Ansible Automates Virtual

Building a future-proof foundation with multi-mode automation

As an automator, you're already focused on the work that matters when it comes to driving more efficiency, scale, and resilience for your organization: building automation libraries, standardizing processes, reducing toil. But that work isn't just solving today's problems. It's also building the foundation that will enable your organization to adopt the capabilities shaping the next generation of IT operations.

This keynote introduces a multi-mode approach to automation: task-based automation for repeatable, governed actions; event-driven automation for real-time conditional response; and agentic automation for exploring novel problems. We'll explore how to match these automation modes to specific problem types, the benefits of effective multi-mode automation, and why tomorrow's competitive advantage won’t be driven by deploying the most advanced tools - it will be won with the ability to orchestrate them for maximum impact.

Accelerating Business Agility through Infrastructure Automation at Canada Life

Hani Mousa, AVP, Engineering – Infrastructure Services Enablement, Canada Life

Accelerating Business Agility through Infrastructure Automation - The transition to a digital-first enterprise relies on evolving IT from a manual cost centre into a high-velocity engine. By prioritizing infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), organizations can eliminate repetitive manual tasks, drastically reducing human error and accelerating time-to-market. This shift is anchored by cross-functional, multi-skilled teams who leverage these automated workflows to foster a culture of continuous innovation and scalable efficiency across any industry.

Automate Today, Power Tomorrow: The Ansible Blueprint for AI Infrastructure

Automation is no longer optional—it is the backbone of AI-ready infrastructure. This session highlights how the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform empowers organizations to break down silos and orchestrate complex IT environments with ease.

Discover the power of the partner ecosystem with Cisco and Mobia: learn how leveraging key reseller and ISV relationships can help you secure, scale, and optimize your automation journey. Whether you are looking to drive immediate operational efficiency or prepare for next-gen AI workloads, this session provides the roadmap for using Ansible and its partners to stay ahead of the curve.

Building an Automation Platform as a Product

Adam Seeley, Director of Strategic Products and Solutions (FlightPath), Red Hat

Many organizations struggle with automation because they rely on localized, ad-hoc innovations without a cohesive, organization-wide strategy, leaving them poorly positioned to scale or efficiently deliver value. To address this critical challenge, an Enterprise Automation Strategy has to be designed to balance centralized platform control with shared, federated ownership.

This talk will show you how you can successfully deploy an enterprise automation service that drives accountability and enables informed decision-making at all levels. Underpinned by the Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), this stepwise implementation ensures continuous validation and a measurable return on investment through observability, industry metrics, KPIs, and OKRs.

Key Takeaways Attendees will learn the concrete steps it takes to realize value—informed by both successes and failures —including how to:

• Build the platform as-a-product that leverages AAP functionality and evolves with user needs to drive widespread adoption.
• Maintain architectural flexibility to adapt to changing organizational technology solutions, ensuring a long-lasting program.
• Empower service teams to create and share modern content, simplifying the experience for individual domain developers.
• Enable domain creators and consumers with the right tools to provide business value, while strictly enforcing bank security, resilience, and scale constraints.
• Organize teams, architecture, and the software delivery life cycle to fully support user interaction and scale.

Ansible Automation Platform Roadmap: What's New and Coming a Pragmatic Guide for Technical Practitioners

Since modernizing AWX and releasing AAP 2.6 in October, Red Hat has continued to release AAP in faster cadences, with new builds created every two weeks containing CVEs, bugfixes, QoL, RFEs and new functionalities behind feature flags.

This talk will present both short and long term AAP roadmap features, and offer a pragmatic guide on how to manage AAP’s  lifecycle, and feature flag new releases into production based on real world customer implementations.