$13 billion Red Hat threw a wedding on stage at its big conference - with the CEO as ring bearer
This week's Red Hat Summit tech conference in San Francisco closed out its keynote session with a bang - an on-stage wedding, officiated by Red Hat tech EVP Paul Cormier, with CEO Jim Whitehurst acting as ring bearer.
The groom, Matt Hargrave, an engineer with GM Financial, is a Red Hat superfan. It was his idea to hold the wedding at the conference, to which the company agreed. His now-wife Shannon Montague works as an American Sign Language interpreter. The couple traveled to San Francisco from Texas to get married on stage.
And it definitely happened. You can watch the whole thing via archived Periscope livestream here:
Or skip to the vows here, via Instagram:
Red Hat is a publicly-traded company that makes open source software, including the popular Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system for computer servers. It has a market cap of over $13 billion.
It's not uncommon for tech companies to pull out all the stops to make an impression at their big mega-events. But a wedding is a new one by me.