Recommended paths to the future of automated IT operations
With Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 reaching the End of Support Maintenance on June 30, the rearchitecture of AWX in 2023, and the complexity of IT operations in an increasingly AI-centric world, your team needs a trusted, resilient foundation to keep pace. Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 delivers a fleet of new features, platform enhancements, and strategic integrations to help you meet these challenges head-on.
Join us for this deep-dive webinar to hear our recommended approaches to modernizing your automation, whether you're moving from AWX, Ansible Tower, or older versions of Ansible Automation Platform. We'll look at options to help you plan your upgrade or migration along with tips to help ease and accelerate your journey. Whether you're looking to boost your productivity, scale your existing workflows to more users, or build a more modern, data-driven automation practice, this expert-led event will provide the roadmap and the tools you need to feel confident in your upgrade.
In this webinar, you'll discover:
- The latest Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 platform features and enhancements.
- Why now is the optimal time to move from AWX, Tower, and AAP 2.4 and older.
- How to navigate our recommended upgrade and migration options.
- Tips to help you begin your upgrade/migration journey using a Configuration-as-Code approach.
Speaker information
Catherine Choi
Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat
Catherine is a Product Marketing Manager focused on Ansible Automation Platform product releases and enhancements. She has been with Red Hat since October 2025.
Brian Grimmett
Specialist Adoption Architect, Red Hat
Ryan Riley is an Account Solutions Architect at Red Hat with a background primarily in automation and infrastructure. He has spent the past few years at Red Hat as an Ansible Specialist Solutions Architect working with customers both big and small to implement automation strategies across multiple technology domains - including RHEL, Windows, public & private cloud, and popular ITSM tools following both batch and event-driven principles. Prior to joining Red Hat, Ryan worked in the data engineering space, primarily focusing on developing predictive analytics models.
Tricia McConnell
Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat
Tricia has been a Principal Product Marketing Manager with Red Hat since 2021. She brings more than twenty years of experience marketing technical solutions to enterprise IT audiences.
Ryan Riley
Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat
Brian Grimmett is a Specialist Adoption Architect, focusing primarily in Ansible Automation. He works closely with customers to design, implement, and scale enterprise automation strategies that improve efficiency and reduce time to value.
Alex Walczyk
Technical Marketing Manager, Red Hat
Alex is a Technical Marketing Manager at Red Hat, focusing on Ansible Automation Platform. He develops technical content, demos, and guidance to help customers understand how automation drives success across infrastructure, DevOps, and emerging technologies. Alex first joined Red Hat as a Software Engineering Co-Op before interning as an HPC Engineer at Tesla, where he worked with Ansible to deploy and manage large-scale AI systems.
