Staying Resilient: How Financial Institutions are Leveraging Automation to Innovate and Compete

As 2021 gets underway, executives at financial institutions will be breathing a sigh of relief that the previous year is finally behind them. However, similar pressures remain. Namely, how to respond and adapt quickly to rapid changes in competition, demand, technology, and regulations. To succeed in an increasingly complex and volatile business environment financial institutions will have to respond quickly to changes in customer needs and stay ahead of the competition.

We kick start the year with 2 events in 1 day - a webinar in the morning and a hands-on workshop in the afternoon. Both events are targeted at different audiences that gives insights into not just the ‘Whys’ but also the ‘Hows’. Invite your colleagues along, sign them up for the sessions that resonate most!

Webinar: Staying Resilient: How Financial Institutions are Leveraging Automation to Innovate and Compete
Date: Thursday, 25th March 2021
Time: 10 am - 11.30 am (SGT)
Who should attend: FSI Technologists tasked with Transformation, IT Decision Makers

Join us in this virtual expert panel, hosted by Kapronasia in partnership with Red Hat and Intel. This timely discussion features key industry leaders who will share their insights on how financial services organizations, driven by heightened consumer expectations, pressure from non-traditional service providers, evolving regulations and security concerns must remain adaptable in this new reality. To do this effectively, financial services firms need automation capabilities to ensure that they can quickly deliver value to customers, create the scale and capabilities to compete against new digitally native competitors, and remain secure and compliant

Gain exclusive insights on:

• How the market is shifting and driving the need for more agile and automated solutions
• Ensuring that your automation is fast, secure, and inclusive to keep pace with the market and the demands of your customers
• Creating, managing and scaling repeatable instructions to provision, deploy, optimize and secure your complex infrastructure, network, associated policies, and applications across a hybrid cloud ecosystem
• Best practices on helping your organization improve existing processes and execute your digital initiatives
• Improving operational efficiency, management, and scalability of heterogeneous IT environments where regulatory compliance and security are primary concerns

Hands-on Workshop: IT Automation for Financial Services
Date: Thursday, 25th March 2021
Time: 1 pm - 4 pm (SGT)
Who should attend: Developers, Architects, System Administrators & FSI technologists.

As digital adoption grows, so does the complexity of the associated infrastructure. Financial services firms need automation capabilities to deploy applications to ensure that distributed architectures are consistent and compliant. Do more to optimize your work and contribute to reducing bottlenecks with consistent automation and self-healing. In this hands-on session, participants will have an opportunity to immerse themselves in an FSI labs environment and try out the features and functionalities of Ansible Security Automation. Some of the key take-aways include:

• Glimpse how Ansible can be leveraged in a secure environment;
• Learn how to automate faster with the use of modules, tasks & playbooks;
• Gain insights into Ansible advanced use cases such as:
  • Compliance check against security benchmarks
  • Segregation of responsibilities in the day-to-day life
  • Distributing the automation to an enterprise-wide catalog

Let our Red Hat Specialist guide you through the sessions with demos in a live lab environment. You will gain hands-on-lab experience with Red Hat Ansible in this virtual no-cost, 1/2-day event

Technical System Requirements:

• Connectivity to the internet
• Chrome or Firefox web browser with latest updates
• PC/Laptop with 8GB RAM