Red Hat OpenShift Roadmap: Your intelligent application platform for 2026 and beyond
For over a decade, Red Hat OpenShift has empowered thousands of customers and forged hundreds of strategic partnerships, establishing itself as a cornerstone of innovation and reliability in container orchestration and hybrid cloud application deployment. Join this roadmap session and be among the first to see the vision for Red Hat OpenShift 5, launching in 2026. Discover how Red Hat OpenShift 5 will: - Embed applied AI experiences to simplify operations. - Enhance troubleshooting. - Support post-quantum cryptography and native multi-cluster capabilities. - Offer extended lifecycles and in-place upgrades from Red Hat OpenShift 4, with predictable major version releases. - Deliver significantly improved customer experiences. Learn how Red Hat OpenShift 5 is evolving into the intelligent application platform for containers, virtual machines (VMs), and artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) workloads, enabling scalable, security-focused application development, build, deployment, and management across the hybrid cloud. Explore how Red Hat OpenShift continues to be your catalyst for innovation, agility, and success in the rapidly evolving digital ecosystem.
Speakers
Ju Lim | Senior Manager, Product Management, Red Hat
Ju Lim is Senior Manager, Product Management for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, leading the team responsible for the core platform and optimizing it for hybrid and multicloud environments to run Red Hat OpenShift anywhere. Ju also leads agentic applied AI experience efforts across the Red Hat OpenShift portfolio.
Daniel Messer | Product Management, Red Hat
Daniel is leading a team of product managers at Red Hat in the OpenShift group, which looks after the operator ecosystem and lifecycle tooling, vulnerability and secrets management, as well as container registry offerings. He has worked on the Operator Framework since 2018 and the Quay registry product and Quay.io SaaS since 2020.