About This Summit

Full Agenda

1. Achieving a Mission-Critical Automation Mindset

   

   Dave Costakos North America Ansible Platform Leader Red Hat

   IT Ops are hard. Achieving success on Day 2 is hard. Technology sprawl. Broken and manual processes. Skills gaps. These challenges are pervasive - and aren't going away. To tackle them, an organization needs to approach automation that can bridge operational silos, unify teams, and wrangle complexity.

   That's why the nature, scope, and importance of IT automation has changed so much, growing from "nice to have," into "strategic imperative." With the inevitability of the AI revolution, the technology landscape has reached a tipping point.

   Join us as we share the Ansible vision for achieving mission-critical automation. You'll hear why it matters now more than ever and how to shift your approach to prepare the AI revolution and beyond.

2. AIOps - how automation and AI work together to reduce incidents and accelerate remediation

   

   Blair Sibille Field CTO BigPanda

   BigPanda and Event-Driven Ansible enable ITOps teams to easily identify infrastructure alerts and auto-remediate resolution, before or after a ticket is created. BigPanda functions as a central operational hub of monitoring, change, and configuration data, which allows us to generate rich, contextualized alerts that pinpoint root causes and identify automation signals with Event-Driven Ansible to accelerate incident resolution. Join us for an interactive session as we demonstrate how to use BigPanda and Event-Driven Ansible to:

   Identify automation opportunities within your infrastructure
   Use correlated alerts to connect with automation workflows
   Auto-remediate alerts and self-heal incidents in your ITSM platform

3. Real-World Use Cases: Ansible Automation Platform Customer Panel Discussion

   

   Jim Amanatidis Director, UNIX Platforms NYU Langone Health

   

   Dave Bertin Director, Global Product Sales Red Hat

   

   Michael Johnson Principal Automation Engineer Xylem

   

   Jessica Yeh Associate Consultant Red Hat

   Have you ever wanted to talk to your peer and ask how they solved their use cases with Ansible? Are you curious how other organizations structure their IT Automation strategy? Join us for a #realtalk NYC customer panel as we dig down into the various IT Automation journeys.

4. Accelerate automation with generative AI and Ansible's enhanced developer experience

   

   Tim Appnel Senior Principal Product Manager Red Hat

   Organizations often struggle to adopt and scale automation across different teams. To address these obstacles, the Ansible team has expanded automation developer (aka content creator) capabilities that make automation more accessible to a wider swath of IT practitioners at any skill level.

   By bringing a cohesive generative AI and content creation experience to customers with an enhanced package of content creation tools and Red Hat Ansible Lighstpeed with IBM watsonx code Assistant, you can create, test, and deploy automation faster while addressing the IT skills gap.

5. Continuous Network Compliance (compliance-as-code): How organizations should leverage event-driven Ansible (EDA) to respond to changing configurations and compliance in real time

   

   Phil Avery Principal Solutions Architect Red Hat

   

   Alan Gilley Senior Solution Architect Red Hat

   Network compliance has never been more important due to the high cost of downtime and the need to stay ahead of security risks. In this session you can expect to see a methodology to which we can evolve network compliance, and reduce risks more dynamically. This topic is relevant for decision makers and operators responsible for security and network operations.

6. Technical Deep Dive: Ansible & Terraform - PB&J of EnterpriseIT Automation (Current & Future)

   

   Devin Parrish Senior Specialist Solution Architect Red Hat

   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.