AnsibleFest 2024: Schedule Ansible into your Red Hat Summit and AnsibleFest agenda

AnsibleFest 2024 is coming up in Denver, Colorado, from May 6 - 9, 2024. As we did last year, AnsibleFest is co-located with Red Hat Summit – giving attendees a chance to explore the broader Red Hat portfolio all in a single city and event! If you are an outdoor enthusiast, Colorado has much to offer, and even if you will just be attending the conference, the mountain views from around the city of Denver are spectacular. The event itself offers a series of learning and professional networking opportunities, so let’s explore them.

Seven key ways to enhance your agenda for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

We have a very full agenda of sessions and activities planned to help you deep dive into Ansible Automation Platform and what it can do for your organization. Let’s start with an overview:

• Red Hat Summit keynote sessions will cover all that is new across Red Hat, including Ansible Automation Platform. I would call your attention in particular to the May 8th keynote to learn all the news.
   
• AnsibleFest kenotes will be on May 7th and May 8th. These sessions are packed full of customer experiences in using this platform, so you will not want to miss this.  
• Breakout sessions are extensive and include Ansible Automation Platform product expert sessions. There are also many customer sessions so you can hear first-hand from other customers about their experiences with Ansible Automation Platform. Build your agenda early, and be sure to include some of these sessions. Search the catalog using the filters on the left to narrow and refine sessions, but be aware that the automation topic filter is a good bet. A few specific sessions I would call to your attention:
  • The creator's guide to Event-Driven Ansible event sources and rulebooks
  • This changes everything: Ansible managed service from AWS Marketplace
  • Getting started with cloud automation using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
  • Automating ServiceNow IT service management with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
  • What automation can do for you: Ansible ecosystem strategy and roadmap
  • Tales from the field: How early adopters are putting Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed to work
  • Deploying 4,000 OpenShift compact clusters at the edge using Ansible Automation Platform
• Hands-on labs are a perennial favorite, where there are a variety of options where you can get hands on with Ansible Automation Platform. It is strongly recommended that you add these to your agenda early. This filtered catalog view includes labs predominantly for Ansible Automation Platform. You will find a variety of topics available covering different aspects of IT automation. Here is a short summary of some key labs topics you may be interested in attending: 

• Ansible Collab – Ansible Collab is a new user event hosted by Red Hat. It is a full-day, multi-track day-long conference being held on Monday, May 6th, with a primary focus on gathering Ansible ecosystem users from different verticals and industries to discuss automation use cases, encourage content contributions and share Ansible third-party integration ideas. Add Ansible Collab in Denver to your agenda here. 
  
  This event is also organized in various geographic locations and is open to anyone interested in participating in the Ansible ecosystem, to help foster deeper automation adoption within IT organizations. Learn more about local events here.  
  
   
• Ansible Expo Hall Booth, Discovery Theater and Hall Crawl – Head over to the expo hall where you will find the Ansible booth in Red Hat Central. We have a cool “Event- driven putting challenge” where you will not only get to try out your swing, but also see Event-Driven Ansible in action. In the vein of learning and asking questions, technical experts will be on hand to show you demos, answer your questions and more. Check out the AnsibleFest Discovery Theater across the days of the conference where there will be even more “shorter format” content and interesting sessions for you to take in. There is also a “hall crawl” on Tuesday, May 7 from 5-7pm MDT, where there will be some light appetizers and refreshments on hand so you can check in with Red Hat product areas as well as our partners.  
   
• Now Let’s Party! You are invited to join Ansible subject matter experts and enthusiasts at the Ansible Lounge during the Summit Block party on Wednesday, May 8 from 6 - 9pm MDT. This event is at Avanti Food & Beverage located in Denver on the ground floor - can't wait to see you there! Add it to your event schedule. 

So now that you have had a brief overview of AnsibleFest at Red Hat Summit, check out redhat.com/summit to register and select your agenda. Looking forward to seeing you in Denver this May.