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Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 London

October 9, 2025London, UKTobacco Dock
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Advances in enterprise IT are accelerating at a rapid pace, and organizations will either need to acquire the skills and technology to adapt or risk falling behind. Red Hat Summit: Connect invites you to be at the forefront of industry innovation by joining us in London. 

Engage with your peers and Red Hat experts and technologies to help take your teams to the next level.

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Enhance your skills, grow your expertise, and connect with peers through interactive breakout sessions, panel discussions, and more. Browse this year's agenda to view available options.

*Agenda is subject to change

Agenda

8.30 - 9.30

Registration open

9:30 - 11:00

Keynote sessions in the Great Gallery

11:00 - 11:30

Break and Partner exhibition

11:30 - 11:55

Customer track  (Great Gallery)

Customer session

Ansible track  (Room EM1)

The business impact of automation

IT automation may seem a long way down the “value chain” from generative AI, cloud, etc, but continues to be a top priority for many. Why should you care?

Mark Swinson,

Automation Specialist, Red Hat

Innovate track  (Room EM2)

How Small Models and vLLM Deliver Cost-Effective Scalability

By strategically using smaller models and leveraging vLLM's capabilities, businesses can achieve highly scalable AI solutions.

Erica Langhi,

Associate Principal Solution Architect, Red Hat

AI track  (Room EM3)

Sponsor session TBC

Security track  (Room EM4)

Take back control - how Open Source can strengthen your Digital Sovereignty

Can you trust the digital products & services supporting your business? Blind trust or DIY, no other option? How can we make your business digitally sovereign?

Monca Sasso,

Global Financial Services Digital Transformation Lead, Red Hat

Partner track  (Room EM5)

Partner session

12:00 - 12:25

Customer track  (Great Gallery)

Customer session

Ansible track  (Room EM1)

Architecting Ansible Automation Platform for Scale & Compliance

In this session, the audience will learn how one of the biggest FSI customers turned a failed AAP audit into a fully compliant and scalable implementation.

Nikolas Goulias,

Global Account Solution Architect, Red Hat

Mark Swinson,

Enterprise Automation Sales Specialist, Red Hat

Innovate track  (Room EM2)

How OpenShift AI Streamlines ML Workflows for Faster, More Efficient Delivery

AI isn’t just about building models, but bringing them to life. OpenShift AI enables scalable pipelines, model serving, and versioning for faster AI adoption.

Paulo Menon,

Principal Consultant, Red Hat

AI track  (Room EM3)

AI, Power Grids, and Platforms: Rethinking Computing Sustainability for the Future

AI and modern workloads strain compute resources. We must create resilient, efficient platforms—because computing sustainability is now business sustainability.

Waqaas Kausar,

Principal Solution Architect, Red Hat

Security track  (Room EM4)

Trust, but Verify: Verifying Red Hat Container Images to Assure Platform Trust

You trust Red Hat as a provider of content, but how can you verify that the content has not been a victim of corruption or has been tampered with in transit?

Gareth Healy,

Principal Architect, Red Hat

Dan Hawker,

Principal Architect, Red Hat

Partner track  (Room EM5)

Partner session

12.25 - 13:30

Lunch and Partner exhibition

13:30 - 13:55

Customer track  (Great Gallery)

How the Ansible Automation Platform helped ABFoods transform to deliver Business Value

Hear about how the FTSE50 company, ABFoods used AAP as part of their automation strategy to deliver business value and more efficient scalable operations.

Prinit Patel,

Head of Enterprise Platform and Connectivity, Associated British Foods plc

Ansible track  (Room EM1)

Event-Driven Automation with AAP: From Alerts to Action

Discover how Event-Driven Ansible handles ITSM requests, responds to live incidents, and maintains audit trails—all in real time across your enterprise.

Chris Renwick,

Senior Specialist Solution Arcitect, Red Hat

Adam Bassett,

Cloud Consultant, Red Hat

Innovate track  (Room EM2)

Crash Course in OpenShift Virtualization: Running VMs Natively on Kubernetes with KubeVirt

Learn how to get started with OpenShift Virtualization. Run and manage VMs alongside containers with KubeVirt. Learn how to get started with OpenShift Virtualization. Run and manage VMs alongside containers with KubeVirt.

James Force,

Consultant, Red Hat

Paulo Menon,

Principal Consultant, Red Hat

AI track  (Room EM3)

From Model to Market: Scaling AI with Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat gives companies the freedom to build and run AI anywhere. In this session, we’ll show how Red Hat help FSI organisations modernise with AI.

Juo Auskalnis,

Solution Architect, Red Hat

Johana Limka,

Solution Architect, Red Hat

Security track  (Room EM4)

Confidential Containers

Learn about Red Hat's Confidential Computing strategy, including Attestation, Confidential VMs/Containers/Clusters, Zero-Trust, and more. Demo and RHEL/OpenShift implementation details included.

Kirsten Newcomer,

Senior Director, OpenShift Business Unit, Red Hat

Partner track  (Room EM5)

Partner session

14:00 - 14:25

Customer track  (Great Gallery)

Customer session

Ansible track  (Room EM1)

Enable ubiquitous and scalable automation using the validated AAP config as code collections

Learn to use AAP config as code and gitops for platform engineering, customer onboarding and automation integrity, enabling secure, enterprise wide automation.

Lee Shakespeare,

Ansible Automation SSA, Red Hat

Tom Page,

Services Architect, Red Hat

Innovate track  (Room EM2)

From Sprawl to Strategic: The Rise of Platform as a Product

Centralised platforms not meeting user needs? "Platform as a Product" eases build/maintenance, freeing teams to focus on iterative platform value.

Sam Marland,

Senior Manager, FSI & Global Accounts Solution Architects, Red Hat

Jonny Williams,

Chief Digital Adviser - UK Public Sector, Red Hat

AI track  (Room EM3)

RamaLama: Running AI Models in Containers

RamaLama is a new tool for running AI Models locally. By combining AI and Container technology, RamaLama helps developers get their AI Models running in containers, then into production.

Dan Walsh,

Senior Distingish Engineer, Red Hat

Security track  (Room EM4)

Dispensing Containers, Safeguarding Citizens

Learn how Red Hat Services helped the UK Health Security Agency migrate critical applications to ROSA.

Dan Hawker,

Principal Architect, Red Hat

Martha Chittenden Milton,

Engagement Lead, Red Hat

Partner track  (Room EM5)

Partner session

14:30 - 14:55

Customer track  (Great Gallery)

Server in Minutes – Clinical trials where every day counts

Using Ansible automation enables rapid VM provisioning, delivering environments to teams in minutes and accelerating research.

Cormac Dunne,

Senior Director IT Digital Operations, Icon Clinical Research

Ansible track  (Room EM1)

Ansible Automation Platform - Product Roadmap

The Ansible Automation Platform is constantly evolving. Come and hear about the latest new features and what's coming next.

Richard Henshall,

Director - Product Management Ansible Business Unit, Red Hat

Innovate track  (Room EM2)

Why ever-greening your IT estate is important? None likes extending the life of software!

Staying with dinosaur software is bad for your pocket, bad for your security, bad for your compliance. Listen to the ugly aspects of staying on older versions.

Nikolaos Goulias,

Global Account Solution Architect , Red Hat

Nick Evans,

Customer Success Executive, Red Hat

AI track  (Room EM3)

Unlocking Your Company’s Knowledge: Building an AI Assistant with RHEL AI

Build a smart assistant using RHEL AI that learns from your internal knowledge base, delivering fast, accurate answers from technical documentation.

Mahalakshmi Vijayakumar,

Consultant, Red Hat

Paulo Menon,

Principal Consultant, Red Hat

Security track  (Room EM4)

Partner session

Partner track  (Room EM5)

Partner session

15:00 - 15:30

Break and Partner exhibition

15:30- 15:55

Customer track  (Great Gallery)

Secure by Design, Open by Default: Powering Public Health Innovation with Red Hat and UKHSA

UKHSA has used Red Hat technology to power critical apps and HPC, with a roadmap focused on open source, AI, and future-ready platforms.

Francesco Giannoccaro,

Head of Hosting and HPC, UKHSA

Mustafa Musaji,

Principal Solutions Architect, Red Hat

Ansible track  (Room EM1)

Partner panel discussion

Innovate track  (Room EM2)

Partner panel discussion

AI track  (Room EM3)

Partner panel discussion

Security track  (Room EM4)

Partner panel discussion

Partner track  (Room EM5)

Partner session

16:00 - 16:30

AI demo in the Great Gallery

16.30 - 18.00

Networking drinks, Partner exhibition and Red Hat branded SWAG

Secure your spot: Registration is open

To attend Red Hat Summit: Connect in your city, you’ll need a Red Hat account to register. Use your existing account or make a new one today.

Sponsors

Lead sponsor

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Venue information

Date: October 9, 2025

Time: 08:30 - 17:30

Location: Tobacco Dock,
Tobacco Quay, Wapping Lane,
London,  E1W 2SF,
United Kingdom

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