Ansible Automates 2022

Agenda

SESSION	TIME
Registration Coffee and light breakfast	9:30 AM - 10:00 AM EST
Welcome: Intel kick off Frank Wu	10:00 AM – 10:30 AM EST
Service Now and Ansible Automation Platform Tim Appnel The Certified Content Collection for ServiceNow ITSM helps to create automation workflows faster while establishing a single source of truth in the ServiceNow CMDB. Learn how to Ansible Certified Content Collection for ServiceNow enables closed loop automation of IT service management workflows (opening, updating, and closing tasks) without the need for time-consuming manual intervention.	10:30 AM – 11:00 AM EST
Break	11:00 AM – 11:15 AM EST
Ansible & Terraform “Better Together” Raed Soliman Ansible and Terraform are two popular, powerful and unique tools that are often compared in competitive discussions, but should it be one or the other? In this session, we will discuss how the tools are better used together to create a complete end to end automation solution, harnessing the strength of each to offer a better experience for developers and operations teams.	11:15 AM – 12:00 PM EST
Lunch break	12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST
Event Driven Automation Joseph Pisciotta By fully automating necessary but routine tasks, you and your team will have more time to focus on interesting engineering challenges and new innovations. For example, what if you no longer needed to pause critical work to manually add technical detail to a service ticket? Or address a user password reset request? Or reset a router as a first troubleshooting step? With Event-Driven Ansible, the friction in your day can be dramatically reduced, leaving more time to work on important projects, with some added work-life balance.	1:00 PM – 1:45 PM EST
Ansible: The Swiss Army Knife to Cloud Automation Devin Parrish Organizations are shifting from a monolithic to a hybrid cloud strategy. While some key benefits include flexibility, reliability, and cost savings, there can be challenges regarding the nuances between these different cloud providers. By adopting Ansible as your cloud automation tool, you get a single language and toolset that can be used to build, configure, and manage resources on private and public clouds in a consistent, predictable, and repeatable way.	1:45 PM – 2:30 PM EST
Break	2:30 PM – 3:00 PM EST
Application lifecycle management at the Edge Rob Sedor Edge computing is becoming increasingly strategic for leveraging compute power close to the source of the data. Whether it’s an extension of IoT, retail, insurance, manufacturing or transportation, we are working with edge more than ever. In this session, we will cover the following: Overview of options, strategies and challenges for edge computing. Deep dive into a specific example using automation when building for applications for the edge including build, deployment and monitoring. Examples of validated patterns you could use to get started leveraging edge computing in your architectural discussions.	3:00 PM – 3:45 PM EST
Ask the Experts Panel	3:45 PM – 4:15 PM EST
Closing Frank Wu	4:15 PM EST
Networking reception	*Immediately following closing

Speakers

Frank Wu

North America Ansible Go-to-Market Specialist, Red Hat

Frank Wu is part of the North American Go-to-Market team for Ansible Automation, prior an Automation Strategist for Red Hat’s Financial Services division for many years. His background helps him provide a wealth of knowledge across subjects. He has more than 15 years of experience working with large Enterprises with a passion for open source.

Timothy Appnel

Senior Product Manager, Red Hat

Timothy Appnel is a Senior Product Manager on the Ansible team at Red Hat. Tim is an old-timer in the Ansible community with 10 years of experience with Ansible as a contributor, customer, consultant, evangelist, and “jack of all trades.” The synchronize module in Ansible is all his fault.

Raed Soliman

Associate Principal Solutions Architect, Red Hat

Raed Soliman is an Associate Principal Solutions Architect and a Red Hat Certified Engineer with over 13 years of experience in enterprise IT consulting, databases and development. Currently focused on automation and enabling customers on how to approach the rising need for it. Raed enjoys working with new technologies, and engaging with customers to find the best solution for their unique environment needs.

Joseph Pisciotta

Principal Product Manager, Red Hat

Joe is the Principal Product Manager for the Event-Driven Ansible component of Ansible from Red Hat. He has a comprehensive background in architecting and delivering IT solutions for his customers. Joe previously worked in Red Hat Consulting as a Managing Architect, where he worked with clients (primarily large financial customers) to architect advanced automation and container platform solutions, including event-driven approaches to IT automation.

Devin Parrish

Senior Ansible Specialist Solutions Architect, Red Hat

Devin started his tech career as a systems administrator and software developer. After being in that role for a couple of years, he transitioned into a technical instructor position where he delivered hands-on technical training on topics such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Java software development, OpenStack, Docker, Mesos, and Kubernetes.

Since joining Red Hat in 2021, Devin has helped customers accelerate their business initiatives by adopting and becoming proficient in Red Hat technologies such as OpenShift and Ansible Automation Platform.

Outside his work at Red Hat, Devin resides in New York City and enjoys exploring new cities, discovering new music, watching hockey, and building Lego sets.

Robert Sedor

Chief Architect for Application Development, Red Hat

Rob is a Red Hat Chief Architect for Application Development. Rob was an engineering Fellow in the IoT space for 15 years and has worked as the lead architect and developer on projects such as commercial printers, the eBay Shipping API, ASIC and FPGA development, RTOS such as vxWorks and QNX, Linux RT and has developed solutions including tracking RFID tags in casino chips and acoustic gunshot detection. Rob regularly works with Go, C++, Rust and containerized development.

Travel / Location

Location:
Convene 225 Liberty
225 Liberty Street
New York, New York 10281

In addition to having no present symptoms of COVID-19, Red Hat expects all attendees attending the event to be one or more of the following: fully vaccinated against COVID-19, recently recovered from COVID-19 or have a negative COVID-19 test result within 24 hours prior to attending the event.

Event time: 9:30 AM - 4:15 PM

Any questions? Reach out to infrastructure@redhat.com