Red Hat Summit 2026: From ARSAT to NASA, more and more companies are migrating to open source systems

This futuristic framework was ideal for the development of the Red Hat Summit 2026, the summit where some seven thousand engineers, businessmen and journalists attended talks and networked with a focus on open source (development of software whose source code is public), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and hybrid cloud, technologies that are being adopted together by more and more companies. From ARSAT to NASA, from Banco Galicia to Nissan, many firms shared their experiences. And it was seen many argentinesespecially officials from banks, prepaid medicine and energy companies.

In one of the hallways of the Georgia World Congress Center, where the meeting took place, an Argentine engineer of a fuel transportation company explained to Clarion: “What is useful for us about this technology is that it allows us to scale according to demand. If we have more activity, we add more technology, and if activity does not increase, we can stay as we are. The good thing is that it allows you to go step by step. And for a company in a country like Argentina that is very important.”

Later, Jorge Payró, Country Manager of Argentina & Regional Manager of SOLA-East at Red Hat, completed the idea. “We have a phrase: ‘Always start small, think big and show results quickly’. But this not only with AI and the platform but in general with our projects and methodology. So you can start with a pilot, go to an MVP, start growing and scale the technology.”

“Big Band projects tend to disappear – added Payró – because the truth is that they have not been very successful over time. Sometimes waiting three, four years or more, to only see a product that, when it is finished and available to go into production, has already become obsolete, it is useless. So today something small that you can scale and adjust as you evolveis the solution to most needs.”

Every year, the most innovative projects at a global level are chosen at this Summit. And in 2026, The Argentine company ARSAT was among the top four with its implementation of Red Hat OpenShift, a platform that seeks to simplify the management and scaling of applications in hybrid clouds.

In 2023, the telecommunications firm ARSAT faced the need to automate the management of its supply chain. Operational bottlenecks, high costs and slow response times were the main obstacles. “With OpenShift AI, an infrastructure renewal based on open source began and thus it was possible to integrate all points of the supply network, automate processes and strengthen the customer experience,” they said. Furthermore, they revealed that with the implementation of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, it reduced the obtaining of results, which It took 6 to 12 months, just 10 days. And it significantly reduced ticket resolution.

They also explained that thanks to process automation, the company reduced its operating expenses by 30% and accelerated response times: it went from planning times of 48 hours to just 3 hours. This significantly improved decision-making agility.

A key moment of this project was the automation of the Network Operation Center through AI. This step generated a change that not only contemplates technological but also cultural aspects. This process sought operational efficiency, accelerate incident resolution, and optimize the customer experience.

Another of the implementations that were shown at the Summit was that of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which migrated its mission-critical technology infrastructure to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.

“JPL selected Red Hat OpenShift with its integrated virtualization capability to support a sophisticated, high-performance environment,” Red Hat said. This unified application platform combines the flexibility of hybrid cloud with automation, providing a highly efficient path for virtual machine workload management.

“Before, to open a bank account, for example a savings account, it took about 20 days. And you had to go to the branch several times, bring papers, documents, in short, certificates of financial solvency in general. Now at Banco Galicia everything is digital. Potential clients can send all the documents online and In two days you can have the account without going to the bank,” said Brazilian Andrea Cavallari, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Latin America at Red Hat, in a round table.

“The case of the Bank of Amazoniain Brazil. Provides services to rural communities that have no connection. And the residents take hours to get to a bank branch, traveling by land and also having to cross rivers on barges. Now, people only have to go to an antenna close to their home that provides connection, and they only have to enter the bank’s app to open or manage their account. Already they don’t need to travel for hours”, concluded Cavallari.

The automotive industry is adopting a modern, cloud-native architecture. And it requires an operating system capable of supporting the technological updates of a vehicle throughout its useful life.

“Red Hat provides the necessary technical depth to power, with a modern Linux operating system, vehicles that will remain on the streets for decades,” said the software company.

Nissan thus seeks to provide a scalable foundation for high-performance computing. By anchoring its platform on an open source foundation, the automaker gains immediate access to a global innovation ecosystem.

At the Summit, there was also time for Red Hat AI 3.4 releasea platform that seeks to bridge the gap between AI experimentation and operational deployment in production environments. The proposal is based on a ‘hardware-to-agent’ approach that allows organizations to manage autonomous models and agents across their hybrid cloud infrastructure.