Containers, developers, and a wedding: What happened at Red Hat Summit 2016

A little over a month ago, 5,600 open source enthusiasts descended upon the Moscone Center in San Francisco for Red Hat Summit 2016. The four-day event brought together Red Hat customers, partners, community members, and contributors for a week of discussions around the power of open source.

In the midst of news, there was amazing content spanning keynotes, breakout sessions, and a wedding (you read that correctly).

Here’s a recap of some of the biggest moments of Red Hat Summit 2016, told by tweets throughout the week:

Who is working with @microsoft to ensure top performance of @dotnet on RHEL? Ahh right :-) #DevNation #RHSummit pic.twitter.com/Ur5R3yCZI3

— Jeremy Eder (@jeremyeder) June 27, 2016

Open Source much? Modest list of the oss projects RedHat contributes actively. #rhsummit #DevNation pic.twitter.com/uNXW7SCZyY

— Diógenes G. Rettori (@rettori) June 27, 2016

@JWhitehurst joined us to award our #RHCP of the Year Felipe Cebellos from SEAQ. #rhsummit @redhatnews pic.twitter.com/RgR1y6WlOm

— Red Hat Training (@RedHat_Training) June 28, 2016

Congrats to the 2016 Innovation Award winners! Vote for your favorite: https://t.co/tHXQ27U50q #RHSummit pic.twitter.com/aYyvWcDDga

— Red Hat, Inc. (@RedHatNews) June 28, 2016

"We want this event to be different because you are here. That's the power of participation." #RHSummit pic.twitter.com/YCkLayANXf

— Laura Hamlyn (@LauraHamlyn) June 28, 2016

Congrats to @JWhitehurst for an insightful #RHSummit keynote! About people, not product; what people can do thru collaboration

— Al Gillen (@algillen) June 28, 2016

If big companies aren't #agile they will fail. Big companies must evolve or they will die -@elwinloomis #RHSummit pic.twitter.com/fjKkbDQgtz

— Red Hat, Inc. (@RedHatNews) June 28, 2016

#RedHat takes #containers from experiment to enterprise. #RHSummit #RedHatContainers pic.twitter.com/BUHAd98jrQ

— Red Hat, Inc. (@RedHatNews) June 28, 2016

Bottom line on @RedHatNews containers: They are a feature of Linux OS, unless you offer a Linux OS, it will be hard to productize. #RHSummit

— Dan Woods (@danwoodsearly) June 28, 2016

The Open Patient: Healing through sharing https://t.co/1qfl855H7d What an inspiring initiative @myopennotes #RedHat #RHSummit #opensource

— Marco Celon (@MCelon) June 29, 2016

Need consistent foundation & application experience across physical, virtual, private & public #cloud#RHSummit pic.twitter.com/eRRxkcCGhV

— Margaret Dawson (@seattledawson) June 29, 2016

Cormier: Open source is the standard #RHSummit <- IDC customer surveys confirm that for cloud initiatives

— Larry Carvalho (@robustcloud) June 29, 2016

Cormier “the pace of change is too much for any one company to drive. must be collaborative.” #RHSummit pic.twitter.com/eRUzboZ0fu

— Brian Gracely (@bgracely) June 29, 2016

Bottom line of Paul Cormier’s Keynote: Red Hat’s offer is productization of entire open source lifecycle, from dev to deployment #RHSummit

— Dan Woods (@danwoodsearly) June 29, 2016

Red Hat teams rock a live full participation real time app demos & real time deploys: way to go for a Keynote! #RHSummit -Making it Real!

— Steven Willmott (@njyx) June 29, 2016

Red Hat threw a wedding on stage at its big conference — with the CEO as ring bearer https://t.co/1smIpqSgIg pic.twitter.com/NMLdHbOdkx

— Business Insider (@businessinsider) June 29, 2016

#RHsummit so many people loving on #OpenSource ! pic.twitter.com/BeO9TLvlGD

— LINBIT (@linbit) June 30, 2016

NASA JPL Chief "Toy Officer" talking about innovation. If this doesn't amp you up to get tinkering, I don't know what will. #RHSummit

— David Sirrine (@dsirrine) June 30, 2016

Celebrating in Madrid #RHsummit @RedHatNews 2016 Innovator of the year award pic.twitter.com/DUIjkMFU9D

— Amadeus IT Group (@AmadeusITGroup) June 30, 2016

Innovative ‘Women in #OpenSource’ recognized at #RHSummit https://t.co/LGPeGCZDkG pic.twitter.com/IKu6z1l7pS

— Rob Shiveley (@RobShiveley) July 2, 2016

Visit our Red Hat Summit 2016 recap page to find presentations, interviews, blog posts, photos, and videos of the 2016 event. And don’t forget to mark your calendar for Red Hat Summit 2017 in Boston, May 2-5!