Ansible® Automates is a full-day virtual conference with Ansible experts and industry thought leaders presenting trending automation topics that will help your organization deliver the right automation strategy and achieve success in the constantly evolving world.
Red Hat® Ansible Automation Platform supports extensive possibilities and is designed with hybrid cloud infrastructure in mind. It is a flexible, scalable, and multifaceted automation solution that works across your enterprise, wherever your organization might be in its automation journey.
What you can expect
Who should attend?
#AnsibleAutomates2024 is for IT business leaders and their teams:
This event is not meant to provide technical instruction and training on Ansible Automation Platform. For all technical training, please view our Red Hat Training courses or our Ansible technical workshops.
Are you going to be in the Dallas, TX area on March 26th? Join us in person for this event by registering here.
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| Introduction and Housekeeping, Moez Dharini Event Emcee + Intel speaker | 9:30 AM - 9:45 AM |
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Keynote: Opportunity meets preparation: Automation as the key to success with AI
Naveen Chhabra, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Forrester You know AI is going to fundamentally change the technology landscape in the coming years. But are you aware of the critical role automation is playing - and will play - in how it all unfolds? This opening keynote by Forrester's Principal Analyst Naveen Chhabra will help you see the impending AI revolution through an entirely new lens. You’ll leave this talk with:
While it might never be possible to be fully “ready” for the changes AI will bring, the strategic application of automation can absolutely help you and your organization be better prepared. Join us to learn how.
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9:45 AM - 10:25 AM |
| Automate to improve efficiency in the AI era Julio Villarreal Pelegrino, Distinguished Architect, Red Hat This presentation will explore how AI and Ansible could help revolutionize IT operations. We begin with an introduction to Ansible, detailing its ability to simplify complex IT tasks, and then delve into Ansible Lightspeed, showcasing its improved speed and scalability features. The focus will be on real-world business use cases across various sectors, demonstrating how these tools automate routine tasks, streamline workflows, and enhance overall operational efficiency.
Furthermore, we address the challenges and best practices in implementing Ansible solutions, such as system integration, security concerns, and workforce adaptation. The aim is to equip attendees, from IT professionals to business managers, with practical insights for effectively utilizing Ansible and Ansible Lightspeed in their organizations. This session promises to provide a comprehensive understanding of these tools as essential in the journey toward efficient, AI-driven automation in today's dynamic business environment.
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10:25 AM - 10:50 AM |
| Coffee break | 10:50 AM - 11:05 AM |
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Verizon uses Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed for AI-driven automation
Sunny Singh, Fellow - Cloud, Verizon
Adam Pippert, Principal Specialist Solutions Architect, Red Hat
This topic explores Verizon's application of Automation & AI technologies to create more responsive, customer-centric network services. It highlights the use of automation platforms, advanced analytics & machine learning, including a nod to Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed, to anticipate customer needs, optimize network performance, and deliver personalized services. The presentation will discuss how these technologies enable Verizon to maintain a competitive edge, ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction and loyalty through innovative service delivery and network reliability.
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11:05 AM -11:30 AM |
| The benefits of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on Microsoft Azure Scott Harwell, Senior Principal Product Manager - Ansible Cloud Ron Abellera, Global Blackbelt Linux - Microsoft Kundry Marsset González Serna, Microsoft CTO for Global ISVs in Americas Region Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on Microsoft Azure offers all the benefits of Ansible automation, deployed in your Azure cloud. It integrates with native Azure services and the full Ansible collection for Microsoft Azure, and draws down on your cloud committed spend agreements. In this lightning talk, you will learn how you can automate Azure with Ansible Automation Platform from the Microsoft Azure Marketplace |
11:30 AM - 11:55 AM |
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Partner Panel: Delivering on the full promise of IT automation
Shawn DeLuca, Automation Engineering Manager, Hosting Services, CIO Services, Leidos
Biswamber Pal, HCL, Red Hat Practice Lead - NA Peter Georgopoulos, Technologent , Sr. Cloud Architect As the complexities of modern infrastructure, applications, security, and hybrid cloud environments continue to grow, IT organizations will require a comprehensive automation strategy. Join this session to gain insights from leading IT leaders at Leidos, Technologent, and HCL on how they're seeing organizations deliver business outcomes and optimizing workloads to fulfill the potential of IT automation.
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11:55 AM - 12:25 PM |
| Lunch | 12:25 PM - 1:25 PM |
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Getting started with Ansible with our upcoming new user experience and developer tooling
Chad Ferman, Senior Principal Product Manager - Ansible
Adam Miller, Distinguished Engineer, Red Hat Today when someone first logs into the Ansible Automation Platform it is hard to know where to start. We realize that writing Ansible code is not everyone's day job. Our goal is to make it much more intuitive when you get started with Ansible Automation Platform the second you log in, instead of having to take training courses or watch YouTube videos. In this session, Chad Ferman from Ansible product management and Adam Miller distinguished engineer from the Anible engineering team will discuss what this will look like, as well as take questions and feedback to make sure we are heading in the right direction for our next release.
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1:25 PM - 1:50 PM |
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Leveraging automation & AI for customer-Centric network services
Ben Blizard, Principal Engineer, Product Owner - Network Services | SIPS Automation
Adam Pippert, Principal Specialist Solution Architect, Ansible - Red Hat
In each automation endeavor, there is a twofold challenge of introducing new products and features, all while contending with the costs tied to overseeing existing architecture. To address these challenges head-on, T-Mobile's Network Automation team is spearheading an innovative modular approach to handle its Ansible code base. This approach not only streamlines development but also empowers Network Engineers with the flexibility to configure the network according to their business needs. In this presentation, we will explore the strategic integration of Ansible inventories and collections to dynamically deploy network configurations, unveiling a unique set of insights and practices that signify a dramatic shift in their approach to network automation. |
1:50 PM - 2:15 PM |
| Coffee break | 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM |
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Unleashing the Power of Event-Driven Automation with Red Hat Ansible Platform and Dynatrace
Jairam Ramaswamy, Manager Technical Alliances
The worst thing for your IT teams is to get a 2am call on the weekend that a critical system has gone down – especially with cascading alerts and no clear root cause. As IT environments get increasingly complex, it can be difficult to understand dependencies between applications, where key services are running, and what changes could cause problems. Monitoring alone isn’t enough – on average, organizations only have visibility into 9% of their infrastructure.
The combination of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Dynatrace® cuts through the complexity of hybrid clouds and cloud native environments. Dynatrace provides visibility and actionable intelligence into the entire infrastructure topology, impact assessments for incidents, and real-time root cause analysis. This can then power Event-Driven Ansible to respond to and remediate incidents in seconds. This session covers:
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2:30 PM - 2:55 PM |
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Ansible Automation Platform: Configuration as Code
Orcun Atakan, Principal Specialist Solution Architect, Ansible - Red Hat
In this session you will see an example of how you can create AAP dev/test environments using AAP configuration as code. A demo will be provided that shows how the new containerized install feature would help you pre-populate content in AAP at the installation time.
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2:55 PM - 3:20 PM |
| Improving Enterprise Automation through Powershell and Ansible Sean Anderson, Specialist Solution Architect, Ansible - Red Hat Automation can take many forms, though most often starts in the form of command line tools like powershell and bash. In this session, we will explore how Ansible can extend and scale the capabilities of scripted automation tools such as powershell to better automate enterprise environments |
3:20 PM - 3:45 PM |
