Ansible® Automates is a full-day in-person and live-streamed 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 your AI adoption goals.
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.
Why attend?
Join #AnsibleAutomates2025 to learn how to create an automation-first approach for your organization and achieve your AI adoption goals.
Who should attend?
#AnsibleAutomates2025 is for IT business leaders and their teams:
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| Registration & breakfast | 8:30 AM – 9:15 AM CT |
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Introduction and housekeeping
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9:15 AM – 9:25 AM CT |
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Unlocking AI value with mission-critical automation
Chad Ferman, Ansible Automation Platform Product Manager
We’ll kick off the event with a lively discussion about the realities IT teams face when it comes to adopting AI, and the crucial role automation can play in helping drive more value from it. We’ll explore how features and strategies available with Red Hat Ansible today can make a huge impact on your AI initiatives as they unfold. From AIOps, to AI infrastructure, to AI enhancements to the Ansible experience itself, Ansible is the key to unlocking more value from AI, with mission-critical automation that makes managing modern IT environments simpler, smarter, and more effective at scale.
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9:25 AM – 9:50 AM CT |
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Ansible Automation Platform with AI, virtualization + Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Roger Lopez, Principal Technical Marketing Manager
Hit the ground running in 2025 by leveraging areas for integrating AAP with AI, OpenShift Virtualization, and RHEL. These domains are rich with opportunities to connect automation scenarios with real customer pain points to improve business outcomes. In this session, we’ll investigate each of these three focus areas, exploring how adding AAP to these larger Red Hat product portfolio focus areas can achieve impactful results.
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9:50 AM – 10:15 AM CT |
| Morning break | 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM CT |
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A practical guide for measuring the business value of AAP
Josh Monks, Business Value Director, Red Hat
Tom Simmons, Business Value Director, Red Hat AAP decreases the time to new automation capabilities by 81% and is 2.1x more cost effective than DIY automation solutions like AWX. Many organizations are looking to modernize their approach to automation and harness the value AAP delivers in terms of support, scalability, security, and performance. Tom Simmons and Josh Monks from Red Hat’s Business Value Practice will guide attendees through the business value of transitioning from AWX to AAP and provide practical steps for evaluating an investment into an IT automation platform.
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10:30 AM – 10:55 AM CT |
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Partner panel: Delivering on the full promise of IT automation
Jimmy Hopkins, Data Architect, Crunchy Data
Bob Longmore, Technical Solutions Architect, World Wide Technology Moez Dharani, Automation Leader, Red Hat 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 on how they're expediting business outcomes and optimizing workloads to fulfill the potential of IT automation. |
10:55 AM – 11:20 AM CT |
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The journey to implement an automation practice for Oklahoma’s largest electric utility
Jason Longley, Cloud Architect, Oklahoma Gas & Electric
Join us as we explore the transformative journey of developing an automation framework and practice for the Cloud/Infrastructure team at Oklahoma Gas and Electric. This presentation will outline our strategic vision, the lessons we've learned along the way, demonstrating business value and include a demonstration of the latest functionalities introduced through our own Automation ChatBot. |
11:20 AM – 11:45 AM CT |
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The need for automation is amplified by AI
Andy Garrett - Automation Specialist, Red Hat
The power and potential of Generative AI to accelerate and grow businesses is huge with some organizations predicting over $8T of global economic impact. But these gains are not free. AI technology is expensive both to build as well as run. Specialist hardware, multi-domain expertise and vast quantities of data are needed. To develop AI efficiently, automation is mission critical. The uptime and efficiency of your AI resources will directly impact your ROI and time to market, and that's even before you expose it to your customers. Red Hat's Ansible Automation Platform is here to help ensure your AI resources are optimally used and always ready to go.
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11:45 AM – 12:10 PM CT |
| Lunch | 12:10 PM – 1:10 PM CT |
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Ansible Automation Platform labs: “A day in the life of an automator"
Lab 1: Introspection and planning (Day-0)
You are new to automating and would like to leverage AAP to gather information around various infrastructure (“safe” read-only activities). Let’s leverage automation to find out more about what we have in order to gain insights into what can and should be done next! Lab 2: Standardizing deployments with workflows (Day-1)
Let’s proceed with deploying and verifying a new application to production. We’ll create a workflow that reuses existing templates that have been provided already by the different teams to build out their production environments. |
1:10 PM – 2:35 PM CT
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| Break | 2:35 PM – 2:45 PM CT |
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Lab 3: Enhancing operational efficiencies (Day-2)
Once you have successfully deployed a production environment, we want to ensure we can leverage the business benefits by introducing better methods of automating and using Event-Driven Ansible to safeguard mission critical components such as your delivery network or application.
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2:45 PM – 3:45 PM CT |
| Networking reception - Sponsored by Presdio | 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CT |
Location:
Renaissance Dallas at Plano Legacy West Hotel
6007 Legacy Dr
Plano, Texas 75024
Date: Thursday, February 6, 2025
Time: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM (UTC-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
Any questions? Reach out to infrastructure@redhat.com.
