VIRTUAL SESSIONS

Insurance learning series

June 7, 2022 - June 21, 2022

Overview

Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform loves the repetitive work that insurers hate.

To deliver on the promise of digital insurance and meet the needs of their policyholders, agents, partners, and employees, insurers must balance complex legacy systems with modern tools and methodologies. 

Through IT automation, insurers can build an enterprise-grade infrastructure that is composable, scalable, and security-focused. Using a consistent and standardized approach to IT automation can streamline workloads, foster greater collaboration, and increase productivity while helping you focus on and enhance your security and governance. 

Sessions:
June 7 | Session 1: From Confusion To Clarity: What Insurance Business Technology Leaders Need To Know About Hybrid and Multi-Cloud
Featured guest with Ellen Carney, Principal Analyst, Forrester  
Date: June 7 at 10 AM ET
June 9 | Session 2: Reduce complexity and deliver a cloud-first business model with IT automation
Presenter: Jeff Picozzi, Senior Principal Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat  
Date: June 9 at 11 AM ET
June 14 | Session 3: Dear security, compliance, and auditors, we’re sorry. Love, DevOps. 
Presenter: Bill Bensing, Managing Architect, Red Hat 
Date: June 14 at 2 PM ET
June 21 | Session 4: Training for Ansible 
Presenter: Wesley Urquhart, Associate Solutions Architect, Training and Certification, Red Hat
Date: June 21 at 2 PM ET

Any questions? Reach out to Kasey Janes, kjanes@redhat.com.

Attendees will receive a $25 Uber Eats gift card.

Sessions

 
June 7 | Session 1: From Confusion To Clarity: What Insurance Business Technology Leaders Need To Know About Hybrid and Multi-Cloud
Ellen Carney, Principal Analyst, Forrester
Date: June 7 at 10 AM ET 
 
Decisions about cloud used to be pretty simple:  do we go cloud or stay on-prem?  But as insurance tech business units move more of their data and apps to the cloud, the decisions—and risks—they face have increased in scale and complexity. And those risks have moved well beyond concerns about security and now are more about how to manage the movement of data between clouds, standardized tools, and vendor lock-in.  In this session, Forrester and Red Hat will provide:
  • The state of multi- and hybrid cloud  in insurance 
  • What insurers say are their biggest cloud challenges 
  • The decisions to make now that will reduce risks tomorrow
 
About the presenter: Ellen is a Principal Analyst serving financial services technology decision makers in roles such as CIOs and Enterprise Architects in insurance and wealth, investment, and asset management industries. Her research focuses on the technology decisions that financial services firms are investing in, including core platforms modernization and replacement and the integration of emerging technologies with legacy systems to drive better digital experiences and improved operational efficiency.
June 9 | Session 2:  Reduce complexity and deliver a cloud-first business model with IT automation
Jeff Picozzi, Senior Principal Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat
Date: June 9 at 11 AM ET
 
In this session, we’ll look at how Red Hat®Ansible® Automation Platform helps a major insurace company develop, test, and deliver services to market by dramatically reducing the provisioning process. A streamlined provisioning path can reduce the number of rogue applications and exceptions, improving security and compliance. As insurers look to implement an enterprise-wide, cloud-first business model, finding ways to standardize the migration process across disparate business areas is critical. Using a flexible and open automation solution provides the consistency needed while allowing teams to continue making decisions specific to their business.
 
About the presenter: Jeff provides global support to insurance customers looking to deliver digital innovation and improve policyholder experience. He has more than 20 years of experience working in the insurance industry and joined Red Hat in 2019. Previously, he spent nearly 10 years at Sun Life U.S. before moving to roles that partnered directly with insurers at Wolters Kluwer, Iron Mountain, and Dell/EMC
June 14 | Session 3: Dear security, compliance, and auditors, we’re sorry. Love, DevOps. 
Bill Bensing, Managing Architect, Red Hat
Date: June 14 at 2 PM ET
 
Stop it with the DevSecAuditComplianceOps buzzwords within the software supply chain. Let’s simply talk about modern governance. Great software supply chain hygiene requires governance. Governance stinks because we do it wrong. I promise to give you the means to go from commit to production with 100% no-human-hands. All while meeting visibility, security, compliance, and audit requirements without fail. Modern governance applies to standard line-of-business software, machine learning, edge, IoT, and any other software artifact. DevOps solved the developer and operators conflict. It forgot other essential folks of the delivery life cycle: Security, compliance, and audit. It's also missing the newest entrant, software supply chain management. We’ll talk about modern governance. Modern governance resolves governance toil with a software engineering approach. It’s no different than applying site reliability engineering (SRE) principles and practices to the dull, mundane, and toil-ridden governance processes.
 
About the presenter: Bill Bensing has driven a tech-fueled world since discovering Notepad. He teaches organizations to create inclusive environments that allow anyone to develop software. Bill prides himself on building “shadow IT” organizations. He believes a healthy shadow IT presence drives real business-IT alignment. Bill is authoring a novella about automated governance for IT Revolution. Investments Unlimited's novel tells the socio-technical story of bringing security, compliance, and audit into the software delivery life cycle.
June 21 | Session 4: Training for Ansible 
Wesley Urquhart, Associate Solutions Architect, Training and Certification, Red Hat
Date: June 21 at 2 PM ET
 
As various teams within organizations begin to embrace automation to help in their day-to-day lives, organizations are quickly realizing the importance of transparency and consistency in this practice. In this session, we’ll cover:
  • A highlight of the new features introduced in Red Hat Ansible® Automation® Platform 2.
  • How to take advantage of new Red Hat training curriculum to build and manage automation that scales.
About the presenter: Wes Urquhart is an Associate Solutions Architect at Red Hat, covering all things Red Hat Training and Certification has to offer, including helping customers create their own learning paths, determining what training is right for them, and discussing custom courses based on their unique needs. Recently, he’s focused on introducing customers to the changes in Ansible Automation Platform 2 and the course catalog. Wes is actively pursuing multiple Red Hat certifications, including Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA®) and Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®).

Location / Time


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Time: X:XX a.m. - X:XX p.m.

Speakers

Session 1: Forrester presentation
  • Abstract: Coming Soon
  • Presenter: Ellen Carney, Principal Analyst, Forrester
  • Bio: Ellen is a Principal Analyst serving financial services technology decision makers in roles such as CIOs and Enterprise Architects in insurance and wealth, investment, and asset management industries. Her research focuses on the technology decisions that financial services firms are investing in, including core platforms modernization and replacement and the integration of emerging technologies with legacy systems to drive better digital experiences and improved operational efficiency.
Session 2:  Reduce complexity and deliver a cloud-first business model with IT automation
  • In this session, we’ll look at how Red Hat®Ansible® Automation Platform helps a major insurace company develop, test, and deliver services to market by dramatically reducing the provisioning process. A streamlined provisioning path can reduce the number of rogue applications and exceptions, improving security and compliance. As insurers look to implement an enterprise-wide, cloud-first business model, finding ways to standardize the migration process across disparate business areas is critical. Using a flexible and open automation solution provides the consistency needed while allowing teams to continue making decisions specific to their business.
  • Presenter: Jeff Picozzi, Senior Principal Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat
  • Bio: Jeff provides global support to insurance customers looking to deliver digital innovation and improve policyholder experience. He has more than 20 years of experience working in the insurance industry and joined Red Hat in 2019. Previously, he spent nearly 10 years at Sun Life U.S. before moving to roles that partnered directly with insurers at Wolters Kluwer, Iron Mountain, and Dell/EMC.
Session 3: Dear security, compliance, and auditors, we’re sorry. Love, DevOps. 
  • Stop it with the DevSecAuditComplianceOps buzzwords within the software supply chain. Let’s simply talk about modern governance. Great software supply chain hygiene requires governance. Governance stinks because we do it wrong. I promise to give you the means to go from commit to production with 100% no-human-hands. All while meeting visibility, security, compliance, and audit requirements without fail. Modern governance applies to standard line-of-business software, machine learning, edge, IoT, and any other software artifact. DevOps solved the developer and operators conflict. It forgot other essential folks of the delivery life cycle: Security, compliance, and audit. It's also missing the newest entrant, software supply chain management. We’ll talk about modern governance. Modern governance resolves governance toil with a software engineering approach. It’s no different than applying site reliability engineering (SRE) principles and practices to the dull, mundane, and toil-ridden governance processes.
  • Presenter: Bill Bensing, Managing Architect, Red Hat 
  • Bio: Bill Bensing has driven a tech-fueled world since discovering Notepad. He teaches organizations to create inclusive environments that allow anyone to develop software. Bill prides himself on building “shadow IT” organizations. He believes a healthy shadow IT presence drives real business-IT alignment. Bill is authoring a novella about automated governance for IT Revolution. Investments Unlimited's novel tells the socio-technical story of bringing security, compliance, and audit into the software delivery life cycle.
Session 4: Training for Ansible 
  • As various teams within organizations begin to embrace automation to help in their day-to-day lives, organizations are quickly realizing the importance of transparency and consistency in this practice. In this session, we’ll cover:
    • A highlight of the new features introduced in Red Hat Ansible® Automation® Platform 2.
    • How to take advantage of new Red Hat training curriculum to build and manage automation that scales.
  • Presenter: Wesley Urquhart, Associate Solutions Architect, Training and Certification, Red Hat
  • Bio: Wes Urquhart is an Associate Solutions Architect at Red Hat, covering all things Red Hat Training and Certification has to offer, including helping customers create their own learning paths, determining what training is right for them, and discussing custom courses based on their unique needs. Recently, he’s focused on introducing customers to the changes in Ansible Automation Platform 2 and the course catalog. Wes is actively pursuing multiple Red Hat certifications, including Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) and Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE).
 
 

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