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Keynote opening Red Hat Summit: Connect 2026
Welcome to Red Hat Summit Connect 2026! Discover how our open hybrid cloud platform accelerates innovation, scales AI, and keeps you in control of your IT. Guest speakers:
Marcel Timmer, Country Managing Director the Netherlands at Red Hat Andrew Brown, Senior Vice President & Chief Revenue Officer at Red Hat Vincent Danen, Vice President Product Security at Red Hat Maurits Tichelman, General Manager EMEA Partner Sales Jeffrey Kusters, CTO at ITQ
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By Intel: Agentic AI on Intel Xeon and Red Hat OpenShift AI: Performance, Security, and Sovereignty in Action
Discover how Intel & Red Hat use Xeon & OpenShift AI to deploy and scale secure, sovereign Agentic AI workloads without compromising performance.
Can Yurtseven , AI/ Cloud Senior Solution Architect, Intel
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By Microsoft: Digital Sovereignty – Control Your Strategic Dependencies
For business and IT leaders, digital sovereignty is about control, flexibility, and freedom over data, AI, and IT. Join this 45-min session for a practical framework.
Fabian Klein Schiphorst, Principle Lead Architect, Microsoft
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By Red Hat: Before the exploit strikes
AI agent swarms can weaponize vulnerabilities in 30 minutes. Learn how Ansible Automation Platform safely compresses remediation from weeks to hours with human-in-the-loop control.
Jürgen Buddy Hoffmann, Ansible Platform Leader, Red Hat
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By Red Hat: Stepping Stone or Exit Strategy? Architecting Infrastructure Independence with OpenShift Virtualization
Solve your Broadcom exit without vendor lock-in. Learn how OpenShift Virtualization migrates hypervisors, unifies operations, and runs VMs alongside containers.
Marc Sheermohamed, Account Solution Architect, Red Hat Haaike van der Merwe, Cloud Solution Specialist
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By Conclusion: Customer case Schiphol - From Silos to Service: End-to-End VM Provisioning at Schiphol
Learn how Schiphol uses Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to unify cross-team workflows into a fast, self-service VM provisioning process without handovers.
Alex Bron, Senior Consultant, Conclusion Xforce
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By IBM, Yielder & SoftwareOne: Workshop Project Lightwell & Rogue AI: Securing Trusted AI Environments
Learn to identify and mitigate Rogue AI risks. Discover how secure infrastructure and governance frameworks protect your data while enabling AI innovation.
Henco van Veen, Presales Specialist, IBM & Red Hat
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90 min workshop 11.30 - 14.00
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By ITQ & Dell: Hackathon From Prompt to Production: Build an App with AI, Deploy It on OpenShift.
In this hands-on workshop, build an app with AI, apply 12-factor principles, and deploy it to OpenShift using Dev Spaces. Laptop & basic code knowledge needed.
Sander Harrewijnen, Technologist and Lead Developer, ITQ
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By HCS Company & Kangaroot: Customer case MOD - From Made for the Printer via Data Fusion to Made for Agents
Proven at the Dutch Ministry of Defence, Indentia on Red Hat OpenShift turns unstructured data into a secure, queryable Corporate Second Brain for GenAI.
Leon Meijer, AI Solution Architect, Ministerie van Defensie
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By Red Hat: From Legacy Scripts to Cloud-Native Pipelines: Modernizing VM Day-2 Operations
Ditch legacy VM operational debt. Learn how OpenShift Virtualization and OpenShift Pipelines automate the full VM lifecycle from OS provisioning to deployment.
Kasra Amirsarvari, Senior Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat
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By IBM, Yielder & SoftwareOne: From Virtualization to Modernization: Lessons from the Philips Case
Faced with VMware changes, Philips chose Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud. Join IBM & SoftwareOne to see how Philips modernized VMs, containers, and AI.
Richard Bakker, Technical Specialist IBM Power & Cloud, IBM Joris Martens, Partner Technical Specialist, IBM Henco van Veen, Solution Advisor IBM & Red Hat, IBM
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By Red Hat: Open source as a technical requirement for truly digitally sovereign environments
Upstream always: How Red Hat’s development model lays the foundations for digital sovereignty
Frank de Groodt, Account Technical Strategist, Red Hat
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By Red Hat: Beyond VMware: A Blueprint for OpenShift Virtualization and App Modernization
Join Red Hat to accelerate your journey beyond VMware. Discover how OpenShift Virtualization empowers you to migrate legacy workloads to a single, unified platform at your own pace. We will explore the path from migration to modernization, showing also how to run VMs alongside containers.
Martijn ten Heuvel, Principal Architect, Red Hat
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By Conclusion: Workshop Unlock Faster Troubleshooting with OpenTelemetry & Dynatrace
Experience how observability can transform troubleshooting. In this interactive session, you'll work with a malfunctioning application and use OpenTelemetry and Dynatrace to uncover root causes faster, reduce downtime, and improve application performance.
Björn de Wit, Observability Consultant, Conclusion Xforce
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By Portworx: The Data Foundation for Modern Infrastructure: VMs, Containers, and AI on Red Hat with Everpure
Modernize VMs, apps, and AI on one stack. Portworx by Everpure and Red Hat OpenShift unite performance, data mobility, and resilience across cloud and edge.
Daniel Banche, Cloud Native Architect, Portworx/Everpure
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By Red Hat: From CVE to Production Fix: Upgrade-Free Remediation with Red Hat Lightwell Network
Fix CVEs without forced upgrades. Learn how Red Hat TPA and Lightwell Network scope blast radiuses and backport patches to the versions you already run.
Nikhil Sharma, Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat Darryn Mitchell, Enterprise Program Architect, Red Hat
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By Red Hat: Trusted Software Supply Chain
Will follow soon
Chris Jenkins, Senior Principal Chief Architect, Red Hat
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By Veeam: Day 2 and Beyond: Running OpenShift with Confidence at Enterprise Scale
Master Day-2 OpenShift operations. Protect mixed VMs and containers, handle DR, and govern multi-tenant clusters at scale with Veeam Kasten K10 and VBR.
Gatien Gheza, EMEA Senior Director, Kasten Sales, Veeam
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By ITQ : Customer case - What happens in the hospital stays in the hospital: Catharina Hospital and ITQ on secure, private AI
Discover how Catharina Hospital & ITQ standardized AI on Red Hat OpenShift AI to protect health data and speed up innovation from pilot to production.
Karlijn Jongen-Canjels, Program Manager Data Availability & AI, Catharina Hospital Rob Wijnen, ICT Project Manager, Catharina Hospital Johan van Amersfoort, Chief Evangelist and AI Lead, ITQ
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By Devoteam: From Sovereign AI Lasagna to full fledged Sovereign AI dinner.
Taste full-stack Sovereign AI! See Red Hat OpenShift AI run multiple models across infrastructure to solve real business problems in a live demonstration.
Marco Pavone, Senior Cloud Native Consultant, Devoteam Remco van der Horst, Strategic AI Consultant, Devoteam
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By Red Hat: Rehost and Run Citrix Virtual Desktops on OpenShift Virtualization
Host your Citrix VDIs on a unified platform built for both VMs and containers. Join us for a technical deep dive and a live demo of virtual desktops running on OpenShift Virtualization.
Kasra Amirsarvari, Senior Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat Nanno Ouwehand, Principal Account Technology Strategist, Citrix
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By Red Hat: The sky is not falling, but you still need an umbrella: Moving from hype to execution
AI models spark unprecedented vulnerability discovery, but mass patching isn't the solution. Learn how focus on exploitability and fundamentals cuts through panic.
Vincent Danen, Vice President Product Security, Red Hat
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By Red Hat: The Compliance Imperative: Assess, Remediate, and Verify with the AAP Compliance Experience
Discover AAP Compliance Experience: automate STIG/CIS compliance with custom profiles, per-rule remediation, and full assess-remediate-verify lifecycles.
Massimo Ferrari , Management Strategy Director, Red Hat
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By Red Hat: How Red Hat AI operationalizes the full AI stack, from metal to agent
Explore Red Hat’s hybrid AI platform. Learn how to deploy, host, and manage agentic workflows, inference, and enterprise data securely across any cloud.
Maxim Burgerhout, Principal Solution Architect, Red Hat
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By Red Hat: Are you drowning in CVEs? Use AI to look after your RHEL Operation environment and be compliant
Vulnerabilities are exploding—how fast can you patch? Use Satellite, Ansible, and RHEL to automatically identify at-risk systems and apply critical updates.
Juan van der Breggen, Associate Solution Architect, Red Hat
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By Red Hat: Who’s using your AI? Usage, costs, and control on Red Hat OpenShift AI
Manage Red Hat OpenShift AI at scale: track token usage, apply limits, calculate cost showback, and optimize capacity with live Models-as-a-Service demos.
Ben Taljaard, Solution Architect, Red Hat Adnan Drina, Principal Solution Architect, Red Hat
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By Red Hat: A Tactical Guide to Next Gen Virtualization
Unify VMs and containers on OpenShift Virtualization for one operational model across hybrid cloud. Includes a live on-prem to cloud VM migration demo!
Andy Repton, Cloud, AI & Security Specialist, Red Hat
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Closing Act & Reception in the Expo Hall
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