Frank Wu, Northeast Ansible Leader, Red Hat

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

That’s why the nature, scope, and importance of IT automation has changed so much, growing from “nice to have,” into “strategic imperative.” With the inevitability of the AI revolution, the technology landscape has reached a tipping point. 

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

Blair Sibille, Field CTO, Big Panda

BigPanda and Event-Driven Ansible enable ITOps teams to easily identify infrastructure alerts and auto-remediate resolution, before or after a ticket is created. BigPanda functions as a central operational hub of monitoring, change, and configuration data, which allows us to generate rich, contextualized alerts that pinpoint root causes and identify automation signals with Event-Driven Ansible to accelerate incident resolution. Join us for an interactive session as we demonstrate how to use BigPanda and Event-Driven Ansible to:

• Identify automation opportunities within your infrastructure
• Use correlated alerts to connect with automation workflows
• Auto-remediate alerts and self-heal incidents in your ITSM platform

As organizations move their infrastructure from self-hosted to hyperscaler vendors, Red Hat has cloud marketplace offerings that allow customers to buy Ansible Automation platform. This session will provide an overview of the different buying and deployment options that Red Hat provides across cloud vendors, including managed application and self-managed offerings including a real world story of a self-managed AAP customer moving to a Managed Ansible Automation Platform service in the Cloud including key challenges, obstacles, and wins.

Tim Appnel, Senior Principal Product Manager, Red Hat

Organizations often struggle to adopt and scale automation across different teams. To address these obstacles, the Ansible team has expanded automation developer (aka content creator) capabilities that make automation more accessible to a wider swath of IT practitioners at any skill level. 

By bringing a cohesive generative AI and content creation experience to customers with an enhanced package of content creation tools and Red Hat Ansible Lighstpeed with IBM watsonx code Assistant, you can create, test, and deploy automation faster while addressing the IT skills gap.

Jim Amanatidis, Director, UNIX Platforms, NYU Langone Health
Dave Bertin, Director, Global Product Sales, Red Hat
Michael Johnson, Principal Automation Engineer, Xylem

Have you ever wanted to talk to your peer and ask how they solved their use cases with Ansible? Curious how other organizations structure their IT Automation strategy? Join us for a #realtalk NYC customer panel as we dig down into the various IT Automation journeys with a major NYC University and other large Enterprise companies. Bring your questions.

Phil Avery, Principal Solution Architect, Ansible, Red Hat

Network compliance has never been more important due to the high cost of downtime and the need to stay ahead of security risks. In this session you can expect to see a methodology to which we can evolve network compliance, and reduce risks more dynamically. This topic is relevant for decision makers and operators responsible for security and network operations.

Ansible and Terraform are two popular, powerful and unique tools that are often compared in competitive discussions, but should it be one or the other? In this session, we will discuss how the tools are better used  together to create a complete end to end automation solution, harnessing the strength of each to offer a better experience for developers and operations teams.