Technically Speaking with Chris Wright

What does digital sovereignty actually mean when most AI runs on someone else's black box? In this episode of Technically Speaking, Red Hat CTO Chris Wright talks with Jered Floyd from the Red Hat Field CTO team about what sovereignty really requires in the age of AI infrastructure. They examine the four pillars of modern sovereign operations: data sovereignty, operational sovereignty, technology...

Go behind the scenes of Red Hat's internal innovation engine to discover how we evaluate emerging open source tech and choose exactly where to place our next major technology bets. In this episode of Technically Speaking, Red Hat Chief Technology Officer Chris Wright sits down with Steve Watt, Vice President of the Office of the CTO at Red Hat, for a clear, "200-level" look at what's coming down t...

While generative AI demos are flashy, moving those capabilities into a reliable, secure enterprise production environment is a different ballgame. In this episode of Technically Speaking, Red Hat CTO Chris Wright sits down with longtime Red Hatter and engineering leader Cat Weeks to dismantle the myth that you need a massive ""Frontier Model"" for every task. Together, they explore the practical r...

A decade ago, the shift from monolithic applications to microservices created an explosion of complexity that only Kubernetes could tame. Today, the enterprise is facing a similar inflection point. We are moving beyond simple chatbots to "Agentic AI"—autonomous systems capable of planning, tool calling, and executing complex workflows. But with this innovation comes fragmentation: how do you manag...

We often hear about AI's potential to generate text and code, but its application in healthcare and life sciences promises a more profound impact: solving our most fundamental challenges in disease and medicine. This isn't just about applying existing LLMs; it's about building entirely new foundation models that understand the complex language of biology itself. To explore this new frontier, Red H...

The software supply chain has always been a critical battleground, but AI introduces an exponential increase in scale and complexity. We are no longer just securing lines of code; we are now responsible for securing the models that generate it. This a new reality that shifts the entire attack surface for distributed IT systems. To explore this new frontier, Red Hat CTO Chris Wright speaks with Æva...

As modern IT systems grow too complex for humans to effectively manage, there's growing interest in turning to autonomous AI agents for operations. While powerful, these agents introduce new challenges around trust, reliability, and control. To explore how to solve for this, Red Hat CTO Chris Wright speaks with Bernd Greifeneder, Founder and CTO of Dynatrace [LINK: https://www.dynatrace.com], a co...

Scaling LLM inference for production isn't just about adding more machines, it demands new intelligence in the infrastructure itself. In this episode, we're joined by Carlos Costa, Distinguished Engineer at IBM Research, a leader in large-scale compute and a key figure in the llm-d project. We discuss how to move beyond single-server deployments and build the intelligent, AI-aware infrastructure n...

Explore what it takes to run massive language models efficiently with Red Hat's Senior Principal Software Engineer in AI Engineering, Nick Hill. In this episode, we go behind the headlines to uncover the systems-level engineering making AI practical, focusing on the pivotal challenge of inference optimization and the transformative power of the vLLM open-source project. Nick Hill shares his experi...

Explore the future of enterprise AI with Red Hat's SVP and AI CTO, Brian Stevens. In this episode, we delve into how AI is being practically reimagined for real-world business environments, focusing on the pivotal shift to production-quality inference at scale and the transformative power of open source. Brian Stevens shares his expertise and unique perspective on: • The evolution of AI from exper...

Ready to go deeper into the ever-evolving landscape of technology? Technically Speaking, hosted by Red Hat CTO and SVP of Global Engineering Chris Wright, is back and reimagined to guide you with more depth and candor. This series cuts through the noise, offering insightful, casual, and now even more in-depth conversations with leading experts from across the globe. Each discussion delves further...