About Ansible Automates Virtual
Ansible Automates, the virtual experience, is a half-day, online event where IT leaders and their teams tune in to solve real automation and AIOps challenges. Join Ansible experts and Red Hat® product leadership from wherever you are. This no-cost event focuses on what's shaping automation in 2026, including how to close the gap between AI-accelerated threats and your team's ability to respond.
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is a flexible, scalable automation solution built for hybrid cloud infrastructure — wherever your organization is in its automation journey.
What you'll walk away with
You'll leave with real, applicable insight from technical experts and Red Hat product leadership — and a clear, useful path to a stronger automation strategy built for the hybrid cloud infrastructure you're already running, including:
- A preview of the Ansible Automation Platform roadmap,
- A practical playbook for automating security response — because when AI can find and exploit a vulnerability in hours, manual patching cycles measured in weeks are the real risk,
- Strategies from peers already running automation across on-prem, cloud, and edge environments.
Who should attend?
Ansible Automates is for IT business leaders and their teams:
- CIOs, CTOs, and IT Directors,
- Enterprise and Network Architects,
- IT Operations and DevOps Leads,
- Security and Compliance Professionals,
- Automation Architects shaping AI and modernization strategy,
- Anyone interested in Automation—no matter where you are in your journey.
If you have any questions, please email infrastructure@redhat.com
Continuing Professional Education Credits
We are pleased to offer Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits to those who attend the event, with up to 3.3 credits awarded based on session attendance. CPE certification at Ansible Automates is administered by Carahsoft Technology Corp. Carahsoft is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of Continuing Professional Education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. For more information on the CPE credits offered, Carahsoft’s NASBA sponsorship, and the submission process, please click the link here.
Agenda
| Start Time - End Time | Agenda Item | Abstract |
| 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | Registration & Breakfast | |
| 10:00 AM - 10:05 AM | Welcome Remarks | Dave Cohn, Sr. Director, North America Ansible Platform GTM, Red Hat |
| 10:30 AM - 10:55 AM | Sysadmin to Infrastructure Developer: Using Configuration as Code to Build Secure, Event-Driven Workflows at M&T Bank | Tom Reed, Lead Technical Engineer, M&T Bank Rich Rostek, Technical Engineer II, M&T Bank In technology, automation is essential to operational efficiency. Implementing automation at scale in a regulated environment with Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) requires balancing developer enablement with the need for governance. In this session, learn how M&T Bank is leveraging Configuration as Code to change how users interact with AAP while satisfying Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) practices and security requirements. You will learn how this approach enforces standards within AAP and enables Ansible users to create ServiceNow-driven workloads using Event-Driven Ansible while limiting platform privileges and exposure. Finally, discover how laying a secure foundation today is preparing the bank for the adoption of Agentic AI tomorrow. |
| 10:55 AM - 11:20 AM | Partner Panel | Moderator: Dave Cohn, Sr. Director, North America Ansible Platform GTM, Red Hat
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| 11:20 AM - 11:35 AM | Break | |
| 11:35 AM - 11:45 AM | Red Hat + Intel | |
| 11:45 AM - 12:10 PM | Automation Divide: Leap Ahead In The AI Era | Naveen Chhabra, Principal Analyst, Forrester A new automation divide is emerging. On the one hand, are the organizations that use AI and automation to continuously improve operations, accelerate service delivery, strengthen resilience, and augment their workforce. On the other will be organizations that continue to automate individual tasks while maintaining the same operating models, decision structures, and manual dependencies. This session explores why this divide is forming, what separates automation leaders from automation followers, and how technology leaders can build the foundations for automation at scale. Attendees will leave with a practical framework for accelerating adoption, governing automation responsibly, and preparing their organizations for the future. |
| 12:10 PM - 12:35 PM | Unlock AI-driven automation: From AIOps insights to trusted action | Nelson Hsu, Product Management Director, Red Hat Ansible Devin Parrish, Principal Specialist Solutions Architect, Red Hat Ansible Your observability and AI tools are generating insights faster than your team can act on them. Every manual handoff between detection and remediation introduces delay, inconsistency, and the kind of ungoverned change that keeps operations leaders up at night. The missing piece isn't better insights. It's a trusted, governed execution layer that can close the loop. We will cover:
How to position your automation practice today to take advantage of agentic AI without introducing unacceptable risk If you're dealing with alert fatigue, looking to operationalize observability data, or preparing your automation practice for the next generation of IT ops, this session gives you the blueprint to move from insights to outcomes with confidence. |
| 12:35 PM - 1:00 PM | The Ansible Roadmap | Pete Cruz, Sr. Principal Product Manager, Red Hat Ansible As technological complexity and the adoption of AI accelerate, a trusted foundation for enterprise automation becomes a strategic imperative. The latest evolution of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform reinforces its position as the central orchestration layer for the enterprise, providing stability and governance in a shifting landscape. In this roadmap session, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform product leadership will share key investments and the strategic vision for the coming year to accelerate adoption, enhance usability, and scale to meet the needs of modern IT. We will explore the platform's simplified visual interface, including future workflow tooling that streamlines the process of designing, managing, and governing complex automation across the enterprise. |
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