New York City Red Hat User Group

10/21/2026 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

IBM | New York NY | United States

Event overview:

 

Red Hat® User Group (RHUG) events offer a unique opportunity for Red Hat technology users to gather and discover solutions to IT challenges with subject matter experts & peers. Join the next RHUG to network and explore cutting-edge solutions for IT modernization. Don’t miss this opportunity to transform your IT services while enjoying great food and building connections with industry professionals. This event will focus on the below topics.

 

Tracing the long arc from the founding ambitions of symbolic AI through generational and technical limitations to today's large language models and the evolving model context protocol (MCP) standard. We'll look at how Red Hat is turning history into practice — building secure, production-grade agentic tooling across its platform and giving AI agents a way to reason and act collaboratively at data center scale.

 

About the speaker: Jonathan Edwards is a Senior OpenShift Technical Account Manager and HPC Engineer at Red Hat, where he works with large financial services institutions to implement and tune OpenShift and Kubernetes clusters, with a growing focus on developing AI automation and tooling.

 

Event Details:

Date: October 21, 2026

Location: IBM: 1 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10010

Please check in at the lobby. 

Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET
Includes: Food, drinks, and networking

Questions? Email rhug@redhat.com

 

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Travel Information

IBM

1 Madison Ave | New York | United States

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