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Red Hat Summit: Connect 2026 London

2026 年 10 月 8 日London, UKTobacco Dock
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Agenda

8:30 - 9:30

Registration Open

9:30 - 10:35

Keynote Sessions in the Great Gallery

10:35 - 11:00

Break and Partner Exhibition

11:00 - 11:25

Mission-Critical Automation  (Great Gallery)

Leverage AIOPS to enhance Ansible - Adding superpowers to your Ansible output

Operationalizing AI  (Room EM1)

Sponsor Session: Intel

Modern Hybrid Platforms  (Room EM2)

Commercially Optimising your Platform Strategy - What should you run where, how and why?

Digital Sovereignty & Security  (Room EM3)

Securing the Software Supply Chain in the AI-Era

Secure Software Supply Chain  (Room EM4)

Implementing an Agentic Software Factory with OPP and RHADS

Innovations (Industry-Specific)  (Room EM5)

Agentic AI Security Risk Focused

11:35 - 12:00

Mission-Critical Automation  (Great Gallery)

Faster Than the Patch: Closing the Exposure Gap with Ansible Automation Platform

Operationalizing AI  (Room EM1)

Transforming UK Health Security with OpenShift

Modern Hybrid Platforms  (Room EM2)

Sponsor Session

Digital Sovereignty & Security  (Room EM3)

Digital Sovereignty in a UK Context

Secure Software Supply Chain  (Room EM4)

TBC

Innovations (Industry-Specific)  (Room EM5)

Digital sovereignty in the Banking Industry

12:10 - 12:35

Mission-Critical Automation  (Great Gallery)

Customer spotlight: Barclays - Adopting AAP at scale across the enterprise

Operationalizing AI  (Room EM1)

Sponsor Session

Modern Hybrid Platforms  (Room EM2)

From Sprawl to Savings - Optimisation strategies to remove 40% from your cloud compute costs

Digital Sovereignty & Security  (Room EM3)

Sovereignty in the UK: Aligning National Security, Compliance, and Enterprise Strategy

Secure Software Supply Chain  (Room EM4)

Sponsor Session

Innovations (Industry-Specific)  (Room EM5)

Building the Sovereign Digital Backbone: How Open Source is Transforming UK Government and Defence

12:35 - 13:30

Lunch and Partner Exhibition

13:30 - 13:55

Mission-Critical Automation  (Great Gallery)

Enterprise resilience for AAP

Operationalizing AI  (Room EM1)

TBC

Modern Hybrid Platforms  (Room EM2)

Virtualization - Customer panel discussion

Digital Sovereignty & Security  (Room EM3)

Sponsor Session

Secure Software Supply Chain  (Room EM4)

The architecture of intent: Why Kubernetes is a mindset, not just a tool

Innovations (Industry-Specific)  (Room EM5)

From Silos to Synergy: building a Government's Community of Practice

14:05 - 14:30

Mission-Critical Automation  (Great Gallery)

Customer spotlight: Nationwide - The journey to enterprise-wide automtion

Operationalizing AI  (Room EM1)

From Code to Outcomes: OpenShift as the Platform for the Agentic SDLC

Modern Hybrid Platforms  (Room EM2)

Sponsor Session

Digital Sovereignty & Security  (Room EM3)

The Mythos Era: Patching at the Speed of AI

Secure Software Supply Chain  (Room EM4)

The 7 Steps for building a Modern Engineering Platform in a Bank

Innovations (Industry-Specific)  (Room EM5)

Accelerate Deployments with Validated Patterns

14:40 - 15:05

Mission-Critical Automation  (Great Gallery)

Sponsor Session

Operationalizing AI  (Room EM1)

Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA: Agentic Research Agents in Production

Modern Hybrid Platforms  (Room EM2)

Migrate to Modernize: Breaking the Legacy VM Trap Without Breaking the Bank

Digital Sovereignty & Security  (Room EM3)

Are you drowning in CVEs? Use AI to look after your RHEL estate and be compliant

Secure Software Supply Chain  (Room EM4)

Sponsor Session

Innovations (Industry-Specific)  (Room EM5)

Customer spotlight: NatWest - Natwest Private Cloud Sandbox: Accelerating Cloud-Native Learning on OpenShift

15:05 - 15:45

Break and Partner Exhibition

15:45 - 16:10

Mission-Critical Automation  (Great Gallery)

NoOps - How the Ansible Automation Platform underpins the shift to zero-touch, self-healing IT operations

Operationalizing AI  (Room EM1)

Sponsor Session

Modern Hybrid Platforms  (Room EM2)

Hidden treasures: Top 10 underrated tools included in your Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription

Digital Sovereignty & Security  (Room EM3)

Sponsor Session

Secure Software Supply Chain  (Room EM4)

Policy Management and Delivery at Scale with ACM

Innovations (Industry-Specific)  (Room EM5)

Beyond Procurement: How Strategic Digital Partnerships Accelerate Growth, Resilience and Delivery

16:20 - 16:45

Mission-Critical Automation  (Great Gallery)

Ansible Roadmap Update

Operationalizing AI  (Room EM1)

TBC

Modern Hybrid Platforms  (Room EM2)

Journey to Image Mode in RHEL: Hardening at scale without slowing delivery

Digital Sovereignty & Security  (Room EM3)

Running in the quantum cryptography race: turn anxiety into an actionable plan

Secure Software Supply Chain  (Room EM4)

TBC

Innovations (Industry-Specific)  (Room EM5)

Customer spotlight: Natwest - From VScode to Agentic: The Rapid Evolution of Dev Spaces at NatWest

16:45 - 18:00

Networking Drinks, Partner Exhibition & Red Hat Branded SWAG

Speakers

Erica Langhi

Red Hat

Erica Langhi

Technology Strategist, UK Public Sector, Red Hat

Chris Jenkins

Red Hat

Chris Jenkins

Senior Principal Chief Architect, Red Hat

Sam Wachira

Red Hat

Sam Wachira

Principal Technical Account Manager, Red Hat

Armin Warda

Red Hat

Armin Warda

Global FSI Architect & EMEA FSI Technology Lead, Red Hat

Ed Hoppitt

Red Hat

Ed Hoppitt

Business Value Director, Red Hat

Robbie Jerrom

Red Hat

Robbie Jerrom

Senior Principal Technologist, AI, Red Hat

Graeme Colman

Red Hat

Graeme Colman

Senior Manager, Solution Architecture, Red Hat

Nisha Baronia

Red Hat

Nisha Baronia

OpenShift Cloud Services Specialist, Red Hat

Sponsors

Lead sponsor

Intel

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AWS

AWS

As part of a partnership built on continuous customer innovation that goes back to 2008, Red Hat and AWS work closely together to deliver fully integrated, jointly tested and validated solutions that combine the leadership of AWS in cloud technology with the power of Red Hat’s enterprise-grade open-source solutions. By blending Red Hat’s focus on security and stability, built through decades of open source development, with AWS’ dynamic, global cloud infrastructure, customers can build, deploy and scale more quickly, safeguard critical applications and data and also rely on an enhanced customer experience.

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Date:  October 8, 2026

Time: 08:30 - 17:30

Location: Tobacco Dock, 
Tobacco Quay, Wapping Lane, 
London, E1W 2SF

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