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Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 Helsinki

2025 年 10 月 23 日Helsinki, FinlandScandic Marina Congress Center, Katajanokanlaituri
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Agenda

8:00-8:50

Registration and coffee

9:00-9:20

Welcome and opening remarks

(Room A)

Mikko Pylväs,

Country Manager, Red Hat Finland

Dinko Eror,

Vice President EMEA Central, North and Eastern Europe, Red Hat

9:20-10:00

Keynote

(Room A)

Innovate freely, operate efficiently: build on a unified AI and application platform

Sherard Griffin,

Senior Director, AI Engineering, Red Hat

10:00 - 10:10

Intel keynote: Make your company an AI company with Red Hat and Intel Open Technologies

(Room A)

Discover how Intel helps Enterprises move from AI pilots to payoff. Intel’s end-to-end AI portfolio, including hardware, software, and a broad partner ecosystem, enables you to build, deploy, and scale AI across cloud, data center, edge, and client. Whether you're a developer, architect, or decision-maker, you'll leave with practical ideas and proven tools to power your next AI move.

Danai Skournetou,

Sales Strategy, EMEA CTO, Intel

10:10 - 10:30

Coffee break

10:30 - 12:00

OpenShift Virtualization track  (Room A)

10:30 - 11:00

Introduction to OpenShift Virtualization

Simon Rahilly,

Director, Specialist Sales, Red Hat

11:00 - 11:30

Crash Course in OpenShift Virtualization: Running VMs Natively on Kubernetes with KubeVirt

Learn how to get started with OpenShift Virtualization. Run and manage VMs alongside containers with KubeVirt.

James Force,

Principal Consultant, Red Hat

11:30 - 12:00

Automate - Automate - Automate your OpenShift Virtualization

Avoid snow flakes and get repeatable environments - let's look into Gitops and demonstrate ArgoCD to automate your OpenShift Virtualization experience.

Joachim von Thadden,

Principal Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat

RHEL 10 track  (Room B)

10:30 - 11:00

Introduction to new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Reimagine Linux, the most exiting release in 20 years!

Alessandro Rossi,

EMEA Associate Principal Specialist Solution Architect - RHEL, Red Hat

11:00 - 11:30

Top security features you should use in RHEL 10

In this session, we'll explore security features for building resilient defenses, key to safeguarding critical data.

Sam Wachira,

Principal Technical Account Manager, Red Hat

11:30 - 12:00

RHEL 10 Training

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Joakim Melén,

Training Business Development Manager, Red Hat

AI & Developer track with a customer case Asiakastieto  (Room C)

10:30 - 11:00

Customer story: Asiakastieto - Securing Kubernetes Workloads: Lessons Learned from Real-World Deployments with Open Source Security

Learn how Asiakastieto boosts Kubernetes security using open-source tools, with real-world tips on threat detection, policy, and DevSecOps practices.

Juuso Pikkujämsä,

Solutions Architect, Suomen Asiakatieto

Eero Arvonen,

Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat

11:00 - 11:30

Local Development in the AI Era

In this session we’ll take a look at various solutions to do local, network-optional AI-powered and infused development.

Kevin Dubois,

Sr Principal Developer Advocate, Red Hat

11:30 - 12:00

Agentic AI in Action: Red Hat & Intel Shaping the Future of Enterprise AI

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.

Danai Skournetou,

Sales Strategy, EMEA CTO, Intel

Andreas Bergqvist,

EMEA SSP, Red Hat AI

Automation track with customer case Relex  (Room D)

10:30 - 11:00

Forward looking automation trends

Matt Roberts,

Director, Sales Specialist, Red Hat

11:00 - 11:30

An operational model for 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.

Magnus Glantz ,

Principal Specialist Adoption Architect, Red Hat

11:30 - 12:00

Customer story: Relex - Automation lifecycle management - how to combat the Second law of thermodynamics?

Automation is an essential part of modern software organization workflows, regardless of the business area. However, automation doesn't take care of itself, so engineers have to do it. The talk covers good practices of how to ensure a sustainable automation code base, and examples where this has worked (and NOT worked) at RELEX Solutions.

Onni Lampi,

Private Cloud Architect, Lead SRE, Relex Solutions

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch

13:00-14:00

Automation track with customer case Telia Cygate  (Room A)

13:00 - 13:30

Customer story by Telia Cygate: Building a Scalable Automation Model for Organizations

Discover a practical automation model that helps organizations scale automation efficiently. Learn how clear roles, structured collaboration, and best practices drive sustainable automation success.

Antti Saarenmaa,

Senior Platform Specialist | Ansible Automation Platform, Infrastructure Automation, Telia Cygate

13:30 - 14:00

Scaling out security baselines with Event Driven Ansible

Join a deep-dive technical demo on the topic of managing security hardening in a smarter way, using EDA and built in Red Hat Enterprise Linux features.

Magnus Glantz,

Principal Specialist Adoption Architect

OpenShift track with customer case Finnish Food Authority  (Room B)

13:00 - 13:30

OpenShift DR

This presentation covers different Openshift DR designs and gives an overview of Red Hat and Partner solutions. Also includes Openshift Virtualization DR.

Suvendu Mitra,

Senior Specialist Solution Architect Openshift, Red Hat

Tommi Sohlberg ,

Solution Architect, Red Hat Finland

13:30 - 14:00

Customer story: Ruokaviraston siirtymä OpenShiftiin

Ruokaviraston siirtymä Hansel K&K 2.0 -ympäristössä NKE:stä OpenShiftiin. Projektin läpivienti ja mitä on opittu.

Juha Virtanen ,

johtava asiantuntija, Ruokavirasto

Partner sessions  (Room C)

13:00 - 13:30

Accelerate Your Cloud Journey with Red Hat and AWS

Cloud modernization isn’t a one-size-fits-all journey — but the Red Hat and AWS partnership delivers a consistent, scalable foundation for digital transformation. In this session, we’ll dive into how technical teams are deploying hybrid and cloud-native architectures using RHEL, Red Hat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA), and Ansible Automation Platform — all natively integrated with AWS services.

Jukka Forsgren,

Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

Robert Äkerblom,

Senior Black Belt, Red Hat

13:30 - 14:00

Dell & Red Hat – toisiaan tukevat ratkaisut parhaaseen lopputulokseen

Dellin sertifioidut Red Hat -kokonaisratkaisut takaavat kustannustehokkaan ja joustavan it-ympäristön. Puheenvuoron pitää TD Synnex.

Henri Paasovaara,

Red Hat -ratkaisuarkkitehti, TD SYNNEX

AI & Developer track  (Room D)

13:00 - 13:30

(Agentic) AI for the Enterprise Developer

In this session, you’ll explore how you can add a variety of AI capabilities to your enterprise apps: eg. prompting, guard railing, MCP, RAG, and more.

Kevin Dubois,

Sr Principal Developer Advocate, Red Hat

13:30 - 14:00

Build your own distributed cloud native AI agent in 20 minutes

Natale Vinto,

Evangelism Director, Red Hat

14:00 - 14:30

Coffee break

14:30-15:00

OpenShift track with customer case Elisa & Nokia  (Room A)

14:30 - 15:00

Customer story: Elisa and Nokia

Cloud-native telco with Elisa and Nokia’s 5G Cloud RAN and Red Hat OpenShift. To spark innovation and improve scalability of its network services, Finnish telecommunications company Elisa sought to extend its cloudification efforts to radio access networks (RANs).

Matti Swan,

Elisa

Timo Sippola,

Nokia

Aki Pellinen,

Red Hat

RHEL track  (Room B)

14:30 - 15:00

RHEL Lightspeed: Unlocking AI on the command line

A virtual assistant - accessible directly from the command line, helping you with enhanced knowledge retrieval, natural language processing and code generation.

Sam Wachira,

Senior Technical Account Manager, Red Hat

AI & Developer track  (Room C)

14:30 - 15:00

Accelerate AI from Experiment to Production: Red Hat OpenShift AI in Action

Delivering AI-enabled applications at scale requires more than just model training. Red Hat OpenShift AI provides a unified platform where data scientists, engineers, and developers can collaborate seamlessly. This session highlights how the platform streamlines the journey from experimentation to model serving and application delivery, ensuring consistency, security, and scalability. Learn how organizations can bring innovation to production faster while maintaining enterprise-grade reliability.

Sheryl Wang,

Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat

Partner session  (Room D)

14:30 -15:00

IBM: Dev vs. On-prem Infra: The battle is over.

For years, developers and infrastructure teams have operated in silos—one pushing for speed and agility, the other guarding stability and control. But what if the battle is already over—and both sides can win?We will explore how modern hybrid infrastructure is transforming the developer experience without compromising the needs of IT. You’ll discover how developers can get production-ready clusters in minutes—not days—while infrastructure managers retain the governance, security, and performance they need to keep the business on track. This is more than a truce—it’s a new way of working. Join us to see how the right platform can bridge the gap, accelerate innovation, and finally align Dev and Infra on the same path forward.

Roger Stakkestad,

Senior Storage Technical Specialist, IBM

Ida Salo,

nfrastructure Sales, IBM

15:00 - 15:45

Automation panel discussion  (Room A)

15:00 - 15:45

Panel discussion: Automation journey

Join the panel discussion with Jani-Juska Kettunen from Capgemini, Janne Jääskeläinen from CGI and Antti Saarenmaa from Telia Cygate. Session is lead by Red Hat's Matt Roberts

OpenShift track  (Room B)

15:00 - 15:45

Welcome UDN! OpenShift's new Network Model make it easy

Red Hat created an new network model called User Defined Network - UDN. This talk will show you what it is, how it works, why we love it, and how it feels.

Joachim von Thadden,

Principal Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat

OpenShift Virtualization track  (Room C)

15:00 - 15:45

Deploying the base platform for running virtual machines (VMs) is only the first step to running large workloads in Red Hat OpenShift.

In this session, we'll share how to automate critical tasks to ensure successful configuration, migration, and ongoing management of VMs from day 0 on OpenShift Virtualization using Ansible Automation Platform

Richard Beatty,

Architect, EMEA Solutions & Technology Practice

Alberto Florez Pages,

Architect, EMEA Solutions & Technology Practice

AI & Developer track  (Room D)

15:00 - 15:45

Llama Stack: One API to rule them all

Step into the world of Llama Stack — your ultimate AI sidekick! One API to rule them all: Inference, RAG, agents, safety, and more. Join us for a fast-paced mix of insights and live demos as we show you how to launch, customize, and deploy Llama Stack from zero to production-ready magic!

Natale Vinto,

Evangelism Director, Red Hat

Sheryl Wang,

Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat

15:45 -16:00

Closing words

16:00 - 17:00

Afterwork Networking Reception – Drinks & Light Bites

Sponsors

Lead sponsor

Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) is an industry leader, creating world-changing technology that enables global progress and enriches lives. Inspired by Moore’s Law, we continuously work to advance the design and manufacturing of semiconductors to help address our customers’ greatest challenges. By embedding intelligence in the cloud, network, edge and every kind of computing device, we unleash the potential of data to transform business and society for the better. 

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AWS

AWS is the world's largest cloud provider with the most comprehensive set of services. Whether you're looking for generative AI, compute power, database storage, content delivery, or other functionality, AWS has more than 200 services to help you build applications with unparalled security, reliability and performance. Together AWS and Red Hat empower organizations with a comprehensive hybrid cloud platform that combines the flexibility of AWS with the power of Red Hat open-source technologies. The longstanding partnership has been providing innovative solutions and running mission-critical workloads for over 17 years.

Dell
IBM

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Atea är en ledande aktör inom it på den nordiska marknaden. Ihop med de främsta tillverkarna i vår bransch hjälper vi våra kunder med deras digitala transformation. Vi är både helhetspartner och rådgivare till såväl privat som offentlig sektor - inom alltifrån AI, cloud och säkerhet till licenser, hårdvara och hållbar livscykelhantering. Dessutom har vi en stor konsultverksamhet med tusentals certifieringar som omsätter tekniken till värde och verksamhetsnytta. Vi finns över hela landet och tillsammans bygger vi Sverige med it.

Hitachi Vantara

Hitachi Vantara is transforming the way data fuels innovation. A wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., Hitachi Vantara provides the data foundation the world's leading innovators rely on. Through data storage, infrastructure systems, cloud management and digital expertise, the company helps customers build the foundation for sustainable business growth.

Veeam

Veeam, the #1 global market leader in data resilience, believes every business should control all their data whenever and wherever they need it. ​ ​We’re obsessed with creating innovative ways to help our customers achieve data resilience. We do that by offering purpose-built solutions that provide data backup, data recovery, data portability, data security, and data intelligence. ​Headquartered in Seattle, with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and X @veeam

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Venue information

Date: 23 October, 2025

Time: 08:00 - 18:00

Location: Scandic Marina Congress Center, 
Katajanokanlaituri 6, 
00160 Helsinki,
Finland

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