Red Hat Celebrates Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives and Land and Houses Bank Public for Driving Open Source Excellence at the Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards 2025 for Thailand

Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the winners of the Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards 2025 for Thailand. This year, Red Hat is celebrating Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives and Land and Houses Bank Public Company Limited for their forward thinking use of open source to drive innovation, enable transformation and create meaningful impact across their organizations.

The pace of change in Asia Pacific shows no signs of slowing, especially as AI becomes a core driver of business transformation. Despite these demands, our customers have delivered remarkable results, showing that innovation thrives when paired with open source. The Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards 2025 are an opportune time to recognize and celebrate these achievements, highlighting how our customers are unlocking what’s next and shaping a future defined by creativity, resilience, and impact. - Marjet Andriesse, senior vice president and general manager, APJC, Red Hat

Embodying this year’s theme, “Unlock what’s next,” the Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards 2025 celebrates customers turning these trends into tangible results. The awards recognize 30 winners across the region whose inventive use of Red Hat’s open source technologies has sparked innovation, strengthened competitiveness, and delivered lasting value for their industries, customers, and employees. These organizations demonstrate how open source empowers enterprises to reimagine possibilities, navigate complexity, and seize new opportunities in an evolving landscape to define future competitiveness.

The awards comprise five categories: Digital Transformation, Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud-native Development, Automation – and the newly added AI and Emerging Tech. 

Category: Digital Transformation and Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure

Winner: Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives

The Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) is a Thai, state-owned bank dedicated to supporting farmers and rural communities. To safeguard this critical role, the organization set out on a digital transformation journey to modernize its core systems and strengthen competitiveness. Facing inefficiencies from fragmented infrastructure and rising regulatory demands, the bank needed a more reliable, secure, and flexible foundation for innovation.

To build a more resilient and future-ready platform, BAAC turned to Red Hat OpenShift, replacing its legacy systems with a unified solution for containers and virtual machines. This new hybrid cloud infrastructure has reduced reliance on legacy systems, lowered costs, and strengthened security and compliance, while enabling faster delivery of new digital services. These improvements have helped BAAC enhance resilience and efficiency at scale, ensuring Thailand’s farmers and rural communities benefit from more stable, innovative, and accessible financial services.

Category: Digital Transformation 

Winner: Land and Houses Bank Public Company Limited

As a leading financial institution in Thailand, Land and Houses Bank Public Company Limited (LH Bank) focuses on delivering retail, corporate, and SME banking services. In pursuit of its vision to be a modern, customer-centric bank, LH Bank sought to accelerate application development, improve digital experiences, and expand into new business segments, all while navigating limited IT resources and complex legacy systems. The bank needed a trusted technology partner to help modernize its applications and strengthen its infrastructure.

By adopting Red Hat OpenShift to modernize its flagship mobile banking applications, Profita and LHB You, LH Bank has transformed how it designs and delivers customer services, making apps more user-friendly, feature-rich, and scalable. The bank has since extended OpenShift to internal systems, enabling agile development and improved resource efficiency, while ensuring enterprise-grade security and reliability. This holistic approach has boosted productivity, sped up time to market, and reinforced LH Bank’s ability to offer secure, innovative digital experiences that drive growth and meet the evolving needs of customers across Thailand.

Supporting Quotes
Marjet Andriesse, senior vice president and general manager, APJC, Red Hat

“The pace of change in Asia Pacific shows no signs of slowing, especially as AI becomes a core driver of business transformation. Despite these demands, our customers have delivered remarkable results, showing that innovation thrives when paired with open source. The Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards 2025 are an opportune time to recognize and celebrate these achievements, highlighting how our customers are unlocking what’s next and shaping a future defined by creativity, resilience, and impact.”

Tongkum Kadchoti, Senior Executive Vice President, Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives
“At BAAC, we see technology as a way to improve both our operations and the services we deliver to farmers and rural communities. With Red Hat’s enterprise solutions, we have simplified our IT into a single, powerful platform that accelerates application development and reduces time to market. This project not only strengthens our own competitiveness, but also serves as a reference point for the industry, showing what is possible with open source. As an early adopter, we value open technologies that give us flexibility without vendor lock-in, ensuring we can continue to innovate and grow with confidence. ”

Ekkapob Orkbua, First Senior Vice President, Information Technology Infrastructure, Land and Houses Bank Public Company Limited
“Modernizing our core applications with Red Hat OpenShift has allowed us to deliver faster, more secure, and more reliable digital services to our customers. Thanks to Red Hat’s enterprise, open source technologies and expertise, our teams have gained the agility and efficiency needed to innovate quickly and support the bank’s growth. This collaboration highlights how open source is helping us strengthen competitiveness and expand financial access for individuals and businesses across Thailand.”

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