Chuck Dubuque, Senior Director, Product Marketing - Hybrid Platforms - Red Hat

True innovation requires a foundation you can trust. 

Today’s organizations face a dual mandate: ship code faster than ever while meeting strict data sovereignty and security requirements. Whether you are battling rising virtualization costs, fragmented multi-cloud security, or the urgent mandate to adopt AI, the challenge remains: how do you modernize at scale without breaking what already works? 

This keynote spotlights the organizations who have said "yes" to speed, security, and scale. Through real-world success stories, we’ll explore how leading organizations unified their virtual machines and containers on a single, trusted platform—bridging the gap between operations and development. Discover how to eliminate friction, synchronize your environments, and empower your teams to build consistently and deploy anywhere.

James Labocki, Senior Director, Product Management - Red Hat
In the race to modernize, many organizations fixate on “Zero CVE” metrics—treating symptoms rather than root causes. This keynote reframes security around a Trusted Software Factory: an automated, verifiable approach that enables teams to move fast without compromising integrity.

Attendees will learn:

• Why “Zero CVE” isn’t enough and how a factory model addresses the root of software risk
• How Red Hat applies decades of expertise to deliver tamper-resistant, SLSA-compliant artifacts at global scale
• The role of Platform Engineering and DevEx in creating “Golden Paths” that embed security into everyday workflows
• Why AI-generated code changes everything, pushing traditional human-centric security models to their limits
• How factory-based guardrails ensure trust, transparency, and consistency across both human- and machine-generated code

Finally, we’ll look ahead to the next evolution: agentic software factories—where AI not only assists developers but actively manages and secures the software lifecycle through self-healing, self-attesting systems optimized for the hybrid cloud era.

Nicholas Morey, Senior Account Solution Architect - Red Hat

The inner loop—the iterative process of coding, building, and testing—is where developers create business value. Yet, developers often spend more time on tedious tasks like waiting for environments, resolving environment drift, or manual configuration than on writing features. Operations teams on the other have difficulty protecting intellectual property (source code), standardizing developer tools, and keeping all environments compliant and resource-efficient.

With AI assistants becoming a standard requirement for engineering teams, these challenges are only being magnified. This is where Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces comes in to help.

This session explores how OpenShift Dev Spaces allows developers to spend more time on code, push code to production without issues, and use public or private AI coding assistants – all with centralized governance. You’ll see how to transition from a days-long wait for an environment to a one-click workflow and how to integrate AI assistants directly into this browser-based IDE. Learn how to increase inner loop velocity, while efficiently enforcing compliance.

For the Developer Track, you will participate in the Red Hat OpenShift Space Adventure where you’ll be engaged in a 2.5 hour, hands-on, gamified competition and put your skills to the test in a problem-solving environment to prevent a space station disaster. You’ll put your expertise to the ultimate test to save your space crew and compete to win.

Your adventure includes:

• Engaging in a fun, high-stakes environment designed to challenge your OpenShift knowledge and to save the space station.
• Learning practical, new skills as you navigate complex scenarios 
• Competing against your peers for bragging rights and a chance to win prizes

Who should compete?

Developers, Operators or Architects with some OpenShift experience

Minimum skill sets:

• Some experience with Red Hat OpenShift
• Basic understanding of containers
• Basic programming skills (Java, Python)
• Basic understanding of Git (push code to a repository)

For the Operations Track, you will participate in the Sovereign Cloud workshop  with a focus on cloud agility while maintaining strict data residency, operational autonomy, and regulatory compliance across on-premises, edge, and multi-cloud environments. This hands-on lab demonstrates how to create and manage geographically distributed OpenShift clusters with built-in policy enforcement, zero-trust security, and intelligent workload placement to ensure sovereignty without sacrificing innovation or AI acceleration.

Participants will gain practical experience in deploying applications and AI workloads in a compliant, repeatable manner while preserving full control over data and operations.

What you’ll learn and experience:

• Provision and configure geographically distributed OpenShift clusters with automated compliance and sovereignty policies
• Apply intelligent workload placement and scheduling to enforce data residency and localization requirements
• Deploy cloud-native and AI applications with embedded sovereignty enforcement mechanisms
• Set up comprehensive audit logging, compliance reporting, and observability for regulatory proof