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 a comprehensive automation solution that 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.” And the inevitability of the AI revolution is ushering the entire enterprise technology landscape to 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 and never look back.

Join us as we share the Ansible vision for “Day Now” automation, then hear directly from a cross-section of Red Hat customers who have found themselves at the tipping point and adopted the “mission-critical” mindset.

Gain new insights into how your peers are approaching their biggest Day 2 ops challenges with a strategic automation
Get actionable tips on leveraging Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform as a mission-critical tool, and advice based on lessons learned on their journeys.
Come away with a clearer understanding of what these automation pioneers see on the horizon.

The Containerized Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) marks a significant advancement in streamlined platform management, utilizing native RHEL podman atop a RHEL host. Beyond just containerizing services, our goals have included making installation easier, using a layered approach, enhancing security with rootless Podman containers, and offering a solid base for further functionality down the road. This innovation guarantees a more compact design that is customized for relevant markets and solutions, and works smoothly with the deployment platforms and alternatives that we support.

In this session, you'll discover how Ansible Automation Platform, a powerful enterprise automation platform, simplifies Windows management by automating repetitive tasks like software installs, configuration, and updates. Ansible's agentless design eliminates the need for extra software on your Windows machines, while human-readable YAML playbooks let you automate even complex workflows and ensure consistent, reliable management across your systems, saving you time and minimizing errors.

In today's dynamic IT landscape, organizations are increasingly adopting event-driven architectures to respond swiftly to changing business requirements and market demands. Red Hat Ansible, a leading automation platform, offers powerful capabilities for event-driven automation, enabling organizations to orchestrate workflows, trigger actions, and automate responses based on real-time events.

This session will explore the concept of event-driven automation with Red Hat Ansible and demonstrate how it can revolutionize your organization's workflows and enhance agility. From automating incident response to dynamically scaling resources based on workload demands, event-driven automation using Ansible opens up a world of possibilities for driving operational efficiency and accelerating digital transformation.

AI Everywhere refers to enabling AI in every platform with world-changing technology that improves the life of every person on the planet.

Intel aims at bringing AI everywhere in every step in the partnership by accelerating innovation with a broad AI software portfolio, maximizing value with a comprehensive compute portfolio of CPUs + GPUs + accelerators to train & fine tune to run your most complex AI models and workloads, ensuring security with Intel’s confidential computing technologies, and deploy/ run AI anywhere for every stage of the AI journey from the client and edge to the data center and cloud.

Join us for an insightful session on the transformative impact of automation and why expertise in Red Hat Ansible Automation is crucial. Learn about our comprehensive Red Hat Ansible training and certification programs designed to equip your team with the skills needed to harness automation's full potential. Elevate your team's capabilities and stay ahead in the competitive landscape with Red Hat Ansible Automation.

A datacenter from brick and mortar is now many a times refered as a metadata element on a private / public cloud platform. Yet, we still need networks, security, hardening and complaince, complex applications to be deployed and maintained with ability to scale and balance.

If Infrastructure as code could create such complex entities and define how performance could be derived from loosely coupled entities, delivered by multiple solutions with automation it could redefine how we could optimize our expensive resources on cloud.

n this 30 mins session Rahul and Yathiraj will take us through how a long ardous process of realisating a datacenter on a clous platform is simplified with Ansible Automation Platform from Red Hat.

Charles will moderate a dynamic conversation featuring multiple customers who will share their experiences with Ansible in their respective environments. Gain insights into the real-world application of Ansible Automation Platform across diverse industries as our esteemed panelists delve into their current use cases.

Senior Director - Enterprise Sales, Red Hat India & SA

Prakash Shetty is the Senior Director - Enterprise Sales for Red Hat India, SAARC and CXO advocate for enterprise customers in the region. He is also part of Red Hat’s India leadership team. In his role, Prakash is responsible for helping customers in their digital transformation, leveraging on Red Hat’s open culture, processes and technology.

He has been responsible to build the BFSI vertical for India and his current role Prakash is responsible for driving strategic planning, growth initiatives, and digital transformation partnerships across Enterprises - BFSI, Manufacturing, Retail, Oil & Gas and Public Sectors customers.

His focus is to help Enterprise customers harness the potential of technologies to build practices that expedite the execution of their business strategies towards the development of digital capabilities.

Automation Platform Leader, Red Hat APAC

Bringing over two decades of experience in the US technology sector, he currently serve as the Technical Sales Leader for Red Hat's Automation Platform in the Asia Pacific Region. Chip believe Automation is the key to unlock the value of today’s emerging technologies such as cloud and cognitive.

Prior to his role at Red Hat, Chip held key positions at IBM, focusing on systems and cloud sales for government, defense, and large private sector clients. Charles diverse background includes military service, academia, and consumer packaged goods brand management, offering a comprehensive understanding of both business and technology.

Recently moved to Singapore where he enjoy outdoor activities such as mountain biking and actively contribute to the open-source community, particularly in the Internet of Things (IoT) domain.

Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat India & SA

Rachna Dodia is a Specialist Solution Architect working at Red Hat, having an overall work experience of 6 years. In the current role, Rachna is responsible for helping the customers in their digital transformation journey, leveraging Red Hat’s open culture, process and technology.

She has key expertise in Containerisation and Automation. Prior to Red Hat, she has worked at Barclays Technology Center as a Support Analyst.

Data & AI Technical Leader, IBM India SA

Manager – India ISVs, NSIs & Next-wave GSIs, Intel Corporation

Automation Sales Specialist, Red Hat India & SA

Rahul Vallathai Sreenivasan has had a distinguished career in the fields of automation, digital transformation, and emerging technologies, with a focus on pre-sales, product management, and strategic consulting. Currently, he is an Automation Solution Specialist at Red Hat India, where he looks at the amalgamation of automation technology with business strategy for customers of the region. He specializes in developing enterprise automation strategies for customers to deliver value out of the automation platform and practices.

Before Red Hat, Rahul was the Director of Solutions at SmartHub.AI, where he signed and delivered significant AI/ML and IoT deals, contributing to the company's growth and technical advancements. Before this, he worked for VMware as a Senior Technology Consultant, where he was instrumental in developing the Edge and IoT business unit and securing key IoT and digital transformation projects across various regions, including APAC and EMEA.

Earlier in his career, Rahul held roles at IBM India and Tata Consultancy Services, where he specialized in server consolidation and IT infrastructure management, contributing to major cost savings and efficiency improvements for global clients. His expertise spans automation and observability, virtualization, cloud solutions, IoT, AI/ML, product marketing, and technology consulting.

Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat India & SA

Yathiraj K R is a Specialist Solution Architect. He is Cisco CCNA and CCNP certified and brings 13+ years of experience in Networking and Network Automation including working on ISP’s, Datacenter, SD-WAN and ACI SDN technologies. He helps customers in design, leverage and adoption of Automation in networking and Infrastructure using Ansible and AAP.

He is passionate about working with C and C++ during leisure and he always believes “learning things will never leave you alone.

Senior Technical Support Engineer, Red Hat India & SA

Amrinder Singh began his journey with Red Hat as an intern in 2017. He initially contributed to the Networking Team before transitioning to the Ansible Automation Team. Over the years, he has amassed 7 years of experience working with Red Hat Technologies.

Amrinder Singh is currently employed with Red Hat as a Senior Technical Support Engineer, helping clients with technical problems pertaining to their infrastructure. His areas of expertise span a variety of technologies such as automation, cloud, networking, Linux, and containers.

Senior Consultant, Red Hat India & SA

Chinmay Paradkar, Senior Consultant, India Consulting Services, brings over 16 years of industry expertise in Hybrid Cloud Solutions, Virtualization, and Automation. With a focus on open-source technology adoption, Chinmay has delivered innovative solutions to enterprises, telecoms, and government clients in India. Passionate about digital transformation, he empowers organizations to achieve their business goals through technology.

AVP-CCD, Infosys Limited

Kiran Bhojaraju, AVP - Computer and Communication Division (CCD) is associated with Infosys since 2001, after an initial stint with Arvind Mills as Programmer, System and Database administrator. At Infosys, he has performed various roles from Supporting UNIX Systems and Databases to Managerial roles in IT Services. His eye for details, analysis, strength to accomplish the objective has placed him ahead of many. Kiran has been instrumental in various efficiency building initiatives which includes Open Source modules, Scale-Out Storage, Virtualization environments, Proprietary Unix platforms, Customer deployments and performance boost of Finacle environment. His recent assignments covers adoption of OpenSource comprising of OpenStack software for DevOps model, Ansible Automation & RPA workflows, IaaS, PaaS, STaaS and DBaaS across Infosys Limited & EdgeVerve. Kiran holds Engineering degree in Computer Science from UVCE, Bangalore University.

Senior Director - Solutions Engineering, Cisco - India and SAARC

Arun Shetty is Senior Director– Solutions Engineering, Cisco, India & SAARC, Arun also heads “Cisco For Startups” initiative in India.

Arun has a long and successful career in IT industry, with three decades of experience in leading global projects and driving transformation, having held significant roles at Cisco, Avaya and Riverbed. Arun also provided mentorship and closely collaborated with start-ups to plan, develop and implement their Go-To-Market strategies in India.
Arun holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Mangalore University and a Master of Business Laws degree from NLSUI, Bangalore."

Enterprise Lead, GLS, Red Hat India & SA

Sukumar is the Enterprise Lead for Global Learning Services Managing India and South Asia, Cutting across all the vertices such as GSI, BFSI, Govt, commercials segments etc. He is helping the customers in their technology adoption journey though skill enabled for the organisation for the past six years.

SVP Technology, Angel One

Hemanth Kumar is a seasoned technology leader with over 19 years of experience in the industry. His career spans renowned companies such as Yahoo, Microsoft, Intuit, and Walmart, where he has held prominent positions. His expertise encompasses cloud computing, Platform Infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and engineering team management.

Hemanth is widely recognized for his ability to spearhead complex projects, foster innovation, and nurture high-performance teams. He has a proven track record of achieving exceptional reliability and uptime rates, often surpassing 99.99%, through strategic platform re-engineering initiatives.

His skill set extends beyond technical proficiency to include building and managing global teams, aligning technical initiatives with overarching business objectives, and crafting effective product strategies. Hemanth's exceptional interpersonal skills further bolster his effectiveness as a leader in the technology sector.

Technical Sales Leader - Data & AI, IBM India SA

Sameer Vaishampayan is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in Data and AI, currently leading the Data and AI technical Sales team in ISA in Mumbai, Maharashtra. With a robust background as an Enterprise Architect, Sameer specializes in data analytics, enterprise application integration (EAI), requirements analysis, enterprise software, business development, and enterprise architecture. His career is marked by a demonstrated history of delivering insights and strategic advice to clients, helping them establish strong data architecture foundations. Sameer leads a team of experienced professionals and holds an engineering degree focused on computer science.