OpenShift Showcase NYC
November 18, 2026 | 8:30 AM - 4:45 PM
Westin Grand Central | New York City, NY
Join us in NYC for the OpenShift Showcase to learn about developing and modernizing applications with Red Hat® OpenShift®.
Red Hat® OpenShift® is the leading hybrid cloud application platform that provides the consistency your enterprise needs. Join us at the OpenShift Showcase in New York City for a full-day, immersive experience where we bridge the gap between operations and development. As organizations balance the demands of rising virtualization costs, the imperative to integrate AI, and the need to modernize without disruption, this event provides a prescriptive roadmap for moving forward on your own terms.
We believe organizations need a choice in how they work. At the Showcase, you’ll explore how OpenShift acts as a truly intelligent, sovereign, and unified application platform—stretching from on-premises data centers to every major public cloud. Through visionary keynotes, real-world customer success stories, and technical deep dives, you will learn how to leverage OpenShift to unify virtual machines, containers, and agentic AI workloads into one operational model.
Who should attend?
This Showcase is designed for technology leaders and practitioners responsible for infrastructure, applications, development, operations, and enterprise architecture, including:
- IT decision-makers and directors
- Infrastructure architects and specialists
- Enterprise architects
- Application architects
- Developers and developer team leads
- DevOps engineers
Whether you’re evaluating your next virtualization strategy, accelerating AI adoption, modernizing applications, or looking to simplify hybrid cloud operations, the OpenShift Showcase will give you practical insights and strategies to move forward on your terms.
If you attend one of the two afternoon workshops, these are the minimum skills sets required :
- Some experience with Red Hat OpenShift
- Basic understanding of containers
- Basic programming skills (Java, Python)
- Basic understanding of Git (push code to a repository)
- Note: Please bring your laptop to the event if you’re registering for Dev or Ops hands-on lab.
In-person event details
- Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2026
- Time: 8:30 AM - 4:45 PM ET with lunch provided from 12:30 - 1:30 PM and reception from 3:45 - 4:45 PM
- Location: Westin Grand Central 212 E 42nd St, New York, NY 10017
- Room: Grand Central Ballroom
We are pleased to offer 6 continuing professional education (CPE) credits to those that attend the full day. Carahsoft is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education of the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. For more information on the CPE credits we are offering, our CPE sponsor (NASBA), and submission process, please click here.
Any questions? Please email infrastructure@redhat.com.
Registration
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Agenda
Registration and breakfast
Welcome and introduction + Intel presentation
The Future of OpenShift: A place to innovate without interruption
Chris Morgan, Vice President, Technical Marketing, Evangelism & Strategic Initiatives
The experimentation phase of cloud-native is over. You’re still running VMs and containers, landing AI, securing the software supply chain, and keeping it all alive across hybrid environments. Adding another tool doesn’t help. You need the platform you already trust to get more intelligent, more secure, and more predictable—without asking you to start over.
That’s the future of OpenShift. Intelligence is moving into the core of the platform: natural-language operations in the console, fleet-wide health in plain English, AI that correlates incidents instead of drowning you in alerts, and agentic pipelines that keep delivery moving without bypassing security. VMs and containers stay on one foundation. You keep choice—and control—wherever the work runs.
In this session, we’ll look at OpenShift through the lens of the IT practitioner: how a proven application platform brings together virtualization, containers, and AI; how OpenShift Lightspeed and Advanced Cluster Management cut the operational grind; and how policy-as-code plus human-in-the-loop automation lets teams ship faster without giving up the supply chain.
Then we’ll put it on the floor with a live demonstration—what’s possible today, and where OpenShift is headed next. Come see the future of OpenShift, and what it means for how you’ll operate IT tomorrow.
Project Lightwell in Action: Automated, Scalable Security for the Frontier AI Era
James Labocki, Senior Director, Product Management - Red Hat
With frontier AI models like Mythos and Daybreak driving Time to Exploit to near zero, automated threats now target software supply chains at machine speed, rendering manual security workflows obsolete. This session introduces Project Lightwell, a joint Red Hat and IBM initiative that acts as a trusted clearinghouse combining AI vulnerability discovery with human engineering to rapidly deliver validated open-source fixes. Learn how Red Hat enables enterprises to seamlessly deploy these signed, patched artifacts into production via its delivery infrastructure—ensuring SLSA Level 3 compliance and fully reproducible builds. A live demonstration will showcase the end-to-end workflow: detecting an AI-era exploit threat, and automatically validating and deploying Lightwell-remediated packages at scale without compromising stability.
Coffee break, visit partner tables, and chat with a TAM
Customer panel discussion - From Migration Risk to Modernization at Scale: Lessons from the OpenShift Journey
PNC Bank | Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield | TBD
Hear directly from enterprise leaders who have transformed complex IT environments with Red Hat OpenShift to simplify migration, modernization, and application operations at scale. This customer panel will explore how organizations are navigating major infrastructure and data center transitions—from modernizing virtualization platforms to using federated service mesh architectures to simplify the migration of thousands of application services.
Panelists will share candid lessons across people, process, and technology, including how they reduced risk, accelerated timelines, and improved application resiliency. Attendees will gain practical insights into the strategies, decisions, and organizational approaches that made these transformations successful—and what they would do differently. Bring your toughest modernization questions and hear firsthand from leaders who have been through the journey.
Partner panel discussion - Beyond the Platform: Accelerating OpenShift with Red Hat Partners
Cisco | Everpure | Insight
Hear from a panel of Red Hat ecosystem partners about how they collaborate with Red Hat to help customers adopt, modernize, and scale Red Hat OpenShift. Panelists will explore architectural best practices, security integration, and actionable strategies for simplifying complexities across virtualization, application modernization, hybrid cloud, security, automation, and AI. Learn how the broader ecosystem can help accelerate transformation, reduce complexity and risk, and maximize the value of your Red Hat OpenShift investment.
Lunch
Emerging Technology Track - From "Vibe Coding" Chaos to Platform Control: Securely Building and Running AI Agents on OpenShift
Arunkumar Nattamai Hariharan, Specialist Solution Architect, Application Platform - Red Hat
Giovanni Fontana, Specialist Solution Architect, OpenShift - Red Hat
AI-assisted code generation delivers unprecedented development speed, but unguided AI prompts introduce severe security vulnerabilities, supply chain risks, and compliance debt. Moving fast without guardrails isn't innovation—it's enterprise liability. To safely capture AI's value, organizations must treat AI as a single platform problem: unifying how code is generated with how predictive, generative, and agentic workloads are executed and governed.
This demo session delivers a complete end-to-end story bridging developer experience with enterprise platform engineering. We start by exposing the hidden security traps of raw AI-generated code, then demonstrate how Developer Hub Golden Path Templates embed security policies, supply chain controls, and operational standards directly into the developer workflow. Transitioning from code creation to execution, we trace the complete lifecycle of an AI application from insecure prompt to robust, production-ready execution on Red Hat OpenShift.
Emerging Technology Track - Securing the Software Supply Chain in the AI Era
Chad Darby, Specialist Solution Architect, Application Platform - Red Hat
Guilherme Camposo, Specialist Solution Architect, Application Services - Red Hat
Frontier AI models such as Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, accessed through Project Glasswing, now autonomously discover thousands of previously unknown vulnerabilities and generate working exploits at unprecedented speed. This creates an AI Vulnerability Storm that dramatically shortens defenders' response windows, especially for open-source dependencies and container base images powering both traditional and AI workloads in financial services.
Red Hat and IBM’s $5 billion Project Lightwell counters this with an AI-augmented clearinghouse and over 20,000 engineers to identify, validate, and coordinate fixes at OSS supply chain scale. Yet upstream detection must translate into reliable downstream remediation inside secure customer pipelines.
In this session, we’ll present a practical, opinionated workflow using Red Hat’s Trusted Software Supply Chain capabilities to demonstrate complete inner-loop (developer) and outer-loop (release and runtime) remediation for real CVEs affecting application libraries and container images. It covers IDE dependency scanning with guided remediation, build-time enforcement and registry scanning, ACS continuous scanning at runtime and quarantine in OpenShift, and GitOps-triggered rebuilds after updates to the application base image and open-source code dependencies.
By showing traceable, security-first remediation without manual overrides, Red Hat provides FSI teams with a trusted delivery platform to compress time to remediation as AI accelerates both threats and defensive capabilities.
Emerging Technology Track - No GPU Left Exposed: Securing Multi-Tenant AI and Batch Workloads on OpenShift
Jason Kincl, Principal Solutions Architect, OpenShift - Red Hat
Cory Latschkowski, Specialist Solution Architect, OpenShift - Red Hat
Driving up resource utilization to offset the massive capital expense of specialized GPU hardware is a top priority for modern infrastructure teams. To achieve maximum efficiency, organizations are shifting toward high-density, multi-tenant cluster environments—dynamically orchestrating real-time AI services, autonomous agentic workflows, and heavyweight data pipelines on the same shared infrastructure. While this resource-sharing approach maximizes hardware ROI, it fundamentally redefines the platform's attack surface. Competing external compute demands and tool execution layers onto shared infrastructure creates security and risk trade-offs, significantly widening the blast radius for cross-tenant data leakage, lateral movement, and container escapes.
This session explores how to achieve peak hardware efficiency without compromising isolation by building a comprehensive zero-trust platform architecture on Red Hat OpenShift. We will map out the essential security pillars required to safely run diverse, high-performance workloads side-by-side. We will discuss the implementation of workload identities and scoped authorization frameworks to validate autonomous services, enforce rigid container-runtime isolation to neutralize host-level vulnerabilities, and leverage hardware-enforced confidential computing alongside continuous behavioral monitoring to ensure sensitive datasets remain entirely dark to neighboring tenants.
Operations Track - OpenShift Ops Hands-on Experience: “Day 1 Operational Workflows”
Tailored for IT/Ops teams, this session focuses on building environments optimized for developers and establishing Day 1 operational workflows. Through hands-on exercises, participants will focus on initial setup, core OpenShift concepts, application lifecycle management, troubleshooting, and essential developer tooling integration.
Developer Track - OpenShift Dev Hands-on Experience: “The AI Powered Inner-Loop”
Networking Reception
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Travel Information
Westin Grand Central
212 E 42nd St, New York, NY 10017
General session room: Grand Central Ballroom
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