Red Hat Summit: Connect 2026 Washington, DC

Red Hat Summit: Connect brings together technology professionals to explore expert insights, IT best practices, live product demos, and peer connections, with a particular focus on the unique challenges and opportunities within the public sector. This event is explicitly targeted at government entities and officials, featuring speakers from organizations such as the U.S. Defense Health Agency (DHA), U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Key topics include leveraging AI, ensuring security, and making critical infrastructure decisions for enterprise IT teams, scaling enterprise automation in regulated environments, and building the next generation of public health systems. The event also addresses mitigating risk in highly regulated industries and accelerating onboarding for federal agencies.