Red Hat Summit: Connect 2026 Dubai

Red Hat Summit: Connect brings Red Hat's flagship Summit conversation to individual cities, and the Dubai stop gathers IT leaders, architects and practitioners from across the UAE and the wider region for a single day of keynotes, customer stories, technical tracks and labs. The focus is on how enterprises adopt open hybrid cloud, AI and automation while keeping infrastructure secure and sovereign.

Morning keynotes

After registration and networking from 8:30, the plenary runs through opening remarks, a regional perspective and a series of short keynotes interleaved with customer perspectives, followed by a fireside chat and an ecosystem panel.

• Business resilience and security
• The AI era
• Red Hat and the customer modernization journey
• Sovereign technology
• Partner sessions by Intel and HPE

Afternoon tracks

Two parallel tracks split the early afternoon between infrastructure strategy and intelligent app delivery.

• Track A: Standardize, secure and migrate with RHEL
• Track A: VM modernization with virtualization
• Track A: Modern app platforms with Portworx
• Track B: Automation at scale and AIOps
• Track B: Scalable AI inference with agentic intelligence
• Track B: DevSecOps and platform engineering

Hands-on labs

The day closes with technical hands-on labs from 15:45, one on Red Hat AI and one on OpenShift Virtualization combined with automation.

Sponsors

The 2026 Dubai edition lists Moro Hub as Diamond sponsor, Integra as Gold sponsor and Ecosystem and SCC as Silver sponsors.