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Red Hat Summit: Connect 2026 (Melbourne Edition)

Red Hat Summit: Connect 2026 is a regional in-person event giving attendees access to technology experts, hands-on learning with Red Hat solutions, and networking opportunities with partners and peers. Expect expert-led panels, Red Hat product demos, and interactive breakout sessions designed to equip participants with tools and strategies to drive their org…

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37Speakers
2Sponsors
58Sessions
13Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at Red, in alphabetical order.

Adam Mutton
Executive Director and Founder, Kestrel Eight · Kestrel Eight
Akhil Bhaskar
Chief Architect, APAC Office of the CTO & Global Engineering, Red Hat · Red Hat
Andreas Spanner
Chief Architect, APAC Office of the CTO & Global Engineering, Red Hat · Red Hat
Andy Gower
Director, Product & Solutions Marketing, Everepure · 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 Solutions Architect, Red Hat · Red Hat
Mark Carter
Emcee
Michael Yang
Senior Account Solution Architect, Red Hat · Red Hat
Mina George
Associate Principal Specialist Solutions Architect - Automation, Red Hat · Red Hat

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

Brightly Software
Porsche Informatik

Agenda

Selected from 58 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
  • 1:00 p.m. - 1:25 p.m.

    Technology Partner Session

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

    Technology Partner Session

    Track A: The next platform is choice
  • 10:30 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.

    Technology Partner Showcase

  • 10:40 a.m. - 10:55 a.m.

    Voice of Red Hat customers - Tech innovators shaping tomorrow

  • 10:50 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

    Fireside chat: 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 …

  • 10:55 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

    Technology Partner Showcase: Microsoft

Company intelligence

An audience of 13 companies, parsed from the program.

Thirteen 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
2Sponsoringsponsor only
11Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority

32% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite38%
  • Founder / Owner25%
  • VP-level13%
  • Director / Head of616%
  • Manager / Lead1335%
  • Engineer · IC1027%
  • Other roles25%

Of 37 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
Sponsors by tier
unspecified2
100% of 2