Your guide to Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift at Red Hat Summit 2026

With Red Hat Summit 2026 just around the corner, we’re shifting our focus from 'what’s new' to 'what’s next.' Whether you’re scaling AI or modernizing legacy VMs, this guide highlights the specific sessions and stories that will help you solve your toughest architectural challenges on Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift.

If you’re new to the service, Azure Red Hat OpenShift is a fully managed application platform—jointly engineered and operated by Red Hat and Microsoft. This first-party Azure service helps you build, deploy, and manage containerized, virtualized, and AI-enabled applications. With Azure Red Hat OpenShift, you get consistency across your hybrid cloud, while Red Hat handles the underlying infrastructure and operations for you. 

Now, let’s look at the key Azure Red Hat OpenShift related sessions, customer stories, and news.

Must-attend Azure Red Hat OpenShift sessions and activities

Customer stories and real-world use cases

• CAE: Accelerate innovation with virtualization and AI: CAE modernizes across hybrid cloud environments (BO2239-CD)
• Zurich Insurance: Zurich Insurance’s dual-CSP Kubernetes journey with Red Hat OpenShift (BO2115)
• PNC: Banking on automation: De-risking and accelerating with Red Hat in the cloud (BO2331)
• Banco Bradesco: Scaling GitOps to 50,000 deployments at Banco Bradesco with a Kubernetes hub-spoke architecture (BO1233)

Virtualization and AI use cases

• Accelerating AI from pilots to production with Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift (LT1908)
• Hybrid virtualization: Best practices for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Microsoft Azure (LT2765)
• From legacy VMs to AI-Ready Platform with Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift

Additional sessions

• 5 ways to optimize cloud costs with Red Hat
• Developer velocity with less risk on Azure Red Hat OpenShift
• OpenShift cloud services roadmap: Innovating in cloud environments (BO1556)
• Ask the OpenShift experts (self-managed and cloud services)

Celebrating innovation: Microsoft wins 2026 Red Hat Ecosystem Innovation Award for Platform Modernization Partner of the Year 

While the sessions on our schedule highlight the technology, our partnership is ultimately measured by the real-world impact we have on our customers. We are honored to share that this impact was recently recognized with a major industry milestone. Microsoft has won the 2026 Red Hat Ecosystem Innovation Award for Platform Modernization Partner of the Year. This award validates our long-standing joint partnership in delivering a comprehensive application platform that is engineered, operated, and supported by both Red Hat and Microsoft.

For this year's award, we highlight the incredible story of Banco Bradesco. By using Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Banco Bradesco modernized its infrastructure to support massive scale and advanced AI use cases, such as their "BIA" AI assistant which handles millions of monthly interactions. The transition allowed them to manage a staggering 50,000 deployments and improve delivery times significantly, with some processes seeing a 90% reduction in deployment time. Read the full Banco Bradesco success story. 

Visit us at the Expo Hall

If you’re ready to hear more or to launch your big ideas, visit the OpenShift booth at Red Hat Summit in the Expo Hall to speak with our experts and check out product demos. Whether you’re moving from legacy infrastructure or building a new AI foundation, we’re here to help.

Resources to get started

• Learn more: Azure Red Hat OpenShift Product Page
• Join us at Red Hat Summit 2026.
• To learn more about AI on Azure Red Hat OpenShift, read From AI prototype to production or Operationalize AI in less time.
• To explore Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Azure Red Hat OpenShift, check out 15 reasons to modernize your virtual machines to Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift or 6 reasons to migrate and modernize your VMs with Red Hat on Azure.
• Watch the Azure Red Hat OpenShift lightboard video series:
  • How to simplify migration and management of VMs with Red Hat and Microsoft
  • How to streamline AI/ML development with Azure Red Hat OpenShift
  • Why deploy Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on Azure Red Hat OpenShift?
  • 5 ways to optimize your cloud costs with Azure Red Hat OpenShift
• Explore Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift learning hub