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Keynote opening Red Hat Summit: Connect 2026
Welcome to Red Hat Summit Connect 2026! Discover how our open hybrid cloud platform accelerates innovation, scales AI, and keeps you in control of your IT. Guest speakers:
Marcel Timmer, Country Managing Director the Netherlands at Red Hat Andrew Brown, Senior Vice President & Chief Revenue Officer at Red Hat Vincent Danen, Vice President Product Security at Red Hat Jeff Lo, Vice President Portfolio Management at Red Hat Joost Weppner, EMEA Partner Programs & Strategy Director at Intel Jeffrey Kusters, CTO at ITQ
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By Intel: Agentic AI on Intel Xeon and Red Hat OpenShift AI: Performance, Security, and Sovereignty in Action
Discover how Intel & Red Hat use Xeon & OpenShift AI to deploy and scale secure, sovereign Agentic AI workloads without compromising performance.
Can Yurtseven , AI/ Cloud Senior Solution Architect, Intel
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By Microsoft: From Migration to AI Innovation: Modernizing VMs, Containers, and Apps with Microsoft and Red Hat
Join Microsoft and Red Hat to learn how RHEL on Azure, Ansible, and ARO simplify operations, lower costs, and accelerate application modernization. Discover how to scale secure, compliant workloads, run OpenShift Virtualization, and deploy AI-enabled applications seamlessly across hybrid cloud environments.
Fabian Klein Schiphorst, Principle Lead Architect, Microsoft
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By Red Hat: Designing for Defense: AAP Blueprints for Vulnerability Management
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Fred van Zwieten , Associate Principal Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat Ismail Dhaoui , Principal Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat
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By Red Hat: Stepping Stone or Exit Strategy? Architecting Infrastructure Independence with OpenShift Virtualization
Solve your Broadcom exit without vendor lock-in. Learn how OpenShift Virtualization migrates hypervisors, unifies operations, and runs VMs alongside containers.
Marc Sheermohamed, Account Solution Architect, Red Hat Haaike van der Merwe, Cloud Solution Specialist
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By Conclusion: Customer case Schiphol - From Silos to Service: End-to-End VM Provisioning at Schiphol
Learn how Schiphol uses Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to unify cross-team workflows into a fast, self-service VM provisioning process without handovers.
Alex Bron, Senior Consultant, Conclusion Xforce
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By IBM, Yielder & SoftwareOne: Workshop Project Lightwell & Rogue AI: Securing Trusted AI Environments
Learn to identify and mitigate Rogue AI risks. Discover how secure infrastructure and governance frameworks protect your data while enabling AI innovation.
Henco van Veen, Presales Specialist, IBM & Red Hat
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90 min workshop 11.30 - 14.00
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By ITQ & Dell: Hackathon From Prompt to Production: Build an App with AI, Deploy It on OpenShift.
In this hands-on workshop, build an app with AI, apply 12-factor principles, and deploy it to OpenShift using Dev Spaces. Laptop & basic code knowledge needed.
Sander Harrewijnen, Technologist and Lead Developer, ITQ
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By Tech Tribes: Customer case MOD - From Made for the Printer via Data Fusion to Made for Agents
Proven at the Dutch Ministry of Defence, Indentia on Red Hat OpenShift turns unstructured data into a secure, queryable Corporate Second Brain for GenAI.
Leon Meijer, AI Solution Architect, Ministerie van Defensie
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By Red Hat: From Legacy Scripts to Cloud-Native Pipelines: Modernizing VM Day-2 Operations
Ditch legacy VM operational debt. Learn how OpenShift Virtualization and OpenShift Pipelines automate the full VM lifecycle from OS provisioning to deployment.
Kasra Amirsarvari, Senior Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat
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By IBM, Yielder & SoftwareOne
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By Red Hat: Sovereignty
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Frank de Groodt, Account Technical Strategist, Red Hat
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By Red Hat: How Red Hat AI operationalizes the full AI stack, from metal to agent
Explore Red Hat’s hybrid AI platform. Learn how to deploy, host, and manage agentic workflows, inference, and enterprise data securely across any cloud.
Maxim Burgerhout, Principal Solution Architect, Red Hat
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By Conclusion: Workshop Unlock Faster Troubleshooting with OpenTelemetry & Dynatrace
Experience how observability can transform troubleshooting. In this interactive session, you'll work with a malfunctioning application and use OpenTelemetry and Dynatrace to uncover root causes faster, reduce downtime, and improve application performance.
Björn de Wit, Consultant, Conclusion
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By Portworx: The Data Foundation for Modern Infrastructure: VMs, Containers, and AI on Red Hat with Everpure
Modernize VMs, apps, and AI on one stack. Portworx by Everpure and Red Hat OpenShift unite performance, data mobility, and resilience across cloud and edge.
Daniel Banche, Cloud Native Architect, Portworx
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By Red Hat: From CVE to Production Fix: Upgrade-Free Remediation with Red Hat Lightwell Network
Fix CVEs without forced upgrades. Learn how Red Hat TPA and Lightwell Network scope blast radiuses and backport patches to the versions you already run.
Nikhil Sharma, Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat Darryn Mitchell, Enterprise Program Architect, Red Hat
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By Devoteam: From Sovereign AI Lasagna to full fledged Sovereign AI dinner.
Taste full-stack Sovereign AI! See Red Hat OpenShift AI run multiple models across infrastructure to solve real business problems in a live demonstration.
Marco Pavone, Senior Cloud Native Consultant , Devoteam Remco van der Horst, Strategic AI Consultant, Devoteam
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By Veeam: Day 2 and Beyond: Running OpenShift with Confidence at Enterprise Scale
Master Day-2 OpenShift operations. Protect mixed VMs and containers, handle DR, and govern multi-tenant clusters at scale with Veeam Kasten K10 and VBR.
Gatien Gheza, EMEA Senior Director, Kasten Sales, Veeam
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By ITQ & Dell: Customer case - info will follow soon
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By Red Hat: Broader perspective of implemeting Lightwell provided remediations
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By Red Hat: Rehost and Run Citrix Virtual Desktops on OpenShift Virtualization
Host your Citrix VDIs on a unified platform built for both VMs and containers. Join us for a technical deep dive and a live demo of virtual desktops running on OpenShift Virtualization.
Kasra Amirsarvari, Senior Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat Nanno Ouwehand, Principal Account Technology Strategist, Citrix
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By Red Hat: strategic security session - info will follow soon
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Vincent Danen, Vice President Product Security, Red Hat
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By Red Hat: strategic platform update - info will follow soon
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Jeff Lo, Vice President Portfolio Management, Red Hat
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By Red Hat: A Tactical Guide to Next Gen Virtualization
Unify VMs and containers on OpenShift Virtualization for one operational model across hybrid cloud. Includes a live on-prem to cloud VM migration demo!
Andy Repton, Cloud, AI & Security Specialist, Red Hat
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By Red Hat: Beyond VMware: A Blueprint for OpenShift Virtualization and App Modernization
Join Red Hat to accelerate your journey beyond VMware. Discover how OpenShift Virtualization empowers you to migrate legacy workloads to a single, unified platform at your own pace. We will explore the path from migration to modernization, showing also how to run VMs alongside containers.
Martijn ten Heuvel, Principal Architect
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By Red Hat: Are you drowning in CVEs? Use AI to look after your RHEL Operation environment and be compliant
Vulnerabilities are exploding—how fast can you patch? Use Satellite, Ansible, and RHEL to automatically identify at-risk systems and apply critical updates.
Juan van der Breggen, Associate Solution Architect
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By Red Hat: Who’s using your AI? Usage, costs, and control on Red Hat OpenShift AI
Manage Red Hat OpenShift AI at scale: track token usage, apply limits, calculate cost showback, and optimize capacity with live Models-as-a-Service demos.
Ben Taljaard, Solution Architect, Red Hat Adnan Drina, Principal Solution Architect, Red Hat
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By Red Hat: The Compliance Imperative: Assess, Remediate, and Verify with the AAP Compliance Experience
Discover AAP Compliance Experience: automate STIG/CIS compliance with custom profiles, per-rule remediation, and full assess-remediate-verify lifecycles.
Massimo Ferrari, Management Strategy Director, Red Hat
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Closing Act & Reception in the Expo Hall
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