Red Hat Developer Day Aarhus
Stop Managing Complexity. Start Shipping Value.
02/06/2026 | 09:00 - 17:00 | Aarhus N | Denmark
Event overview
The Reality Check Cloud-native was supposed to make us faster. Instead, it often feels like we’ve just traded old bottlenecks for a sprawling landscape of "YAML-toil," fragmented toolchains, and the cognitive load of "knowing everything" from infrastructure to AI. The promise of the cloud is being drowned out by the noise of its own complexity.
The Vision On June 2nd in Aarhus, we’re gathering the builders, the architects, and the platform thinkers for a day dedicated to one goal: Reclaiming the Developer Experience.
We believe that the future isn't just about more tools—it’s about Platform Engineering with purpose. It’s about creating an environment where AI isn't a distraction, but a force multiplier for legacy evolution. Where connectivity and APIs aren't hurdles, but seamless bridges. And where GitOps isn't just a buzzword, but the foundation for moving at the speed of thought.
What to Expect This isn't a "sit back and watch" event. Through a mix of high-level architectural sessions and hands-on labs, we will dive into:
- The AI-Augmented Lifecycle: Navigating the transition from manual migration to intelligent, agent-assisted evolution.
- Unified Connectivity: Simplifying how we manage and secure the digital glue of our applications.
- The Golden Path: Building internal platforms that provide sovereignty and speed without sacrificing the creative freedom of the developer.
Why Join Us? Whether you’re a developer looking for a better daily flow or a platform engineer tasked with building the "Internal Developer Portal" of tomorrow, you’ll leave with the tactical knowledge to turn "Cloud-Native" from a burden into a competitive edge.
For whom?
- Developers & Dev Leads
- IT Architects
- Platform Engineers
- SRE & DevOps
Places for this event are limited.
Register NOW by filling out the form.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
IN PERSON
Hourly: 9.00 AM - 17:00 PM
Date: Tuesday, Jun 2, 2026
Place : Bankdata, Aksen, House of Business
Hedeager 44 8200 Aarhus N
Please bring your laptop to this event
If you are interested in the presentations of the event, you can find them here.
- Continuous Delivery at Scale with OpenShift GitOps
- Security-first cloud-native build automation with Tekton Pipelines
- POSTGRES ON OPENSHIFT WORKSHOP
- The Future of Software Development
- OpenShift Platform Engineering Workshop
- The 100x Migration: Scaling Modernization with AI
- You Are Not Your Code
- Solving Data Replication and Distribution Across Locations
- Seamless tracing, metrics and logs without touching a single line of code
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Agenda
Hands on: Platform Engineering Roadshow
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
The Platform Engineering Roadshow is a multi module workshop which serves as a practical and learn-by-example style hands-on workshop for Platform Engineers. The workshop guides a Platform Engineer through a journey map of understanding why a platform is critical for increased developer productivity and teaches how to set one up right from design phase to a more mature Product-as-as-Platform phase.
Keynote: The Future of Software Engineering in the Age of AI
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM
The Future of Software Engineering in the Age of AI
Speaker: Natale Vinto, Red Hat and Henrik Løvborg Red Hat
Llama Stack: One AI API to Rule Them All
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Agentic AI is a software system designed to interact with data and tools in a way that requires minimal human intervention. With an emphasis on goal-oriented behavior, agentic AI (also known as AI agents) can accomplish tasks by creating a list of steps and performing them autonomously.
Join this session to learn how Llama Stack and MCP servers on OpenShift AI help you get agentic AI to practice, by creating a system that provides an LLM with access to external tools, and algorithms that supply instructions for how the AI agents should use those tools.
Speaker: Natale Vinto, Red Hat
Seamless tracing, metrics, and logs without touching a single line of code
1:10 PM - 1:40 PM
OpenShift's Observability suite offers auto-instrumentation for deep performance insights without rewriting applications. This talk covers how Red Hat OpenTelemetry integrates with OpenShift to capture traces, metrics, and logs, enabling full-stack observability in minutes.
Speaker: Benjamin Merot, Red Hat & Martin Skoett, Red Hat
Hands on workshop with EDB Enterprise
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Join EDB and Red Hat for a technical, hands-on workshop designed to bridge the gap between traditional database management and modern cloud-native infrastructure. As organizations transition toward a "Sovereign Data and AI Factory," this session provides the practical skills needed to run a robust, optimized stack of EDB Postgres AI on Red Hat OpenShift. You will move beyond theory into a series of step-by-step guided exercises using CloudNativePG (CNPG). You’ll learn how to simplify the entire Postgres lifecycle—deploying, managing, and scaling production-ready clusters with confidence.
Speakers:
Jakob Brandel - Director, Sales Engineering EMEA
Stephen Hall - Senior Solutions Engineer
Michael Willer - Senior Solutions Engineer
Trusted Software Supply Chain Lab
2:15 PM - 2:45 PM
Backstage Software Templates for Developers. Scaffolding for cloud native
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Streamline your development workflow with Software Templates in Backstage! Templates let you standardize and automate project setup by generating services, repositories, and components in seconds. Save time, reduce manual work, and accelerate delivery while improving consistency across teams. Join us for live demos and tips to supercharge your developer self-serve experience.
Speaker: Henrik Løvborg, Red Hat
Welcome, Registration and coffee
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
API Management with Red Hat Connectivity Link RHCL
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
The Red Hat Connectivity Link talk introduces Red Hat Connectivity Link (RHCL) as a solution for modern, multi-cloud, and Kubernetes-native connectivity management, emphasizing simplicity and a focus on an AI-driven future.
Speaker: Chris Ferreira, Red Hat
Coffee break
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Solving data replication and distribution across locations
11:10 AM - 11:40 AM
When talking about scaling an application, caching or improving redundancy, we’re depending on data that follows our code.
In this session, we’ll see how Red Hat Data Grid can help distribute, persist, index and replicate unstructured data across multiple locations. We’ll also review its supported protocols and learn how Red Hat Data Grid can be a drop-in replacement for existing tools such as Redis and Memcached.
Speaker: Benjamin Merot, Red Hat
Securing digital frontiers: Leveraging Keycloak for comprehensive application security across platforms
11:10 AM - 11:40 AM
Application security is paramount, whether deployed in on-premise, hybrid, or multi-cloud environments. The financial implications of not securing software and services can run into millions, highlighting the importance of robust protective measures. Red Hat's build of Keycloak addresses this concern, offering an open source solution for identity and access management. Keycloak is pivotal in ensuring that applications remain secure across varied deployment scenarios. Join this tech talk and learn more about Red Hat’s latest build of Keycloak.
Speaker: Shaaf Syed, Red Hat
Building Production-Ready Agentic AI with Red Hat OpenShift AI
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Learn how to safely deploy and scale AI agents in production using Red Hat OpenShift AI. In this hands-on session, we'll demonstrate how to host large language models with guardrails and inference infrastructure on OpenShift, then you'll get hands-on experience building your own agentic AI applications using the deployed models.
Speaker: Grace Ableidinger
Lunch
11:40 AM - 12:30 PM
Coffee break
1:40 PM - 2:00 PM
You Are Not Your Code – Why Every Dev Needs to Understand AI, Like It or Not
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
AI is writing code. That's not a future prediction – it's happening right now, in your team, on your screen. Some developers are jumping in with both feet, others are terrified of losing their craft. Both reactions make sense. Neither is a sustainable strategy.
This talk doesn't have all the answers. What it does have is an honest look at how different engineers are actually navigating this shift – the enthusiasts, the skeptics, and everyone in between. Through their perspectives we'll explore what AI assistance really means for your craft, your identity as a developer, and your day-to-day work.
Because the truth is probably somewhere in the middle – and figuring out where you and your team stands starts with understanding what's actually going on.
Speaker: Max Andersen
Security-first cloud-native build automation with Tekton Pipelines
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
OpenShift Pipelines, built on Tekton, delivers Kubernetes-native CI/CD designed for modern security demands. It leverages Kubernetes’ security primitives and adds end-to-end supply chain protections, signed artifacts, provenance, and policy enforcement, so teams can build, ship, and run software securely by default.
Speaker: Siamak Sadeghianfar, Red Hat
Networking, drinks & appetizers
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The 100x Migration: Scaling Modernization with AI
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Tailored for experts looking to modernize applications, this talk shows the transition to cloud-native technology with Developer Lightspeed. It emphasizes productivity with speed and efficiency, leveraging Gen-AI for automated code transformation. Developer Lightspeed lets you choose your migration path from simple upgrades to complex migrations, such as from JavaEE to Quarkus, Spring, or OpenJDK version upgrades, across not just one application but scale to 100x. Finally, experience the advantages of deploying these applications in a true cloud-native environment, such as OpenShift and OpenShift AI.
Speaker: Shaaf Syed, Red Hat
Continuous Delivery at Scale with OpenShift GitOps
1:10 PM - 1:40 PM
Modern teams must ship fast without losing reliability. GitOps meets this challenge, and Argo CD is a leading tool to make it real. This sessions goes beyond theory to show GitOps in action, including the new Argo CD agent for pull-based multi-cluster delivery. Learn how to configure fleets and deploy apps acrsoss clusters reliably, repeatably, and with control.
Speaker: Siamak Sadeghianfar, Red Hat
DevSpaces: make IDE's magic
1:10 PM - 1:40 PM
What if you could have the IDE configuration, tools and plugins be managed and versioned with the project instead of the person? What if you are an Ansible content developer, an occasional developer or a Windows user with a locked-down OS, but want to be able to participate in development with the right tools and configuration? DevSpaces can help you provide a developer environment, including an IDE and other necessary components, running on OpenShift. Come and hear how DevSpaces can help you provide these environments and learn how JN Data uses DevSpaces to provide developer environments for Ansible developers and for Magic Days hackathons.
Speakers: Chris Christiansen, JN Data & Michael Bang, Red Hat
The Automation Highway: Branding the Way to Production
11:10 AM - 11:40 AM
In a world of decentralized "tribe" setups, many developer teams end up solving the same problems in isolation. Join Kenneth Bøgedal and Henrik Løvborg for a session on how a shift to Platform as a Product transformed developer experience.
Rather than waiting for a mandate, the team spotted a recurring headache and treated it like a startup opportunity. They didn't just build a pipeline; they built a brand—complete with its own identity and 'merch'—to win the hearts of their fellow developers. By trading generic tools for a branded 'internal product,' they’ve turned the path to production into something developers actually want to use, backed by feedback loops and data that prove it works.
Speaker: Kenneth Bøgedal, Bankdata & Henrik Løvborg, Red Hat
Sponsor
Speakers
BM
Senior Account Solution Architect - Commercial
Red Hat
CF
Senior Principal Product Manager - Technical
Red Hat
GA
AI Engineer and Developer Advocate
HL
Manager, Solution Architecture
Red Hat
JB
Director, Sales Engineering EMEA
EDB
MS
Senior Account Solution Architect - Commercial
Red Hat
MA
Distinguished Engineer
Red Hat
MW
Senior Solutions Engineer
EDB
MB
Associate Principal Account Solution Architect - Commercial
Red Hat
NV
Technical Director, Evangelism
Red Hat
SS
Senior Principal Technical Marketing Manager
Red Hat
SS
Director, Product Management_Global
Red Hat
SH
Senior Solutions Engineer
EDB
Travel Information
Bankdata, Aksen, House of Business
Hedeager 44 | Aarhus N | Denmark
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