Webinar

What’s new with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6

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The world of IT is changing fast, and your team needs a trusted, resilient foundation to keep pace. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 delivers new features, platform enhancements, and strategic integrations to help you meet these challenges head-on. 

Join us for this webinar as we reveal how the latest version of Ansible Automation Platform helps you unlock more value from your automation with a new dashboard, achieve new levels of scale with a self-service portal, and operate more efficiently with the new Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant. We'll also provide a clear path forward for customers looking to upgrade and take advantage of these powerful new capabilities.

In this webinar, we'll cover:

  • Building Your Future: We will show how Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 helps you build a strong, resilient foundation for the next generation of IT.
  • Automate Smarter and Faster: This release is all about helping you unlock more value and achieve new levels of scale. We'll introduce you to three major new features that help you do just that:
    • New analytics dashboard: See the value of your automation in real-time. Understand your ROI, track your time savings, and make smarter, data-driven decisions.
    • Self-service portal: Empower more people to use automation. We'll show you how to securely share automation with other teams, making it easy for varying personas to get things done.
    • AI assistant: Get on-demand expertise. We'll demonstrate how the new Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant, powered by generative AI, can help you with onboarding, learning, and day-to-day tasks.
  • Easy Upgrades and More Integrations: We’ll also cover the platform’s refreshed design, new integrations with leading cloud and infrastructure partners, and a simplified upgrade process. You can feel confident upgrading to Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 to take advantage of these powerful new capabilities right away.

Live event date: Wednesday, October 15, 2025, at 01:00 PM EST

On-demand event: Available for one year afterward


Remy Duplantis

Remy Duplantis

Product Marketing Manager, Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat

Remy Duplantis is a Product Marketing Manager for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, where she drives the marketing and positioning for major product releases. 

She began her career at Red Hat as an intern, quickly becoming a key team member for the launch of Ansible Lightspeed with watsonx Code Assistant. Remy's experience provides her with a unique perspective on how to navigate the evolving landscape of enterprise automation and apply these innovations to your own work.

Tricia McConnell

Tricia McConnell

Principal Product Marketing Manager, Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat

Tricia McConnell is a Principal Product Marketing Manager, focused on helping customers onboard and adopt the features and capabilities of Ansible Automation Platform. 

Prior to joining Red Hat, she worked in product marketing in the telecommunications and 911 solution industry. She brings more than twenty years of marketing experience evangelizing technology solutions to IT audiences.

Anshul Behl

Anshul Behl

Principal Technical Marketing Manager, Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat

Anshul Behl is a Technical Marketing Manager at Red Hat specializing in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. He helps customers adopt automation across all aspects of Ansible, from infrastructure and DevOps to AI integration. 

With a background in software development and quality engineering, Anshul creates technical content and strategic guidance to show how automation is critical to AI success, bridging the gap between AI workloads and enterprise automation.

Alex Walczyk

Alex Walczyk

Technical Marketing Manager, Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat

Alex Walczyk 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. He returned to Red Hat full-time in 2025 after earning his degree in Software Engineering from North Carolina State University.

Hicham Mourad

Hicham Mourad

Technical Marketing Manager, Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat

Hicham is responsible for technical marketing of the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on Clouds. Hicham has been in the software industry for over 20 years and for many of them focused on cloud management.

Hicham has been a frequent presenter at events and conferences like VMworld, vForum, VMUG, VMLive, Gartner, Dell Technology World, AWS re:Invent, HPE Discover, Cloud Field Day, Red Hat Summit, AnsibleFest, in addition to Customer events.