Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 Montreal, QC

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.

With the growing adoption of Kubernetes, deep visibility into container workloads is becoming increasingly crucial. With new threats being discovered every day, organizations must be able to quickly and methodically find and remediate vulnerabilities. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes (ACS) provides this visibility into your container workloads, helping you identify vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and latent issues within your container images. This presentation will explore the features of Red Hat ACS that will help you minimize potential risks and threats to your OpenShift and Kubernetes environments.

Ready to drive real value from AI? Overcome critical challenges in AI infrastructure, operational response, and trust with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. This session shows you how turn intelligence into action.. Learn to: automate and standardize your AI infrastructure with Red Hat AI for faster, error-free adoption; enable AIOps using Event-Driven Ansible and Ansible Lightspeed for self-healing systems and rapid remediation; and ensure trustworthy, compliant AI through policy enforcement in your automated workflows. Discover how Ansible Automation Platform delivers the consistency, resilience, and trust needed to confidently scale your AI initiatives and turn AI's promise into enterprise reality.

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 - 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.

AI, Broadcom, cloud, containers, success isn’t just about selecting the right platforms but managing IT investments wisely and working with partners and stakeholders to provide agility and flexibility to reallocate investment with minimal loss in value and while minimizing risk. Aligning with partners that understand the realities of complex adoption scenarios and changing IT priorities and that can provide commercial flexibility to preserve value as well as reallocate value in order to maximize ROI. In this session, we’ll walk through how we are partnering with customers to create dynamic commercial agreements that provide flexibility to scaling spend to evolving business priorities while mitigating risk and stranded value. Through real-world examples and open discussion we will demonstrate how we: provide agility and flexibility in order to support changing modality driven by business needs; optimize PPU and commercial optionality to unlock stranded value; create cloud like on demand usage models that support migration and short term overlap/burst use case to minimize the double bubble effect; and leverage enterprise agreements to minimize migration and ramp up expense and reduce risk. Whether you're at the start of your AI journey, looking to accelerate progress or current high cost/risk initiative, this session will walk you through how we are partnering with our clients to providing flexible solutions that can efficiently manage financial risk and while optimizing ROI.

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 focus on modernizing infrastructure and applications with the Red Hat OpenShift Application foundation portfolio. It highlights opportunities and challenges in application modernization and AI. Red Hat OpenShift offers a trusted, comprehensive, and consistent application platform. New features include extended update support and AI-based conversational assistants. The platform aims to accelerate innovation while safeguarding user trust.

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.

This session will walk you through how Bell Canada - the largest telecommunications company in Canada - is using Red Hat OpenShift to power its cloud-native operations, while detailing the challenges they faced and the solutions they employed over the years to operationalize Red Hat OpenShift for their dynamic and versatile production environment. Over the past several years, network functions and applications have gone through a massive transition from physical functions to virtual functions and, lately, to cloud native functions. The new application paradigm is a containerized, microservices-based network, and AI infrastructure powered with kubernetes as the de facto underlay and Red Hat OpenShift as the industry leading AI and development platform. This session will focus on Bell Canada’s continued cloud-adoption and transformation journey and will discuss their functional requirements and use cases, architecture and testing efforts, tools and process enhancements, security and compliance efforts, as well as best practices and tips for operationalizing Red Hat OpenShift as a standard, horizontal, intelligent telco cloud platform across Network and IT Infrastructure.

Learn how to gain full visibility into your OpenShift cluster costs and optimize resource usage across hybrid and multicloud environments. This session will explore how Red Hat OpenShift Cost Management helps teams monitor spending, allocate costs accurately, and make informed budgeting decisions. Discover best practices for cost tracking, showback, and forecasting to drive financial accountability across your organization.