From lab to ledger: Scaling enterprise AI at Red Hat Summit 2026

Enterprise AI has officially moved past the "can we build it?" phase. Business leaders aren't just asking how to train a model, they’re asking how to scale, protect, and operationalize these systems to drive return on investment (ROI) without losing control of their data.

At Red Hat Summit 2026, you'll be able to dive deep into technical architecture, partner integrations, and other topics through our AI session builder. You can choose from breakout sessions, hands-on labs, demos and network with Red Hat AI specialists, technology partners, and other companies like yours.

Here are some of our top “don’t miss out” sessions.

AI product spotlight

IT industry focus has shifted from deploying simple chatbots to developing complex autonomous agents. Join the AI product spotlight session to learn more about the Red Hat AI products and technologies that you'll hear about in the Red Hat Summit keynote presentations. In this session, engineering and product leads will walk you through our approach to AI innovation and the benefits our products and services can provide to organizations like yours. We’ll also walk through live demonstrations that showcase how you can use Red Hat AI capabilities to address different use cases. 

Driving real-world business outcomes

The true measure of any AI platform is what it can help businesses achieve. This year’s sessions are packed with real-world case studies from industry leaders who have moved Red Hat AI out of the lab and into the core of their operations:

• Discover how Verizon co-developed an open, modular AI platform powered by Red Hat OpenShift AI to help accelerate generative AI inference, achieving multimillion-dollar operating expense (OpEx) savings.
• Explore BNP Paribas' journey to building a sovereign LLM-as-a-Service architecture, handling over 900 million input tokens per day while meeting strict compliance.
• Learn how Airbus Helicopters architected a production AI solution that balances performance and cost in an environment where reliability is a requirement.

These are just a few of the customer sessions you can attend—to see the whole list, see the AI customer session builder.

An expansive partner ecosystem

No one innovates alone, so to highlight the power of our partner ecosystem, Red Hat Summit will feature technology partners across a variety of breakout and lightning talk sessions. Here are some of the sessions you can look forward to:

• We will dive into the full-stack integration that defines the Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA, which combines Red Hat AI Enterprise with NVIDIA’s full-stack accelerated computing, networking, and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software capabilities.
• We'll feature our ongoing collaboration with IBM in From dark data to enterprise AI: Scale AI for hybrid cloud environments with an open platform.
• Joint sessions with IBM, AMD, and Microsoft will showcase how an open hybrid cloud foundation supports multi-accelerator environments, giving you the flexibility to run any model, on any hardware, anywhere.

Don’t miss out! Register for Red Hat Summit 2026 to grab your spot and learn how to scale your enterprise AI strategy. Check out our session catalog and explore Red Hat AI solutions to see how we can help you build and manage AI-enabled applications across the hybrid cloud.