5G technology has ushered in a new era of connectivity—demanding speed, reliability, and innovation. To meet these challenges, providers need flexible, scalable platforms to deploy 5G radio access networks (RAN) and core solutions while managing their existing infrastructure. Red Hat OpenShift has become a leading foundation for hybrid cloud deployments, combining cloud-native agility with carrier-grade performance. This talk will cover the roadmap for Red Hat OpenShift in the context of telecommunications network deployments. It will also detail how Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift accelerates telco cloud transformation by modernizing network functions through a unified infrastructure. The goal of this session is to equip telecommunications professionals with the knowledge and strategies they need to ensure readiness for the challenges and opportunities ahead. Key topics include:
- Advancing next-generation hardware to improve customer solutions.
- Accelerating far-edge deployments with image-based installation and upgrade methods.
- Using cloud-native observability, management, and automation across platforms.
- Supporting emerging technologies and standards in evolving telecom environments.
- Reviewing the RAN and core feature roadmap, enabling operators to optimize national networks.
Live event date: Tuesday, June 02, 2026 | 02:00 p.m. CEST
On-demand event: Available for one year afterward
SPEAKERS
Sean Cohen
Director, Product Management, Red Hat
Sean Cohen is a Director of Product Management for hybrid platforms at Red Hat, leading the datacenter and observability business across Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenStack Platform. He is responsible for shaping product strategy, vision, and delivery across cloud infrastructure, observability, and agentic infrastructure for enterprise and telecommunications markets.
Robert William Love
Senior Principal Product Manager - Technical, Red Hat
Robert Love is a Senior Principal Product Manager at Red Hat, leading the Red Hat OpenShift telco far edge solution. He covers topics like running radio access network (RAN) Distributed Unit (DU) and Centralized Unit (CU) workloads on Red Hat OpenShift, as well as provisioning and lifecycle technologies for large telecommunication networks. His background is in open source software development, from Linux kernel development to higher orchestration layers like Kubernetes.
Franck Baudin
Product Manager - Telco / Networking, Red Hat
Franck Baudin is a Consulting Product Manager -Technical, responsible for the cloud-native network functions (CNF) technical strategy within Red Hat’s product management team. He focuses on providing high-performance network connectivity to virtual network functions (VNFs/CNFs), including single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV), Open vSwitch with DPDK (OVS-DPDK), SmartNICs, and more. He has more than 19 years of experience as a Software Architect in the telco and router industry, gaining experience with FreeBSD, Linux, IPSec, and deep packet inspection. Franck has been involved in the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) project since its initial development.
