Day 1 Keynote: The next platform is choice
May 12, 2026 · 1h 35m
Hicks argued that every AI agent runs on Linux and that the winners will be the organizations that make AI work on their own terms. Red Hat showed how it moved an internal agent from frontier models to smaller optimized models layer by layer, announced sovereignty capabilities across OpenShift, RHEL, Ansible and Red Hat AI, and added confidential computing to the Red Hat AI factory with NVIDIA.
What it announced
- Sovereignty capabilities · Red HatCompliance and sovereignty across the portfolioAnnounced
- Confidential computing in the Red Hat AI factory with NVIDIA · Red HatProtect models and data in useAnnounced