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Red Hat Summit: Connect 2026 | Kuala Lumpur

1 octobre 2026Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaHilton Kuala Lumpur
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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

9:40 a.m. - 9:55 a.m.

Keynote address

Yang Berhormat Gobind Singh Deo,

Minister of Digital, Malaysia

9:55 a.m. - 10:40 a.m.

Plenary: 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

Andreas Spanner,

Chief Architect, CTO Office and Global Engineering, Asia Pacific, Red Hat

10:40 a.m. - 10:55 a.m.

APAC innovation awards announcement

Daniel Aw,

General Manager and Vice President, Asia Pacific, Red Hat

Albert Chai,

General Manager, ASEAN, Red Hat

10:55 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.

Customer fireside chat

11:40 a.m. - 12:00 a.m.

Platinum sponsor

12:00 p.m. - 12:05 p.m.

Closing remarks

12:05 p.m. - 1:40 p.m.

Lunch, networking and solution showcase

1:40 p.m. - 5:20 p.m.

Track A: The next platform is choice

1:40 p.m.- 2:10 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

2:10 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Gold sponsor 1

2:30 p.m. - 3:00 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 and 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.

Robert Agustian,

Automation Platform Sales Specialist, Red Hat

3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Coffee break, networking and solution showcase

3:30 p.m. - 4:00 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, and 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 , Asia Pacific, Red Hat

4:00 p.m. - 4:20 p.m.

Gold sponsor 3

4:20 p.m. - 4:50 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

4:50 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.

Cheng Kuan Gan,

Associate Principal Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat

Track B: The AI ready enterprise is here

1:40 p.m. - 2:10 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 - Cross Segment, Red Hat

2:10 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Gold sponsor 2

2:30 p.m. - 3:00 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, Asia Pacific, Red Hat

3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Coffee break, networking and solution showcase

3:30 p.m. - 4:00 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

4:00 p.m. - 4:20 p.m.

Gold sponsor 4

4:20 p.m. - 4:50 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, Asia Pacific, Red Hat

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.

Darrick Leong,

Ansible Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat

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

Lucky draw and closing

5:30 p.m.

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Speakers

Yang Berhormat Gobind Singh Deo

Minister of Digital, Malaysia

Yang Berhormat Gobind Singh Deo

Minister of Digital, Malaysia

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.

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.

Andreas Spanner

Red Hat

Andreas Spanner

Chief Architect, CTO Office and Global Engineering, Asia Pacific, Red Hat

Andreas is leading the MRT (Manufacturing, Retail, Transport) vertical related topics for Red Hat across Asia Pacific. His hands-on experience in startups as well as large scale enterprise transformation programs has given Andreas a solid understanding of business drivers and value creation. Andreas has worked on a wide range of initiatives across different industries in Europe, North America and APAC including full-scale automotive JIT/JIS production systems modernisation, ERP migrations, HR, finance and accounting, supply chain logistics transformations and scalable core banking strategies to support regional business growth strategies.

Since joining Red Hat in 2015, Andreas is focussed on helping Red Hat customers to build the necessary capabilities and to make the best-fit technology, methodology and architecture choices. Andreas is a published author on the topics of AI and Technology Operating Models for Cloud and Edge.
Andreas got his first Commodore 64 when he was 12 years old and started to work as a software developer in 1996 with Krauss-Maffei in Munich building full mission simulators. Andreas holds an Engineering degree from the University of Ravensburg, Germany.

Tammy Tan

Red Hat

Tammy Tan

Country Manager, Malaysia, Red Hat

As country manager, Tammy Tan is responsible for overall sales and business aspects of Red Hat Malaysia. In this role, she leads the country team to drive sustainable growth by building strong and collaborative relationships with enterprise customers, as well as partners.

Tammy joined Red Hat from Cisco Malaysia where she served as the Director of Enterprise and Commercial. She brings with her 21 years of experience in the IT industry, with deep experience in Financial Services, as well as a broad perspective on vertical solutions within the Energy, Oil and Gas Sector, Transportation, Manufacturing and Hospitality.

Tammy has a passion for STEM, and started her career as one of the first female engineers at Siemens and NTT Communications. She holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Multimedia University of Malaysia.

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 - Cross Segment, 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 AI Sales Specialist, 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.

Robert Agustian

Red Hat

Robert Agustian

Automation Platform Sales Specialist, Red Hat

Robert is a seasoned IT professional with a strong background in IT consulting, specializing in automation and digital transformation. With a diverse expertise in automation, cybersecurity, governance, risk, and compliance, Robert continually harnessed his skills to help organizations in the region bridge the gap between innovation and business objectives. Robert currently serves as a Sales Specialist for Ansible Automation Platform at Red Hat, where he leads automation strategy across the region, drives innovation and guides organizations towards cutting-edge solutions. Prior to joining Red Hat, Robert made significant contributions to renowned firms such as EY and Automation Anywhere, leaving an indelible mark on the industry through his relentless commitment to revolutionizing IT and business processes through automation.

Jing Wen Ng

Red Hat

Jing Wen Ng

Specialist Solution Architect, AI, Asia Pacific, 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, Red Hat

Gulshan has held multiple Customer and Partner facing roles in Red Hat’s journey of ~10 years. He has worked as Red Hat Certified Instructor & Consultant, then moving to Partner Solution Architect role and now he is a 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, Asia Pacific, Red Hat, 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.

Cheng Kuan Gan

Red Hat

Cheng Kuan Gan

Red Hat

Gan Cheng Kuan is an Associate Principal Specialist Solution Architect at Red Hat with over 25 years of experience in middleware, cloud-native architecture, and enterprise software solutions. A technical specialist in event-driven design, microservices, and Red Hat OpenShift, ChengKuan has spent over two decades helping organizations modernize their applications platforms and realize business value through open-source technology.

Darrick Leong

Red Hat

Darrick Leong

Ansible Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat

Darrick Leong is part of the Automation Specialist Solution Architect team for ASEAN and Korea at Red Hat. He has 7 years of experience across Platform, Cloud, and Automation. Currently, he leads technical conversations with customers on various topics like AIOps and Event-Driven Automation.

Sponsors

Gold

Dell Technologies | AMD

Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) helps organizations and individuals build their digital future and transform how they work, live and play. The company provides customers with the industry’s broadest and most innovative technology and services portfolio for the data era. Learn more at https://www.dell.com/en-my. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is a global semiconductor company specializing in high-performance and adaptive computing, central processing units (CPUs), and graphics processing units (GPUs). Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, AMD powers modern personal computers, gaming systems, and enterprise data centers. Learn more at https://www.amd-malaysia.com/.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) is a global technology leader focused on developing intelligent solutions that allow customers to capture, analyze, and act upon data seamlessly. The company innovates across networking, hybrid cloud, and AI to help customers develop new business models, engage in new ways, and increase operational performance. For more information, visit: www.hpe.com.

Wiki Labs | Enterprise DB

Wiki Labs simplifies complex enterprise IT to build resilient, future-ready operations. Backed by 17+ years of experience and deep Red Hat partnership, we deliver outcome-driven solutions across automation, hybrid cloud, open source, cybersecurity, data protection, and AI. Vision: To be the trusted technology partner, inspiring progress. Mission: Empowering our people to innovate proactively and deliver inspiring quality in every solution—helping clients modernize infrastructure, optimize efficiency, and accelerate growth. Find out more about Wiki Labs at www.wikilabs.asia EDB Postgres® AI (EDB PG AI) is the sovereign data and AI platform for the agentic enterprise. Built on Postgres, the world's leading open source database, EDB PG AI unifies transactional, analytical, and AI workloads in a single architecture, eliminating the data movement, ETL, and operational fragmentation that slow enterprises down. With governance enforced at the data layer and the flexibility to deploy on-premises, in hybrid environments, or across clouds, enterprises operationalize their data and AI on infrastructure they own and control—reaching production-ready sovereign AI in weeks, not months. As one of the most active contributors to the PostgreSQL project, EDB is deeply invested in the vitality of the global open source community. To learn more, visit www.enterprisedb.com

Veeam Software

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

Systemizer Technic

Systemizer Technic is a technology partner helping enterprises modernise IT, streamline operations, and drive digital transformation. We work closely with your team to design and implement custom-tailored solutions across infrastructure, automation, cloud, and managed services, backed by our proprietary Helix platform. Whether you're standing up IT infrastructure from scratch or scaling systems across a large enterprise, we bring the same commitment: real solutions built on a deep understanding of your business, so technology becomes a growth driver, not a bottleneck. For more information, visit: https://systemizerinc.com

AI Accelerator partner

NVIDIA

Technology partner

IBM

IBM is a leading provider of global hybrid cloud and AI, and consulting expertise. We help 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. Thousands of governments 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 consulting deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM's long-standing commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity and service. Visit www.ibm.com for more information.

Venue information

Date:  October 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM (GMT+8)

Location: Hilton Kuala Lumpur, 
3, Jalan Stesen Sentral, Kuala Lumpur Sentral,  
50470 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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