| 10:00 - 10:15 | The evolution of automation: going to the next level
Joseph Fitzgerald, VP & General Manager Management & Automation BU, Red HatAs organizations accelerate their digital transformation efforts they are embracing new hybrid IT models that include a mix of traditional, private and public cloud technologies. Workload strategies in these new models must consider cost, availability, security and reliability, as well as compliance and regulatory requirements. Many enterprises have evolved from use of on-premises virtualization and private clouds to hybrid and, frequently, multicloud environments. Simple, powerful management solutions for hybrid and multicloud environments will solve this paradigma. |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Unifying your automation strategy
Belkacem Moussouni, Business Development Lead, Management & Automation, Red HatHaving the right automation platform combined with the needed cultural change is a must-have to succeed in the constant evolving digital transformation journey due to the impact of Cloud and DevOps. In this session, we will review the new automation possibilities that Ansible Automation Platform can offer to bring scale, better governance and speed. We’ll share insights on why it’s an essential capability and how it can help you achieve your company goals. |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Event-Driven Automation
Victor da Costa, Technical Business Development Manager, Red HatThere has never been a more challenging time for running the services that power your organization - data moves at real-time speed, digital has become the rule, and customers expect secure, always on services. Distributed architectures continue to grow in both size and complexity, challenging even the most capable organization’s ability to effectively manage them. Businesses need to contain cost and manage risk while coping with an ever evolving technology estate. In this session we'll cover how Ansible's ecosystem in combination with Ansible Automation Platform and modern technologies like AI and Containers can help organizations to transform how they operate their entire IT infrastructure stack. By leveraging Event-Driven Automation across the organization, teams can collaborate more effectively and securely, improving SLAs and lowering overall IT operational costs. |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Automation of migration to the cloud with Capgemini
Sebastien Reister, Program Director, Capgemini
Belkacem Moussouni, Business Development Lead, Management & Automation, Red HatRed Hat partner Cap Gemini share their strategy on how to help organisations with their IT modernization and the role that automation has to play. |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Step by step guide to your automation journey
Marc Petrivelli, Managing Architect Automation Practice, Red HatAs organizations navigate the new realities of an ever-changing enterprise ecosystem, IT automation has become an imperative boardroom conversation. IT executives need more than a tool to get their company where it needs to be. They need a long-term strategy—and a true automation platform—that contributes to the organization’s overall digital transformation. Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform can help by giving organizations the ability to do more with less, while scaling their infrastructure. During this session, we’ll explore an IT executive’s role in adopting and growing an automation solution for success, connecting technology, processes, and teams to deliver more business value. |
12:00 - 13:00 | Break |
| 13:00 - 13:15 | Cloud and automation: Changing CSPs’ OpEx outlook
Mark Newman, Chief Analyst, TM ForumExplore the different approaches that digital service providers around the world are taking to reduce operating expenses (OpEx) and the extent to which digital transformation is driving these efficiency programs.
In this presentation, Mark Newman, Chief Analyst at TM Forum, will look at the role of cloud and automation and how it impacts OpEx from a financial, business and technology perspective. Join us to review the status of current telco OpEx through detailed analysis of publicly available financial results from leading CSPs operating in Europe, the Middle East and Africa: BT, MTN South Africa, Ooredoo, Orange and Telenor. |
| 13:15 - 13:45 | Unlocking new opportunities of the Edge with automation: use cases in the telecom industry
Chris Thornton, Edge Business Development, Red Hat The edge has become prime real estate. There is a drive to commoditising it and getting more value from the assets that are stored there. Scale is a key topic that needs to be addressed when utilising edge computing, this includes taking advantage of the minimal size that these 'edges' provide and also the sheer number of these end points.
Join this session to gain an understanding of some of the ways that the value of edge computing is emerging and how Red Hat's automation technology is enabling this at scale. |
| 13:45 - 14:15 | Securing your telecommunications network with Ansible
François Duthilleul, Principal Solution Architect, Red HatThe landscape of telecommunications operators' networks has changed dramatically in recent years with the virtualization of network functions and the emergence of cloud platforms. Attackers are heavily leveraging automation for their attacks. Since 5G is going to power life- or mission-critical industries, the amount of attacks is not expected to decrease anytime soon. The service providers must use the same tools to secure the various constituents of their network being physical, virtual or containerized network elements. This session will cover the typical use cases where automation, and specifically Ansible can be leveraged to secure the Telco network and integrate into their existing security ecosystem. |
| 14:15 - 14:45 | Intelligent automation and predictive analytics
Rajendra Panda, co-founder, Avanseus
Alex Reiniger, Business Developer Manager, Red HatTechnological evolutions and innovations in the telecommunication sector are accelerating, to cope with the evolution of the market and the competition of the over-the-top media services. It becomes increasingly critical for telecommunications service providers to be able to bring to the market new, innovative services quickly to meet the customers’ expectations. Digital service providers are increasingly turning to transversal automation to benefit from automated service creation and support.
In this session, Red Hat experts will explore the role of automation and specifically, the benefits artificial intelligence and machine learning can bring. Avanseus, an AI/ML Red Hat partner, will present AI/ML use cases applied to automation, including predictive close loop remediation on a fix or/and mobile network and automated preemptive network maintenance. |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Networking Demo: Building up a closed loop in 30 mins
Markus Rainer, CCIE, Senior Specialist Solution Architect, Ansible Networking, Red Hat EMEAAutomation means integration and interaction of systems that have previously worked independently. The Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) helps to implement this quickly and easily.
In this demo we will implement a closed loop use case in the network in 30 minutes. The goal is to keep our system and data in sync and to be able to react to possible changes. We want to keep the necessary manual interaction as low as possible.
We use Netbox as the CMDB / IPAM application in the demo and we will integrate Syslog-NG as an event trigger.
Once the basic concept is in place, we will briefly show how it can be easily supplemented with additional use and business cases. |
