Red Hat Summit 2023 event lineup

Red Hat Summit 2023 is underway and below you will find information on event activities and the latest product news announcements, from generative AI to automation and DevSecOps.

Tuesday, May 23:

9 am EDT - Keynote: Innovation doesn’t rely on your IT budget

• Hosted by Red Hat leaders alongside:
• Tom Gilbert, Head of Cloud and Middleware, Group Technology Infrastructure Services, Barclays; Yamandú Tellechea, Middleware Automation Lead, Mutua;
• Mahesh Ramamoorthy, Chief Information Officer (CIO), YES BANK Limited;  Jeremy Winter, Corporate Vice President of Program Management, Microsoft
   

11 am EDT - Announcement Overview

• Ashesh Badani, Senior Vice President and Head of Products, Chris Wright, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Gunnar Hellekson, Vice President and GM, RHEL Business Unit, and Sathish Balakrishnan, Vice President, Strategic Business Unit will provide an overview of our Red Hat Summit news announcements
   

1 pm EDT - AnsibleFest Keynote: The automation moment, and beyond

• Hosted by Red Hat Ansible leaders to discuss how the Ansible community is forging a new way to think about enterprise open source.
   

Wednesday, May 24:

1:15 pm EDT - Q&A with Red Hat Leadership

• Matt Hicks, Ashesh Badani, and Chris Wright will participate in a live Q&A session with the global press.
   

Livestreaming

To watch the Red Hat Summit keynotes virtually, tune in at the following times. The live stream will be available on @RedHat's LinkedIn, and YouTube accounts. Choose your viewing preference and hear the latest from Red Hat executives, customers, and partners.

• May 23 at 9 a.m. ET Innovation doesn’t rely on your IT budget (LinkedIn | YouTube)
• May 23 at 1 p.m. ET The automation moment and beyond (LinkedIn | YouTube)
• May 24 at 9 a.m. ET Optimize to innovate at scale (LinkedIn | YouTube)

Catch up on select highlights after the event and explore a collection of additional new online sessions for free on the Red Hat Summit virtual content hub.

Announcements

While all keynotes and sessions will be available on demand, we want to make sure that you didn’t miss any key news. You can find all of these announcements, plus additional technical commentary and supporting voices in the Red Hat Summit newsroom, on the Red Hat Summit blog, and via the below.

Today’s product announcements include:

Red Hat Introduces Ansible Lightspeed for AI-Driven IT Automation

• The next phase of the Project Wisdom initiative brings an intelligent, natural language processing capability for Ansible automation. Coming in tech preview, Ansible Lightspeed with IBM Watson Code Assistant infuses domain-specific AI to make Ansible more accessible organization-wide, helping to close automation skills gaps.
   

Red Hat Accelerates IT Automation with Event-Driven Ansible

• Event-Driven Ansible extends the value of IT investments across the enterprise, freeing teams to innovate without compromising the quality and response times necessary in modern IT environments. After the always-on automation receives events from third-party tools, it uses pre-determined responses to act automatically, enabling a more efficient and consistent IT management response.
   

Red Hat OpenShift AI Accelerates Generative AI Adoption Across the Hybrid Cloud

• Building and expanding upon the proven capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenShift Data Science, Red Hat OpenShift AI provides IT operations leaders, data scientists, and developers with a unified solution to train, serve, monitor, and manage the lifecycle of AI/ML models and applications, from experiments to production.
   

Red Hat Red Hat Introduces Red Hat Trusted Software Supply Chain

• Red Hat Trusted Software Supply Chain is a family of cloud services for meeting software supply chain security needs, building on Red Hat’s 30+ years of experience in delivering curated, hardened open-source software by putting this expertise directly into the hands of enterprise IT. Two new cloud services highlight this portfolio; Red Hat Trusted Application Pipeline offers CI/CD with built-in security gating, while Red Hat Trusted Content provides open-source software dependencies and verified packages to accelerate delivery while increasing security.
   

Red Hat Introduces Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security Cloud Service to Scale Cloud-Native Security Across the Hybrid Cloud

• Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security Cloud Service brings Kubernetes-native security capabilities together with the convenience of a fully supported, Red Hat-managed cloud offering. The service supports Red Hat OpenShift on private and public clouds as well as non-Red Hat Kubernetes services across major public clouds, including Amazon EKS, Google GKE, and Microsoft AKS.
   

Red Hat Announces Red Hat Service Interconnect

• Red Hat Service Interconnect is a more secure and scalable solution to application interconnection challenges, designed to connect applications and microservices across the open hybrid cloud. Based on the upstream open source project, Skupper.io, Red Hat Service Interconnect enables developers to easily migrate applications across multiple environments and create interconnections to communicate across container clusters in different networks and behind firewalls, without complex configurations and overhead.
   

Red Hat Simplifies Management for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Across the Hybrid Cloud

• Red Hat views the need for flexibility and standardization as paramount to successful hybrid cloud adoption, with Red Hat Enterprise Linux uniquely positioned to answer these demands. The new management capabilities, offered through console.redhat.com, build on Red Hat Insights - Insights can find potential issues, whether a bug, misconfiguration, or vulnerability, and admins can then use the console to push a fix with a single button click. This same console also houses updates to the Red Hat image builder service, which can build standardized gold operating system images that can be deployed across environments near-instantaneously.
   

Red Hat Unveils Self-Managed Internal Development Platform To Power Agile Development

• Red Hat Developer Hub is a self-managed internal developer platform crafted from Spotify’s Backstage, designed to improve the developer experience on Red Hat's open hybrid cloud platforms. Red Hat Developer Hub provides a consistent self-service experience, leveraging an array of clearly-defined golden paths and supported Red Hat Plug-ins for Backstage to accelerate the onboarding and delivery of new applications.
   

Today’s customer and partner announcements include:

• Red Hat to Help Transform the Automotive Industry at the Edge with ETAS
  • Red Hat and ETAS will work together to deliver an in-vehicle automotive platform that will lower the development cost and further accelerate the time to market for automakers. With a pre-integrated and pre-tested foundational platform, automakers will have a streamlined out-of-the-box developer experience to deliver application software running on an ETAS deterministic middleware solution, driven by Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System.
     

Today’s blogs include:

• Podman Desktop 1.0: The next-gen container management solution streamlining developers container operations
• Smoothing the transition from CentOS Linux 7 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Making cloud-native more accessible: Red Hat’s vision for Red Hat OpenShift with hosted control planes
• Red Hat OpenShift 4.13 is now available
   

You can find all of these announcements in the Red Hat Summit newsroom and on our Red Hat Summit blog. If you have any specific questions about this news, I’d be happy to connect you with a Red Hat expert.