Financial services companies need a reliable, secure, and flexible platform in order to build toward the future. Red Hat has the expertise to help you modernize so that you can meet customer demands while reducing costs and risk.

Are the complexities of prior authorization slowing down patient care and causing widespread dissatisfaction? A modernized, intelligent approach not only streamlines processes but profoundly enhances patient outcomes and customer satisfaction.

This webinar tackles prevailing myths surrounding prior authorization including the following myths:

     • Myth 1: prior authorization is inherently slow and manual.
     • Myth 2: prior authorization always leads to burnout and abandonment. 
     • Myth 3: Modernizing prior authorization is too complex or risky. 

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Mythbusters: Impact of technology on prior authorization

Payers sit on a wealth of claims data, yet much of its value remains trapped in disparate legacy systems. Optimizing this data can do more than answer everyday questions from members and providers, it can also reveal insights into organizational performance, cost trends, and operational opportunities.

In this session, we’ll explore how AI-driven insights can transform complexity into a powerful catalyst for smarter, more agile, and member-centric care.

Breaking down claims data silos: Turning complexity into member-centric care

The convergence of IT and operational technology (OT) is reshaping manufacturing. Traditional, hardware-centric industrial controls are being challenged by the need for flexible, secure, and data-driven systems that can support analytics, AI, and real-time decision-making. In this interview, Red Hat subject matter experts discuss how manufacturers can modernize their industrial control systems with open standards, unified platforms, and incremental approaches—while staying competitive, secure, and future-ready. See why automation is a critical component to modernization.

Breaking barriers in industrial automation: Future proof your path forward

Unlock the true potential of your healthcare IT operations. Discover how modernizing claims delivers unprecedented IT efficiency, significant cost savings, and the agility needed to drive continuous innovation, while letting you focus on innovation.

We'll cover the:
     - Infrastructure optimization outcomes: How to optimize resource usage for measurable cost savings in storage and infrastructure.
     - Impact of automated operations: Reduce downtime and risk during system upgrades, ensuring reliable claims processing and improving operational efficiency.
     - Importance of a flexible, interoperable foundation: What you need to rapidly deploy and scale applications, fostering agility for new initiatives.

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Unlock IT potential: Efficiency, savings & innovation in claims modernization

Modernizing claims can deliver unprecedented IT efficiency, significant cost savings, and the agility needed to drive continuous innovation and enhance system reliability in today's complex healthcare landscape.

Join this short webinar to see how to:
     - Optimize to get a measurable cost savings
     - Enhance reliability & reduced risk
     - Plan for flexibility using an interoperable foundation for rapid deployment

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Healthcare claims reimagined: Driving innovation, cutting costs

There are many myths about claims modernization, so join us as we bust common myths. Discover how a modern platform approach transforms administrative complexity into a strategic advantage, driving measurable cost reductions, unprecedented agility, and superior member and provider experiences.

We'll debunk:
    - Myth 1: Claims modernization is just a costly, technical upgrade with limited ROI.
    - Myth 2: Legacy systems are too rigid to support real-time data, rapid innovation, or new initiatives.
    - Myth 3: Achieving robust compliance inevitably means sacrificing speed and customer satisfaction.

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Mythbusters: Healthcare claims modernization

AI is reshaping the healthcare prior authorization process, empowering payers to make faster, more accurate decisions while staying head of regulatory requirements and their commitments to their members. This brief, high-impact session, we’ll show how a modern platform engineering approach can enable smarter, data-driven decisions.  Explore how agentic AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) accelerate prior authorizations, reduce manual bottlenecks, and ensure secure, compliant operations, delivering measurable value across the enterprise.   

In this short webinar, we’ll dig into the impact of:
     - Accelerating prior authorization processes.
     - Leveraging platform engineering to scale AI and LLM capabilities securely and efficiently.
     - Driving operational excellence and improved patient outcomes through intelligent automation.

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Executive's guide to AI-guided prior authorization

Modern healthcare demands agility and foresight to navigate evolving regulations, data complexities, and market shifts. Discover how strategically leveraging AI and a robust platform approach can future-proof your organization, ensuring not just compliance but also sustained innovation and superior patient outcomes.

In this short webinar, see how you can: 
     • Reduce prior authorization processing times. 
     • Use continuous adaptability and scalability to meet evolving regulatory mandates.
     • Unlock future innovation and enhanced patient outcomes. 

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Future-proof framework: Building prior authorization for agility and innovation

Join us as we explore how network automation is reshaping life on the factory floor. We’ll chat with Tim Mirth, an industrial edge solution architect at Red Hat about what network automation really means in manufacturing, why it’s becoming a game changer, and how it’s helping teams bridge the gap between IT and OT. 

In this quick session, expect: 
 - real-world stories on the impact of network automation. 
 - practical lessons learned. 
 - a few “aha” moments around security, scalability, and simplifying complexity. 

Whether you’re just starting to explore automation or looking to expand what you’ve already built, this session will leave you with ideas you can take back to your own operations—no buzzwords required.

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Demystifying network automation on the factory floor

Modernizing prior authorization offers significant efficiency gains, but safeguarding sensitive patient data throughout the process is paramount. Advanced technologies can optimize prior authorization workflows while strictly adhering to robust data privacy and compliance standards, ultimately enhancing patient trust and operational integrity.

In this short webinar, see how you can: 
     • Leverage AI-driven automation to accelerate prior authorization determinations, while reducing prior authorization processing times. 
     • Implement secure AI platforms that utilize large language models (LLMs) to extract and contextualize clinical information. 
     • Supports continuous adaptability to regulatory changes and dynamic market demands, allowing organizations to mitigate risks.

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Data integrity in healthcare: An advanced approach to prior authorization

A unified automation strategy helps healthcare organizations reduce technical debt, improve operational efficiency, and fortify their security needs. We will explore how an automation platform delivers a scalable and sustainable digital infrastructure to meet the growing demands of modern, patient-centered care.

In this session, you will learn how to:
     - Fortify your security operations and maintain compliance with pre-built, HIPAA-specific automation playbooks.
     - Streamline infrastructure management and accelerate the lifecycle of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) applications like EHR and PACS systems.
     - Increase operational efficiency and scale services through end-to-end automation that improves accuracy and is self-documenting.

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Healthcare 101: Automation as a competitive advantage in patient-centered care

Watch this technical webinar highlighting how you can run MuleSoft (a Salesforce company) on Red Hat OpenShift. This powerful combination is empowering financial institutions to integrate, deploy, and scale applications with the security and agility demanded in today’s hybrid cloud environment.

Join us to explore how running MuleSoft on OpenShift can address the unique needs of financial services. You’ll learn:
- Streamlined Integration: Use MuleSoft’s API-led approach to connect legacy systems, fintech solutions, and customer platforms seamlessly.
- Enterprise-Grade Platform: Leverage OpenShift’s Kubernetes-based infrastructure for secure, compliant, and scalable application deployment.
- Industry-Specific Benefits: Achieve flexibility, enhanced security, and regulatory compliance while accelerating digital transformation.
- Real-World Impact: Hear how financial organizations are modernizing IT and delivering value faster with this partnership.

Mulesoft Workloads on Red Hat OpenShift

Embracing Stablecoins and Tokenized Payments with Modern Infrastructure:
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Embracing Stablecoins and Tokenized Payments with Modern Infrastructure

Modernizing power grids presents significant challenges that require innovative solutions. The energy sector can meet these demands by embracing the stable, secure, and flexible open-source technologies critical industries rely on. A collaborative, software-driven approach is essential for building a more resilient and efficient grid.

In this short webinar, Stefan covers the:
    - Shift in mindset for the successful deployment of modern software-based technologies in the grid.
    - Benefits of separating the innovation cycles of hardware, software platforms and applications. 
    - Red Hat approach to grid modernization. 

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Future-proof, reliable, secure: Architecting the grid with enterprise-ready open source technology

Generative AI technologies are unveiling many use cases to enhance efficiencies and overall productivity, especially in IT and business operations areas. We'll speak about a use case that Red Hat and Promontory are working on tackling a very different banking domain; operational risk. In this session, Nicolas and Héctor will discuss a proof of concept that accelerates the control framework assessment, which is a very specialized and complex activity, with the use of GenAI and the role of Open Source AI in this use case.

Operational Resilience: Using GenAI to Accelerate Risk Control Framework Assessment

In an increasingly digital and interconnected financial landscape, payments organizations are under rising pressure to ensure operational resilience. This session brings together experts across payments, risk, compliance, and technology to explore the critical imperatives driving resilience today - from regulatory expectations and cyber threats to cloud transformation and data governance.

Richard Albery, Director of Commercial, ACI Worldwide
Ramon Villarreal, Payments Industry Lead, Red Hat
Dr. Richard Harmon, VP - Global Financial Services Industry, Red Hat

Operational Resilience: Imperatives in payments and financial services

As the financial services industry faces growing complexity and continuous change, operational resilience has become a critical imperative. This expert-led session brings together leaders from operational resilience, cloud risk and controls, data privacy, and digital transformation to share insights, challenges and strategies for building resilience across functions.

With:  
Monica Sasso, Digital Transformation Lead, Global Financial Services, Red Hat
Anne Leslie, Cloud Risk & Controls Leader EMEA, IBM Cloud
Chris Redmond, Director, Cloud, Operational Resilience, Data Privacy and Artificial Intelligence (CODA) Practice, IBM Promontory

Operational Resilience: Elevating Resilience in Financial Services

In this Coffee Break explore how IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) and IBM Power systems, in collaboration with Red Hat OpenShift, are modernizing payment processing. We'll highlight how FTM serves as a universal payments hub supporting high-performance, secure, and cloud-agnostic operations and underscores how Red Hat technologies enable hybrid cloud flexibility and future-proof architectures to meet evolving regulatory and customer demands.

Key Takeaways:

- FTM as a payments hub: Supports orchestration, clearing, and settlement for global payment networks including ACH, Fedwire, SEPA, and instant payments.

- Hybrid cloud flexibility: Red Hat OpenShift enables FTM deployments across AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM Cloud, and IBM Power.

- IBM Power + OpenShift benefits: Enhanced performance, container density, and quantum-safe security with Power systems.

- Industry-ready modernization: FTM is advancing with ISO 20022 adoption, API-first development, UI modernization, and resilient, high-availability architecture.

- AI and automation: IBM is introducing AI assistants for system insight and integrating automation to support straight-through processing and exception management.

Powering Payment Innovation: FTM, IBM Power, and Red Hat OpenShift

Virtualization isn't new, but it has changed over the past few years. Many have an opportunity to explore other approaches and Red Hat® OpenShift® Virtualization is allowing teams new ways to benefit their firms.

In this short Exec to Exec designed for IT leaders, see:
   - What virtualization offers your business.
   - Benefits, tips and tricks.
   - How to get started in modernizing your virtualization strategy with OpenShift Virtualization.

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Exec to Exec: The perks of virtualization and how to get them with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

Whether you love tech or just want it to work when you need it, your teams are likely using virtualization to meet your needs. Knowing key aspects of virtualization allows you to have better conversations and get the outcomes you need faster.

In this Exec to Exec, get insights on:
   - What is virtualization for non-technical leaders.
   - Business benefits leaders should expect.
   - Tips and tricks for getting your goals met quickly.

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Exec to Exec: Top 3 benefits of virtualization for business executives

Payments continue to change and expectations are expanding rapidly. Staying on top of it all is a challenge we can help with. Join payments expert, Ramon Villarreal, to take a look forward so you can better meet future demand.

In this Exec to Exec, get:

- Insights on how successful firms are using technology. 
- Trends that impact the future of payments.
- Guidance for setting yourself up for the future.

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Exec to Exec: The future of payments

Imagine if your teams had extra time to innovate to get you an edge over other financial firms, as you exceed customer expectations.

In this Exec to Exec, we’ll discuss how to:

  - Decrease potential risk.
  - Gain cost optimizations.
  - Steps to take to gain benefits.

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Exec to Exec: How automation impacts the business teams in a financial firm

Modernization is not a destination and no two modernizations are the same. Knowing what steps to take to set up your organization for continued success is key to modernization.

In this Exec to Exec, get:
  - Why your teams should transform at your pace, not your vendors.
  - Insight on how firms are successfully modernizing.
  - Tips and tricks for modernizing your core banking system.

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Exec to Exec: Diving deeper into a modern core banking system

Generative AI on its own won’t help you reach your AI goals. You need to be able to train it, prompt–tune and fine tune it. If done well, it can help with many aspects of your business, including onboarding new customers faster. 

In this Exec to Exec, we’ll discuss:

- What you should expect from AI in financial services.
- How your business and technical teams can use GenAI today.
- What guardrails you should consider for your future strategy.

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Exec to Exec: How to use GenAI in your firm without losing control

A payments strategy needs a partnership between the business teams and technical teams to lead the market. Without the latest technology, staying ahead of the competition won’t last long so it’s important to understand both the business and the technology. 

In this Exec to Exec, we’ll discuss:

- Tips on how to build the relationship between business leaders and technical teams.
- Where AI can impact your payments strategy.
- What successful firms are doing that you can focus on.

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Exec to Exec: What you need to know about technology in your payments strategy

Technical teams are expected to keep up with changes, but as business leaders if you don’t know what is possible, you’re likely not reaching your potential. Red Hat® OpenShift® continues to expand to allow your firm to meet your ever changing needs. 

In this 5 minute Exec to Exec, we’ll discuss:

- What you, as a leader, need to know about OpenShift.
- The use cases many use to advance their firm's capabilities.
- Best practices in growing your partnership with your technical teams.

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Exec to Exec: What leaders should know about Red Hat® OpenShift®

Constantly need more for customers and faster? To get there, your core banking strategy has to be updated often.

In this Exec to Exec, we’ll discuss:
  - What you can expect from an updated core banking platform.
  - What you might be missing by delaying the modernization.
  - Why your teams should transform at your pace, not your vendors.

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Exec to Exec: What a modern core banking system can do for you

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is leading the business world forward faster than ever. Are you keeping up?

Watch this Exec to Exec to:
- See where AI is today and where it’s going.
- Get the impact on your organization.
- Learn ideas for quick wins in using AI for your firm.

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Exec to Exec: The business impact of AI on your firm

Exec to Exec: Technology Insights for Business Leaders

IT Automation means different things to different people and as features grow, so does what you need to know.  

In this Exec to Exec, we’re here to make sure you understand:
- How to think about IT automation and the business impact it offers.
- Business features that can help you beat the competition.
- Tips for working with your technical teams.

Exec to Exec: What to know about automation to add agility and reduce costs

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