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:
Thought Machine and Red Hat

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

In today’s fast-moving and uncertain financial landscape, traditional risk management tools are no longer enough. Exchanges and financial institutions require deeper, predictive insights into portfolio and liquidity risk. Join Red Hat and Simudyne as they demonstrate how their partnership is redefining risk analysis through advanced agent-based AI modeling and high-performance cloud infrastructure.

Discover how Simudyne’s market simulator—powered by Red Hat OpenShift Service —enables institutions to model complex systems, run stress tests, and forecast margin impacts with unprecedented clarity and speed.

In this 10-minute Coffee Break you’ll learn how to:
* Simulate complex market behaviors using agent-based AI models
* Run real-time stress scenarios to proactively manage risk
* Leverage Red Hat OpenShift Service for scalable, secure infrastructure
* Improve decision-making and build resilience across financial operations

Richard Harmon, VP & Global Head of Financial Services, Red Hat 
Justin Lyon, CEO, Simudyne

Finance Needs AI: Using Market Simulation to Manage Risk

Portworx is the market leader in Kubernetes-native data management, providing persistent storage and advanced data services across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The Portworx platform—combined with Red Hat OpenShift—is empowering financial institutions to modernize their infrastructure, support AI innovation, and ensure operational resilience.

Join us for a 10-minute Coffee Break to learn how Portworx and Red Hat can help support: 
* Scalable AI/ML workloads with high-performance, cloud-native storage—accelerating innovation in data-intensive applications.
* Virtual machines and containers to run on the same Kubernetes platform—reducing cost, complexity, and vendor lock-in
* Enterprise-grade replication, disaster recovery, and zero-data-loss failover, ensuring high availability and compliance with regulations—protecting institutions from outages and cyber threats.

Accelerate Banking Transformation with Red Hat OpenShift and Portworx by Pure Storage

The payments landscape has rapidly evolved with the shift to cashless transactions, tap-to-pay, instant payment legislation, and the rise of fintechs and alternative payment methods. This transformation brings increased complexity, fraud risks, and integration challenges due to legacy systems and fragmented connectivity. To meet these demands, payment infrastructure must be modern, cloud-native, and provider-agnostic—delivering resilience, real-time security, and seamless integration through robust middleware.

Join us for a Coffee Break to learn how:
* Technology must support diverse channels and modernizing legacy infrastructure
* Regulations (e.g. DORA) necessitate operational resiliency
* Enterprise-grade open-source solutions from Diebold Nixdorf and RH enable flexible, portable, multi-vendor deployments across platforms and clouds

Ramon Villarreal, Payments Industry Lead -  Global FSI, Red Hat
David, Smith, Head of Global Software Engagement

Payments without borders- cloud native transaction processing

Digital data sovereignty has become a priority for private organizations and governments alike. Several countries have established regulations to govern how data is collected, stored, processed, and transferred within and outside of their territories, in alignment with jurisdictions’ applicable laws. Meeting these evolving regulations to secure data while maintaining usability is a complex—but crucial—objective.

Take a 10-minute Coffee Break to discover how you can: 
- Combine Red Hat’s open source ecosystem with eXate’s data-centric security expertise
- Address data sovereignty challenges
- Comply with regional data privacy laws

Dr. Richard Harmon, VP & Global Head of Financial Services, Red Hat
Andrea Ferraresi, FSI Principal Solutions Architect, Red Hat
Sonal Rattan, Co-founder and CTO, eXate

Beyond borders: The future of digital data sovereignty and privacy with eXate and Red Hat

ACI Worldwide and Red Hat collaborate to empower banks, merchants, and billers to drive, choose, and combine any cloud infrastructure for deploying their payment services.

Grab a cup of coffee and listen to this 10-minute Coffee Break to discover:
- How ACI and Red Hat partner together 
- The challenges ACI and Red Hat are seeing with their banking customers 
- The importance of leveraging cloud capabilities for flexibility and resiliency

Ramon Villarreal, Payments Industry Lead -  Global FSI, Red Hat
and Scotty Perkins, Global Head of Product Management and Head of Banking and Intermediaries, ACI Worldwide

Modernizing your enterprise payments platform

In this Coffee Break learn how generative AI can help reduce the cost and complexity of meeting your bank’s policies. We explore the work we are doing with a large global bank in Europe to reduce
the time required to perform risk assessments while discussing the potential role of agentic AI in this area.

Existing regulations evolve, are amended, and equally importantly: New regulations make banks revisit, evolve, amend, add, and even fix controls. This is a very highly specialized, time demanding mission, which demands effort every time a new regulation arrives, and when the control framework becomes so complex that requires a revisit/refresh.

Key Points:
- Compliance is a critical and specialized function in financial services, requiring skilled professionals to monitor contracts and controls.
- GenAI can assist if trained on financial regulations transparently, but frequent updates are needed to keep models relevant.
- Open-source AI enhances transparency and trust, benefiting compliance tasks like contract and control framework reviews.
- While GenAI improves efficiency, human expertise remains essential for interpretation and final validation.

How GenAI helps meeting banks’ compliance obligations

Join us for a 10-minute Coffee Break while we explore AI in transforming the insurance industry. Learn how insurance companies are using AI and where they are going in the future of digitization of operations and services while looking at the opportunities and challenges involved. We’ll explore the digital transformation journey for insurers, offering insights into practical strategies and tools that can support sustainable AI adoption.

Join us as we address:
- The transition from initial GenAI interest to sustained, scalable implementation. 
- The necessity of a multi-year approach to achieve significant ROI from AI systems.
- How to develop comprehensive governance and control models to ensure ethical, fair, and compliant AI usage. 
- The importance of transparency, accountability, and adherence to state laws and regulations to maintain a secure and equitable system.

AI Revolutionizing Financial Services and Insurance

Join us for a 10-minute Coffee Break to learn about transformative changes occurring in the financial trading sector. We’ll discuss the adoption of cloud computing, big data analytics, and blockchain technology, which are collectively reshaping trading infrastructure. We’ll cover how these innovations enhance trading speed, reliability, and security, enabling firms to handle higher volumes of transactions more efficiently. We’ll highlight the role of real-time data analytics in providing actionable insights, improving decision-making processes, and optimizing trading strategies to capitalize on market opportunities.

Join us to learn about: 
- The implications of these modernizations on regulatory compliance and market integrity. 
- The need for updated regulatory frameworks to keep pace with technological advancements, ensuring that new trading practices remain transparent and fair. 
- The impact of modernization on market accessibility, noting that advanced trading technologies are democratizing access to financial markets, allowing a broader range of participants to engage in trading activities. 
- The future of trading modernization, driven by artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other emerging technologies, which are expected to further enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of financial markets.

Modern Trading Platforms using AI

The platform economy has transformed how consumers experience the digital world, with dramatic implications for financial services institutions. Rather than going to the bank-physically or digitally-consumers and businesses want the bank to come to them. Embedded finance can help banks serve clients whenever and wherever a financial need may arise.

During this 15-minute coffee break session, we’ll discuss:

Consumers’ readiness to bank on the platform economy
Whether embedded finance is more than hype
Where banks can remove friction to accelerate transformation
How banks can elevate their role

Embedded finance: Creating the everywhere, everyday bank

What if your teams had more time to focus on innovation? You’d likely meet more customers’ needs and gain a competitive advantage over other financial services firms. The best part about this solution is that you don’t have to have a technical background to reap the benefits of automation with Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform. Join this webinar to see what you can expect from automation. 

In this 10-minutes FSI Coffee Break, we’ll discuss how Ansible automation can help:

Increase your risk resiliency.
Gain cost optimizations.
Retain talent and get the skills your firm needs.

Business impact of automation on financial firms

Observability is a key design principle for cloud-native applications in a hybrid cloud environment. The practices and approaches that worked well in an isolated, on-premise environment are not sufficient in the hybrid cloud. New practices, tooling, and techniques allow companies to reduce mean time to repair (MTTR), improve service levels, and improve customer satisfaction for modern, web-scale applications.

As enterprises increasingly take advantage of hybrid cloud solutions, observability needs to become a first class citizen in the design of other types of workloads, such as risk calculation, artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML)-model training and inference, and fraud monitoring.

Join this session, as we will discuss best practices and recommendations to help financial institutions manage the observance of their hybrid cloud applications.

In this webinar, we’ll discuss:

How to improve failure prediction and analysis.
Enhance service level agreement (SLA) compliance and mitigating SLA breaches.
Performing root cause analysis in complex computation scenarios that consist of many tasks, running across multiple environments, and integrating multiple external systems.
When to address new regulatory requirements for compliance, auditability, and reliability.
Extending the concept of system health to functional aspects such as ML model drift monitoring.

Observability in financial services

Technology such as event-driven automation and Ansible Lightspeed moves with speed. Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform is no exception. Whether you just want to eliminate that manual task that IT automation could perform or you want to know more about how artificial intelligence (AI) will transform automating repetitive tasks with Ansible Lightspeed, we’ve got great insights for you.

Join our speaker panel in this 10-minute financial services Coffee Break to learn more about event-driven automation and what’s new with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

In this webinar, we’ll discuss:

The difference between network automation, security automation, and event-driven automation.
What to expect from Ansible Lightspeed.
Top 3 tips and tricks for working with Ansible automation.

What’s new with Ansible for financial services

Red Hat Financial Services Coffee Break Series

To deliver the digital-native experiences that customers expect, banks must integrate the right technology, platform, and team into their modernized core banking systems. In this quick 10-minute video discover what Red Hat, IBM and Thought Machine share about what’s next for core banking. 

Dr.Richard Harmon, VP & Global Head of Financial Services, Red Hat
Gareth Richardson, Chief Operating Officer, Thought Machine
Shanker Ramamurthy, Global Managing Partner Banking & Financial Markets, IBM Consulting

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