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OODAcon 2025


Event Date: October 29, 2025
Hosted By: Ooda & Carahsoft

OODAcon 2025: Accelerating Disruptive Technologies—an annual event that brings together top minds across government, defense, and industry to explore the technologies shaping the future of innovation, strategy, and global security.

This one-day event was tailored for senior decision-makers, technologists, strategists, and innovators who are driving the adoption of disruptive technologies and navigating evolving risk landscapes.

At OODAcon 2025, subject-matter experts and national security leaders covered:

  • A strategic overview of the global innovation landscape, including breakthroughs in AI, quantum computing, and fusion energy
  • China’s coordinated efforts to dominate global supply chains, standards, and technology platforms
  • Real-world use cases in cyber, space, biotech, and defense showcasing the real-time impact of disruptive innovation
  • New U.S. policy tools and frameworks are designed to accelerate the fielding of mission-critical technologies
  • Actionable guidance on how leaders can prepare for cascading crises through agile, forward-looking strategies

Resources


Featured

Discover how Red Hat and Agile Defense are helping defense agencies simplify and automate Microsoft 365 compliance with a joint solution that integrates Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and DuroSuite. This resource outlines how to accelerate compliance reporting, reduce manual errors, and support...

Article

Learn how Red Hat's AI technology is innovating federal healthcare by improving patient outcomes, streamlining operations and enhancing decision-making. It highlights key applications like disease detection, predictive analytics and medical imaging while addressing regulatory developments and co...

Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed with IBM watsonx Code Assistant is a generative AI service designed to accelerate Ansible automation by providing intelligent code recommendations. It enables organizations to adopt automation more efficiently regardless of prior experience, by translating natural language...

This resource outlines how organizations can successfully navigate their virtualization journey with Red Hat Technical Account Management (TAM). It highlights four key benefits of partnering with a TAM—strategic guidance, long-term success planning, operational evolution, and personalized supp...

This resource explains how Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform work together to simplify and automate the migration and management of virtual machines (VMs). It highlights how organizations can reduce manual processes, improve consistency, and modernize their IT ...

This resource provides an overview of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine, a streamlined virtualization solution designed to simplify the deployment and management of virtual machines (VMs). It highlights how the platform delivers cost-efficient, scalable, and reliable virtualization on bare-met...

Blog

Red Hat has announced the developer preview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL), a foundation model platform designed to simplify the development, testing and deployment of open source generative AI models for enterprise applications. By combining open source innovation with enterprise-grade suppo...

Case Study

The Georgia Institute of Technology, a leading research university, leverages Red Hat OpenShift to modernize its IT infrastructure, replacing costly legacy systems and avoiding vendor lock-in. By adopting an open, flexible approach with CI/CD, DevOps and infrastructure as code, the College of Engine...

Read about how Red Hat OpenShift has helped the State of Michigan's Department of Technology, Management, and Budget (DTMB) modernize their IT infrastructure to support service for 19 of their state agencies. This transformation enhances both internal efficiency and citizen-facing services.

When Emory University's security team discovered a critical vulnerability, it posed a major threat to operations and data security. By using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to create an automated playbook, Emory's IT team was able to remediate all servers in just four hours, significantl...