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Red Hat Summit: Connect 2026 | Singapore

22 de octubre de 2026SingaporeMarina Bay Sands Expo & Convention
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Where learning meets doing. Red Hat Summit: Connect puts the full Red Hat ecosystem in your hands—expert insights, IT best practices, live product demos, and peer connections that move your team forward.

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8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Registration, networking and solution showcase

9:30 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.

Opening remarks

Albert Chai,

General Manager, ASEAN, Red Hat

Juliana Lim,

Country Manager, Singapore, Red Hat

9:40 a.m. - 10:25 a.m.

Keynote: Built for impact: AI, security, and the infrastructure decisions that matter

Enterprise IT teams are being asked to do more than ever, with less room to fail. They’re being asked to deploy AI at a pace the business demands, defend against a threat surface that AI itself is expanding, and modernize infrastructure without disrupting what the business depends on. And do it all without adding headcount or risk. This session is for the teams living that reality. We'll cover what's working, what the fastest-moving organizations are doing differently, and what's now possible that wasn't six months ago.

Daniel Aw,

General Manager and Vice President, Asia Pacific, Red Hat

Vincent Caldeira,

Chief Technology Officer, Asia Pacific, Red Hat

10:25 a.m. - 10:35 a.m.

APAC innovation awards announcement

Daniel Aw,

General Manager and Vice President, Asia Pacific, Red Hat

Albert Chai,

General Manager, ASEAN, Red Hat

Juliana Lim,

Country Manager, Singapore, Red Hat

10:35 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.

Strategic announcement

10:50 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.

Customer fireside chat

11:20 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.

Platinum sponsor

11:40 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

Closing remarks

11:45 a.m. - 1:20 p.m.

Lunch, networking and solution showcase

1:20 p.m. - 5:20 p.m.

Track A: The next platform is choice

1:20 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.

Red Hat OpenShift: Your intelligent platform for applications and virtualization

Join our Red Hat OpenShift roadmap session for an overview of its evolution into an intelligent application platform. Discover how OpenShift integrates agentic AI to streamline operations, accelerate troubleshooting, and improve efficiency for container, VM, and AI/ML workloads. We will also cover new support for post-quantum cryptography, native multi-cluster capabilities, extended lifecycles, and digital sovereignty. Learn how these built-in capabilities simplify development and management across hybrid cloud environments, positioning OpenShift as your catalyst for innovation and success in today’s digital ecosystem.

Simon Tan,

OpenShift Virtualization Senior Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat

1:50 p.m. - 2:10 p.m.

Gold sponsor 1

2:10 p.m. - 2:40 p.m.

Powering the future: The next-generation IT automation platform

Already have automation in place but unsure how to integrate AI? You don't need to start from scratch. Instead, you can build directly on your existing investments. In this session, we will demonstrate how to converge task-driven, event-driven, and AI-driven automation to solve complex operational challenges. You will learn: - How to harmonize task-driven, event-driven and AI-driven automation into a unified workflow. - How Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform serves as the central orchestration engine across these different types of automation. - Why existing governance and security policies are critical when scaling AI. Through a practical, real-world walkthrough, discover how to operationalize AI without disrupting your production infrastructure. If you want to leverage AI while maintaining operational stability, this session is for you.

Nicholas Chia,

Automation Platform Specialist, Red Hat

2:40 p.m. - 3:10 p.m.

Coffee break, networking and solution showcase

3:10 p.m. - 3:40 p.m.

Navigating the AI and Quantum Frontier with Red Hat Enterprise Linux

The next generation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is here, designed to accelerate IT operations while future-proofing your critical infrastructure. This session explores how the latest RHEL updates help you balance rapid innovation with uncompromising security. Key highlights include: - AI-Powered Operations: Streamline maintenance and reduce toil with advanced AI-driven tools and AI-guided upgrades. - Next-Gen Security: Protect your environments against emerging threats using Sealed Images and quantum-resistant certificates. - Hybrid Cloud Efficiency: Scale seamlessly with robust image-mode enhancements and deep Red Hat Satellite lifecycle management integration. Join us to discover how to maintain rock-solid stability while empowering modern enterprise workloads across any scale.

Gulshan Prasad,

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Specialist Solution Architect , APAC, Red Hat

3:40 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Gold sponsor 3

4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Navigating the challenges of sovereign AI: From principles to deployment patterns

As organizations transition AI from experiments to foundational applications, they face complex mandates. True Sovereign AI requires more than data localization; it demands a comprehensive strategy across data, operations, assurance, and technology. Many leaders mistakenly believe this necessitates fully isolated, on-premise deployments, which can hinder scalability and create fragmentation. This session demonstrates how to translate these constraints into scalable architectures using a pattern-based approach. We will explore deployment models, such as the Sovereign Cloud Pattern, to help balance regulatory requirements with AI innovation. Attendees will learn to establish a layered platform architecture for a closed-loop AI lifecycle, ensuring models and data remain within legal boundaries while providing the verifiable audit trails required for trust. Join us to discover how to leverage open hybrid foundations to deploy policy-driven, auditable Sovereign AI at scale.

IBM

4:30 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.

Gold sponsor 5

4:50 p.m. - 5:20 p.m.

From zero CVE to zero trust

The "Mythos moment" has arrived, and frontier AI is now capable of autonomously discovering, chaining, and exploiting vulnerabilities at machine speed. How do you defend your infrastructure, when the time to exploit vulnerabilities is now measured in hours, not on weeks? In this session we'll explore how Red Hat takes a "Defence in Depth" approach across our products. We'll explore new capabilities like Red Hat Hardened Images, the Zero Trust Workload Identity Operator, and even using AI to better secure AI. Join this session to learn how you can better use the "batteries included" security capabilities with your Red Hat subscriptions."

Anthony Lin,

OpenShift Specialist Solution Architect, ASEAN, Red Hat

Track B: The AI ready enterprise is here

1:20 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.

Turning AI ambition into AI reality: How Red Hat AI Enterprise delivers production-ready AI with confidence, control, and efficiency

Join Red Hat as we tackle why most AI initiatives stall, not because the models don't work, but because organisations can't operationalise them. We'll identify the four barriers to real AI value: spiralling economics, safety and trust gaps, inconsistent quality, and the struggle to reach production. Underlying all four is one root cause: embedding non-deterministic models into business processes that demand predictability. We'll unpack the six controls that resolve this tension and turn ambition into reliable, governed AI systems, and introduce GenAIOps: the discipline, practices, and platform capabilities that make those controls real at enterprise scale. Walk away with a clear framework for assessing where your own AI initiatives stand and what's needed to get them to production with confidence.

Sandip Sharma,

AI Sales Specialist, Red Hat

1:50 p.m. - 2:10 p.m.

Gold sponsor 2

2:10 p.m. - 2:40 p.m.

Become your organization’s AI provider: Private model-as-a-service with Red Hat AI

AI adoption often leads to siloed models, fragmented infrastructure, and governance challenges. This session explores how Red Hat AI enables organizations to become their own Private Model-as-a-Service provider, delivering secure, governed AI models through self-service APIs. Learn how to centralize model serving, optimize GPU utilization, enforce governance, and provide a scalable AI platform across hybrid cloud environments, empowering developers to consume AI without managing the underlying infrastructure.

Jing Wen Ng,

Specialist Solution Architect, AI, APAC, Red Hat

2:40 p.m. - 3:10 p.m.

Coffee break, networking and solution showcase

3:10 p.m. - 3:40 p.m.

Implementing a trusted agentic software factory

Join Red Hat as we explore how AI agents are reshaping software development and why the security foundations built for human-speed development can't keep pace with machine-speed risk. Regulators are raising the bar for secure software supply chains and AI governance as autonomous coding agents move from novelty to mainstream practice, creating both opportunity and risk at speed. We'll introduce the Trusted Software Factory: an SLSA Level 3-aligned architecture that embeds security, policy enforcement, and traceability directly into the build pipeline, built on Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus and the Red Hat Advanced Developer Suite. We'll then look ahead to the agentic SDLC spectrum, from simple copilots to autonomous, self-directed development agents, and to what it takes to safely operationalise agentic coding at enterprise scale. Walk away with a practical model for securing software as development itself becomes agentic.

Faruq Zafir,

OpenShift Specialist Solution Architect, ASEAN, Red Hat

3:40 p.m.- 4:00 p.m.

Gold sponsor 4

4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Operationalizing the full AI stack with Red Hat AI: From bare metal to Agentic AI

Agentic AI is reshaping enterprise application development, but realizing its value requires more than deploying models. It requires an operational AI platform spanning infrastructure, inference, model serving, evaluation, governance, and lifecycle management. This session explores how Red Hat AI operationalizes the full AI stack, from Model as a Service, AgentOps, AI Safety and Evaluation for production workloads. Attendees will learn how Red Hat AI provides a secure, scalable, and open foundation for building, deploying, evaluating, and governing AI applications across hybrid cloud environments. The presentation also examines emerging trends including open weight models, token economics, AI governance, and the evolution toward agentic AI. Through architectural guidance and real-world examples, participants will gain practical strategies for operationalizing enterprise AI with continuous evaluation, observability, security, and governance while maintaining flexibility, compliance, and control.

Cheng Bin Tham,

AI Senior Specialist Solution Architect, APAC, Red Hat

4:30 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.

Gold sponsor 6/Red Hat session

4:50 p.m. - 5:20 p.m.

Unlock AI-driven automation: From AIOps insights to trusted action

Your observability and AI platforms are generating insights faster than teams can act on them. Yet insights alone do not resolve incidents. Every manual handoff between detection and remediation adds delay, inconsistency, and operational risk. In this session, we will explore the missing layer in many AIOps strategies: a trusted, governed execution framework that transforms insights into action while preserving the auditability, change control, and compliance enterprise operations demand. Using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, we will show how organizations are closing the loop between insights and action through automated remediation, self-healing workflows, and intelligent orchestration, while establishing the governance and execution foundation required for agentic AI.

Vinoth Kumar Saruva Sivaprasad,

Associate Principal Specialist Solution Architect, Automation, ASEAN, Red Hat

5:20 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Lucky draw and closing

5:30 p.m.

End of event

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Speakers

Daniel Aw

Red Hat

Daniel Aw

General Manager and Vice President, Asia Pacific, Red Hat

Daniel Aw is a seasoned leader with over three decades of extensive international experience driving customer satisfaction, sales, and revenue growth. He is known for successfully scaling profitable businesses and expanding operations across Asia.

As general manager and vice president of Red Hat in Asia Pacific, Daniel is responsible for the next phase of the company’s growth in the region, as well as leading initiatives to enable customer success with AI and open hybrid cloud technology.

In the past, Daniel successfully led the enterprise business for Red Hat in the APAC region. He was responsible for helping customers in their digital transformation, leveraging on Red Hat’s open culture, processes and technology.

Vincent Caldeira

Red Hat

Vincent Caldeira

Chief Technology Officer, Asia Pacific, Red Hat

Vincent Caldeira serves as the Chief Technology Officer for Red Hat APAC, where he is responsible for forging high-impact partnerships with key strategic customers, and ultimately helping to shape the company's technological vision and strategy. Recognized as one of the 'Top 10 Chief Technology Officers in APAC' by Technology Magazine in 2023, Vincent brings over two decades of experience in the IT industry, including a proven track record for leading ambitious business and technology transformation roadmaps within the Financial Services industry. Vincent is not only an influential thought-leader in open source solutions, cloud computing, and digital transformation, but also a sought-after speaker at industry events, dedicated to fostering innovation and advocating emerging technologies in domains such as Modern Data Analytics, AI/ML, AI Safety, Digital Sovereignty and Information Technology Sustainability. Notably, Vincent has led the company's technology contributions in environmental sustainability, serving as Technical Advisor to OS-Climate, a Linux Foundation-backed open source project. His leadership in this project demonstrates his commitment to integrating the impacts of climate change into global financial decision-making and risk management, showcasing his broad expertise and influence in the intersection of technology, policy, and sustainable development. In addition, Vincent is a member of the GSF Green AI Committee, and a Technical Oversight Committee Member at the FinTech Open Source Foundation (FINOS). Finally, Vincent has been leading Red Hat's global strategic initiatives in the realm of Digital Sovereignty, with a focus on open and interoperable standards, data federation architecture and governance, and partner ecosystem development, aligning with the growing needs for digital sovereignty in the Asia Pacific region.

Albert Chai

Red Hat

Albert Chai

General Manager, ASEAN, Red Hat

Albert Chai is General Manager for ASEAN at Red Hat, responsible for driving the company’s overall business strategy and growth across the region. Passionate about enabling customers’ digital transformation journeys, Albert works closely with organizations and partners to unlock the full potential of open source innovation and deliver meaningful business outcomes.

A visionary business leader, Albert has a proven track record of driving business growth, expanding market presence, and building enduring customer and partner relationships across Southeast Asia. Through strategic leadership and a deep understanding of ASEAN’s diverse markets, he has built high-performing teams, cultivated strong customer and partner ecosystems, and accelerated sustainable business growth while strengthening regional collaboration.

With more than 25 years of experience across the Asia Pacific region, Albert brings deep expertise in the information technology and telecommunications sectors. Throughout his career, he has held senior leadership positions with leading global technology companies, including Cisco, Acision, and Logica, where he successfully led business growth, market expansion, and customer engagement initiatives.

Juliana Lim

Red Hat

Juliana Lim

Country Manager, Singapore, Red Hat

Juliana Lim is the Country Manager for Red Hat Singapore, where she leads overall business strategy, operations, and growth, driving the adoption of open-source innovation across industries.

Since joining Red Hat as Singapore Enterprise Sales Leader, Juliana has played a pivotal role in transforming the business—delivering consistent double-digit growth and doubling the Enterprise segment over three years. Known for her strong operational discipline and forecast accuracy, she has set a benchmark across the region and earned multiple leadership accolades.

A 20-year technology veteran, Juliana has a proven track record of driving high-impact growth. Prior to Red Hat, she held senior roles at McAfee and Palo Alto Networks, where she was a trusted advisor to C-suite executives on cybersecurity and digital resilience.

Juliana is recognized for her people-first leadership style and commitment to Red Hat’s open culture. A graduate of the 2024 Accelerated Leadership Excellence Program (ALEP), she is passionate about mentoring talent and building high-performing teams.

Simon Tan

Red Hat

Simon Tan

Senior Specialist Solution Architect, OpenShift Virtualization, Red Hat

Simon Tan is a Senior Solutions Architect for OpenShift Virtualization at Red Hat across Southeast Asia. With 20 years of cross-domain IT infrastructure experience spanning enterprise storage, networking, cybersecurity, and Compute, Simon acts as a trusted technical advisor to many enterprise customers derisk their virtualization strategies. He specializes in designing pragmatic, low-risk migration frameworks and modern architectures that allow organizations to safely transition legacy virtual workloads to cloud-native platforms without operational disruption or business downtime.

Sandip Sharma

Red Hat

Sandip Sharma

AI Sales Specialist, ASEAN, Red Hat

Sandip Sharma is a seasoned technology leader with over 25 years of cross-industry experience in Financial Services, Telco, Manufacturing, and Government. As a Head of AI - APAC, he will spearhead the AI/ML and GenAI SSP team across the region, driving the implementation of innovative AI solutions for enterprise customers. Prior to his current role, Sandip worked at H2O.ai as Director of AI Solution Engineering for Asia Pacific and Japan, where he is responsible for setting up and leading the AI/ML and GenAI solution engineering team across the region. Sandip holds a Master's degree in Business IT from Singapore Management University. He is also certified in Data Science and Machine Learning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is passionate about building and running AI/ML experts teams and enabling customers and partner channels to develop direct and indirect AI led business opportunitities.

Nicholas Chia

Red Hat

Nicholas Chia

Automation Platform Specialist, Red Hat

Throughout his career, he has had the privilege of collaborating with renowned Partners such as IBM, HPE, Microsoft, AWS, and many others, where he provided subject matter expertise in utilizing cutting-edge technologies to solve complex challenges. By leveraging his extensive knowledge on Ansible Automation Platform, he has helped empower businesses to achieve their goals, enhance operational efficiency, and stay ahead in today's competitive landscape.

Jing Wen Ng

Red Hat

Jing Wen Ng

Specialist Solution Architect, AI, APAC, Red Hat

Jing Wen is a Specialist Solutions Architect at Red Hat, focused on AI and covering enterprise customers across APAC. With a background spanning full stack software engineering and customer-facing pre-sales, she brings both technical depth and a genuine ability to translate complex concepts into tangible business outcomes for diverse stakeholders. Jing Wen is passionate about helping organisations move from AI experimentation to production, and actively applies AI-native working practices in her own day-to-day work.

Gulshan Prasad

Red Hat

Gulshan Prasad

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Specialist Solution Architect, APAC, Red Hat

Gulshan has held multiple Customer and Partner facing roles in Red Hat’s journey of 9+ years. He has worked as Red Hat Certified Instructor & Consultant, further moving to Partner Solution Architect role and now he is a Senior Specialist Solution Architect of RHEL in APAC. He is Passionate about delivering solutions based on Open Source Technologies, mainly Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Linux based technologies such as Ansible and OpenShift . He has a rich experience in designing solutions for business applications use cases.

Faruq Zafir

Red Hat

Faruq Zafir

OpenShift Specialist Solution Architect, ASEAN, Red Hat

Faruq Zafir is a Specialist Solutions Architect at Red Hat ASEAN, focusing on Application Development and Platform technologies. With a solid foundation as a software developer in the banking sector, he brings hands-on experience in building enterprise-grade applications. He is also actively driving AI adoption and is passionate about helping teams leverage the open-source ecosystem, and AI technologies to build solutions that are scalable, intelligent, and impactful.

Cheng Bin Tham

Red Hat

Cheng Bin Tham

AI Senior Specialist Solution Architect, APAC, Red Hat

Tham is technologist and AI Specialist Solution Architect at Red Hat Asia Pacific, where he works on architecting and designing Artificial Intelligence solutions for large scale distributed deployment. Tham collaborates with government agencies, enterprises, chip accelerators and partners to bring open AI innovation from community to customer driving meaningful impact and value to business. Tham has worked with top 100 customer globally bringing idea to reality through his years of experience with conversational AI, NLP, semantic search, LLMOps and platform engineering. As a thought leader in AI openness, he is driven by a deep commitment to the open-source community which shapes the development of AI building towards a more intelligent, inclusive, and future-ready world.

Anthony Lin

Red Hat

Anthony Lin

OpenShift Specialist Solution Architect, ASEAN, Red Hat

Anthony is an engineer, architect and passionate advocate for open source technologies, dedicated to solving complex, real-world business challenges through innovative solutions. He currently serves as a Regional Application Platform Specialist at Red Hat, with a focus on the Red Hat OpenShift Platform, AI/ML and OpenShift Virtualization.

Vinoth Kumar Saruva Sivaprasad

Red Hat

Vinoth Kumar Saruva Sivaprasad

Associate Principal Specialist Solution Architect, Automation, ASEAN, Red Hat

Vinoth is an accomplished IT and telecommunications professional with over 20 years of experience across the Asia Pacific region. He has broad expertise in automation and solution architecture, covering areas from traditional IT automation to newer technologies such as AIOps and Agentic Automation. He is passionate about solving complex operational challenges through technology and helping organizations improve efficiency, resilience, and business outcomes.

SPONSORS

Gold

Everpure

Everpure allows organizations to take control of their data with an industry-leading, ever-evolving storage and data management platform. We help companies unleash the power of their data by ensuring it is accessible, intelligent, and ready to perform in the AI era. We make data management effortless while simultaneously scaling performance and significantly reducing energy consumption. With one of the highest Net Promoter Scores for over a decade, Everpure is the choice of the world’s most innovative organizations. For more information, visit www.everpuredata.com.

HPE

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) is the global edge-to-cloud company that helps organizations accelerate outcomes by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere. Built on decades of reimagining the future and innovating to advance the way people live and work, HPE delivers unique, open and intelligent technology solutions as a service.  With offerings spanning Cloud Services, Compute, High Performance Computing & AI, Intelligent Edge, Software, and Storage, HPE provides a consistent experience across all clouds and edges, helping customers develop new business models, engage in new ways, and increase operational performance. For more information, visit hpe.com.

Veeam

Veeam is the Data and AI Trust Company, specializing in helping organizations ensure their data and AI are fully understood, secured, and resilient to enable the acceleration of safe AI at scale. As the market leader in both data resilience and data security posture management, Veeam is built for the convergence of identity, data, security, and AI risk. Headquartered in Seattle, with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, including 82% of the Fortune 500. Learn more at www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and X @veeam.

Silver

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud, with more than 200 fully featured services available from data centers globally. Millions of customers — including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies — are using AWS to lower costs, increase security, become more agile, and innovate faster. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.

CTC Global Singapore

CTC Global Singapore, a subsidiary of Japan's ITOCHU Techno-Solutions and ITOCHU Corporation, is a premier IT system integration and consulting firm. Our experienced team of over 300 IT professionals delivers integrated, end-to-end solutions, empowering businesses in Singapore and beyond. As the preferred IT outsourcing partner for organizations across the region, our core purpose is clear: to simplify IT complexities and transform your business ideas into reality. Just imagine, and we can make it happen.

NCS

NCS is a leading AI Tech Services company. With a 15,000-strong team across the Asia Pacific, NCS scales its platforms and capabilities to provide clients with greater agility and AI expertise across a range of industries. Embracing a strong ecosystem of global partners, NCS transforms technology services delivery combining AI with digital resilience to drive real business impact. NCS is a subsidiary of the Singtel Group. For more information, visit ncs.co.

Transcend Solutions Pte Ltd

Transcend Solutions Pte Ltd is a Singapore-based technology solutions provider specialising in Hybrid Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Data Protection, Hyper-Converged Solutions, AI and Digital Transformation. As a trusted Red Hat Premier Partner, we help organisations modernise their IT environments with secure, scalable and enterprise-ready open-source solutions. At Red Hat Summit: Connect Singapore 2026, we are showcasing the latest innovations in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), demonstrating how organisations can strengthen security, simplify operations, improve application performance and build a resilient foundation for hybrid cloud and AI initiatives. Visit our booth to discover how Transcend can help accelerate your digital transformation journey.

AI Accelerator partner

Technology partner

IBM

IBM is a leading global hybrid cloud and AI, and business services provider, helping clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. Nearly 3,000 government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM's hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently, and securely. IBM's breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and business services deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM's legendary commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity, and service.

Venue information

Date:  October 22, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM  - 5:30 PM (GMT+8)

Location: Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention,
10 Bayfront Avenue, 
Singapore 018956.

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