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$13 billion Red Hat threw a wedding onstage at its big conference ' with the CEO as ring bearer (RHAT)

Published by Business Insider on Thu, 30 Jun 2016


This week's Red Hat Summit, a tech conference, in San Francisco closed out its keynote session with a bang ' an onstage wedding, officiated by Red Hat tech EVPPaul Cormier, with CEO Jim Whitehurst acting as ring bearer.The groom, MattHargrave, an engineerwith 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, ShannonMontague, works as an American Sign Language interpreter. The coupletraveled to San Francisco from Texas to get married onstage. Cormier got his marriage license just to make this happen.And it definitely happened.You can watch the whole thing here:Or skip to the vows here, from Instagram: This is a #rhsummit first A video posted by Opensource.com (@opensourceway) on Jun 29, 2016 at 3:02pm PDTon Jun 29, 2016 at 3:02pm PDT 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.Hargrave teased it was coming the day before on his personal Twitter:1 day left and no one around here has a clue about the big event. #RHSummit pic.twitter.com/oFQNrknM24' Matt Hargrave (@hargrizzel) June 28, 2016It'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.SEE ALSO:The hottest tech IPO is rocketing up another 18%Join the conversation about this storyNOW WATCH: Cutting edge tech discovered a popular word inmates say during phone calls ' and prison officials were surprised
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