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Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 Helsinki

2025년 10월 23일Helsinki, FinlandScandic Marina Congress Center, Katajanokanlaituri
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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 Helsinki on October 23. 

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, discussion panels, and more. Browse this year's agenda to view available options.

*Agenda is subject to change

Agenda

8:00-8:30

Registration and coffee

8:30-8:45

Welcome and opening remarks

Mikko Pylväs,

Country Manager, Red Hat Finland

Dinko Eror,

Vice President EMEA Central, North and Eastern Europe, Red Hat

8:45-9:30

Keynote

09:30 - 09:40

Intel keynote

09:40 - 09:50

Diamond sponsor keynote

09:50-10:00

Keynote Wrap-Up & Event Practicalities

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee break

10:30 - 12:00

Partner track

10:30 - 11:00

Gold sponsor

11:00 - 11:30

Partner session: Gold sponsor

11:30 - 12:00

Gold sponsor

OpenShift track

10:30 - 11:00

Customer story: OpenShift (TBC)

11:00 - 11:30

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.

James Force,

Principal Consultant, Red Hat

Adam Bassett,

Associate Consultant, Red Hat

RHEL track

10:30 - 11:00

Introduction to new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Reimagine Linux, the most exiting release in 20 years!

Juan van der Breggen,

Associate Principal Specialist Solution Architect, RHEL, Red Hat

Alessandro Rossi,

EMEA Associate Principal Specialist Solution Architect - RHEL, Red Hat

11:00 - 11:30

Top security features you should use in RHEL 10

In this session, we'll explore security features for building resilient defenses, key to safeguarding critical data.

Sam Wachira,

Senior Technical Account Manager, Red Hat

AI & Developer track

10:30 - 11:00

Customer story: Asiakastieto - Securing Kubernetes Workloads: Lessons Learned from Real-World Deployments with Open Source Security

Learn how Asiakastieto boosts Kubernetes security using open-source tools, with real-world tips on threat detection, policy, and DevSecOps practices.

Juuso Pikkujämsä,

Solutions Architect, Suomen Asiakatieto

Eero Arvonen,

Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat

11:30 - 12:00

Local Development in the AI Era

In this session we’ll take a look at various solutions to do local, network-optional AI-powered and infused development.

Kevin Dubois,

Sr Principal Developer Advocate, Red Hat

11:30 - 12:00

TBC

Automation track

11:00 - 12:00

Customer story: Relex - Automation lifecycle management - how to combat the Second law of thermodynamics?

Automation is an essential part of modern software organization workflows, regardless of the business area. However, automation doesn't take care of itself, so engineers have to do it. The talk covers good practices of how to ensure a sustainable automation code base, and examples where this has worked (and NOT worked) at RELEX Solutions.

Onni Lampi,

Compute SRE Team Lead, Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Relex Solutions

11:30 - 12:00

Customer story: Automation (TBC)

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch

13:00-14:00

Partner track

13:00 - 13:30

Gold sponsor

13:30 - 14:00

Gold sponsor

Automation track

13:30 - 14:00

TBC

OpenShift track

13:00 - 13:30

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 Healey,

Principal Architect, Red Hat

RHEL track

13:00 - 14:00

TBC

AI & Developer track

13:00 - 13:30

(Agentic) AI for the Enterprise Developer

In this session, you’ll explore how you can add a variety of AI capabilities to your enterprise apps: eg. prompting, guard railing, MCP, RAG, and more.

Kevin Dubois,

Sr Principal Developer Advocate, Red Hat

13:30 - 14:00

Build your own distributed cloud native AI agent in 20 minutes

Natale Vinto,

Evangelism Director, Red Hat

14:00 - 14:30

Coffee break

14:30-15:00

Partner track

14:30 - 15:00

Gold sponsor

Customer story

14:30 - 15:00

Telco (TBC)

RHEL track

14:30 - 15:00

RHEL Lightspeed: Unlocking AI on the command line

A virtual assistant - accessible directly from the command line, helping you with enhanced knowledge retrieval, natural language processing and code generation.

Sam Wachira,

Senior Technical Account Manager, Red Hat

AI & Developer track

14:30 - 15:00

TBC

15:00 - 15:45

Automation track

15:00 - 15:45

TBC

Customer story

15:00 - 15:45

Telco (TBC)

RHEL track

15:00 - 15:45

TBC

AI & Developer track

15:00 - 15:45

TBC

15:45 -16:00

Closing words

16:00 - 17:30

Afterwork Networking Reception – Drinks & Light Bites

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Sponsors

Lead sponsor

Intel

Intel

Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) is an industry leader, creating world-changing technology that enables global progress and enriches lives. Inspired by Moore’s Law, we continuously work to advance the design and manufacturing of semiconductors to help address our customers’ greatest challenges. By embedding intelligence in the cloud, network, edge and every kind of computing device, we unleash the potential of data to transform business and society for the better.

Gold

AWS

Silver

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Veeam

Veeam

Veeam, the #1 global market leader in data resilience, believes every business should control all their data whenever and wherever they need it. ​ ​We’re obsessed with creating innovative ways to help our customers achieve data resilience. We do that by offering purpose-built solutions that provide data backup, data recovery, data portability, data security, and data intelligence. ​Headquartered in Seattle, with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and X @veeam

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Venue information

Date: 23 October, 2025

Time: 08:00 - 18:00

Location: Scandic Marina Congress Center, 
Katajanokanlaituri 6, 
00160 Helsinki,
Finland

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