Smart cities. Connected vehicles. Autonomous manufacturing and agriculture. Modern cloud-native technologies are redefining the capabilities of telecommunications networks from the core to the edge. Service providers are using open source advancements (particularly in AI, 5G and hybrid cloud) and a mature and growing partner ecosystem to remake themselves and the industries around them.

Red Hat AI is a full AI platform specifically engineered to accelerate AI adoption while significantly reducing operational costs. Organizations attempting to operationalize AI frequently encounter challenges like skyrocketing model costs, intricate customization requirements, and restrictive deployment environments. Red Hat AI addresses these challenges by offering a way to develop and deploy comprehensive AI solutions across hybrid cloud environments.

In this webinar, our experts will guide you through the benefits of customizing and optimizing large language models for efficient and fast inference. We’ll also review the key products and features that can help you get started with generative AI.

Agenda:
• Key benefits of adopting AI in the enterprise
• Essential steps to get started with generative AI
• Core components of Red Hat AI

Unlock Generative AI innovation with Red Hat

In today's world of data-driven decision making, organizations need a seamless, scalable and efficient platform for developing and deploying AI/ML solutions. Red Hat OpenShift AI offers a comprehensive solution that enables organizations to manage their end-to-end AI/ML workflows. 
 
In this webinar, attendees will learn how Red Hat OpenShift AI accelerates the full machine learning life cycle, from data ingestion, model development, and training to deployment and monitoring. 
 
The session will provide a deep dive into OpenShift architecture, its components, and workflows that can be executed on top of it. 
 
Whether you are a developer, data scientist, IT or data science decision maker, this webinar will demonstrate how Red Hat OpenShift AI can support your work with a powerful platform to build robust and scalable machine learning solutions.

End-to-end machine learning with Red Hat OpenShift AI

Now is the time to modernize your virtualization infrastructure - to make it more affordable, agile, secure, and future-ready. This session explores a modern approach to virtualization with Red Hat® OpenShift® Virtualization.

Agenda:
• Emerging trends in virtualization
• Need to migrate and modernize
• DevSecOps considerations
• What’s in OpenShift Virtualization
• Tooling and processes for migration
• Red Hat OpenStack Platform benefits

Modernize your virtualization strategy with Red Hat

Successfully upgrading Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) at scale across a large environment requires more than just running a tool—it demands a strategic, automated approach tailored to your organization’s unique needs. Explore how to build a customizable, end-to-end RHEL in-place upgrade solution using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (Ansible)’s "infra.leapp" collection as the foundation.

In this session, we'll introduce Leapp—the built-in, supported upgrade tool that streamlines your move to the next major version of RHEL. Learn how Leapp preserves your system configurations, subscriptions, custom repositories, and third-party applications, while providing a seamless upgrade path from RHEL 7.9 to 8 and RHEL 8 to 9. 

In this session you will learn:

• Why you should upgrade
• What Leapp is, why you should use it and how it works
• Leapp in action (demo)

See how you can reduce upgrade risks and save time with an efficient, automated approach.

Simplify Red Hat Enterprise Linux upgrades with Leapp utility and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Every deployment has to start somewhere. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has offered options for automating deployments of our enterprise grade operating system for years. Image builder is the next generation of build automation.
 
Join our webinar for a look at both RHEL image builder and Red Hat Lightspeed (Insights) Image Builder. What options do they offer? What are the differences between the two tools? Why would I use one over the other? We’ll also include a live demo of each.

Define your standard operating environment with Red Hat Enterprise Linux image builder

Effectively managing secrets in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is a popular topic -especially when discussing automation best practices. Secure secrets management is crucial to prevent the exposure of sensitive data, such as passwords, API keys, and private keys.

HashiCorp Vault with Ansible Automation Platform offers a robust solution for enhancing both security and automation practices. This combination simplifies the management of secrets within automated workflows, helping infrastructures remain secure and compliant.

Learn how these solutions work together to achieve a higher level of operational efficiency and security - making it easier to manage complex environments and reduce the potential for human error.

Includes demonstrations on:
Dynamic credentials retrieval from Vault (via Lookup plugins).
Auto-expiring SSH certs, tokens.
Vault/AAP RBAC separation of duties.

Secure Secrets Automation with HashiCorp Vault and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

DevOps teams often grapple with a fragmented toolchain, hindering collaboration and slowing down software delivery. Join the session on February 19 to explore how Red Hat® Developer Hub, built on the Backstage platform, can serve as a central hub for developers and operations teams, providing a unified experience for accessing tools, documentation, and services. 

We'll demonstrate how to leverage Ansible Automation to automate infrastructure provisioning and application deployments,seamlessly integrating with the Developer Hub. 

By the end of this session, attendees will understand how to streamline their DevOps workflows, improve developer productivity, and accelerate software delivery.

Agenda:

• Challenges faced by DevOps teams in managing a fragmented toolchain
• Introduction to Red Hat Developer Hub and its key features
• Benefits of using Ansible automation with Red Hat Developer Hub
• Developer Hub demonstration

Empowering DevOps Teams: A unified platform with Red Hat Developer Hub and Ansible automation Platform

Implementing full-fledged ITSM automation often needs changes in business processes and approval workflows. These changes can involve extensive discussions and coordination between different teams, making adoption a complex endeavor. 

Recognizing this challenge, we will see how Artificial Intelligence could help in minimizing any changes to existing ITSM processes and tools, shortening the time to value for ITSM automation.

Combining Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform with Red Hat OpenShift AI could enable automatic incident resolution on an existing ITSM platform such as ServiceNow.

We will see in a live demo how a Machine Learning model, trained and hosted on OpenShift AI, could be used to classify the incoming tickets to execute the proper resolution via Ansible automations.

Human operators stay in the loop, gathering and filtering the historical data to train the model and to supervise and approve the automation chosen by the Machine Learning Natural Language Processing.

Are you ready to revolutionize your ITSM with Artificial Intelligence?

Reinventing IT automation: AI & Ansible for Smarter Telecom Services (Red Hat Open Talks)

BSS and OSS lie at the core of how telecom networks function in terms of customer and network management, and new technologies such as AI and virtualization are changing the game.

AI is having a disruptive impact in countless industries and business functions, in both business and operations, join us in this session to learn more about:

• BSS, OSS Cloud Adoption and Automation
• BSS, OSS, AI and virtualisation:
• BSS personalized, contextualized, and self-service experiences, realize revenue potential, order fulfillment rates, enhance data accuracy, and much more
• OSS Identify & fix, predict, or prevent faults in service delivery, automation, and orchestration of services running over networks or the edge

SPEAKERS
Beatriz Ortega
EMEA Telco Business Development Manager
Red Hat

Alexsey Rusakov
Senior Solution Architect
Red Hat

Unleash the OSS/BSS evolution

The introduction of 5G technology heralded a new era of connectivity, promising unprecedented speed, reliability, and innovation. In this transformative landscape, telecommunications companies are seeking robust, adaptable platforms to support the deployment of 5G radio access network (RAN) and 5G core solutions while also continuing to manage and scale their existing networks. Red Hat OpenShift has emerged as a leading choice for building hybrid cloud platform solutions, offering cloud-native agility coupled with carrier-grade reliability.

This talk will cover the roadmap for Red Hat OpenShift in the context of telecommunications network deployments, as well as how Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift is modernizing network functions through the convergence of virtual-network functions (VNFs) and cloud-native network functions (CNFs).

Key topics include:

• Using image-based installation and upgrade procedures to reduce deployment, upgrade, and update time at the far edge.
• Harnessing the power of cloud-native tools for observability, management, and automation in telecommunications environments across both platforms.
• Advancing the platform to accommodate emerging technologies and standards in the rapidly evolving telecommunications landscape.
• The ongoing evolution of Red Hat OpenShift and OpenStack Services on OpenShift long-life offerings to support customers with critical workloads.
• Roadmap for RAN and core features that help telecommunications operators solve problems across their national networks.

Recorded September 26, 2025

Franck Baudin, Product Manager - Telco / Networking, Red Hat
Robert Love, Principal Product Manager - Edge, Red Hat
Gurpreet Singh, Principal Product Manager, Red Hat

Telecommunications Roadmap: Red Hat OpenStack and OpenShift platforms in the 5G era

With advancements in how professionals automate the IT workflow, there is a clear path to move away from manual maintenance of virtual machine based workloads. IT operations professionals focused on automating VM management can stay relevant to their organizations by learning how to leverage Ansible Automation Platform to deploy, configure, and manage VMs on OpenShift Virtualization.

Red Hat’s “Automate and Manage Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization with Ansible” (DO336) course teaches the essential skills required to effectively use automation to drive the management of VMs on OpenShift by using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. In this webinar, Red Hat instructors, Jesse Scott and Antonio Marí Romero will share highlights from the course and will demonstrate the ease of automating virtual machine management on the platform.

In this session, we will cover:

• The current state of virtualization and why organizations are searching for a modern approach to cloud-native application development
• How Red Hat Training and Certification can help teams learn to modernize the automated deployment of VM-based applications
• How to easily use Ansible playbooks to manage virtual machines in OpenShift Virtualization
• How to migrate VMs from an existing hypervisor to OpenShift Virtualization by using the Migration Toolkit for Virtualization
• Course highlights from “Automate and Manage Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization with Ansible” (DO336)

SPEAKERS
Jesse Scott
Senior Instructor, Red Hat Training and Certification
Red Hat

Antonio Marí Romero
Technical Content Architect, Product and Technical Learning
Red Hat

Simplify OpenShift VM Operations with Ansible

To spark innovation and improve scalability of its network services, Finnish telecommunications company Elisa sought to extend its cloudification efforts to radio access networks (RANs). In 2024, Elisa, Nokia, and Red Hat collaborated to evaluate the maturity, impact, and benefits of a joint 5G Cloud RAN-based implementation compared to Elisa’s legacy radio network.

In this session, you’ll hear the benefits and challenges of Elisa and Nokia’s 5G Cloud RAN for New Radio (NR) architecture compared to traditional 5G RAN, including a live pilot of radio network deployment. Key topics include:

Meeting NR requirements with Cloud RAN Distributed Unit (DU) and Central Unit (CU) design principles, including Layer 1 (L1) acceleration.

Centralizing radio cloud platform operations with multi-cluster support on Red Hat OpenShift.

Future support for low-latency applications, such as autonomous or remote-operated vehicles and predictive maintenance with edge AI.

Cloud-native telco with Elisa and Nokia's 5G Cloud RAN and Red Hat OpenShift

A panel discussion on how telcos are using and considering using AI in the Radio Access Network (RAN), featuring:
Ofir Zemer, VP, Product Management, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Michael Irizarry, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Engineering and Information Technology, UScellular
Rob Hughes, Head of Wireless Marketing, Fujitsu
Guy Turgeon, Senior Principal Industry Specialist - Telco, Red Hat
Stefan Pongratz, Analyst, Dell'Oro Group

Telco AI Forum - Tracking the progress of AI in the RAN

AI is helping CSPs optimize networks, predict maintenance needs, and automate operations to reduce costs and enhance service reliability. With AI-driven customer experience management, CSPs can personalize interactions, anticipate churn and streamline support—boosting customer loyalty. By operationalizing AI with AIOps frameworks, CSPs can efficiently deploy, monitor and scale AI models

Yet, challenges remain:

How can CSPs avoid AI implementation pitfalls that lead to inefficiencies?
What strategies ensure AI models remain accurate and relevant over time?
How can operators balance automation with human oversight to maintain service quality?
Watch this on-demand webinar to hear from industry leaders on these questions and more.

Supporting AI, Using AI: Getting to pervasive intelligence in telecoms networks

An interview with Red Hat's David Kypuros, Principal AI Architect - Global Telco Partner Solutions, Telecommunications, by 
Catherine Sbeglia Nin, Managing Editor, RCR Wireless News.

Telco AI Forum - What is the optimal adoption pathway for Gen AI?

Red Hat North America Training Director Jensen Cook and Solution Architect Wes Urquhart offer a guide through the training, certification, consulting, and technical on-site resources available to Red Hat customers migrating their OpenStack platforms.

This webinar series is designed to help you plan and manage your OpenStack migration or upgrade, to prepare your move to this unified, modern cloud platform. Taught by some of Red Hat’s leading experts, based on their experiences with actual telecommunications companies, this series will prepare you to:

- Evaluate the benefits of Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift
- Migrate or upgrade to/from any version of Red Hat OpenStack Platform
- Enable your team with expert resources to support them throughout the journey.

OpenStack migration master class, episode 6: OpenStack platform migration training, support, and resources

Red Hat Senior Project Manager Farina Cocker takes a deep dive into OpenStack tenant planning, including Working in the LAB (Shift Left), Certification, and Availability Strategy for tenants.

This webinar series is designed to help you plan and manage your OpenStack migration or upgrade, to prepare your move to this unified, modern cloud platform. Taught by some of Red Hat’s leading experts, based on their experiences with actual telecommunications companies, this series will prepare you to:

- Evaluate the benefits of Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift
- Migrate or upgrade to/from any version of Red Hat OpenStack Platform
- Enable your team with expert resources to support them throughout the journey.

OpenStack migration master class, episode 5: From the lab, part 2 - OpenStack platform tenant planning

Red Hat Senior Architect Hardik (“Hardy”) Dalwadi reviews Networking / NFV (OVN/OVS), Storage, DCN, NUMA Pinning/Performance, and the Control Plane requirements in a more detailed look at OpenStack platform architecture planning.

This webinar series is designed to help you plan and manage your OpenStack migration or upgrade, to prepare your move to this unified, modern cloud platform. Taught by some of Red Hat’s leading experts, based on their experiences with actual telecommunications companies, this series will prepare you to:

- Evaluate the benefits of Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift
- Migrate or upgrade to/from any version of Red Hat OpenStack Platform
- Enable your team with expert resources to support them throughout the journey.

OpenStack migration master class, episode 4: From the lab, part 1 - OpenStack platform architecture planning

On June 30, 2024, CentOS Linux will reach end of life. Moving ahead with Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® ensures service providers of full life cycle support, thousands of certified ecosystem options, and the security, reliability and management required of a commercial platform. Recognizing the significance of this move, Red Hat is prepared to support service providers with tools and guidance to make the migration as efficient as possible. Join this webinar to learn about and discuss why this change is a better move for service providers.

In this webinar, we’ll discuss:
• Why this move is better for service providers and open source communities
• Why Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the best destination for service providers
• How to make the move:
- Programs and subscriptions, including low and no-cost options
- Tools for upgrading in place tools
- Migrating on-premise or moving onto a public cloud environment

What's next after CentOS? Production-ready platforms for telco, cable and media

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