The roadmap beyond Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Building platforms the open source way
How do you build the world’s most trusted enterprise Linux platform—transparently, collaboratively, and in the open? In this session, the Lead Product Manager for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 will share how Red Hat is re-imagining the open source development model to shape the next major version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Attendees will get an inside look at how Fedora and other upstream projects are making the RHEL roadmap more accessible than ever—turning upstream projects into a visible, iterative conversation with customers, partners, and the broader open-source community. You’ll learn how: - Red Hat translates community innovation into enterprise readiness. - Upstream features are prioritized through transparent scoring frameworks. - Customer use cases directly influence product decisions. - RHEL engineering, user experience, and product teams collaborate across the open ecosystem to deliver predictable and innovative releases that are focused on security. The roadmap from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 to the next major version isn’t proprietary process—it’s a transparent journey, building enterprise Linux the open source way. Join us to see how openness at every stage of the process leads to better technology, stronger communities, and a clearer future for hybrid cloud innovation.
Speakers
Scott McCarty | Senior Principal Product Manager - RHEL, Red Hat
Scott McCarty is a Global Senior Principal Product Manager for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, focusing on cloud computing, containers, workload expansion, and automation. He works closely with customers, partners, engineering teams, sales, marketing, other product teams, as well as the open source community, combining personal experience with customer and partner feedback to enhance and tailor strategic capabilities in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Scott is a social media startup veteran, an e-commerce old timer, and a weathered government research technologist, with experience across a variety of organizations, from 7-person startups to 25,000-employee technology companies. His career has culminated in a unique perspective on open source software development, delivery, and maintenance.
Brian Stinson | Lead Product Owner - RHEL, Red Hat
Brian works for the Community Platform Engineering team at Red Hat as the Technical Lead for CentOS Stream. Brian began as a systems administrator in academia, and joined the CentOS project in 2013 working on the community build system and packaging. Since 2015 he's been working remotely from Kansas, most recently on making Red Hat Enterprise Linux more easy to contribute to publicly through CentOS Stream.