Ansible Automates is a virtual live stream event with Ansible experts and industry thought leaders presenting trending automation topics that will help your organization deliver the right automation strategy and achieve success in your AI adoption goals.
Red Hat® Ansible Automation Platform supports extensive possibilities and is designed with hybrid cloud infrastructure in mind. It is a flexible, scalable, and multifaceted automation solution that works across your enterprise, wherever your organization might be in its automation journey.
Why attend?
Join #AnsibleAutomates2025 to learn how to create an automation-first approach for your organization and achieve your AI adoption goals.
Who should attend?
#AnsibleAutomates2025 is for IT business leaders and their teams:
- IT decision makers
- IT operations leaders and managers
- DevOps leads
- Enterprise architects
- IT Ops Directors, Vice Presidents
- Chief information Officers
- Security professionals, and anyone interested in IT automation.
If you have any questions about this event please email: infrastructure@redhat.com
AGENDA
| Time | Session |
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| 9:15 - 9:25 AM | Welcome: Red Hat + Intel Damien Eversmann, Chief Architect, Red Hat - Event MC |
| 9:25 - 9:55 AM | Automators, unite! Unlocking value in an era of disruption In an era of disruption, automators are united by common challenges - and by the mission-critical role they have in solving them. In this opening session, we’ll outline the shared realities IT teams are facing, and explore the clear paths forward available. We’ll discuss how automation with Ansible can help your organization get more value from AI investments, unlock AIOps, and navigate virtualization disruption to modernize Day 2 operations. You’ll come away with a new perspective on what your fellow automators are dealing with, and a clearer understanding of how you can use Red Hat Ansible to drive strategic momentum for your organization.
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| 9:55 - 10:25 AM | A practical guide for measuring the business value of AAP Ansible Automation Platform decreases the time to new automation capabilities by 81% and is 2.1x more cost effective than DIY automation solutions like AWX. Many organizations are looking to modernize their approach to automation and harness the value AAP delivers in terms of support, scalability, security, and performance. Josh Monks and Krishna Kathiresan from Red Hat’s Business Value Practice will guide attendees through the business value of transitioning from AWX to AAP and provide practical steps for evaluating an investment into an IT automation platform. |
| 10:25 - 10:45 AM | Art of the Hackathon for Adoption of AAP Harinarayan Vedam, Infrastructure Engineer, Discover/Capital One How can we examine various levels of expertise in Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) to address a specific business problem, which results in a broader adoption of the platform? |
| 10:45 - 10:55 AM | Break |
| 10:55 - 11:05 AM | Welcome back: Red Hat + Intel |
| 11:05 - 11:40 AM | What Are You Doing To Prepare For Your Next Security Audit? Damien Eversmann, Chief Architect, Red Hat - Event MC Forget the static checklist. Using Ansible Automation Platform for continuous compliance monitoring, you will gain proactive peace of mind, knowing your environment consistently adheres to your chosen standards throughout its entire lifecycle. Further, allow Red Hat to act as your intelligent security advisor, identifying vulnerabilities and configuration drifts. Integrated seamlessly with our automation platform to dynamically group affected systems and orchestrate rapid, efficient remediation based on the expert knowledge of Red Hat's support team. Join us as we discuss Red Hat’s comprehensive approach to address these challenges through automation. By implementing "Compliance as Code" and integrating tools like OpenSCAP, Satellite, Insights, and Advanced Cluster Management, manual tasks are reduced, enabling consistent security control enforcement, automated scanning, vulnerability monitoring, and policy-based governance. This unified automation platform helps accelerate threat response, streamline audits, reduce misconfiguration risks, and build a DevSecOps culture, simplifying the journey to institutionalized security automation and delivering proven business value. |
| 11:40 - 12:05 PM | A Journey into Network Security Automation: "Why Can't You Just...?" Franklin Wong – Senior Principal Product Owner, Discover/Capital One How many times have we heard the phrase: why can't you just...? Where do we start with automating "all the things" as well? When you're stepping into new territory, these questions can be extremely intimidating. Join us as we tell our story from dipping our toes into Terraform and plain Python for basic AWS interaction to leveraging Ansible to automate firewall policy management. |
| 12:05 - 12:30 PM | Partner panel: Delivering on the full promise of IT automation Moderator: Jered Cortez, Ansible Ecosystem Lead, Red Hat As the complexities of modern infrastructure, applications, security, and hybrid cloud environments continue to grow, IT organizations will require a comprehensive automation strategy. Join this session to gain insights from leading IT leaders on how they're expediting business outcomes and optimizing workloads to fulfill the potential of IT automation. |
