The 2025 Minnesota Transportation Conference & Expo offers compelling presentations, thought-provoking panels, and the chance to meet with like-minded professionals from Minnesota and beyond who share a commitment to bettering our communities and improving people's lives through innovations in transportation.

Let's come back together, learn from each other, and create invaluable connections. Let's share being part of an exciting, essential, and enduring event at a moment in time like no other. Let's engage in the sessions, soak up the plenaries, venture through the expo, roll our sleeves, and network. After all, Minnesota's Transportation Conference & Expo has a long-standing reputation for bringing together the industry's best and brightest to highlight innovative solutions in transportation. The 2025 Minnesota Transportation Conference & Expo is an event not to be missed!

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Join the next **[Minneapolis RHUG](https://events.redhat.com/profile/form/index.cfm?PKformID=0x1363764abcd&sc_cid=RHCTN1250000439920)** to network with your local Red Hat user community and learn how to deliver exceptional service reliability and operational efficiency with AI‑powered ITOps and Incident Management by combining The BigPanda Platform with Event Driven Ansible (EDA).

Attendees will also discover upcoming features in Red Hat Enterprise Linux® (RHEL) 10 ahead of the GA release, how Generative AI can be applied to aid in application modernization with Konveyor AI, and learn about a new way of deploying and managing your Red Hat Linux systems leveraging container-native technologies with RHEL image mode.

## Speakers:

Key Announcements: Nick Schendel, Red Hat
Automate AI-powered ITOps and Incident Management with Big Panda and Event Driven Ansible - Blair Sibille, Field CTO - Big Panda
Image mode for RHEL - Ben Breard, Red Hat
RHEL 10 Update before GA: Marc Skinner, Red Hat
Kai - Generative AI Applied to Application Modernization - Dean Peterson, Red Hat
**Event Details:**
**Date:** Thursday March 20, 2025

**Time:** 1-5 PM CT
**Location:** Surly Brewing Company - 520 Malcolm Ave. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414

Food and drinks will be provided.

Seminar Series: Advanced Topics in Transportation Technologies

Thursdays, January 23–May 1, 2025 2:30–3:30 p.m. Central Online via Zoom and in person at:  Kenneth H. Keller Hall Room 3-125 University of Minnesota 200 Union St. SE Minneapolis, MN 55455

About the Series

This seminar series will provide updates on emerging technologies in safety, mobility, and cybersecurity. It will also explore the equity and policy impacts of these technologies. Seminars will cover a wide range of disciplines, including computer science, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, policy and risk analysis, and urban and regional planning. The seminars are open to anyone interested in learning more about the interplay of science, technology, policy, and transportation. Undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and practitioners are encouraged to attend. The series is being delivered as part of the University of Minnesota’s participation in the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT). Led by the University of Michigan, CCAT is the USDOT’s Region 5 University Transportation Center. It consists of nine institutions, including the University of Minnesota, conducting research to address comprehensive transportation safety, congestion, connected vehicles, connected infrastructure, and autonomous vehicles.

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