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Technically Speaking with Chris Wright

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Struggling to keep pace with the ever-changing world of technology? For experienced tech professionals, making sense of this complexity to find real strategic advantages is key. This series offers a clear path, featuring insightful, casual conversations with leading global experts, innovators, and key voices from Red Hat, all cutting through the hype. Drawing from Red Hat's deep expertise in open ... more

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What does digital sovereignty actually mean when most AI runs on someone else's black box? In this episode of Technically Speaking, Red Hat CTO Chris Wright talks with Jered Floyd from the Red Hat Field CTO team about what sovereignty really requires... more

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Go behind the scenes of Red Hat's internal innovation engine to discover how we evaluate emerging open source tech and choose exactly where to place our next major technology bets. In this episode of Technically Speaking, Red Hat Chief Technology Off... more

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While generative AI demos are flashy, moving those capabilities into a reliable, secure enterprise production environment is a different ballgame. In this episode of Technically Speaking, Red Hat CTO Chris Wright sits down with longtime Red Hatter an... more

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Jered Floyd
Field CTO, Red Hat
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Episode: Defining sovereign AI with open source ft. Jered Floyd
Steve Watt
VP of the Office of the CTO at Red Hat
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Episode: Inside open source AI strategy ft. Steve Watt
Cat Weeks
Long-time Red Hat veteran working on getting AI into production
Red Hat
Episode: Build a production-ready AI toolbox ft. Cat Weeks
Tushar Katarki
Red Hat infrastructure software executive focusing on scalable platforms for agentic AI
Red Hat
Episode: Platform engineering for AI agents ft. Tushar Katarki
Jianying Hu
IBM Fellow, Global Science Leader of AI for Health and Director of Healthcare and Life Sciences Research at IBM
IBM
Episode: Driving healthcare discoveries with AI ft. Jianying Hu
Aeva Black
AI security expert focused on open source and AI supply chain
Episode: Security for the AI supply chain ft. Aeva Black
Bernd Greifeneder
Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Dynatrace
Dynatrace
Episode: Taming AI agents with observability ft. Bernd Greifeneder
Carlos Costa
Distinguished engineer at IBM Research, leader in large scale compute, key figure in LLMD project
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Episode: Inside distributed inference with llm-d ft. Carlos Costa
Nick Hill
Engineer focusing on AI infrastructure and VLLM
IBM Research / VLLM project
Episode: Building more efficient AI with vLLM ft. Nick Hill

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Defining sovereign AI with open source ft. Jered Floyd
Q: Where do you see the challenges in creating, building, and operating sovereign infrastructure?
The challenges lie in aligning existing technologies with regulatory realities, building auditable processes, and ensuring data control across providers. It requires integrating automation, policy-as-code, and open-source tooling to create transparent, secure, and resilient systems that can operate under shifting geopolitical and market conditions.
Defining sovereign AI with open source ft. Jered Floyd
Q: So imitation is the highest form of flattery. I stole from you this reframing of digital transformation into sovereignty. Tell me a little bit about why you frame it that way
The framing captures how technology shifts—like containerization, microservices, and DevOps—converge into a governance and control model. Sovereignty extends beyond compliance; it emphasizes ownership over data, software, and operations, enabling faster innovation with lower risk by bringing critical capabilities in-house and auditing them end-to-end.
Inside distributed inference with llm-d ft. Carlos Costa
Q: How can people get involved with LLMD right now?
People can join the ongoing alpha by contributing requirements, reporting issues, and participating in weekly community calls and special interest groups; the LLMD Slack and community forums are open for collaboration and feedback.
Inside distributed inference with llm-d ft. Carlos Costa
Q: What are the next critical milestones that you see in LLMD?
The roadmap emphasizes solidifying multi-node PD paths, improving cache loading, adding SLO-aware scheduling, and incubating core features while avoiding scope creep, followed by broadening multi-model support and robust orchestration across the stack.
Build a production-ready AI toolbox ft. Cat Weeks
Q: What is the main shift from demos to production that enterprises should focus on?
Move from showcasing what AI can do to implementing reliable, secure, and scalable workflows that work for millions of users, while carefully managing data, security, and cost.

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A practitioner-focused tech discussion series that centers on enterprise-ready AI, open-source infrastructure, and platform engineering. Conversations frequently explore how large-scale AI tools can be responsibly deployed in production, practical architectures for self-managed versus cloud-hosted deployments, and the governance, security, and interoperability needed to scale across organizations. Guests span Red Hat researchers, IBM researchers, and industry practitioners, with recurring emphasis on open ecosystems, observability, and the structural shifts powering agentic AI, ML inference, and secure software supply chains. The show stands out for its hands-on angles, concrete frameworks, and a clear open-source ethos aimed at helping tec... more

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