Red Hat Recognizes CLP Power Hong Kong and Fubon Bank (Hong Kong) for Unlocking New Possibilities with Open Source at the Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards 2026 for Hong Kong

Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the winners of the Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards 2026 for Hong Kong. This year, Red Hat recognizes CLP Power Hong Kong Limited and Fubon Bank (Hong Kong) for their leadership through open source, demonstrating how open source technologies help organizations navigate complexity, modernize operations, and deliver sustainable growth.

As organizations across Asia Pacific embrace AI, hybrid cloud, automation, and cloud-native technologies, managing complexity has become just as important as driving innovation. With AI strategies increasingly spanning different models, accelerators, and cloud environments, enterprises are looking to open source because openness brings choice, and choice brings greater flexibility. That flexibility enables them to adopt the technologies best suited to their business needs while building the agility needed to respond to change.

Reflecting this year's theme, "The AI Nexus: from pilot to production," the Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards 2026 celebrate organizations that are leading the way with open source. This year's awards recognize 32 winners across the region whose innovative use of Red Hat solutions is helping solve complex business challenges and deliver meaningful outcomes for customers, employees, and communities.

The winners were recognized for demonstrating how open source can help organizations turn complexity into opportunity. By modernizing technology foundations, streamlining operations, and accelerating innovation, each organization has delivered measurable outcomes that strengthen business resilience and create lasting value. Their achievements reflect Red Hat's continued collaboration with enterprises across 13 APAC countries to solve real-world challenges through open source.

The awards comprise five categories: Digital Transformation, Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud-Native Development, Automation, and AI.

Category: Automation

Winner: CLP Power Hong Kong Limited

CLP Power Hong Kong Limited ("CLP Power") is the Hong Kong utility subsidiary wholly owned by CLP Holdings Limited, a company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and one of the largest investor-owned power businesses in Asia. CLP Power operates a vertically integrated electricity supply business in Hong Kong, and provides a highly reliable supply of electricity and excellent customer services to more than six million people in its supply area.

CLP Power modernized its enterprise automation capabilities through the adoption of open source technologies and a common automation framework across its platform, network, cloud, and operations teams. This initiative shifts fragmented scripting practices into a unified scalable approach based on shared standards and reusable components. By integrating key operational systems and automating end-to-end workflows, CLP Power has reduced manual effort, accelerated service delivery and enhanced system resilience. This has strengthened the reliability and recoverability of the critical digital systems that support utility operations and customer services in Hong Kong.

Category: AI and Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure

Winner: Fubon Bank (Hong Kong) Limited

Fubon Bank (Hong Kong) Limited ("Fubon Bank") is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fubon Financial Holding Co., Ltd. ("Fubon Financial Holdings"), one of the largest financial holding companies in Taiwan. Fubon Bank operates 15 branches and 3 SME Banking Services Centres in Hong Kong, alongside a branch in Shenzhen to support cross-border banking. The Bank provides a wide range of financial services encompassing consumer and wholesale banking, wealth management, financial markets, and investment services.

Fubon Bank accelerated its enterprise AI strategy by migrating standalone AI environments onto a cloud-native architecture powered by Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Red Hat AI Inference. By integrating AI hardware acceleration into OpenShift, Fubon Bank streamlined model serving for large language models and containerized AI applications, reducing model deployment timelines from weeks to days. This modern open platform underpins critical banking innovations, including an internal generative Knowledge Retrieval Engine and selected internal process automations.

Supporting Quotes
Daniel Aw, Vice President & General Manager, APAC, Red Hat APAC

"Enterprise technology is becoming more complex than ever, but success is no longer about how many new technologies an organization adopts. What matters more is how effectively these solutions work together to address real business challenges and deliver tangible value. This year's winners demonstrate that the organizations best positioned for long-term success are those building open, flexible foundations that allow them to innovate on their own terms. Their achievements are a testament to what organizations can accomplish when technology decisions are guided by business needs rather than trends, and it is this approach that we are proud to celebrate through the Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards."

Narayanan NS, Director - Project & Service Excellence, CLP Power
"As energy infrastructure becomes increasingly digitalized, we have established enterprise automation as an embedded long-term capability that can be leveraged across the organisation rather than as a standalone solution. This initiative has strengthened our engineering capabilities, enhanced cyber resilience, improved operational efficiency, and reinforced the reliability and resilience of the digital systems that support our operations and customer services."