Red Hat Summit: Connect Zurich

Ever wondered how Red Hat itself runs on Red Hat? This session takes you behind the curtains of our own IT, showing how open source powers the infrastructure that supports Red Hat globally. From internal platforms built on RHEL and OpenShift, to automation with Ansible and the use of open source tools across collaboration, development, and operations, we’ll explore how Red Hat practices what it preaches.

Join us to see live how Red Hat is a catalyst for change in the digital world. This demo will show you how to break free from rigid, traditional IT by embracing the open hybrid cloud. We'll show you how Red Hat's cutting-edge technology empowers your business to become more agile, intelligent, and responsive, ready to face the future of innovation head-on.

This session will share the future direction of the platform, focusing on key innovations and developments shaping the next evolution of automation. The session will also explore how these developments empower organizations to achieve greater efficiency, scalability, and intelligence across their Business and IT environments.

The future of software development is being transformed by Generative AI, creating new collaboration models with AI agents and demanding new skills. This keynote explores the AI coding spectrum, from rapid Vibe Coding to structured AI-Assisted Engineering. To achieve productivity gains and manage complexity, organizations must embrace Platform Engineering—building self-service, automated developer platforms. Crucially, the AI infusion intensifies software supply chain security risks.

Cloud sovereignty requires clear strategies and reliable partners to put them into practice. Together, Red Hat, SysEleven, and secunet show how companies and public authorities can concretely implement location, technology, and operational sovereignty – with Red Hat OpenShift, certified compliance, and cloud platforms made in Germany. A pragmatic recommendation for action for companies and public authorities that want to take control, trust, and availability into their own hands.

In this lab you will manage a virtual machine running in image mode. You'll explore how bootc tracks images, changes host purposes, and rolls back changes.

Explore the key innovations in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, including AI-powered RHEL Lightspeed, post-quantum security, image mode for simplified deployment, and enhanced cloud and hardware integration, making RHEL 10 a major leap forward for hybrid IT.

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.

Join EFG Bank and Microsoft as they share their journey to the cloud powered by Azure Red Hat OpenShift. The session explores how this collaboration enabled digital transformation, modernized workloads, and streamlined operations across hybrid environments. It also highlights how Azure Red Hat OpenShift integrates seamlessly with the broader Azure ecosystem to deliver enhanced scalability, security, and operational efficiency. Attendees gain insights into the strategic impact of leveraging Azure Red Hat OpenShift in a real-world enterprise context.

Telekom Security helps IT teams operating complex, multi-vendor environments go from slow, manual service provisioning, to fast, secure, and automated delivery with its customizable Customer Order Portal, built around Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

A review of an operational model for Ansible Automation Platform, featuring good practices for people, process and technology for a central automation service.

This session demonstrates how Ansible functions as the central orchestration layer, seamlessly integrating self-service portals, declarative provisioning (Terraform/GitOps), and Day 2 operations to deliver truly end-to-end automation.

In the era of agentic AI, speed must not come at the cost of operational safety. This session explores how platform engineers can implement guardrailed autonomy to provide a framework where AI agents act freely while staying strictly within company policies and security principles. Through a practical demo, we will show how to build the platform boundaries that allow for constrained agency and ensure AI remains a productive and predictable asset in your environment.

As technology continues to evolve, managing platforms becomes increasingly more complex. In this session, Helvetia will share and show how they tackle reducing risk across public cloud, private cloud, and on-premise environments using enterprise solutions in partnership with HashiCorp.

The cybersecurity landscape has entered a transformative period: the need for migration to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) as quantum computing becomes capable breaking current cryptography universally in use. This talk examines the practical implications and measures of the large-scale transition to quantum safe cryptography, by exploring standards, tools, and methods. We’ll discuss innovations from IBM Research and highlight experiences of migration from Red Hat, while providing an outlook on what’s next.

As a part of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Event-Driven Ansible provides the event-handling capability needed to automate time-consuming tasks and respond to changing conditions in any IT domain. Event-Driven Ansible can process events containing discrete intelligence about conditions in the IT environment, determine the appropriate response to the event, then execute automated actions to address or remediate the event.

Swisscom is one of the most innovative companies in Switzerland in communications, IT and entertainment. In this exclusive session, we will discover how to leverage Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization to accelerate traditional infrastructure provisioning and spin up modern cloud-native applications on a unified platform.

Application modernization no longer needs to take years. This session explores how generative AI and ROSA is revolutionizing the modernization process, dramatically accelerating transformation across the entire VM-to-cloud journey while reducing complexity and risk. Utilise ROSA as a Developer Platform to scale your innovation.

The Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) runs its most crucial applications on Red Hat OpenShift, requiring separated redundancy and rigorous processes to achieve very high availability. This session moves beyond basic GitOps deployment, illustrating how Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) are leveraged to declaratively manage critical external dependencies, maximizing reliability and achieving true infrastructure-as-code for these mission-critical systems.

Join the Live-Demo to deploy, update and remediate LEGOCity Police multi-tier Web application in this gamified automation journey with Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), Event Driven Ansible (EDA), Satellite, Prometheus and ServiceNow.

Modern software isn't written; it's assembled. With 90% of code coming from open source, how do you know what you are actually deploying? This talk takes a journey through the "Software Supply Chain." We will move beyond simple scanning and look at how we can cryptographically sign our code and pipelines. Using tools like Tekton and Sigstore, we’ll demonstrate how to create a "chain of custody" for your software – ensuring that the code running in production is exactly what your developers committed, with no tamper-room in between.

As developers, we all love a bit of magic, especially when it makes our jobs easier. What if spinning up an AI chatbot, fine-tuned model, or RAG-based API was as easy as summoning a spell? In this session, we’ll show how Internal Developer Portals (like Backstage) can become your team’s Room of Requirement. With pre-built software templates, function-calling support, and multimodel deployment options, platform engineers can give developers everything they need: on demand, securely, and at scale. Expect a live demo, practical takeaways using Kubernetes and Tekton, and appearances from Snape (security), McGonagall (governance), and Dobby (developer self-service). Whether you’re building an AI platform or enabling teams to do so safely, this talk will help you turn your developer experience into something truly magical.

This lab provides a comprehensive, hands-on experience developing intelligent AI agents with OpenShift AI, Llama Stack and MCP (Model Context Protocol). You will learn to build agents capable of utilizing both internal knowledge bases and external web resources, as well as interacting directly with a live OpenShift environment. - Integrate RAG, AI agents, and MCP tools to build sophisticated automated systems, such as an incident response system within OpenShift. - Gain practical experience using AI agents for effective communication and task automation within platforms like Slack, OpenShift and OpenShift AI using MCP tools.