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

AI has moved beyond the buzz — but how do you turn potential into real impact?  This session explores how financial institutions can move from experimentation to full-scale AI deployment, decide whether to build, buy, or partner for AI solutions, and overcome common organizational barriers.  We’ll also cover key KPIs to measure AI success and highlight emerging AI trends that financial institutions should be preparing for now.  Perfect for leaders ready to make AI a core part of their strategy.

From hype to impact - making AI work for your financial institution

What does successful AI adoption really look like in financial services — and what can go wrong? In this session, we’ll explore real-world stories of AI in action, unpack why some AI projects fail, and share strategies to avoid common pitfalls.  Learn how to ensure AI models are fair, unbiased, and compliant, and discover what it takes to build a high-performing AI team that drives real business value.  Perfect for organizations ready to turn AI ambition into lasting success.

AI in Action - Lessons learned in financial services

Ready to move beyond AI pilots and unlock real competitive advantage?  This session dives into scaling AI across the enterprise, managing AI-related risks, and using AI to enhance customer experience.  The session explores the difference between real-time AI for decision-making and AI for long-term forecasting, and shares practical ways to measure AI ROI.  Perfect for financial services leaders looking to strategically embed AI for lasting impact.

Beyond the basics: Building AI-driven financial services for competitive advantage

Think AI is only for big banks, will replace jobs, or can’t be trusted for compliance?  It's time to bust those myths.  This session tackles the biggest misconceptions holding financial services organizations back from leveraging AI.  Discover how AI is accessible, trustworthy, and essential for staying competitive — and how it’s being used today to drive real value.  If you're skeptical about AI or unsure where it fits, this webinar is for you.

Mythbusters: The real power of AI revealed in financial services

AI doesn’t have to be all or nothing.  This session highlights practical tips to help financial services organizations start small with low-risk, high-value AI applications.  Learn why data quality and governance are critical, how AI delivers ROI beyond cost savings — from improved accuracy to better customer experiences — and why cross-team collaboration is key to success.

AI tips in financial services

AI: Beyond the Hype in Financial Services

Curious about AI but unsure where to start?  Explore how AI is already transforming the financial services industry, and learn simple ways to get started. See how AI is streamlining processes, reducing friction, and driving efficiency — and what risks companies face if they don’t embrace it.  This is perfect for anyone looking to demystify AI and take the first steps toward adoption.

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