Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 Stockholm

With 83% of organizations moving workloads back to private cloud or on-premises for privacy and cost concerns, AI is no different. But while many of us have explored running local LLMs on our own machine, scaling things up can be quite difficult. From the difficulty of sourcing hardware, to effective model serving and inference, it’s not always quite clear how to self-host models in production.Fortunately, open source has been leading the AI wave, from models to now the serving runtimes underneath. Curious as to how Meta, Google, DeepSeek, and many others support both small-scale and large-scale model deployments on Linux, Kubernetes, and beyond? Join us as we start from a foundation model, compress it to cut GPU requirements by half and boost performance, and inference it with vLLM, a UC Berkeley-based project that’s leading the private and local AI revolution. You might still have 99 other problems, but LLMs won’t be one!

In this joint breakout session and demo, Red Hat and Intel showcase how Agentic AI can be deployed and scaled across open hybrid cloud environments. Leveraging the performance of Intel® Gaudi® 3 AI Accelerators and Intel® Xeon® processor, the flexibility of the Llama Stack, and orchestration through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), we demonstrate how enterprises can move from experimentation to production with efficiency and sovereignty. Together, Red Hat and Intel enable a powerful, open ecosystem that delivers agentic AI with trusted infrastructure, optimized performance, and seamless integration across workloads.

A few years ago, Volvo Group’s developer experience was fragmented, slow, and full of friction. Not unlike what many large companies still struggle with today. This session tells the story of how we went from that state to a reimagined platform approach that treats internal developer tools as real products. I’ll unpack the key principles that made this possible as well as the tangible results we’ve seen in just a few years. You’ll walk away with concrete wins, candid missteps, and actionable insights. Ready to overhaul your own developer experience with confidence.

In an era marked by escalating geopolitical risks and rapid global transformations, the concept of Digital Sovereignty has become even more relevant and important. This presentation will explore some of the dimensions of Digital Sovereignty. It will discuss the importance for nations and organizations navigating an increasingly complex digital landscape. We will delve into how organisations can assert and maintain control over their digital infrastructure, data, and technological future in ever evolving threats and shifting international power dynamics. Join us to understand the strategies and challenges in securing digital autonomy in today's changing world.

Learn about Red Hat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA), a joint managed OpenShift service from Red Hat and AWS. How it allows you to migrate to cloud faster, and how you can integrate ROSA with other AWS services.

Prepare for the next era of enterprise computing with the arrival of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. This presentation will delve into the innovations and enhancements that define this latest release, offering a robust, scalable, and secure foundation for your mission-critical workloads. Discover how RHEL 10 empowers your organization in areas such as hybrid cloud integration, enhanced security postures, and streamlined developer experiences.

When providing end-to-end automation across teams and IT-domains, platform security is foundational. Experience Ansible Automation Platform’s new RBAC model and Policy as Code features, along with Private Automation Hub, Code Signing and Collection Signing. All functionalities to reduce risk, enable trust and transparancy for your automations.

An unusual use case driving unusual design choices. Starting with a dynamic inventory sourced from our ServiceNow CMDB, which serves as the backbone for all platform automation. By integrating CMDB data, we automate base configurations and OS patching across all provisioned servers. We enable application teams to benefit from and make use of AAP for managing the servers their application runs on. We face the challenge of balancing autonomy with control. Our solution involves creating separate AAP organizations per application team, each with role-based access managed via self-service Active Directory groups. The approach promotes decentralization while maintaining structure, though questions remain about scalability and governance as more teams are onboarded.

How can Sweden embed AI nationally to solve the key challenges in both the private and public sector with the long-term benefit of a prosperous society and a high quality of life? What paradoxes and forces impact our development and how do we act going forward?

In today's fast-paced world, generative AI is a strategic enabler for businesses, but its adoption presents challenges like complexity, cost, and a lack of flexibility. This presentation will show how Red Hat AI provides a consistent and comprehensive foundation to accelerate the development and delivery of AI solutions across hybrid cloud environments. We will explore how Red Hat AI addresses common obstacles by providing an efficient inference runtime, validated and optimized third-party models, and the tools you need for model customization. You'll also learn how to build, deploy, and manage AI-enabled applications and agents at scale, all while leveraging your existing infrastructure and data.

Modern application platforms promise speed and security - but building them is not without challenges. This session begins by exploring common hurdles teams can face when designing and implementing an application platform. Join us and dive into the latest OpenShift innovations in addressing these challenges head-on. Learn how OpenShift boosts developer and operational experience - making a modern platform productive by default and secure by design.

At Three Sweden, one of the leading telecommunication providers in Nordics we’re migrating from OpenShift on Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) to a Baremetal infrastructure that enabled us to unlock new levels of scalability and performance. This session details our approach to building and managing HostedClusters using Helm and GitOps, focusing on the seamless, repeatable cluster deployments, ensuring consistency across multiple environments. Learn about the challenges we faced, the solutions we implemented, and the key takeaways for anyone considering a similar migration.

Discover how Avanza Bank transformed its entire on-premises workload, moving from concept to full production on OpenShift. This session shares the journey, key decisions, and lessons learned along the way.

A panel discussion focused on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) use cases among customers. The aim is to foster a dynamic discussion that explores challenges, successes, and future directions for RHEL adoption.

What can a standardized AAP platform look like? Join us and get inspired! In this session we introduce our brand new operational model for Ansible Automation Platform, which describes over 80 key decisions across people, process and technology which we have observed in successful production implementations.

We live in an ever changing world in which security cannot be an afterthought but something we need to design in from the beginning and be part of our operating model. Join this session to listen to both Red Hat & Handelsbanken share how IT automation and supporting tooling can be used to support your DevSecOps journey & security posture. Handelsbanken will have a walkthrough on how they use Git and Ansible to maintain their security.

How do you go from a business challenge to AI that increases efficiency, reduces workload and improves the work environment, while complying with all regulatory requirements in the public sector? The presentation is a journey over a 12-month period with Red Hat/IBM, Atea and five customers

This session will reveal how organizations can accelerate application modernization using a unified platform that supports both VMs and containers with Azure Red Hat OpenShift, including the newly announced OpenShift Virtualization on Azure Red Hat OpenShift (Public Preview) and its role in seamless migration of virtual machines alongside containerized applications.

Discover how Red Hat OpenShift and HashiCorp Vault work better together to simplify secrets management, strengthen security, and accelerate application delivery across hybrid environments.

Tired of your VMs being stuck in one place? Our session shows you how OpenShift Virtualization can liberate your virtual machines! Learn how to effortlessly move VMs between cloud and on-prem environments, giving you the freedom to choose the best infrastructure for your workloads. We'll explore making VMs truly portable and infrastructure-agnostic. Say goodbye to VM lock-in and hello to workload freedom!

Deploying the base platform for running virtual machines (VMs) is only the first step to running large workloads in Red Hat OpenShift. Fully supporting Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and its workloads requires configuring the platform and underlying infrastructure components, migrating existing workloads, and managing day-to-day VM operations. In this session, we'll share how to automate critical tasks to ensure successful configuration, migration, and ongoing management of virtualized workloads from day 0 using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform with the Migration Factory Ansible Content Collection, a comprehensive set of automation content used in Red Hat Consulting Virtualization Migration solutions.

Customers & partners panel discussion around the challenges and opportunities of running mission critical automation in real world environments. This discussion will address more startegic but also technical elements of succeeding with automation.