Speaker Sheet
Britley Hoff
Sovereign AI Architect ยท Systems Programmer ยท Master Electrician ยท Tinkerer, Builder, Maker
Red Hat Conference 2026 ยท Atlanta โ Speaker
Britley Hoff is a systems programmer turned Sovereign AI Architect who spent a career running Linux and keeping mainframes running before pointing that same instinct, trust nothing you can't audit, at the AI stack. At the 2026 Red Hat Conference in Atlanta, her talk on the Rosetta Stone legacy-modernization pipeline turned hallway conversations about COBOL and enterprise PowerShell into one of the event's talked-about sessions. She is the author of seven books on private, auditable AI infrastructure, including Silicon Sovereignty, The Big Red Book of AI on IBM Mainframe, and The Algorithmic Audit, and builds open-source tools, from a browser-based TN3270 mainframe client to Ollama-powered legacy-code converters, that hand enterprises back control of their own systems and their own data.
Featured Talks
Mainframe Security
The Terminal Time Forgot
A hands-on look at Web3270, an open-source, browser-based TN3270 client, and the decades-old attack surface it exposes: RACF credential probing, protocol fuzzing, and live man-in-the-middle field injection on systems that still run the world's core financial infrastructure.
AI Infrastructure
Silicon Sovereignty: Reclaiming AI from the Cloud
Why "private AI" usually still means someone else's cloud, and what it actually takes, hardware, local inference, retrieval, agent protocols, to run a fully sovereign AI stack you own end to end, from a laptop to an enterprise mainframe.
Legacy Modernization
The Rosetta Stone: Modernizing Legacy Code Without Losing Trust
Inside the AI + Ansible pipeline born at Red Hat Summit and reforged at the 2026 Red Hat Conference: how to document, test, and convert decades-old shell scripts and PowerShell into modern automation, with proof, not promises, that the new code does what the old one did.
Selected Publications
- Silicon Sovereignty: Orchestrating Private AI at the Edge
- The Big Red Book of AI on IBM Mainframe
- The Algorithmic Audit: Compliance in a Probabilistic World
- Unbound Intelligence
- LLMOps: Infrastructure for the Generative Era
- A Beginner's Introduction to Terraform
- The Prompt Playbook