teams can act on them. Yet insights alone do not resolve incidents. Every manual handoff between detection and remediation adds delay, inconsistency, and operational risk.
In this session, we will explore the missing layer in many AIOps strategies: a trusted, governed execution framework that transforms insights into action while preserving the auditability, change control, and compliance enterprise operations demand.
Using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, we will show how organizations are closing the loop between insights and action through automated remediation, self-healing workflows, and intelligent orchestration, while establishing the governance and execution foundation required for agentic AI.
Track CThe Digital Prescription: Unlocking the Open Hybrid Platform to Architect Care & Cure 4.0
The convergence of Healthcare and Pharma Industry 4.0 objectives is driving a monumental shift across the life sciences ecosystem, fundamentally redefining how life-saving therapies are formulated, manufactured, and delivered to the bedside. To thrive in this new era, enterprise leaders must navigate a complex imperative: accelerating lab-to-life innovation, building shock-resistant supply chains, and delivering real-time clinical care, all while maintaining strict regulatory compliance, data privacy, and operational sustainability.
Grounding this transformation in an open hybrid platform architecture allows organizations to bridge legacy virtualized systems with cloud-native applications, edge computing, and enterprise AI. This presentation explores how an open hybrid platform creates a secure, continuous operational continuum, unifying advanced drug formulation modeling, precision medicine manufacturing, and real-time bedside diagnostics into a zero-downtime, resilient enterprise.
Chris Wright
Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, Global Engineering, Red Hat
Chris Wright is Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Global Engineering at Red Hat. He leads a team that guides Red Hat’s technology vision, co-creates technologies, and collaboratively implements change to ensure the success of Red Hat’s ecosystem of associates, customers, communities, and partners. He is passionate about open source software serving as the foundation for next-generation IT systems.
During his 25+ years as a software engineer, Wright has worked in the telecommunications industry and beyond on high-availability and distributed systems. He also has experience in the Linux® industry on security, virtualization, and networking. Wright has been a Linux developer for more than 15 years, with most of this time spent working deep in the Linux kernel.
Navtez Bal
Vice President and General Manager,, Red Hat India and South Asia
Navtez brings a unique combination of deep technical expertise and go-to-market strategy experience. He has held leadership roles including Chief Operating Officer for India at Microsoft for over three years, where he was responsible for the public sector business in India, overseeing the entire P&L and operating team. Under his leadership the team facilitated digital transformation projects for central ministries, state governments, public sector units, and educational institutions, such as the National Language Translation Mission (Bhashini), E-Shram, and Diksha, while working towards doubling Microsoft's public sector revenue over three years.
He also spent over nineteen years at McKinsey, where, as a Senior Partner, he played a pivotal role in establishing two key service lines at McKinsey India office (INO) - RTS and tech-enabled operations which together accounted for 45% of INO's client engagements. His extensive cross-sector experience spans Technology, Industrials (including metals & mining, power, chemicals, and oil & gas), and Infrastructure. Most recently, Navtez was with IBM for 1.5 years, serving as Vice President and General Manager for Strategic Business Development, covering India and South Asia.
Vincent Caldeira
Chief Technology Officer, , Red Hat APAC
Vincent Caldeira is CTO APAC at Red Hat and focused on technology strategy and emerging technology engineering in hybrid cloud, cloud-native AI and technology sustainability domains. Named a Top 10 CTO in APAC by Technology Magazine in 2023. Has 20+ years in IT, excelling in technology transformation in the financial industry, and is a Technical Advisor to LF OS-Climate, member of the GSF Green AI Committee, Technical Oversight Committee at LF FINOS and CNCF TAG Sustainability.
