Red Hat OpenShift Commons Gathering Salt Lake City 2026
November 9, 2026 | 7:00 AM - 3:00 PM MST / UTC-7
Hilton Salt Lake City Center | Salt Lake City UT | United States
Event overview
Join us in Salt Lake City for a no-cost, in-person OpenShift Commons Gathering alongside KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America. This event brings together the global OpenShift community-including users, contributors, partners, and Red Hat experts-to share knowledge, build connections, and learn from real production experiences.
Hear practitioner-driven talks on app modernization, developer productivity, AI/LLM workloads, supply chain security, VM migration, GitOps, edge, and scaling OpenShift across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Expect practical insights you can bring back to your team.
Registration
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Agenda
Breakfast and Registration
Kick off, Keynote, and Superhero Awards
Speakers : Aubrey Muhlach, Mike Barrett, David Eads, Mrunal Patel
Cigna: Innovating with OpenShift for Scalability and Portability
Speakers : Joshua Dziedzic, Trevor Swanson
Panel: Virtualization Modernization with Gates and Netlabs
Speakers : Mauricio Améndola, Carlos Cabrera
Networking Break
Adobe: Making true hybrid cloud a reality: Adobe’s private cloud journey
Speakers : Jimmy Grover, Andrew Block
3M: From Lift-and-Shift to Shift-Left: Building a Trusted DevSecOps Platform on Red Hat OpenShift Services on AWS
Speaker : Alex Tennant
Pending
Speakers : Pending
Lunch opens and Roundtables start
Hands-On Experiences
Hands-on Experience: OpenShift Dev
Speaker : James Faulkner
This developer-centric roadshow, which introduces agentic AI and explores contemporary developer tooling, focuses on improving developer output on OpenShift. Providing hands-on experience following a developer's daily routine to demonstrate how Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces and Red Hat Developer Hub facilitate greater development efficiency.
Hands-on Experience: OpenShift Ops
Speaker : August Simonelli
Tailored for operations teams, this roadshow focuses on building environments optimized for developers and establishing Day 1 operational workflows. Through hands-on exercises participants will effectively deploy, manage, scale, and secure enterprise-grade OpenShift. This roadshow covers critical operational tasks, including initial installation, performance optimization, multi-cluster administration, and security enforcement.
Hands-on Experience: OpenShift Security
Speaker : Michael Foster
Designed by Red Hat's security experts specifically targeted for security and operations teams. Customers wanting to scale application security across their IT infrastructure with OpenShift will learn how to enforce security in this hands-on experience.
Hands-on Experience: Platform Engineering
Speaker : Evan Shortiss
The Red Hat Platform Engineering Roadshow is a hands-on experience that demonstrates how organizations can increase developer productivity and security posture by adopting a platform engineering mindset. The roadshow guides participants through a day in the life of a Platform Engineer creating an IDP, from the design phase to the mature Product-as-as-Platform phase.
Hands-on Experience: OpenShift Virtualization
Speaker : Alan Cowles
Designed for infrastructure architects and VM administrators seeking a path toward modernization, this workshop explores viable alternatives for virtualization environments. Participants will engage with Red Hat specialists to discover the potential of OpenShift Virtualization and investigate practical strategies for evolving their existing infrastructure.
Speakers
Principal Technical Marketing Manager
Red Hat
AT
Cloud Engineering Leader
3M
Distinguished Architect
Red Hat
Senior Manager, Product Marketing
Red Hat
Global IT Data Center Manager
Gates
Principal Technical Marketing Manager
Red Hat
Sr. Cloud Systems Developer
Adobe
Cloud Engineering Principal
Cigna
Engineering Director
Netlabs
Principal Product Marketing Manager
Red Hat
Vice President and General Manager, Red Hat Hybrid Platforms
Red Hat
Cloud Engineering Director
Cigna
Travel Information
Hilton Salt Lake City Center
255 South West Temple | Salt Lake City UT | United States
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Registration
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