Sathish Balakrishnan, Vice President & GM, Ansible Business Unit, Red Hat

Spoiler alert: IT Ops are hard. Achieving success on Day 2 is hard. Technology sprawl. Broken and manual processes. Skills gaps. These challenges are pervasive - and they aren’t going away any time soon. To tackle them, an organization needs to approach automation so that it can help bridge operational silos, unify teams, and wrangle complexity. 

That’s why the nature, scope, and importance of IT automation has changed so much in just the past few years, growing from “nice to have,” into “strategic imperative.” With the inevitability of the AI revolution, the entire enterprise technology landscape has reached a tipping point. Soon, every organization will find itself faced with a choice - automate at the corners, and struggle to keep up - or seize the opportunity to make automation mission-critical to their organization and never look back. 

Join us as we share the Ansible vision for achieving mission-critical automation in your organization. You'll hear why it matters now more than ever and how to shift your approach to prepare the AI revolution and beyond. 

Mike Dahlgren, Senior Manager, Specialist Solution Architecture, Red Hat

Embark on a quest through the treacherous terrain of software deployment and deployment! In this presentation, we will explore the labyrinth of compatibility conundrums, deployement dependencies, security snafus, and the relentless pursuit of patching perfection.

Keri Olson, Vice President, Product Management, AI for Code, watsonx Code Assistant, IBM

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, IT automation is a key priority for organizations aiming to remain agile and competitive. This session will explore how watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed transforms IT automation workflows by leveraging generative AI for Ansible content recommendations from natural language inputs. Attendees will discover how watsonx Code Assistant can dramatically reduce the time and effort needed to develop and manage playbooks, empowering developers of all skill levels to deliver faster and more efficient Ansible content.

In this session we’ll explore:

• The state of generative AI for coding
• An overview of Watsonx Code Assistant for Ansible Lightspeed
• Client experiences and outcomes
• How to get started

Girish Krishnan, Senior Principal Chief Architect, Red Hat

Digital transformation, modern application architectures, and software development practices are all driving an increasing need for automation. Automation will become the strategic differentiator for organizations that continue to accelerate innovation and deploy new business-enhancing capabilities, ranging from Artificial Intelligence to Developer Experience.

Andrew Schoenfeld, Principal Specialist Solutions Architect, Red Hat

Brief introduction and overview of Event-Driven Ansible. With some discussion around potential quick use cases. Bring your thoughts on how you would use EDA.

Luis Valle, Specialist Solutions Architect, Red Hat

Discover how to streamline your network deployment processes with Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) using the Ansible Automation Platform. ZTP enables hands-off device configuration, minimizing manual intervention and accelerating network provisioning. Explore how Ansible Automation Platform seamlessly integrates with ZTP to automate network deployments and configurations across your infrastructure.