Red Hat at Devoxx Belgium 2026
October 5-10, 2026 | Antwerp Belgium
Visit the Red Hat Developer booth at #8 to connect with our expert technologists, catch a demo, and grab some Red Hat swag (while supplies last).
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Featured Session
Owning the inference layer: When and how to run your own models
Thursday, October 8, 16:30-17:20
Hosted model APIs are the fastest way to start building with Gen AI models, but they are not always the best long-term fit. As workloads grow, teams start running into harder questions around latency, cost, deployment flexibility, data boundaries, and performance tuning.
This talk looks at what changes when you move from calling a hosted model API to running inference yourself. We’ll break down the practical tradeoffs between hosted and self-hosted approaches, then examine how modern open inference technologies such as vLLM and llm-d are making self-hosted AI more realistic for production systems.
Rather than treating this as a debate between two camps, the session focuses on decision-making: when self-hosting is worth the added operational complexity, when hosted APIs still win, and what teams take on when they choose to own the inference layer.
We'll also unpack what sovereignty is actually worth beyond the compliance checkbox: the concrete value of controlling your data boundaries, your model lifecycle, and your independence from a single provider's roadmap and pricing, and where that value is real rather than theoretical.
You’ll leave with a practical framework for evaluating cost, control, performance, and architectural fit in your own environment.
Maarten Vandeperre Senior Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat
Camille Nigon Solution Architect, Red Hat
Sessions
Monday, October 5, 2026 |
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| 09:30-12:30 | |
| 13:30-16:30 | |
| 16:50-17:20 | |
| 16:50-18:50 | |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | |
Tuesday, October 6, 2026 |
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| 16:50-18:50 | |
| 17:50-18:40 | |
| 17:50-18:40 | |
| 19:00-20:00 | |
Wednesday, October 7, 2026 |
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| 14:00-14:50 | |
Thursday, October 8, 2026 |
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| 11:50-12:40 | |
| 16:30-17:20 | |
| 17:40-18:30 | |
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