Interactive: Turn AI Experiments into Real Software ft. Evan Shortiss (E7)

Host: Cedric Clyburn Guest: Evan Shortiss Producer: Rohan Venkatram 👉 What you’ll see in this demo: - How AI engineers can deploy, serve, and manage AI models using Red Hat OpenShift AI - Streamlining the developer journey from idea to AI-enabled application with Red Hat Developer Hub - Using a centralized software catalog to improve visibility and governance across teams - Accelerating self-service development with gold path templates - Building a consistent developer experience with documentation, plugins, and extensibility powered by Backstage.io - Interactive Q&A with Cedric & Evan 🎯 Episode Overview: Cedric Clyburn returns with another Demo Deep Dive, this time joined by Evan Shortiss, Developer Advocate at Red Hat. With a background spanning enterprise consulting, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, and cloud-native architectures, Evan brings practical insight into helping teams succeed with modern development platforms. In this episode, you’ll discover how Red Hat OpenShift AI enables AI engineers to efficiently deploy and manage models at scale, while Red Hat Developer Hub simplifies the path from concept to production. Built on Backstage.io, Red Hat Developer Hub provides an enterprise-grade, self-managed developer portal that runs on Red Hat OpenShift and other major Kubernetes platforms including AKS, EKS, and GKE. Learn how organizations can standardize developer workflows, enable self-service, and reduce friction by combining AI platform capabilities with a powerful internal developer portal. From software catalogs and golden paths to extensibility through plugins, this episode shows how to empower developers while maintaining control and consistency. 🔗 Learn more and interact: 📌 Explore Red Hat OpenShift AI https://www.redhat.com/en/products/ai/openshift-ai 📌 Explore Red Hat Developer Hub https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing/developer-hub 📌 Explore Red Hat OpenShift: https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing/openshift 📌 Follow Cedric: https://www.cedricclyburn.com/ 📅 Livestream: Tuesday, January 10th @ 11am ET ▶️ Watch live or on-demand on @RedHat and @OpenShift #RedHat #OpenShift #OpenShiftAI #DeveloperHub #Backstage #AIEngineering #PlatformEngineering #CloudNative #Kubernetes #HybridCloud