Red Hat Research Events

Red Hat Research events bring together researchers, technology professionals, Red Hat engineers, and students to exchange ideas and tackle real-world challenges across disciplines and borders.

Browse recordings from previous events to see how academic and industry voices come together to advance research with real-world impact, inspiring fresh perspectives and forward-thinking ideas in open source.

Listen, Learn, and Connect

Our events come in different shapes — from polished conferences to open conversation forums — but they all share a common goal: connecting academia and industry to nurture collaborations in support of joint research initiatives and fostering research to help drive Red Hat’s technical direction and open source mission. Whether organized by us or our collaborators, these events reflect the diversity of our research engagements.

Dive into our archive and explore these formats:

Upcoming events 

There are no events scheduled at the moment. Stay tuned for upcoming opportunities to connect with the community!

Research Days

These virtual and in-person events showcase Red Hat’s collaborative research efforts in partnership with universities and research institutions worldwide. 

Tech Talks

These focused sessions typically feature a single speaker on a standout research topic — from in-depth academic analysis to thought-provoking discussions and groundbreaking demos.

Others

Events that don’t fit into the main categories but still offer valuable insights and opportunities to connect.

Partner events
We often present research and ideas at venues such as DevConf, the BU Red Hat Collaboratory Series, and MOC Alliance workshops, among others. These partner events offer important opportunities for cross-institutional connection and often have valuable insights for our communities.
Research Interest Group (RIG) meetings

Informal discussion platform open to Red Hatters and our university partners to share ideas, drive discussion, communicate progress around research topics and projects, and to form collaborations in support of particular research initiatives.

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Start Date: May 3, 2022

Meeting Agenda: Friendly Fedora:  A Student Capstone Project at UMass Lowell Students: Ali Dia, Robert Moeller, Robert Santos, Ryan McCann, Sage Lyon, Wivishan Wigneswaran; UMass Lowell Mentor:  Dr. Vinod Vokkarane; Red Hat Mentor:  Mohan Boddu...

Start Date: April 28, 2022

When the relevance of your analytics come into question due to changes in the underlying data, you are faced with an expensive question: is it worth the cost to recompute? In this presentation and discussion Paolo Missier,...

Start Date: April 7, 2022

Interpersonal conflicts in code review by Pavlina Wurzel Goncalves Code reviews benefit from generating alternative ideas and obtaining diverse feedback. However, this makes code review a place in which communication is difficult and interpersonal conflicts...

Start Date: February 16, 2022

Boston University faculty members Ayse Coskun, Alan Liu, and Gianluca Stringhini, and Red Hat’s Marcel Hild, Senior Manager, AIOps, AI CoE, Office of the CTO, discussed this collaborative work at the intersection of artificial intelligence...

Start Date: February 3, 2022

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Meeting Agenda:

1. Introduction of Martin Ukrop – Research Supervisor in Brno
2. [EU Project Proposal] Horizon Europe Excellence Hubs CZ+EE – Martin Ukrop
Cooperation between Masaryk University [CZ] + University of Tartu [EE] in Cybersecurity

Start Date: February 2, 2022

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Meeting Agenda: AI/ML Research Project Updates from Boston University Red Hat Collaboratory Students 1.   Cam Garrison (15 min)Solving the problem of adverseriality against neural network classifiers is difficult, even when you have access to the model’s...

Start Date: January 18, 2022

Meeting Agenda: Open Discussion of Proposed Summer Intern R&D Projects
Suggestions from universities, open source projects, Red Hatters, and of course potential interns are all welcome!

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Start Date: November 2, 2021

Massachusetts Open Cloud Security Investigations  – Dylan Stewart, Red Hat and Tyler Sheehan, University of Massachusetts Lowell (20 min)Security topics include network enumeration, subdomain enumeration, fuzzing, and cookie/session manipulation. For each topic we will discuss our...

Start Date: October 28, 2021

Jonathan Appavoo, Computer Science Associate Professor at Boston University, shared his work to develop a hands-on live educational experience for teaching computer science in a real cloud environment that uses JupyterBook and containers powered by OpenShift.  Prof....