Welcome: Red Hat + Intel
Todd Wilson, Senior Manager, Solution Architecture, Red Hat (Event Emcee)

Unlocking AI value with mission-critical automation
Sathish Balakrishnan, Vice President & GM, Ansible Business Unit, Red Hat

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.

Ansible Automation Platform with AI, Virtualization + Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Anshul Behl, Principal Product Marketing Manager - Ansible, Red Hat

Hit the ground running in 2025 by leveraging areas for integrating AAP (Ansible Automation Platform) 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.

Super-sized network orchestration with Ansible
Drew Yates, Global Head of Technology Network Delivery, TD Bank
Paul O’leary, Senior Automation Engineer, TD Bank
Jade Wu, Senior Network Engineer, TD Bank

Hear the technical story behind TD Bank scaling up Ansible using every trick in the book, to mass migrate routing and switching between vendors across thousands of devices.

Transform Legacy WAN: Automate Incident Identification and Response Today!
Jacob Stec,Technical Advisor, Shared Services Canada
Justin Caravaggio, Technical Advisor, Shared Services Canada
Andrew Snajder, Support Analyst, Shared Services Canada

Government of Canada’s IT infrastructure department (SSC – Shared Services Canada) successfully leveraged Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) and Event-Driven Automation (EDA) to enhance network services for the partner departments. By automating key processes, SSC has improved functionality, reduced operational costs, and extended the life of legacy infrastructure. Hear more about the value achieved directly from Shared Services Canada.

Partner panel: Delivering on the full promise of IT automation
Panel moderator: Mike Cardy, Partner Sales Account Manager, Red Hat
*More information on the partner panel members is coming soon

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.

Choice of Lab or Session
*Please note the Telecommunications and Financial Services sessions have limited space so your confirmation will be based on availability.

Session: Telecommunications*

Automating Your Way to Success: Service Providers will have the opportunity to engage with Red Hat experts as they deep-dive into Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform by automating critical IT processes, enhancing security, and achieving operational excellence!

Hands-on Lab: Financial Services*

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for Network Administrators: Hands-on lab: Provides an easy turn key use-cases for network engineers to start their automation journey.

Lab (1 of 2): Day 2 Operations with VMs on OpenShift Virtualization Using Ansible Automation Platform

In this lab, we will dive into Day 2 operations for managing Virtual Machines (VMs) on OpenShift Virtualization using the Ansible Automation Platform (AAP). This lab is designed to equip you with the knowledge and tools to perform critical operational tasks, ensuring your virtualized workloads are efficiently managed and maintained.

Modules

Lifecycle Management of VMs: Learn how to stop, start, and restart Virtual Machines using the redhat.openshift_virtualization Ansible Collection.

• Patching Security Updates: Apply security updates to your VMs using the dnf Ansible module, ensuring systems stay secure and up to date.
• Dynamic Inventory Management: Discover how to dynamically add your OpenShift-hosted VMs into AAP, enabling automation that adapts to your changing infrastructure.
• Backup and Restore of VMs: Protect your workloads by creating and restoring backups of your Virtual Machines, ensuring data integrity and system resilience.

Choice of Lab or Session

Session: Telecommunications* continued

Automating Your Way to Success: Service Providers will have the opportunity to engage with Red Hat experts as they deep-dive into Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform by automating critical IT processes, enhancing security, and achieving operational excellence!

Hands-on Lab: Financial Services* Continued

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for Network Administrators: Hands-on lab: Provides an easy turn key use-cases for network engineers to start their automation journey.

Lab (2 of 2): Terraform & Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP 2.5)

Use Terraform and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform together to extend and centralize your automation on a single platform.

Modules

• Terraform and AAP 2.5
• Create a Terraform-enabled Execution Environment
• Terraform Basics
• Terraform and the Certified Collection