Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 Bellevue, WA

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.

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.

For the past ten years containers have changed the game for applications. Now with image mode for RHEL, we’re taking the same benefits, technology, and ecosystem around containers and extending it to infrastructure. At last year’s Summit we announced image mode & bootc as a technology preview and with the release of 9.6 and 10, we are excited to announce the general availability and full support. In this session, attendees will get a deep dive into the technology, and walk away with a strong understanding of how to build complete, immutable RHEL systems using bootable containers, and where to use these in their environments. As a bonus, we will also look into the future to see where development is headed. Try to contain yourself because this will be *the* session you don’t want to miss!

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.

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.

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.

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.