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Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 London

2025년 10월 9일London, UKTobacco Dock
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Agenda

8.30 - 9.30

Registration Open

9:30 - 11:00

Keynote Sessions in the Great Gallery

Hybrid Cloud and the Transitions Customers are Seeing About Demand for AI. Core platforms (RHEL, Ansible, OpenShift) and How Red Hat Helps Customers Make Their IT Efficient and Have the Ability to Modernize, as Needed. Digital Sovereignty & AI. Intel: Make your Company an AI Company with Red Hat and Intel Open Technologies. How to bring AI into their world in a way that builds on their experience with open hybrid cloud. AWS: From Migration to AI: AWS and Red Hat's Joint Innovation Journey. Microsoft: Migrate and Modernize. Building an AI-Ready Future with Red Hat and Microsoft.

11:00 - 11:30

Break and Partner Exhibition

11:30 - 11:55

Customer track  (Great Gallery)

Automating Telco CaaS Clusters Using GitOps & Validated Patterns

Learn how Vodafone has implemented the Validated Patterns Operator with GitOps to automate & simplify the lifecycle management of bare metal OpenShift clusters.

Tom Kivlin,

Principal Architect, Vodafone

Automation track  (Room EM1)

The Business Impact of Automation

IT automation may seem a long way down the “value chain” from generative AI, cloud, etc., but continues to be a top priority for many. Why should you care?

Mark Swinson,

Enterprise Automation Specialist, Red Hat

Innovate track  (Room EM2)

How Small Models and vLLM Deliver Cost-Effective Scalability

By strategically using smaller models and leveraging vLLM's capabilities, businesses can achieve highly scalable AI solutions.

Erica Langhi,

Associate Principal Solution Architect, Red Hat

AI track  (Room EM3)

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

Red Hat and Intel showcase how Agentic AI can be deployed and scaled across open hybrid cloud environments, demonstrating how enterprises can move from experimentation to production with efficiency and sovereignty.

David Hellewell,

Chief Technologist, Intel

Jamie Hackett,

Solution Architect for AI, Red Hat

Security track  (Room EM4)

Take Back Control - How Open Source Can Strengthen Your Digital Sovereignty

Can you trust the digital products & services supporting your business? Blind trust or DIY, no other option? How can we make your business digitally sovereign?

Monica Sasso,

Global Financial Services Digital Transformation Lead, Red Hat

Partner track  (Room EM5)

Simplify, Scale, Succeed: How to Future-Proof Your IT with AWS & Red Hat

Discover how leading organizations are accelerating their digital transformation by combining Red Hat's trusted open hybrid solutions with AWS's innovative cloud services.

Jon Hammant,

UK&I Specialist Leader, AWS

Simon Briggs,

EMEA AWS Partnership Solution Architect, Red Hat

12:00 - 12:25

Customer track  (Great Gallery)

Sustainable Software Engineering

Lloyds will present on how they’ve carried out comparisons between Quarkus, Go, Spring and Rust when looking for a sustainable and efficient programming language/framework.

Renzo Cherin,

Head of Software Engineering Centre of Excellence, Lloyds Banking Group

Garima Joshi,

Software Engineering Lead, Lloyds Banking Group

Automation track  (Room EM1)

Architecting Ansible Automation Platform for Scale & Compliance

In this session, the audience will learn how one of the biggest FSI customers turned a failed AAP audit into a fully compliant and scalable implementation.

Nikolas Goulias,

Global Account Solution Architect, Red Hat

Mark Swinson,

Enterprise Automation Specialist, Red Hat

Innovate track  (Room EM2)

How OpenShift AI Streamlines ML Workflows for Faster, More Efficient Delivery

AI isn’t just about building models, but bringing them to life. OpenShift AI enables scalable pipelines, model serving, and versioning for faster AI adoption.

Paulo Menon,

Principal Consultant, Red Hat

AI track  (Room EM3)

Sustainable Computing for the Future - Turning Constraints into Resilience in the AI Era

AI and modern workloads strain compute resources. We must create resilient, efficient platforms—because computing sustainability is now business sustainability.

Waqaas Kausar,

Principal Solution Architect, Red Hat

Security track  (Room EM4)

Every organization needs a robust strategy for verifying the origin and integrity of container images

This session dives deep into the technical methods Red Hat provides to ensure that container content remains untampered from build to deployment.

Gareth Healy,

Principal Architect, Red Hat

Dan Hawker,

Principal Architect, Red Hat

Partner track  (Room EM5)

Migrate and Modernize: Building an AI-Ready Future with Red Hat and Microsoft

Ujjwal Barman,

Senior Solutions Engineer, Microsoft

12:25 - 13:30

Lunch and Partner Exhibition

13:30 - 13:55

Customer track  (Great Gallery)

How the Ansible Automation Platform helped Associated British Foods plc Transform to Deliver Business Value

Hear about how the FTSE50 company, ABF used AAP as part of their automation strategy to deliver business value and more efficient scalable operations.

Prinit Patel,

Head of Enterprise Platform and Connectivity, Associated British Foods plc

Automation track  (Room EM1)

Event-Driven Automation with AAP: From Alerts to Action

Discover how Event-Driven Ansible handles ITSM requests, responds to live incidents, and maintains audit trails—all in real time across your enterprise.

Chris Renwick,

Senior Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat

Innovate track  (Room EM2)

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

Adam Bassett,

Cloud Consultant, Red Hat

AI track  (Room EM3)

From Model to Market: Industry Insights Scaling AI with Red Hat

Red Hat gives companies the freedom to build and run AI anywhere. In this session, we’ll show how Red Hat helps FSI organisations modernise with AI.

Juo Auskalnis,

Solution Architect, Red Hat

Johana Limka,

Solution Architect, Red Hat

Security track  (Room EM4)

Confidential Computing

Learn about Red Hat's Confidential Computing strategy, including Attestation, Confidential VMs, Containers, Clusters, Zero Trust, and more. Demo and RHEL / OpenShift implementation details included.

Marcos Entenza,

Senior Principal Product Manager, Red Hat

Partner track  (Room EM5)

From Concept to Scale: Real-World OpenShift Virtualization Lessons

This session goes beyond the basics to showcase real customer architectures, deployment decisions, and the trade-offs they faced in production. You’ll gain practical insights into patterns for initial adoption, strategies for scaling VM workloads, and lessons learned from diverse industries.

Temi Ogunrekun,

Cloud Native Architect, Portworx by Pure Storage

14:00 - 14:25

Customer track  (Great Gallery)

Operating System as a Container: Image Mode for RHEL

With image mode for RHEL, you can manage your application as well as the underlying OS in a single container-native workflow. Join us to see how image mode can build, deploy and manage operating systems using the same tools and techniques as application containers.

Sam Wachira,

Principal Technical Account Manager, Red Hat

Automation track  (Room EM1)

Enable Ubiquitous and Scalable Automation Using the Validated AAP Config as Code Collections

Learn to use AAP config as code and GitOps for platform engineering, customer onboarding and automation integrity, enabling secure, enterprise wide automation.

Lee Shakespeare,

Ansible Automation SSA, Red Hat

Tom Page,

Services Architect, Red Hat

Innovate track  (Room EM2)

From Sprawl to Strategic: The Rise of Platform as a Product

Centralised platforms not meeting user needs? "Platform as a Product" eases build/maintenance, freeing teams to focus on iterative platform value.

Sam Marland,

Senior Manager, FSI & Global Accounts Solution Architects, Red Hat

Jonny Williams,

Chief Digital Adviser, UK Public Sector , Red Hat

AI track  (Room EM3)

RamaLama: Running AI Models in Containers

RamaLama is a new tool for running AI Models locally. By combining AI and Container technology, RamaLama helps developers get their AI Models running in containers, then into production.

Dan Walsh,

Senior Distinguished Engineer, Red Hat

Security track  (Room EM4)

Dispensing Containers, Safeguarding Citizens

Learn how Red Hat Services helped the UK Health Security Agency migrate critical applications to ROSA.

Dan Hawker,

Principal Architect, Red Hat

Martha Chittenden Milton,

Engagement Lead, Red Hat

Partner track  (Room EM5)

Lower TCO for Containers, AI, and VMs with Red Hat OpenShift on Google Cloud and Google Cloud NetApp Volumes

Alfredo Dos Santos,

Head of Partner Engineering ISV EMEA, Google Cloud

14:30 - 14:55

Customer track  (Great Gallery)

Server in Minutes – Clinical Trials Where Every Day Counts

Using Ansible automation enables rapid VM provisioning, delivering environments to teams in minutes and accelerating research.

Cormac Dunne,

Senior Director IT Digital Operations, ICON Clinical Research

Automation track  (Room EM1)

Ansible Automation Platform - Product Roadmap

The Ansible Automation Platform is constantly evolving. Come and hear about the latest new features and what's coming next.

Massimo Ferrari,

Distinguished Product Manager, Ansible Automation, Red Hat

Innovate track  (Room EM2)

Why is Ever-Greening your IT Estate Important? No One Likes Extending the Life of Software!

Staying with dinosaur software is bad for your pocket, bad for your security, bad for your compliance. Listen to the ugly aspects of staying on older versions.

Nikolas Goulias,

Global Account Solution Architect , Red Hat

Nick Evans,

Customer Success Executive, Red Hat

AI track  (Room EM3)

Unlocking Your Company’s Knowledge: Building an AI Assistant with RHEL AI

Build a smart assistant using RHEL AI that learns from your internal knowledge base, delivering fast, accurate answers from technical documentation.

Mahalakshmi Vijayakumar,

Consultant, Red Hat

Paulo Menon,

Principal Consultant, Red Hat

Security track  (Room EM4)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Reinvent your Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 introduced innovative and new technologies to the Linux platform. With RHEL 10 we contain drift, enhance zero trust security, and manage your RHEL servers across a hybrid cloud environment from a single management platform, using AI in our RHEL platform to make your administration tasks easier.

Sam Wachira,

Principal Technical Account Manager, Red Hat

Dominic Creasy,

RHEL Specialist, Red Hat

Partner track  (Room EM5)

Dell Automation Platform

Thibaut Perrin,

Red Hat Solutions Architect, Dell

15:00 - 15:30

Break and Partner Exhibition

15:30- 15:55

Customer track  (Great Gallery)

Secure by Design, Open by Default: Powering Public Health Innovation with Red Hat and UK Health Security Agency

UKHSA has used Red Hat technology to power critical apps and HPC, with a roadmap focused on open source, AI, and future-ready platforms.

Francesco Giannoccaro,

Head of Hosting and HPC, UKHSA

Mustafa Musaji,

Principal Solutions Architect, Red Hat

Sam Morris,

Engineer, UKHSA

Automation track  (Room EM1)

Containing the Automation Chaos Monkey

In a world of Enterprise IT Automation, how can you keep compliance happy and your automators productive with as little impact as possible?

Aidan Beeson,

Enterprise Automation Specialist, Red Hat

Laura Romero,

Specialist Solution Architect, Automation, Red Hat

Innovate track  (Room EM2)

Panel: The Modern Data Center - From Virtualization to AI

Building the Future-Ready Infrastructure: Unlocking Value from Legacy Systems to AI-Powered Workloads.

Sponsors: Accenture, Arctera, NetBox Labs

Moderated by: Simon Mead,

UKI Ecosystem Director, Red Hat

AI track  (Room EM3)

Panel: Securing the Hybrid Cloud - Protecting Data and Applications from End-to-End

Security by Design: Strategies for a Resilient and Protected Hybrid Cloud.

Sponsors: SCC, Tigera, Veeam

Moderated by: Alan O'Shea,

UKI Ecosystem Manager, Red Hat

Security track  (Room EM4)

Panel: Data-Driven Digital Transformation - From Code to Customer Value

Driving Business Outcomes with Data: How Open Source and Strategic Services Accelerate Digital Transformation.

Sponsors: EDB, Intive, CMS

Moderated by Luke Day,

UK Partner Account Manager, Red Hat

Partner track  (Room EM5)

IBM Fusion Access: Simplifying Migration to OpenShift

This session will show how Fusion Access enables you to seamlessly integrate your existing storage infrastructure into OpenShift without additional hardware investments, capacity trade-offs, or hidden costs.

Chris Blum,

Technical PM Ceph & Fusion Data Foundation, IBM

16:00 - 16:45

AI Demo in the Great Gallery - Live Demo Showing How AI Agents Can Automate Complex Tasks

Graeme Colman,

Presales Manager at Red Hat

Bruno Meseguer,

Technical Marketing Manager at Red Hat

Roger Nunn,

Senior Principal Architect at Red Hat

Simon Brook,

Senior Solutions Architect at Red Hat

16:45 - 18:00

Networking Drinks, Partner Exhibition and Red Hat Branded SWAG

Sponsors

Lead sponsor

Intel logo

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. 

Diamond

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.

Microsoft

Microsoft empowers individuals and organizations worldwide to achieve more through innovative software, services, and devices. From essential productivity tools like Microsoft 365 and cloud computing via Azure, to enriching personal experiences through Windows and Xbox, Microsoft delivers integrated solutions that accelerate digital transformation, enhance collaboration, and fuel human ingenuity across all aspects of work and life.

Gold

Dell

Dell Technologies is a global technology company that designs, develops, and delivers IT infrastructure, solutions, and services for organizations of all sizes. Dell’s core offerings span enterprise hardware—including servers, storage, networking, and client devices—as well as integrated software and professional services to support digital transformation and artificial intelligence (AI) adoption. Come talk to us about the Dell Automation Platform, which streamlines IT infrastructure management by automating deployment, provisioning, and lifecycle operations across AI, cloud, and edge environments. It enables fast, secure, and consistent outcomes through centralized control, zero-touch onboarding, and validated blueprints.

Google cloud

Google Cloud is the new way to the cloud, providing AI, infrastructure, developer, data, security, and collaboration tools built for today and tomorrow. Google Cloud offers a powerful, fully integrated and optimized AI stack with its own planet-scale infrastructure, custom-built chips, generative AI models and development platform, as well as AI-powered applications, to help organizations transform. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted technology partner.

IBM

IBM Fusion is a modern application data platform designed to streamline the integration of AI, containerized workloads, and virtual machines through automated orchestration. It supports gradual modernization while minimizing operational complexity and is available both as software and as Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI). Built on the robust foundation of Red Hat OpenShift and a hybrid cloud data architecture, IBM Fusion offers a powerful, scalable, and resilient solution. It empowers organizations to efficiently run containerized applications and AI workloads, simplify management, and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO).

Pure Storage

Portworx by Pure Storage is the leading container data management platform, trusted by enterprises to address complexity and resiliency challenges in the data infrastructure of mission-critical modern applications. Portworx provides a fully integrated solution to automate, protect, and unify container data management across hybrid and multi-cloud environments to accelerate time to market, ensure data resiliency, and enable data agility at enterprise scale. Hundreds of Global 2000 enterprises rely on Portworx to unlock the value of Kubernetes data, ensuring robust and scalable operations for modern applications.

Silver

Accenture
Arctera

Arctera helps organizations around the world thrive by ensuring they can trust, access, and illuminate their data from creation to retirement. Created in 2024 from Veritas Technologies, an industry leader in secure multi-cloud data resilience, Arctera comprises three business units: Data Compliance, Data Protection and Data Resilience. Arctera provides tens of thousands of customers worldwide, including 70% of the Fortune 100, with market-leading solutions that help them to manage one of their most valuable assets: data.

CMS / EDB

EDB Postgres® AI (EDB PG AI) is the first open, enterprise-grade sovereign data and AI platform—secure, compliant, and scalable, on-premises and across clouds. Built on Postgres, the world’s leading database, EDB PG AI unifies transactional, analytical, and AI workloads, enabling organizations to operationalize their data and LLMs while maintaining control over sovereign environments. EDB PG AI is supported by a global partner network and delivers up to 99.999% availability as well as hybrid management and a built-in AI factory. As one of the most active contributors to the PostgreSQL project, EDB is deeply invested in the vitality of the global community.

Intive

intive is a global technology company dedicated to crafting digital experiences that blend technical excellence with customer centricity. By mastering technology with passion and enthusiasm, intive delivers tailormade solutions that consistently meet the needs of its audience and fulfill its promises. A diverse team of 2,000 professionals, spread across four continents, innovates and grows within intive’s technology hubs. Trusted by leading brands such as Audi, BMW, Deichmann, Meta, NewsCorp, Tandem, Paramount, Vorwerk, and Warner Bros. Discovery intive excels in providing exceptional value through pioneering and sustainable digital experiences. intive is offering agile thinking combined with deep expertise across industries including Automotive & Mobility, Commerce, Financial Services, Healthcare & Life Science, and Technology, Media & Communication.

Netbox Labs

NetBox Labs enables network and IT teams to make sense of complex networks and infrastructure by delivering open, composable products and supporting the network and infrastructure automation community. NetBox Labs is the commercial steward of open source NetBox, the world’s most popular platform for operating, automating, and securing networks and infrastructure. NetBox Labs products include NetBox Enterprise and NetBox Cloud for deploying, operating, and scaling NetBox with advanced features for security, collaboration, and automation. It also offers NetBox Discovery to accelerate network and infrastructure documentation and observability, and NetBox Assurance which helps teams Identify, understand, and eliminate operational drift.

SCC
Tigera

Tigera provides Calico, a unified network security and observability platform to prevent, detect and mitigate security breaches in Kubernetes clusters. The company is the creator and maintainer of Calico Open Source, the most widely used container networking and security solution. Tigera's network security platform is used by leading companies, including Discover, Chipotle, NBCUniversal, HanseMerkur, Box, Siemens Healthineers, Playtech, Royal Bank of Canada, and Bell Canada.

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

Bronze

Computacenter

Computacenter is a leading independent technology and services provider, trusted by large corporate and public sector organisations. We are a responsible business that believes in winning together for our people and our planet. We help our customers to Source, Transform and Manage their technology infrastructure to deliver digital transformation, enabling people and their business. Computacenter plc is a public company quoted on the London FTSE 250 and employs over 20,000 people worldwide. Computacenter proudly bears the Red Hat Premier Business Partner Accreditation indicating a commitment to innovation and service delivery of the highest level.

Cyberark

CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR) is the global leader in identity security, trusted by organizations around the world to secure human and machine identities in the modern enterprise. CyberArk’s AI-powered Identity Security Platform applies intelligent privilege controls to every identity with continuous threat prevention, detection and response across the identity lifecycle. With CyberArk, organizations can reduce operational and security risks by enabling zero trust and least privilege with complete visibility, empowering all users and identities, including workforce, IT, developers and machines, to securely access any resource, located anywhere, from everywhere.

Great Wave AI
Tier 2 Consulting / Prolifics

Prolifics Group UK is an EMEA Red Hat Premier Partner for Middleware and Container Platforms. We drive digital transformation with deep industry expertise, AI innovation, and an agile approach. We help organisations scale, modernise, and thrive, bridging the gap between essential software and business outcomes. With a global reach and top technology partnerships, we deliver innovative custom solutions, leveraging the latest advancements to solve critical challenges and support every stage of the project lifecycle.

XLAB

Steampunk Spotter delivered by XLAB Steampunk is an Ansible Playbook Platform that analyzes and enhances Ansible Playbooks to reduce security risks and speed up automation.

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Date: October 9, 2025

Time: 08:30 - 17:30

Location: Tobacco Dock,
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