Red Hat Summit is the annual Red Hat customer, partner, and community event and a central node on the enterprise open-source calendar. Four days at the Georgia World Congress Center cover the full Red Hat portfolio — OpenShift, RHEL, Ansible, OpenStack, Ceph — alongside deep tracks on AI platforms (including Red Hat’s AI inference and model-serving stack), virtualization, infrastructure automation, security and sovereignty, container platforms, and the long trail of open-source projects that underpin modern cloud and on-prem workloads.

The summit sits at the seam where data center infrastructure decisions meet the platform stack that actually runs on it. The virtualization-migration conversations alone have become consequential: operators moving off VMware are reshaping compute, storage, and networking choices, and Red Hat’s OpenShift Virtualization pitch is at the center of that. Add AI inference workloads, the bring-your-own-GPU operational picture, and the sovereignty-driven open-source mandate in regulated industries, and Summit has become unusually relevant to facility-side planners.

Attend if you operate infrastructure that runs Linux or OpenShift at scale, if you’re navigating a post-VMware virtualization decision, or if you’re building the platform layer that will host AI inference.