Red Hat at tech events
56 write-ups · 21 events · 2023–2026
Every event write-up on this site where Red Hat spoke, hosted, sponsored or was interviewed, newest first. Each post covers what was presented, in my own words, with photos of the slides.
2026
28 Jul 2026 · Cloud Native Telecom Meetup Japan 2026 · Tokyo
Cloud Native Telecom Meetup Japan 2026 at NTT DOCOMO Open Lab Odaiba: My RecapCloud Native Telecom Meetup Japan 2026: docomo agentic AIOps, a 300+ cluster vRAN upgrade, KDDI on CNFs, DRA/DRANET, LF Networking and AI energy metering.
25 Jun 2026 · PlatformCon 2026
PlatformCon 2026: Multi-Tenant GPUs on OpenShift AILessons orchestrating multi-tenant GPUs on OpenShift AI with NVIDIA KAI: GPU sharing, workload isolation, scheduling efficiency, and cost control.
8 Jun 2026 · RISC-V Summit Europe 2026 · Bologna
RISC-V Summit Europe 2026: Open Hardware Meets AI in BolognaOn-the-ground coverage from RISC-V Summit Europe 2026 in Bologna — SiFive, ETH Zurich, Qualcomm, and Luxottica on open silicon for AI and smart eyewear.
June 2026 · Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2026
Ansible MCP Server Demo: AI Automation in Cursor IDELive demo of the Ansible MCP Server from Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2026: agentic job management, root cause analysis, and NL automation in Cursor.
June 2026 · Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2026
Ansible VS Code Extension with MCP ServerRed Hat's Ansible VS Code extension now embeds an MCP server for AI-assisted playbook creation, context-aware linting, and compliant scaffolding.
June 2026 · Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2026
AAP 2.7 Automation Portal & Execution Environment BuilderWhat's new in Ansible Automation Platform 2.7: the Automation Portal with a visual Execution Environment Builder, self-service templates and guided workflows.
June 2026 · Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2026
Ansible Intelligent Assistant & MCP Server: BYOK RAGRed Hat's Automation Intelligent Assistant (AIA) brings BYOK RAG, a hosted MCP server exposing AAP to LLMs, and multi-provider BYOM flexibility.
June 2026 · Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2026
Ansible Automation Orchestrator (Q3 2026 Preview)Red Hat Ansible Automation Orchestrator (Q3 2026) combines event detection, AI reasoning and deterministic execution in one governed pipeline with approvals.
June 2026 · Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2026
Upgrading to Ansible Automation Platform 2.6+ (EOL Guide)AAP 2.4 reaches end of life in June 2026 and AAP 2.7 is GA on June 3, 2026: the upgrade timeline, Extended Update Support costs and a 5-phase plan.
June 2026 · Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2026 · Netherlands
OpenClaw + Ansible: Agentic CVE RemediationLive demo of OpenClaw orchestrating end-to-end CVE remediation: agent detection, ServiceNow ticketing, OPA policy review, and AAP playbook execution.
June 2026 · Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2026
Red Hat AI Model-as-a-Service with llm-dHow Red Hat's llm-d transforms LLM inference into a composable Kubernetes-native architecture: disaggregated serving, smart autoscaling, and MaaS.
June 2026 · Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2026 · Bunnik
Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2026: Harness EngineeringInside Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2026: 30 speakers and 34 sessions on AgentOps, agentic AI, Quarkus, LangChain4j, and hybrid cloud inference.
June 2026 · Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2026
vLLM Inference Optimizations on Red Hat OpenShift AIDeep dive into vLLM inference optimizations: KV cache, continuous batching, quantization, and distributed inference with Tensor Parallelism.
13 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Summit 2026 Day 2: OpenShift, Ansible, AgentsNotes from the Red Hat Summit 2026 day two keynote: OpenShift for AI and VMs, zero trust, agentic operations, Ansible governance and a live agent red team.
May 2026 · AgentOps in Production hands-on lab (Red Hat Summit 2026) · Atlanta
AgentOps in Production: Hands-On Lab at Red Hat Summit 2026Inside the AgentOps lab at Red Hat Summit 2026. End-to-end agentic observability with Red Hat AI, with demos from Roberto Carratala and Taylor Smith.
12 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Summit 2026 Keynote: Metal to Agents and TokensNotes from the Red Hat Summit 2026 day one keynote: open models, token economics, the metal to agents stack and an NVIDIA conversation on agent governance.
12 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Summit 2026 Floor Chats: RUGs, Coder, RISC-VShort conversations from the Red Hat Summit 2026 expo floor: Red Hat User Groups, sovereign coding agents, OpenShift DRA, RISC-V, Nagios and open source AI.
12 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Red Hat Summit 2026 Keynote: Eight Announcements That MatterNASA, Fedora Hummingbird, Red Hat Desktop, Hardened Images, OpenShell, RHEL Long-Life Add-On, and the NVIDIA partnership from Summit 2026.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
AI-Powered RHEL Management with MCP Servers at Red HatHands-on lab at Red Hat Summit 2026 — managing RHEL fleets with Model Context Protocol servers for Lightspeed and Satellite, presented by Nathan Kinder.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Building Digital Sovereign AI: Red Hat and MetaX at RedLi Ming Tsai and Jiaju Zhang present China's sovereign AI stack at Red Hat Summit 2026 — MetaX GPUs, Qwen/DeepSeek powering 30% of global tokens.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Christian Gafner, Adfinis: Digital Sovereignty Meets OpenBao's Open GovernanceChristian Gafner on digital sovereignty, OpenBao's TSC governance, and why Adfinis backs open source secrets management with a 24/7 enterprise SLA.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
GPUs Take Flight: Multi-Tenant Platform Engineering atI presented safety-first multi-tenant GPU platform engineering with NVIDIA and Red Hat OpenShift AI at Red Hat Summit 2026 Discovery Theater in Atlanta.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Hyve Managed Hosting: Sovereign Cloud and VMware-to-OpenShift MigrationJack Ridgway of Hyve Managed Hosting on European sovereign cloud demand, VMware-to-OpenShift migration, and building agentic AI into managed hosting platforms.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Jessie Lacome on Lenovo's ThinkSystem SR675 V3 AI ServerJessie Lacome walks through Lenovo's ThinkSystem SR675 V3, an AMD EPYC server for OpenShift Virtualization and AI headroom.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
NASA's Josiah Johnson on the Data Behind Artemis 2NASA Marshall's Josiah Johnson on the 907 virtual workloads and 340,000 parameters that will help engineers make real-time calls during Artemis 2.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
llm-d at Red Hat Summit 2026: KV-Cache Aware Routing for vLLMRed Hat presented llm-d at Summit 2026: cache-aware load balancing for vLLM. Cold 4.3s vs warm 0.6s (7x faster), $0.30 vs $3.00 per 1M tokens with caching.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Upgrading to OpenShift AI 3.x at Red Hat Summit 2026RHOAI 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5 release channels, support windows, supported configurations and a 5-step migration from OpenShift AI 2.x to 3.x.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
OpenShift Virtualization Storage at Red Hat Summit 2026Storage decision trees, CSI driver testing, and PVC gotchas from the OpenShift Virtualization storage session at Red Hat Summit 2026 in Atlanta.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Operationalizing OpenShift Virtualization at Red HatHands-on workshop covering VM lifecycle, hardware optimization, resilience, and advanced live migration strategies on OpenShift Virtualization.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Pete Cheslock: From RAG to Roll-Your-Own Models in One YearPete Cheslock on the one-year enterprise AI leap from RAG pilots to self-hosted inference and model training on vLLM and llm-d at Red Hat Summit 2026.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Free Practical RHEL AI Book at Red Hat Summit 2026I am giving away copies of my latest book Practical RHEL AI at Red Hat Summit 2026 in Atlanta. Meet me at the Lawn Lounge at 16:45 to grab your free copy.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Book Signing Practical RHEL AI at Red Hat Summit 2026Signing copies of Practical RHEL AI at Red Hat Summit 2026 in Atlanta. From the Lawn Lounge to booths and hallways, here is how the book found its readers.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Red Hat NVIDIA AI Factory: OpenShift Sandboxed ContainersInside the Red Hat and NVIDIA joint session at Summit 2026 — OpenShift sandboxed containers, confidential compute, and AI Factory workload projection.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Red Hat Summit 2026 in Atlanta: Open Source Meets AI atMy experience at Red Hat Summit 2026 in Atlanta — from platinum sponsors to late-night labs, product spotlights, and Turkish Airlines scaling 60+ AI.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 Partner Day · Atlanta
Red Hat Desktop, Kaiden and Omdia Data at Summit 2026Red Hat Desktop with Kaiden on Intel Core Ultra, plus Omdia partner-day data on agentic AI adoption and digital sovereignty, from Red Hat Summit 2026.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Red Hat Summit 2026: GPU Platform Engineering TalkLuca Berton presents 'GPUs take flight: Safety-first multi-tenant Platform Engineering with NVIDIA and Red Hat OpenShift AI' — a lightning talk at Red Hat.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Red Hat Training Hub: Unified LLM Fine-Tuning at Summit 2026Red Hat AI Innovation Team unveiled Training Hub at Red Hat Summit 2026 — a unified Python API for SFT, LoRA, OSFT, and GRPO fine-tuning with MLFlow.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
llm-d Maintainer Sally O'Malley on Enterprise AI Inferencellm-d maintainer Sally O'Malley on vendor-neutral, Kubernetes-native distributed inference and what enterprise AI adoption looks like from inside the project.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Scott McBrien on the RHEL Roadmap: 10.2, Zero-CVE Images, and DNF5Scott McBrien, Red Hat, on RHEL 10.2, Fedora Hummingbird zero-CVE images, the Long-Life Add-On's flexible lifecycle, and why DNF5 waits for RHEL 11 in 2028.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Shuchi Sharma on Open Source AI's World of Infinite PossibilitiesShuchi Sharma on leading Red Hat's Open Source and AI Program Office, operationalizing open source AI at enterprise scale, and a new foundation in the works.
24 Mar 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
Speaking at KubeCon Europe 2026Luca Berton presents 'Lessons Learned Orchestrating Multi-Tenant GPUs on OpenShift AI with NVIDIA KAI' at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in London.
24 Mar 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
Paulo Menon at KubeCon EU 2026: GenAI and KubernetesReconnected with former colleague Paulo Menon at KubeCon EU 2026 Amsterdam. We talked about AI, MLOps, GitOps and DevOps converging, plus a book tip.
23 Mar 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
KubeCon Europe 2026 Keynotes and Sessions: On the SlidesWhat was on the slides at KubeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam: Saxo's service blueprint, SNCF on-prem autonomy, Red Hat sovereign AI and Tekton CI.
23 Mar 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 Co-located Events · Amsterdam
KubeCon EU 2026 Co-located Day: Talks and SlidesThe talks I sat in on at KubeCon Europe 2026's co-located day: golden paths, zero-day prep, backend-first IDPs, OpenTelemetry and a $10,000 Argo CD mistake.
23 Mar 2026 · OpenShift Commons Gathering Amsterdam 2026 · Amsterdam
OpenShift Commons Gathering Amsterdam 2026 in PhotosOpenShift Commons Gathering Amsterdam 2026 at Strandzuid: AI security survey numbers, LLMs in public health, etcd tuning and a Siemens road trip, in photos.
31 Jan 2026 · FOSDEM 2026 · Brussels
People of FOSDEM 2026: Hallway InterviewsShort hallway interviews from FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels: EU funding, the CRA, Weblate, Percona, PostgreSQL, FreeIPA, Foreman, Ansible and RISC-V hardware.
2025
19 Nov 2025 · HOPE 2025 (HCS Open Platform Experience) and Agents in Production (MLOps x Prosus) · Amsterdam
Agents in Production at AI House and HOPE 2025One day in Amsterdam: a platform maturity model at HCS company's HOPE 2025, then Just Eat Takeaway's CTO on cultural lag at Agents in Production, AI House.
15 Oct 2025 · Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 · Utrecht
Red Hat Summit Connect Utrecht 2025: AI and SovereigntyNotes from Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 in the Netherlands: Dutch AI priorities, open source sovereignty, vLLM and llm-d, Intel TDX and supply chain security.
8 Oct 2025 · World Summit AI 2025 · Amsterdam
World Summit AI 2025 Amsterdam: Data Centres and AgentsWorld Summit AI 2025 at Taets, Amsterdam: Karen Hao on the Empire of AI, $3–8T data-centre capex, Groq on sovereign AI, quantum-safe crypto and agents.
28 Aug 2025 · AI_dev Europe 2025: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit · Amsterdam
AI_dev Europe 2025 Amsterdam: CERN, Cerebras and LanceDBAI_dev Europe 2025 at RAI Amsterdam: CERN's MLOps platform, five Cerebras inference lessons, LanceDB's multimodal lakehouse and Neo4j graph agents.
4 Jun 2025 · Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2025 · Bunnik
Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2025: ACM, InstructLabRed Hat Tech Day Netherlands, 4 June 2025: ACM Global Hub, Vault on OpenShift, AI on Azure Red Hat OpenShift, image mode for RHEL and InstructLab.
2 Apr 2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · London
KubeCon London 2025 Interviews: OpenShift to KitOpsTwelve short interviews from the ExCeL London floor: OpenShift Virtualization, Trilio, vCluster, Cloudsmith, Coder, Kubeflow, KitOps, Qodo and the CNCF.
2024
16 Oct 2024 · Red Hat Summit: Connect 2024 · Utrecht
Red Hat Summit Connect Utrecht 2024: AI, Ansible, OpenShiftMy notes from Red Hat Summit: Connect 2024 in the Netherlands: the ChRIS keynote, OpenShift Virtualization, an Ansible journey and supply chain security.
2023
20 Sept 2023 · Ansible Community Day Berlin 2023 · Berlin
Ansible Community Day Berlin 2023Join Luca Berton as he captures the best moments from Ansible Community Day Berlin 2023 — featuring interviews with Red Hat experts and open source leaders.
13 Jul 2023 · Ansible Automates London 2023 · London
Ansible Automates London 2023: Lightspeed and EDAMy notes from Ansible Automates London 2023 at CodeNode: the ROI keynote, a live Lightspeed demo, Event-Driven Ansible rulebooks, Builder 3.0 and mesh.
16 Jun 2023 · DevConf.cz 2023 · Brno
DevConf.cz 2023 — DevOps, Automation & Ansible HighlightsExplore Luca Berton’s interviews and key moments from DevConf.cz 2023 in Brno — from open source leadership to the future of Ansible and automation.