Red Hat announced its 2026 APAC Innovation Awards winners for Japan on October 29 in Tokyo. The four winners are JAL Digital, SoftBank, Sumitomo Mitsui Card Company and TOYOTA INDUSTRIES IT SOLUTIONS.
The winners
- JAL Digital (Cloud-Native Development, Automation): the Japan Airlines Group’s digital arm adopted Red Hat OpenShift on AWS and Red Hat Developer Hub to build out platform engineering and improve developer productivity.
- SoftBank Corp.: recognized for its work on AI-RAN, which runs AI and radio access network workloads on shared infrastructure, as it works toward commercializing the technology.
- Sumitomo Mitsui Card Company (AI, Cloud-Native Development): the SMBC Group card company moved from relying on outside developers to building in-house using Red Hat OpenShift on AWS and Red Hat Advanced Developer Suite.
- TOYOTA INDUSTRIES IT SOLUTIONS: the core IT company of the Toyota Industries Group, which handles system integration and IT infrastructure.
About the awards
This year’s theme is “Unlock what’s next.” Red Hat says the program recognizes 32 winners across 13 Asia Pacific countries in five categories: Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud-Native Development, Automation, Virtualisation and AI. Earlier this week Red Hat named its Korea winners, BC Card and KEPCO KDN.
Source: Red Hat press release