Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 Dallas, TX

Get started with RHEL 10 today! After a short briefing on RHEL 10 updates, you will get hands-on with several of the core new RHEL 10 features like: building and managing image mode built images; working with the command-line assistant, an on-system AI driven assistant to help you manage your systems; and implementing security standards with RHEL system roles, powered by Ansible.

Organizations are increasingly turning to AI for transformative business insights and task automation. This session offers a practical introduction to LLM-as-a-Service (LLMaaS), showing you how to build and manage custom Large Language Models (LLMs) to meet specific enterprise needs. These LLMs can be served for business insights as well as linked to other AI agents to perceive the world around them and complete tasks. We'll cover deploying LLMs securely within your private cloud, ensuring data security, scalability, and compliance. You'll get a clear overview of integrated services, access controls, and usage metrics for chargeback. We'll also explore practical, high-impact use cases like AI-powered code assistants for developers and agentic AI applications, demonstrating the immediate business value LLMaaS can deliver.

Join Red Hat for our Mission-Critical Automation Workshop, a dynamic hands-on experience designed to introduce participants to Ansible Automation Platform and to immerse you in the journey of a new automator joining a team, progressing from using automation for information gathering to maturing their automation journey and building responsive automation that prevents and mitigates outages, minimizes downtime, and ensures mission-critical workloads remain operational.

Managing fleets of devices can be a challenge, even more so when deployed. Through Lockheed Martin’s partnership with Red Hat, we are changing the way software is delivered to the edge. Through CI/CD enhancements and unique edge AI and autonomy solutions, Lockheed Martin is focused on dominating the edge. In this session, we will discuss how Red Hat Device Edge and Edge Manager help meet next-generation battlespace requirements needed by Golden Dome for America and the global defense landscape as we move rapidly towards a diverse “Military IoT” ecosystem

Large Language Models (LLMs) offer unprecedented innovation opportunities, yet recent high-profile incidents demonstrate the critical risks of unguarded AI. From financial penalties to severe brand damage, LLMs can "go rogue" due to their non-deterministic nature, rendering traditional software assessment methods inadequate for safeguarding your business. This session will expose these vulnerabilities and unveil the essential blueprint for trusted AI: strategic LLM evaluation and the indispensable role of proactive AI guardrails. Through compelling examples and a powerful live demonstration, we will illustrate how these critical layers not only prevent disastrous missteps but also drive significant business value. Discover how Red Hat OpenShift AI, featuring Language Model Evaluation as a Service (LM-Eval-aaS) and innovative AI Guardrails, empowers organizations across all sectors to confidently deploy and govern AI. Join us to learn how Red Hat's approach ensures your AI initiatives become trusted, responsible, and secure assets.

AI success isn’t just about choosing the right model or deploying the latest technology. It’s about creating a clear, actionable path from bold ideas to measurable outcomes. In this hands-on interactive session, we’ll walk through a practical framework to take AI concepts from ideation to implementation, aligning your technical approach with business priorities every step of the way. Through real-world examples, collaborative exercises, and open discussion, participants will learn how to: identify high-impact AI use cases rooted in organizational goals; navigate data, tooling, and architecture choices with open source and hybrid cloud technologies; clearly communicate the value proposition of your AI initiatives to relevant stakeholders, gaining cross-functional support across technical and business teams; and establish key success metrics and track business value through pilot projects and scaling phases Whether you're at the start of your AI journey or looking to accelerate progress, this session will provide you with the necessary tools to effectively bridge the gap between AI’s potential and its real-world value.

With a decade of unparalleled success, serving more than 3,000 customers across diverse industries and hundreds of strategic partnerships, Red Hat OpenShift has established itself as a cornerstone of innovation and reliability while redefining container orchestration and application deployment across the hybrid cloud. Take a glimpse into the future of Red Hat OpenShift and see how we continue to innovate to meet the challenges of tomorrow, address emerging use cases, and deliver solutions that'll reshape your digital transformation. We'll look at customer use cases and industry trends; review pillars including the core container and Kubernetes engine, application development and deployment, and AI/ML workloads; and explore how to manage multiple clusters across the cloud and edge at scale. Join us as we unveil our vision for Red Hat OpenShift in 2025 and beyond, including: next-generation hosted control planes; breakthrough capabilities for AI workloads; the future of virtualization in a container-native world; and advanced security paradigms for the evolving threat landscape.

Have you wanted to take advantage of Red Hat Insights, but faced regulations that restrict data processing in Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console? Red Hat Insights advisor is now available on-premise as an installable component of Red Hat Satellite. In this hands-on lab, we’ll walk through setting up Insights advisor with your existing Satellite installation, allowing you to take advantage of recommendations that can improve the security, performance, and availability of your Red Hat Enterprise Linux hosts. We'll explore the architectural design, provide details on data flows and processing, and provide the knowledge you'll need to make the most of Red Hat Insights in your on-premise environments.

Designed for developers and security engineers, this lab provides hands-on experience with the Red Hat Advanced Developer Suite integrated with Jenkins–demonstrating how Trusted Application Pipeline elevates Jenkins CI/CD workflows with advanced security. Participants will use tools like Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer, Red Hat Trusted Profile Analyzer, SBOMs, SLSA compliance, and sigstore for image signing to transition from non-secure to security-focused pipelines. The Red Hat Developer Hub will also be highlighted as a centralized developer portal, streamlining access to resources. Through practical exercises, attendees will learn to automate consistent security with GitOps, embedding security from code development to deployment without disrupting productivity. Attendees will leave with the skills and mindset to create a more secure software supply chain while preserving the familiar, powerful workflows of Jenkins.

In this hands-on lab, you’ll learn how to use Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for essential administration and optimization practices. You’ll experience OpenShift Virtualization’s capabilities beyond initial deployment and how it supports efficient and reliable platform and VM management. After working through real-world scenarios, you’ll be ready to use OpenShift Virtualization not only to host VMs but also to operate and automate in a way that aligns with your organization’s evolving needs.

This session will introduce the exciting domain of building intelligent AI applications. We will begin by introducing the core concepts of Llama Stack, an open-source generative AI framework developed by Meta. The presentation will then illustrate practical applications of Llama Stack for intelligent AI application development on Red Hat OpenShift. Finally, we will explore core patterns such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), prompt chaining, React, and MCP.

Deriving outcomes with Generative AI and Agentic AI starts with making complex decisions at every layer of the technology stack, from Infrastructure and accelerators, to choosing the right models, tools and API. In this interactive session, we’ll walk through a framework to take AI use cases from development to production, aligning the technical approach with business outcomes. Through real-world examples and open discussion, participants will learn how to identify high-impact AI use cases.

In this deep dive roadmap session, the RHEL team will unveil ambitious new features that will ignite the use of large language models, improve productivity and accessibility with new RHEL Lightspeed assistive technology features, and improve testing and deployment of the operating system as a container. Harnessing the power of post-quantum cryptography and trusted computing, you’ll be able to boldly fortify your defense against emerging security threats, ensuring that sensitive data remains impervious to the challenges posed by both current and future adversaries. Over the last 25 years, Linux has transformed from a niche operating system favored by tech enthusiasts and developers into a mainstream powerhouse with a vast ecosystem of applications, from embedded systems and supercomputers to large-scale data centers, revolutionizing how organizations approach technology with an emphasis on collaboration and innovation. This evolution has changed the demands on RHEL, and the professionals who manage it. The needs have grown increasingly complex over the years, driven by diverse use cases, security regulations, expanding hardware architectures, and innovation in the cloud. Successful deployments of RHEL have become a complex dance between a network of experts including security, performance, network, and storage. Join us to better understand how RHEL 10 helps you and your team with tough OS planning problems, beefs up security and provides the foundation for running AI workloads.

In an era of disruption, automators are united by common challenges—and by the mission-critical role they have in solving them. This session provides an exclusive look at how Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform continues to evolve to meet the strategic needs of our customers. In this session, we’ll explore new platform features and capabilities that will help IT automation teams achieve more efficient, resilient, and connected IT operations at scale as they transform for the AI era. Explore the possibilities for streamlining infrastructure lifecycle management with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform + HashiCorp’s Terraform and Vault. Learn how Red Hat Ansible can help you navigate the shifting virtualization landscape with agnostic management of day-2 operations across any hypervisor, from VMware to OpenShift Virtualization. Discover how you can leverage Red Hat Ansible to streamline AI infrastructure delivery, unlock AIOps, and keep AI workloads compliant at scale. Because automation teams aren’t just supporting AI - they are enabling it.