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Ansible Automates London

July 13, 2023London, UKCodeNode
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What is Ansible Automates?

Ansible Automates is a one-day event that will help deliver the right Automation strategy fit for your organisation with the cultural change needed to succeed in the constant evolving digital journey.

In the current world of Cloud and DevOps, Automation can be used to enable open ways of working in order to build business resilience and innovation in a shorter time with a lower TCO. Red Hat's Ansible Automation Platform is more than a technology, it allows for the creation of scale, better governance and speed whilst delivering agility and flexibility to your IT organisation.

Ansible Automates London will be split into 3 tracks:

Presentations

Track: Enterprise Automation Strategy - Why automate?


Track 2 - The outcome of Automation - What to automate?


Track3 - Ansible Automation Platform - How to automate?


Track: Enterprise Automation Strategy - Why Automate?

In this track, we cover why enterprise automation is an important initiative, how to approach it and the value it brings to all organisations.

Perfect for: Enterprise Architects and business stakeholders.

Track: The Outcome of Automation - What to Automate?

Learn from delivery teams about the challenges and successes of implementation.

Perfect for: Anyone who wants to understand what you can automate with Ansible, and how to do it.

Track: Ansible Automation Platform - How to Automate

This track is all about getting value out of the platform - join us to find out what's new and coming.

Perfect for: People who are already running the platform.

Why attend

Join us at Ansible Automates to rethink your business through Automation in all senses. Create, scale, and implement automation across your enterprise hearing from our local automation experts, industry thought leaders about how to improve your team’s effectiveness with Ansible Automation. You can expect to hear about trends in IT automation for real case scenarios and best practices and also discover how customers are using Ansible Automation in their organisation.

Your team / organisation

Enable your group to be more cohesive with other IT teams through DevOps practices

Creates opportunities for collaboration that breeds a culture of success navigating the hybrid cloud

Who should attend?

Head of Infrastructure, Head of Automation, Infrastructure engineers, cloud engineers, automation engineers, IT decision makers, DevOps Leads, Enterprise Architects, operations IT leaders, developers, operations staff, security professionals and anyone interested in IT automation.

Agenda

Thursday, July 13, 2023

9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Registration and Coffee

10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.

Track: Enterprise Automation Strategy - Why automate?  (CMD)

10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Keynote

Jo Hodgson (UK Country Manager, Red Hat), Massimo Ferrari (Management Strategy Director for Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat) and Dave Hellewell (Chief Technologist FSI, Intel),

11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Break

11:30 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.

Enterprise Automation. Strategy, Motivations & Approach

Aidan Beeson & Dave Hellewell,

Automation Sales Specialist, Red Hat and Chief Technologist FSI, Intel

12:20 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Maximise automation, minimise effort

Mark Swinson,

Application Platform Sales Specialist, Red Hat

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Lunch

2:00 p.m. - 2:40 p.m.

Automate as One: the power of automation communities of practice

Massimo Ferrari & John Hardy,

Management Strategy Director, Red Hat and Senior Principal Product Manager, Red Hat

2:50 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Streamlining Security: Unleashing the Power of Automation

During this talk we'll walk you through using Ansible Automation Platform to help you meet common security, compliance and governance challenges within the enterprise. We'll talk about everything from hardening systems, to automated remediation and how event driven automation can help you remain compliant.

Chris Jenkins & Matt York ,

Principal Chief Architect, Red Hat and Senior Specialist Solution Architect - Ansible, Red Hat

3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Break

4:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

Customer panel

4:45 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.

Drinks

Track: The outcome of Automation - What to automate?  (CTRL)

10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Keynote

Jo Hodgson (UK Country Manager, Red Hat), Massimo Ferrari (Management Strategy Director for Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat) and Dave Hellewell (Chief Technologist FSI, Intel)

11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Break

11:30 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.

M&G's journey to automation at scale with Ansible Automation Platform

Shaun O'Connor,

Head of Cloud Platform Engineering, M&G

12:20 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

DWP Digital and Ansible Automation Platform as code. Rethinking IAC in isolated AAP environments

Tom Page, Steve Paynter and Mike Healy,

Senior Consultant, Red Hat, Automation Engineer, DWP and Senior Dev Ops Engineer, DWP

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Lunch

2:00 p.m. - 2:40 p.m.

Modernising the monolith: automating on-prem like the cloud.

Rob Gwilliam,

Architect, Contractor, British Army

2:50 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Migrating the developer experience from Ansible Tower to AAP

Kishore Sambandan and Luke Hedderick,

Digital Platforms Engineer and Product owner, Engineering Platforms, NatWest

3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Break

4:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

Customer panel

4:45 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.

Drinks

Track : Ansible Automation Platform - How to automate  (TAB/ALT)

10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Keynote

Jo Hodgson (UK Country Manager, Red Hat), Massimo Ferrari (Management Strategy Director for Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat) and Dave Hellewell (Chief Technologist FSI, Intel)

11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Break

11:30 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.

Future gazing into the automation crystal ball - How Red Hat is future shaping automation

Phil Griffiths,

Principal Technical Product Manager, Red Hat

12:20 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

The power of artificial intelligence in automation - Ansible Lightspeed

Craig Brandt and Laura Romero Carillo,

Principal Technical Marketing Manager, Red Hat and Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Lunch

2:00 p.m. - 2:40 p.m.

What can you do with Event Driven Ansible?

Pat Harrison and Phil Griffiths,

Principal Specialist Solution Architect, Ansible, Red Hat and Principal Technical Product Manager, Red Hat

2:50 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Scaling your automation with Ansible Automation Platform

John Hardy,

Senior Principal Technical Product Manager, Red Hat

3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Break

4:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

Customer panel

4:45 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.

Drinks & Pizza

Location

Date: July 13, 2023

Time: 09:00 - 16:45

Address: CodeNode,
10 South Place,
London, EC2M 7EB