Red Hat Summit: Connect 2024

DNEG will explore the migration to Red Hat 3Scale API Management to enhance asset tracking on RedHat Openshift for use in our Pipe Query application used in video and animation rendering.

Understand the technical underpinnings of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in AI systems, including how Open Platform for Enterprise AI provides a framework for AI building blocks and facilitates the integration of LLM.

In a recent survey, Harvard Business Review found that 80% of respondents said, "Adopting IT automation is 'extremely or very important' to the future success of their organization." But IT automation—the automation of everyday tasks that concern IT systems—may seem a long way down the “value chain” from generative AI, cloud and other much more headline-grabbing developments that promise to have a major impact on organizations, whatever sector they are in. So why should you care?

The challenge: how can we “cold start” an organization with limited digital delivery capability with a hiring freeze and turn it into a beacon of excellence in digital services? Many traditional organizations have been slow to see the importance of building a sustained capability around digital delivery and are now scrambling to catch up to challenger startups and scale-ups that are slowly but steadily eating their market share. It’s particularly challenging when the organization has a hiring freeze in place to keep costs down, because this limits the speed with which new capabilities can be acquired and strengthened. However, by using principles and practices from both Team Topologies and Adapt Together:tm:, it’s advantageous to “cold start” a digital delivery capability in such organizations by using external suppliers that use commercial agreements, delivery practices, and partner relationships that amplify fast flow and cross-organizational learning and alignment. In this talk, Matthew Skelton - co-author of ‘Team Topologies’ and originator of Adapt Together:tm: - shares how a blend of external suppliers and in-house staff can provide a advantage over purely home-grown talent as the organization builds its “digital muscles”; by taking advantage of the natural boundaries between suppliers, a flow-centric architecture can emerge more quickly.

The adoption of automation solutions has helped the bank achieve its goals of providing an ideal Ansible development experience as well as enhanced event capabilities. JPMC can now process discrete IT environment intelligence and execute automated actions for event remediation more easily and with confidence. This presentation is focused on JPMC’s automation journey - with their beginnings with Ansible Engine to today’s work toward AAP 2.4 Key topics will include JPMC’s global scale, security controls and throughput of automation executions to serve their internal customers. The session will highlight the partnership with Red Hat and Red Hat Consulting along with the bank's direction toward a global and secure automation platform built on AAP. The session will also highlight JPMC’s plans for the use of additional Red Hat technologies including Lightspeed, EDA and Dev Spaces for Ansible. In this session, attendees will learn from use cases and real-world examples of JPMC and how it serves their internal global customers efficiently and effectively with the help of Red Hat Ansible Automation platform. Additionally, we’ll learn about the contributions given by JPMC to the Ansible community and how giving back to the open source project helps advance the technology for everyone.

The journey towards AI adoption is not without its challenges, and one of the most significant among these is understanding and managing the associated costs.In this session we will discuss how important is to evaluate the cost of adopting AI for financial purposes and also to respect the environmental impact when training deep learning models.We will discuss how the cost of AI projects is a multifaceted concept, which metrics are important to evaluate and how Red Hat can provide tools to help with the process.

Imagine a world where you don’t have to deal with boring and repetitive alerts and incidents. A world where you have time to work on more interesting projects or re-balance work and life. Event-Driven automation makes this a reality - join us and we will show you this bright new future. This session will cover Event-Driven Architecture, Event-Driven Ansible, AMQ Streams and Quarkus.

We’ll explore how Worldpay uses the “Platform as a Product” approach with RedHat OpenShift to create an intuitive, highly automated self-service platform for our internal consumers. We put them first by treating the platform as a product, we focus on prioritising the developer experience, building strong relationships, and leveraging inner-source practices. We’ll discuss how a small platform team implemented this approach, its key benefits, and practical outcomes, including how it enhances security and compliance while improving the overall user experience.

In this session we will discuss how Red Hat and AWS jointly power customers modernizing and running workloads in the cloud. We will showcase solutions like Red Hat OpenShift on AWS and how they are powered by the most modern compute instance types using AWS Graviton for the best cost price performance in the cloud. Jon will also share his perspectives on trends in the market and how customers are modernizing using cloud.

Deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux with bootable containers - yes, bootable containers!

The use of AI technologies is maturing within our customers and the same has to happen in how efficiently IT is managed to minimise the environmental impact of such an increased demand. Red Hat technologies can offer customers ambidexterity in managing both conflicting requirements whilst innovating and meeting your ESG targets. Technologies such as Quarkus, Ansible Automation, OpenShift Serverless and OpenShift Pipelines can be paired with OpenShift AI to accommodate both AI and sustainability under one platform.

In this session NESO (National Energy System Operator) will talk about the UK's new Open Balancing Platform that balances the supply and demand of electricity, which is a key part of achieving net zero. In particular they will explain how they adopted their award-winning hybrid cloud approach to DevSecOps with development in Azure through to production deployments in on-premise using OpenShift Plus, GitOps and Pipelines.

Join us for a session on how Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift drives the building and deploying of AI-enabled applications on a modern, comprehensive platform. Learn about the integration of Azure OpenAI with Azure Red Hat OpenShift and explore the synergies between open source and AI.

Java never went away, but it’s having a renaissance. After some initial teething pains on the cloud (too big, too slow, too hard to configure) a new breed of Java frameworks are changing everything. In this talk, Holly will introduce Quarkus and then delve into some of the advanced features you might not know about. She’ll cover native binaries, what makes Quarkus super-fast running on the JVM, TDD with Quarkus, and Quarkus’s carbon footprint. The talk includes some theory (what underpins Quarkus’s surprising speed?) and also live demos (does Quarkus really start faster than a light bulb? What does an integration testing flow with Quarkus look like?)

Join this session to learn how the High Performance Architecture (HPA) team at Citigroup Global Markets is delivering the next generation of its trading systems with multi-site self-healing using Red Hat OpenShift. With its new bank-in-a-box HPA solution, Citigroup Global Markets can quickly and reliably develop, deploy, and manage applications across teams, projects, and IT environments. Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift, the new HPA solution integrates data, business logic, and interfaces in a single environment. Red Hat OpenShift provides automated operations, consistent experiences, and self-service provisioning to help teams work together more efficiently as they move ideas from development to production. It also minimizes risks to bank and customer information, as transaction data travels through shared container memory rather than from server to server across the network fabric.

In a rapidly evolving technical landscape organizations are faced with tough choices and the need to modernize their applications and infrastructure. By combining the industry leading Nutanix multi cloud platform (NCP) with the industry leading Platform as a Service (OCP) from Red Hat, enterprises can modernize their infrastructure quickly and with reduced risk. In this presentation we will discuss the Nutanix and Red Hat partnership, integrations and joint engineering as well as provide some examples of organizations that have successfully modernized and future proofed to their infrastructure and their modern app strategy by choosing Nutanix and Red Hat.

It's been about a year since we launched Red Hat Developer Hub, our Backstage powered tools for building enterprise grade developer portals. So let's review what we have learnt and remind people why a unified open platform for reducing cognitive load, providing security, easy on-boarding and a single pane of glass seems like such a great idea. This presentation will show how Developer Hub can enable teams to simply create and manage development projects that are compliant with organisational objectives, efficient in creation and secure due to the built in vulnerability assessment process. We will show how templates can be created for a variety of languages, frameworks and environments. We can share some of the pain and the success stories and demo some of those developer automation use cases with OpenShift, GitOps, Secure Supply Chain and some 3rd party tools as well.

In this talk, we will explore how organisations can transition towards a cloud-native future by leveraging OpenShift Virtualization. We will begin with an introduction to OpenShift and its virtualization capabilities. The discussion will highlight the advantages of a hybrid approach that integrates legacy virtual machines (VMs) with modern containerized applications, demonstrating how this can enhance flexibility, efficiency, and resource utilisation. Key features and components of OpenShift Virtualization will be examined, along with its seamless integration with Kubernetes, emphasising the security, scalability, and management improvements it offers.

We will cover Aviva’s experience with Ansible Automation Platform (AAP). We’ll discuss why Aviva chose AAP, the challenges we faced, and how we overcame them. We’ll also talk about how we’re currently using Ansible and our plans for the future, including continuous compliance, patching, and self-serve automation.

In today's economy, AI is reshaping how we deliver technology solutions to our customers. At the heart of this transformation is Accenture's co-creation driven, on-premises technical development platform, tailored for public sector clients. In this session we’ll discuss how this platform facilitates development of concrete use-cases with Accenture, Dell, and Red Hat, in an innovative and creative environment for a broader go-to-market strategy focusing on Private AI.

Red Hat's Managed OpenShift offerings continue to go from strength to strength in their maturity, helping enterprises quickly adopt a powerful application platform. In addition to these stability improvements, in this session I will highlight some of the exciting new features that continue to be added, expanding the possibilities of these platforms and opening opportunities for our customers.In this state of play talk, I will run through some of the great new options in ROSA such as OpenShift Virt, Hosted Control Planes, OpenShift AI, ARM nodes, and more! You’ll leave the session with a greater understanding of not only the technical capabilities, but also cost savings, modernisation possibilities and user experience improvements for Operations, Development and Business leaders.

Do you have the time, skills, and budget for platform engineering? Every organization needs to invest in building secure, scalable applications to stay competitive. But do we need to build and run the platforms that enable rapid app deployment? Often, the answer is no, managing platform teams does not always offer a competitive edge. So why invest time and money into building your own platforms? In this session, we will discover how to embrace modern app development overnight with managed cloud platforms through OpenShift on Azure , AWS , GCP and IBM Cloud . Learn how Red Hat cloud services can streamline your operations, allowing you to focus on what matters most: delivering exceptional applications and value to your customers and stakeholders.

In the last 18 months, the virtualization landscape has undergone seismic changes. High-profile acquisitions and shifting commercial strategies have significantly impacted the software and platforms that have long been the backbone of enterprise IT infrastructures. As this disruption reshapes the market, organizations are reevaluating their virtualization and platform strategies. In this session, Ed Hoppitt, EMEA Director of Business Value Practice, will talk about how this industry shift is influencing customer decisions and discuss how Red Hat’s can help organizations navigate these changes, and manage risk. By leveraging Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and supporting Red Hat and partner products organizations can not only navigate these industry headwinds but also position themselves for success with a modern unified platform designed for the future.

Red Hat and Dell Technologies have delivered co-engineered platforms for accelerating innovation for over two decades. In this presentation, we will explore Dell Technologies’ approach to leveraging the multicloud ecosystem as a business design strategy, and how the Dell AI Factory, together with Red Hat’s capabilities, serves as an effective and scalable framework to accelerate and de-risk the adoption of Generative AI, in order to turn data into a strategic business capability.