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Red Hat at Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo

October 19, 2026 - October 22, 2026 Orlando, Florida, United States
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Innovate without compromise

Scale AI with control at every step and defense at every layer.

 

Visit Red Hat at booth 445 to see how our trusted, open-source portfolio provides the secure foundation your AI initiatives demand. 

Speak with our experts, catch an executive-level demo, shape your strategy at our expert-led speaking sessions, and grab some Red Hat swag.

Lightwell security

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Executive Dinner: Securing Enterprise AI

Join Red Hat on Wednesday, Oct. 21 for dinner and a discussion on scaling enterprise AI safely. Learn how open source governance, automated compliance, and defense-in-depth architecture protect your AI pipelines from core to cloud.

Registration link coming soon.

Speaking sessions

Join Red Hat to understand the strategies CIOs need to neutralize AI-speed threats, streamline security, and drive competitive growth with complete confidence.

Thought Leadership Session with IBM

Build Trust. Scale AI. Drive ROI.

Monday, October 19
1:45pm

Location: Northern Hemisphere Ballroom, Dolphin

The 2030 CIO will be defined by how confidently they can move faster while driving ROI from AI today.  As AI reshapes how organizations operate, CIOs must build the trusted foundation, governance and resilience to advance from isolated successes to enterprise-wide transformation.  In this session, explore how to securely scale AI and turn AI investment into measurable business outcomes.  

Speakers: 

Red Hat: Gunnar Hellekson, VP, and GM Lightwell

IBM: Joanne Wright, SVP, Transformation & Operations 

Solution Provider Session

The Speed of Risk: Protecting IT and the Business in the Era of AI

Tuesday, October 20
3:40pm

Location: Upper Peninsula 2

IT leaders today face a dual challenge driven by the rapid pace of AI: accelerate adoption to stay competitive while strengthening defenses against increasingly agile threats. In this session, Red Hat presents practical methods to protect IT, deploy and govern autonomous AI agents securely, and architect an adaptable hybrid cloud model compliant with global standards—ensuring resilient security and agility.

Speaker: Kaete Piccirilli, Director, Ansible Automation Product Marketing

Xpo Stage Theater Session

How to Scale AI Without Multiplying Your Risk

Wednesday, October 21
11:05am

Location: Stage 3 (Pacific)

AI is accelerating both innovation and risk, automating decisions faster than security teams can validate. This session helps CIOs and IT leaders close that gap. See how one model, uniting intelligence, automation, and remediation, turns AI risk into something leadership can govern: prioritize real exposure over noise, automate remediation instead of ticket queues, and keep pace with AI-speed threats without slowing delivery.

Speaker: Brian Gracely, Senior Director of Product Strategy

The next era of open source security

Introducing Lightwell

A joint venture between Red Hat and IBM, Lightwell helps enterprises address vulnerable third-party open source dependencies when normal upgrades create compatibility, certification, release, audit, or production risk.