The Friday Five is a weekly Red Hat® blog post with 5 of the week's top news items and ideas from or about Red Hat and the technology industry. Consider it your weekly digest of things that caught our eye.


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Red Hat Summit virtual content hub

Red Hat Summit 2023 may be over, but you can still catch up on select event highlights and explore a collection of additional new online sessions on the Red Hat Summit virtual content hub. Register to access the content for free today.

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Red Hat Summit 2023 Newsroom

All of this year's news from Red Hat Summit, available in one place. Check out Red Hat’s slate of announcements, including Red Hat's evolving automation portfolio, new security and developer capabilities, advancements in artificial intelligence, and innovations with our partners and customers. In addition, read our blogs for more in-depth perspectives from our experts.

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Save the date for Red Hat Summit 2024

Make plans now to join us for Red Hat Summit and AnsibleFest 2024 as we bring together thousands of customers, partners and technology industry leaders and open source community members from around the world for another high-energy week of innovation, education and collaboration.

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IN THE NEWS:

CRN - Red Hat CEO Keynote: 5 Boldest Remarks On AI, New Products

Red Hat CEO Matt Hicks kicked off Red Hat Summit 2023 on Tuesday in Boston by explaining his company’s artificial intelligence, open-source vision and new products to thousands in attendance. “We’re in one of those [game-changing] moments right now. It’s the moment of AI,” said Hicks during his keynote at the Boston Convention Center. Several of Red Hat’s key product launches include generative AI for Ansible, an enterprise-grade open developer hub and new services in the Red Hat Trusted Software Supply Chain suite.

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RECOMMENDED READING:

TechCrunch - Red Hat brings generative AI to IT automation with Ansible Lightspeed

Automation at its core is about distilling complex processes into a playbook or recipe of actions. The next step is building low-code and no-code workflows. The recent rise of generative AI could strip that process down even more to simply describing the process and letting the tool do the rest, creating a set of steps and providing the necessary code and tools to move it through a work process without much further human intervention required (at least in theory). That’s what Red Hat wants to do with Lightspeed, its new generative AI-driven tool being announced this week, and coming out later this year.

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