Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 New York City, NY

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.

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.

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.

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Ansible and Terraform are the de-facto standards for IT automation and infrastructure as code for a reason. And for modern enterprises, managing the full infrastructure lifecycle—from day 0 provisioning to day 1 configuration and complex day 2 operations—requires a unified strategy, not siloed tools. This session provides a blueprint for end-to-end orchestration. We’ll show you how to combine Terraform's Infrastructure as Code (IaC) strengths for day 0 builds with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's power to configure, manage, and orchestrate the rest of the application and service lifecycle. See it in action with demos on how Ansible Automation Platform and Terraform Enterprise work together to reduce complexity, improve risk posture, and manage the full infrastructure lifecycle

In today’s fast-moving financial services landscape, the ability to rapidly deliver applications is a key competitive differentiator. This session explores how to remove bottlenecks and equip your teams with the on-demand tools and infrastructure they need to accelerate delivery timelines, drive innovation, and respond to market demands with agility. Join us for a demonstration of how Red Hat Developer Hub provides a unified portal for developers to request virtualized environments and streamline approval and provisioning workflows. We'll show how Ansible Automation Platform translates these requests into fully automated workflows that enforce governance at every step. See how virtual machines are provisioned directly on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, ensuring a standardized and auditable foundation for your applications. This integrated approach abstracts complexity, accelerates your development lifecycle, and provides the rigorous controls essential for financial services.

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AI is racing past simple chatbots toward self-directed digital teammates—systems that not only answer, but decide, orchestrate, and execute. The secret engine under the hood? vLLM, the open-source turbocharger that turns large language models into real-time performers. Join us for a fast-paced showcase where we: Reveal why vLLM has become the go-to runtime for lightning-fast, cost-savvy inference. Debut a live agentic AI that spins market data into insights and pilots applications on OpenShift—all in one seamless flow. Explore how retrieval-augmented memory, tool calling, and multi-GPU power combine to give today’s models the reflexes and reach they need to act. Expect big ideas, bigger demos, and a fresh vision of what happens when large language models stop merely talking and start doing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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In this presentation, we will cover the challenges of managing a legacy web platform, and how it significantly accelerates the migration of web applications from virtual machines to Openshift. Secondly, we will discuss the various benefits that Openshift has brought to our clients and operation teams, including improved efficiencies and other advantages.

As Generative AI shifts from experimentation to real-world adoption, developers need scalable, flexible tools to build intelligent applications. At Red Hat Summit 2025, Red Hat and Meta announced a strategic collaboration to accelerate open source innovation in GenAI bringing together Meta’s Llama Stack with Red Hat’s AI platform. Llama Stack, developed by Meta, is a modular, open source framework that provides standardized building blocks for building GenAI applications. When integrated with OpenShift AI, it enables developers and organizations to rapidly design, deploy, and scale intelligent AI agents in cloud-native environments. In this session, we’ll walk through how to use Llama Stack and OpenShift AI to build agents ranging from simple prototypes to advanced systems. You'll explore core patterns such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), prompt chaining, ReAct, & MCP. Whether you’re a developer, data scientist, or architect, this session will equip you with the tools to build the next generation of open, intelligent AI agents.

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Join us for a compelling fireside chat with Dru Rai, New York State's Chief Information Officer and Director of the Office of Information Technology Services (ITS). With an extensive background as a CIO for major private sector corporations and board advisory roles, Dru brings a unique, business-driven mindset to public service. This session will explore how Dru is applying private-sector principles to transform the vast and complex IT landscape of the New York State government. We'll delve into his strategies for driving efficiency, fostering a culture of innovation, and enhancing customer (citizen) experience across state agencies. Discover how New York is tackling major initiatives like AI integration, data privacy, and cybersecurity, all while ensuring the responsible and effective use of taxpayer dollars. This is a must-attend for anyone interested in the intersection of technology, business acumen, and public sector transformation.