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Red Hat Summit: Connect 2026 London

2026 年 10 月 8 日London, UKTobacco Dock
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Summit: Connect London 2026 has wrapped up!
Let’s keep the good vibes flowing! 

Opening remarks and keynote

UK & Ireland Regional Leader at Red Hat, Jo Hodgson, sets the tone for the event. 

She shared key insights into the evolving landscape of open source technology, highlighted the power of collaborative innovation, and laid out a compelling vision for what lies ahead.

Jo Hodgson's keynote at Red Hat Summit: Connect 2026

Main stage - keynotes

James Labocki delivering a keynote at Red Hat Summit: Connect London 2026

Red Hat keynote

Innovate freely, operate efficiently

James Labocki explores the 'metal to agents' framework that Red Hat AI is built for - an integrated stack where every layer is connected, secure and open.

Sonel Popatlal delivering a keynote at Red Hat Summit: Connect London 2026

Red Hat and Intel Keynote

Performance, security, and sovereignty in action

Sonel Popatlal demos Agentic AI with Intel Xeon and vLLM CPU on RHOAI 3.5

Paddy Fitzpatrick delivering a keynote at Red Hat Summit: Connect London 2026

Red Hat and Everpure keynote

Paddy Fitzpatrick discusses how together, Red Hat OpenShift and Portworx by Everpure deliver a single, unified cloud-native platform.

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The sessions were packed, the discussions were high-impact, and the open-source community delivered. Welcome to your post-event hub—your centralized portal to replay keynotes, access technical docs, and upgrade your skills.

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Everpure

Portworx is Everpure’s Kubernetes data-services platform for running mission-critical, stateful applications—such as databases, AI/ML workloads, and virtual machines—across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. It provides Kubernetes-native storage, automated capacity management, high availability, backup, disaster recovery, security, and workload mobility, helping organizations simplify operations and modernize applications without being tied to a specific storage or Kubernetes platform.

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AMD

AMD is the high performance and adaptive computing leader, powering the products and services that help solve the world's most important challenges. Our technologies advance the future of the data center, embedded, gaming and PC markets.

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.

HashiCorp, an IBM Company

IBM is a leading global hybrid cloud and AI, and business services provider, helping clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. All of this is backed by IBM’s legendary commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity, and service. For more information, visit www.ibm.com

Veeam

Veeam is the Data and AI Trust Company, specializing in helping organizations ensure their data and AI are fully understood, secured, and resilient, enabling the acceleration of safe AI at scale. As the market leader in both data resilience and data security posture management, Veeam is built for the convergence of identity, data, security, and AI risk. Veeam delivers deep contextual intelligence across every data asset, identity, and AI model. The company governs access for both humans and AI agents, automates privacy, compliance, and remediation processes, and protects and recovers organizations from modern threats – including ransomware, disasters, AI errors- and ensures the restoration of clean, trusted data. Veeam empowers organizations to move beyond simply protecting data, enabling them to activate and unlock its full potential. Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, including 82% of the Fortune 500, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Learn more at www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and X @veeam.

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Dell

Dell Technologies Company Profile Dell Technologies is a global technology company focused on helping organizations and individuals build their digital future. Its purpose is to drive human progress by expanding access to better technology, creating new markets, reshaping industries, and improving lives worldwide. The company provides solutions across: Client devices and PCs Servers and infrastructure Storage and data protection Networking Cloud and hybrid infrastructure Artificial intelligence…

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Intive

Intive is an AI-native software engineering partner that blends technical excellence with human-centric design. Combining 25 years of expertise with agentic workflows, we reduce complexity to deliver high-impact digital products at the speed of tomorrow.

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is a global technology company, focused on software, cloud, AI, and devices. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft’s portfolio spans Windows, Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, GitHub, LinkedIn, and Surface, serving enterprises, developers, and consumers worldwide. Through its Intelligent Cloud and Productivity and Business Processes segments, Microsoft partners closely with organizations like Red Hat to accelerate digital transformation, hybrid cloud, and application modernization across datacenters, edge, and multicloud environments.

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.

Percona

Percona is a world-class open source database software, support, and services company. The organization is dedicated to helping businesses ensure their databases—and the applications that depend on them—are secure, compliant, performant, and highly available. Through a unique combination of database expertise and enterprise-grade open source software, Percona empowers organizations with the freedom to choose, the freedom to create, and the freedom to innovate with speed as they grow. For more information, visit www.percona.com.

Simplyblock

Simplyblock is hyperconverged software-defined block storage for Red Hat OpenShift® and OpenShift Virtualization. It installs as an OpenShift operator on your existing servers, pools the NVMe drives and serves VM disks, databases and stateful containers through storage classes. Simplyblock uses erasure coding instead of three-way replication, so the same usable capacity needs about half the drives. It operates at NVMe speeds, and disaster recovery is part of the storage class, not an add-on. It handles synchronous metro, asynchronous replication with RPO down to one minute, and S3 backup.

Tigera

Tigera delivers unified control and deep visibility for VMs, Kubernetes workloads, and AI agents in multicloud and hybrid environments, enabling enterprises to enforce policy across every workload and every agent.

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Arqit

Arqit Ltd secures the world’s most critical data with quantum-safe encryption software. Simple, scalable, and compliant, its products integrate with existing infrastructure and require no rip and replace of hardware. Arqit provides a complete “Detect, Protect, Comply” solution for governments and enterprises that detects and inventories cryptographic assets, protects data, ensures compliance, and safeguards transition to the post-quantum era. Arqit’s primary product offerings are Encryption Intelligence and NetworkSecure™. Encryption Intelligence detects cryptographic exposure, identifies vulnerabilities, and maps dependencies. NetworkSecure™ protects data in transit with provably secure post-quantum cryptography and contributes to establishment of confidential compute environments for complete data sovereignty. Arqit is an IDC Innovator for Post-Quantum Cryptography (2024) and a multi-award-winner in quantum-safe security. For more information, visit www.arqitgroup.com.

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 sustainable long-term value creation. We help our customers to source, transform and manage their technology infrastructure to deliver digital transformation, enabling people and their businesses. Computacenter plc is a public company quoted on the London Stock Exchange (CCC.L) and a member of the FTSE 100. Computacenter employs over 21,000 people worldwide.

EDB

EDB is the global leader in enterprise-grade PostgreSQL solutions, supercharging open-source Postgres with high availability, security, and migration capabilities for mission-critical workloads across hybrid environments. In strategic partnership with Red Hat, EDB seamlessly integrates its Postgres capabilities with Red Hat OpenShift, OpenShift AI, and Red Hat Universal Base Images (UBI), enabling enterprises to run, scale, and secure enterprise data and generative AI applications on a fully automated, certified Kubernetes platform.

Formus Pro

FormusPro helps organisations connect the technology that keeps them moving. We design, build and support secure cloud infrastructure, business applications, data platforms and AI solutions. Our teams connect enterprise platforms, including Microsoft business applications and cloud services, with the wider infrastructure around them. From modernising legacy systems to improving CRM, ERP and analytics, we focus on practical outcomes, resilience and long-term value. Founded in 2008, we work with organisations across the UK and beyond to make complex technology work together.

Panasonic

Panasonic TOUGHBOOK brings enterprise technology to the edge, providing rugged mobile computing solutions for mission-critical and demanding environments. Our laptops and tablets help organisations securely connect frontline teams with the applications, data and services they need wherever work happens. TOUGHBOOK solutions are trusted across defence, emergency services, utilities, transport, logistics and field operations.

XLAB

XLAB Steampunk builds Steampunk Spotter, the governance and AI guardrail for Ansible and Terraform. Spotter applies shift-left verification and enforcement of your standards to every Ansible Playbook and Terraform configuration before execution — whether written by your team or AI. It's trusted by Fortune 100 financial institutions, telcos, and Red Hat's own services teams to ship automation with fewer surprises in production.

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