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The following is an excerpt from my keynote today at Red Hat Summit.

Open source can fan the sparks of potential around the world, unlike any system that has ever existed. It solves two fundamental problems that limit innovation: 

• Having ideas be noticed

• Having ideas be iterated on. 

Today I gave a keynote address at Red Hat Summit; the following is an excerpt from that talk.

The past two years have focused on "what we all had been going through." But I think we should look at it as "what we have and are accomplishing." 

Each year during Red Hat Summit, we recognize Red Hat Certified Professionals who make a difference in their organizations by demonstrating enthusiasm, commitment and dedication to their role and industry. We’re proud to announce that Neil D’Souza, Senior Site Reliability Engineer at ServiceNow, has been named the 2022 Red Hat Certified Professional of the Year.

Open source has long been a force multiplier for innovation. Time and time again, operating in the open source way has proven that the power of many is stronger than the power of few.

Earlier today, we announced the winners of the 2022 Red Hat Innovation Awards, recognizing our customers’ achievements with open source technology. Each year, we have many strong entries that showcase what innovative thinking, open culture, and transformative uses of Red Hat technology can do for business and society.

For the 16th year, the Red Hat Innovation Awards are recognizing the technological achievements of Red Hat customers around the world who demonstrate creative problem-solving to make a positive impact on the business world and on society. This year’s winners are the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), the Center of Computing and Information Systems, Telefónica Colombia, the Department for Work and Pensions, and Washington Health Benefit Exchange.

We are excited to announce that Shuchi Sharma has joined us as vice president and chief diversity, equity & inclusion officer (CDEIO). In her new role, Shuchi will be responsible for leading Red Hat’s DEI Global Center of Excellence, which is focused on setting our DEI strategies that align with our short and long-term business goals and partnering across our leadership, business and people practices. These practices include attracting and retaining diverse talent, career advancement and associate development.

Red Hat’s fourth annual The State of Enterprise Open Source report highlights how organizations have adapted to new open source tools and technologies, whether due to external events, or through proactive choice in selecting methods and implementations which can provide competitive advantage.

In this month’s customer success highlights, you’ll learn how Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Consulting are helping different organizations modernize their business processes through digital transformation, container adoption and process automation. Not only are these projects helping achieve current priorities and goals, they’re also laying the groundwork for future scalability and innovation.

As we’ve said before, every IT organization is different - from the underlying architecture and public cloud usage to edge strategies and the applications actually running in production.

The Epidemic Intelligence from Open Sources, or EIOS, is a collaboration between public health stakeholders around the globe to create a unified, all-hazards, "One Health" approach to early detection of threats to public health from publicly available sources, their verification, risk assessment, ongoing threat monitoring, situation analysis and communication between relevant stakeholders to provide actionable intelligence for decision making.

We’re proud to share that Red Hat has been included on Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For 2022, produced by Great Places to Work and published by Fortune, for the fourth consecutive year. Red Hat is ranked No. 34. 

Red Hat’s fourth annual The State of Enterprise Open Source report highlights how organizations have adapted to new ways of operating — whether due to external forces or proactive choices — and are  selecting methods that provide better competitive advantage.

In this month’s customer success highlights, learn how Red Hat’s enterprise Kubernetes platform—along with our other solutions and services—has helped Credit Europe Bank, Santander Colombia, and Universidad Mayor adapt to demands in a rapidly changing world.

Introducing students to modern computing systems can be complicated and challenging. When Boston University faculty members Jonathan Appavoo, computer science (CS) professor, and Orran Krieger, electrical and computer engineering (ECE) professor, were looking for a new, simplified way to educate their students on the critical concepts of computing systems, they turned to Red Hat OpenShift Data Science.

For Red Hat, diversity, equity and inclusion are core tenets of our culture and the foundation of the company that we strive to be. And as part of that, one area we have been focused on for several years is pay equity. In recognition of Equal Pay Day, taking place in the U.S. today and in the spirit of transparency, I wanted to share the steps and tools that have worked for us — many of them we consider to be essential for businesses wishing to commit to closing the pay gap.

Red Hat Summit 2022 registration is officially open! Red Hat Summit is taking place on May 10 and May 11, and you can sign up today! If you want to take part in all of this year’s virtual Red Hat Summit goodness, you should take a few moments to register now.

Editor’s note: Paul Cormier, Red Hat's president and chief executive officer, shared the following email with Red Hat associates today.

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While you wait for Red Hat Summit 2022, you can still take advantage of the Red Hat Summit 2021 goodies that are available on demand - although only for a limited time. Get the details.

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