Red Hat Open Talks series
Welcome to Red Hat Open Talks webinar series for the telco industry
In an era defined by 5G, edge computing, and the shift toward cloud-native architectures, staying ahead requires more than just the right tools; it requires the right strategy.
OpenTalks is your dedicated hub designed specifically for the telecommunications industry. Join our experts as we break down the complexities of open-source innovation, helping you build more resilient, scalable, and automated networks from the core to the edge
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The Sovereign Imperative: Escaping vendor lock-in and building auditable Cloud Solutions and AI Factories
You will learn the specific requirements for verifiable national control, why Open Source is the only credible foundation for auditable infrastructure, and how Red Hat’s common platform provides the economic autonomy (by modernizing virtualization) and the foundation for sovereign AI Factories you need to own your technology destiny.
Christof Stallmach
Senior Manager, Technology & Sales – Leader EMEA Center of Excellence & Executive Advisor
Volker Tegtmeyer
Principal Product Marketing Manager
Jeff Picozzi
Product Marketing Manager, Industries & Edge.
The Telco Network Cloud in 2026
Join us as we analyze the decade-long evolution of the cloud-native
landscape and dissect the modern architectural requirements for 5G Core
Standalone (SA) deployments on Red Hat OpenShift.
Frederic Herrman
Specialist Solution Architect, EMEA Telco CoE, Red Hat
Taking the hands off the network helm
This session explores the architectural blueprint required to navigate this transition, showcasing how Red Hat’s modular framework based on OpenShift, OpenShift AI and Ansible Automation Platform aligns with the autonomous North Star whilst providing the flexibility telcos need to steer their own unique course without being locked into a single horizon.
Alexey Rusakov
Senior Technologist, AI and Automation, Telco CoE, Red Hat
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Reinventing IT Operations: AI & Ansible for Smarter Telecom Services
Implementing full ITSM automation often requires changes in business processes and approval workflows—making adoption complex and time-consuming.
In this session, we explore how Artificial Intelligence can minimize disruptions to existing ITSM tools and processes, helping teams accelerate time to value.
By combining Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform with Red Hat OpenShift AI, organisations can automate incident resolution on platforms like ServiceNow.
The session includes a live demo of how a Machine Learning model, trained and hosted on OpenShift AI, can classify incoming tickets and trigger appropriate Ansible automations.
How Artificial Intelligence Empowers Telcos: Goals, Challenges and Solutions
AI has long supported telcos in areas such as predictive analytics and automation. Now, with the rise of Generative AI, telcos can explore even greater opportunities to innovate, enhance customer experience, and meet business goals.
This session discusses how AI—both traditional and generative—can empower telcos, while addressing the key challenges and sharing practical solutions.
Speaker:
Jochen Cordes, Senior Solution Architect App-Dev, Red Hat
Alessandro Arrichiello, Sales Engineer / Solution Architect, Red Hat
Openshift Virtualization: A chance to modernize the virtual machines supply chain
In this webinar we'll cover:
- OpenShift Virtualization: Modernize infrastructure by running VMs and containers on one Kubernetes-native platform.
- Key Use Cases: SDN, ecosystem migrations, and critical Telco workloads.
- Demonstration: VM management and platform integration.
- Business Value: Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization for VMs.
- Future-Proofing: Unlock OpenShift's capabilities for modernization.
- Migration Toolkit for Virtualization (MTV): An introduction.
- Getting Started: Value engagement journey guidance.
Managing your virtualized applications in the cloud-native way with OpenShift Virtualization
In this session, we’ll cover:
- Your business value of using Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization for VMs
- How to unlock the future-proof capabilities of OpenShift for your modernization journey
- Use Cases of OpenShift Virtualization
- How to get started through the value engagement journey
- Introduction to the Migration Toolkit for Virtualization (MTV)
Speaker:
Mo Elhabibi, Telco Sales Specialist
Telco Smart Automation
A focus for telcos will be to embrace intelligent automation and AI technologies with an end goal of improving overall business and operational efficiency across network, security, infrastructure and applications in a hybrid environment.
Join this webinar to learn more about Smart automation and GitOps automation.
Speakers:
Beatriz Ortega, EMEA Telco Business Development Manager
Alexey Rusakov, Senior Solution Architect
Unleash the BSS/OSS evolution
In this session, we’ll cover:
- BSS, OSS Cloud Adoption and Automation
- BSS, OSS, AI and virtualisation:
- BSS personalized, contextualized, and self-service experiences, realize revenue potential, order fulfillment rates, enhance data accuracy, and much more
- OSS Identify & fix, predict, or prevent faults in service delivery, automation, and orchestration of services running over networks or the edge
Speaker:
Beatriz Ortega, EMEA Telco Business Development Manager
Alexey Rusakov, Senior Solution Architect
