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Red Hat Summit 2026

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Red Hat Summit 2026 ran May 11–14, 2026 at GEORGIA WORLD CONGRESS CENTER in Atlanta, United States. It is an Open Source conference. ConferenceGrid lists 36 speakers and 22 sessions. The next edition, Red Hat Summit 2027, is May 24–27, 2027 in Boston.

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36Speakers
0Sponsors
22Sessions
12Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at Red, in alphabetical order.

Adam Mutton
Executive Director and Founder, Kestrel Eight · Kestrel Eight
Akhil Bhaskar
APJC Specialist Leader, Startups, AWS · AWS
Andreas Spanner
Chief Architect, APAC Office of the CTO & Global Engineering, Red Hat · Red Hat
Andy Gower
Director, Product & Solutions Marketing, Everpure · Everpure
Ashesh Badani
Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer, Red Hat · Red Hat
Benjamin Blasco
Associate Principal Solution Architect - RHEL, Red Hat · Red Hat
Bryon Baker
Associate Principal Solution Architect - AI, Red Hat · Red Hat
David Ripani
Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat · Red Hat
Derek Waters
Associate Principal Account Solution Architect, Red Hat · Red Hat
Dr. Derek Zhang
Delivery Manager - Computer Vision, Auckland Transport · Auckland Transport
Enzo Compagnoni
Regional Vice President and General Manager, ANZ, Red Hat · Red Hat
Garry Daniels
Head of Infrastructure Services and Digital Workplace, Westpac New Zealand · Westpac New Zealand
James Labocki
Senior Director Product Management, Developer and Application Services, Red Hat · Red Hat
Jamie Richardson
Senior Sales Systems Engineer Cloud Native Solutions, Veeam · Veeam
Jason Stringer
OpenShift Sales Specialist, Red Hat · Red Hat
Joel Wirāmu Pauling
Senior Specialist Solution Architect - RHEL, Red Hat · Red Hat
John Bermingham
Solutions Engineering Manager, ANZ South, NetApp · NetApp
John Nelson
Director, Head of Ecosystem ANZ | MSP and Hyperscaler APAC, Red Hat · Red Hat
Mandi Buswell
Principal Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat · Red Hat
Mark Carter
Emcee
Mina George
Associate Principal Specialist Solutions Architect - Automation, Red Hat · Red Hat
Nick Day
Associate Principal Solution Architect - OpenShift, Red Hat · Red Hat

Agenda

Selected from 22 sessions.

  • 1:00 p.m. - 1:25 p.m.

    Better Together: Enterprise AI with ROSA and AWS

    Scaling AI in the enterprise means juggling competing demands - performance, portability, cost, and control. In this session, AWS and Red Hat show how we're solving them together -…

    Track A: The next platform is choice
  • 1:00 p.m. - 1:25 p.m.

    How to do a migration without doing a migration

    Learn how the NetApp Shift Toolkit can help you move away from VMware to Red Hat OpenShift without doing a data migration.

    Track B: The AI ready enterprise is here
  • 10:40 a.m. - 10:55 a.m.

    Voice of Red Hat customers - Tech innovators shaping tomorrow

  • 10:55 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

    From frontier to foundation: Delivering governed, enterprise-ready AI with Microsoft and Red Hat

    As organisations shift from AI experimentation to production execution, the challenge is no longer about proving model capability - it is about operational reliability, enterprise …

  • 11:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

    Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards Presentations

  • 12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

    Red Hat OpenShift : Your intelligent platform for applications and virtualization

    Join our Red Hat OpenShift roadmap session for an overview of its evolution into an intelligent application platform. Discover how OpenShift integrates agentic AI to streamline ope…

    Track A: The next platform is choice
  • 12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

    Turning AI ambition into AI reality: How Red Hat AI Enterprise delivers production-ready AI with confidence, control, and cost efficiency

    Join Red Hat as we tackle why most AI initiatives stall, not because the models don't work, but because organisations can't operationalise them. We'll identify the four barriers to…

    Track B: The AI ready enterprise is here
  • 1:25 p.m. - 1:55 p.m.

    Become your organisation’s AI provider: Private Model-as-a-Service with Red Hat AI

    AI adoption often leads to siloed models, fragmented infrastructure, and governance challenges. This session explores how Red Hat AI enables organisations to become their own Priva…

    Track B: The AI ready enterprise is here
  • 1:25 p.m. - 1:55 p.m.

    Powering the future: The next-generation IT Automation platform

    Do you have automation in place but wonder how to add AI? You do not need to start over; instead, you can build on what you already have. In this session, we show you how to combin…

    Track A: The next platform is choice

Quick answers

When is Red Hat Summit 2026?
Red Hat Summit 2026 ran May 11–14, 2026 at GEORGIA WORLD CONGRESS CENTER in Atlanta, United States. The next edition, Red Hat Summit 2027, is May 24–27, 2027 in Boston.
Where is Red Hat Summit 2026 held?
Red Hat Summit 2026 was held at GEORGIA WORLD CONGRESS CENTER in Atlanta, United States.
Who is speaking at Red Hat Summit 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 36 speakers, including Adam Mutton (Executive Director and Founder, Kestrel Eight, Kestrel Eight), Akhil Bhaskar (APJC Specialist Leader, Startups, AWS, AWS) and Andreas Spanner (Chief Architect, APAC Office of the CTO & Global Engineering, Red Hat, Red Hat).
Company intelligence

An audience of 12 companies, parsed from the program.

Twelve companies in attendance.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
0Sponsoringsponsor only
12Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority

31% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite26%
  • Founder / Owner26%
  • VP-level13%
  • Director / Head of617%
  • Manager / Lead1336%
  • Engineer · IC1028%
  • Other roles26%

Of 36 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
Sponsors by tier

Tiers were not disclosed for this event.

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