Ansible Automates - New York City
December 3, 2025 | 8:30 AM | New York, NY | United States
About the event
Ansible Automates is an in-person event designed to help enterprise IT leaders leverage automation and AI for a competitive advantage.
Ansible Automates is an in-person event designed to help enterprise IT leaders leverage automation and AI for a competitive advantage. Join this no-cost event to hear from Ansible experts and connect with other industry leaders. Leave inspired and better equipped to advance your automation journey with hybrid cloud infrastructure in mind.
Why Attend?
The next phase of digital transformation demands a new kind of strategy — one where automation isn't just a tool, but the core engine of your business. Hear from experts, connect with other leaders, and leave with actionable insights for you and your teams.
Automate where it counts – everywhere.
Who should attend?
#AnsibleAutomates2025 is for IT business leaders and their teams:
If you have any questions about this event and/or difficulties registering, please email: infrastructure@redhat.com.
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Agenda
Registration & Breakfast
Welcome
Joe Giordano, Chief Architect, North America Field CTO Organization, Red Hat
The next generation of enterprise orchestration: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform in the agentic era
Sathish Balakrishnan, Vice President & GM, Ansible Business Unit, Red Hat
Xavier Lecauchois, Senior Director, Product Management Ansible Automation Platform
The enterprise automation landscape is rapidly changing with the maturation and adoption of agentic AI, and if it hasn’t happened already, your organization will soon face a critical question: How can you leverage these new capabilities in concert with the trusted automations you already have in place? Join us as we share our vision for AAP as the trusted bridge to what will be the essential technology outcome of the agentic era: the seamless orchestration of automated workflows, AI-driven decisions, and human-in-the-loop governance.
Along the way we'll address key questions around getting started, applying governance + guardrails, and how to orchestrate across automation silos. Discover how Red Hat Ansible will enable you to adopt agentic automation on your terms - and why we’re more confident than ever that the future belongs to the automators.
Ansible Automation Platform Roadmap: What's New and Coming a Pragmatic Guide for Technical Practitioners
Xavier Lecauchois, Senior Director, Product Management Ansible Automation Platform
Frank Wu, Ansible Solutions Architect and Sales Leader, Red Hat
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.
Enterprise adoption of IT Automation with a customer - An Ansible Tale
This interactive customer talk will describe a large Enterprise multi-year Ansible journey, how they started with Ansible, then AWX, and ultimately the Ansible Automation Platform.
Morning Break
Red Hat + Intel
Ansible: Leveraging AI to convert legacy automation to Ansible
Raghuram Banda, Senior Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat
Florian Moss, Ansible Platform Leader, Financial Services, Red Hat
Migrating automation manually is tedious and often not a possibility. Red Hat’s services team developed an AI-driven application that can assess and migrate existing automation tooling and create Ansible playbooks out of them. This presentation will dive into how the tool works and how you can get the most out of it.
Partner fireside chat: Delivering on the full promise of IT automation
Emily Brand, Global Ansible Ecosystem GTM Leader, Ansible, Red Hat
Matt Darlington, Solution Principal - Cybersecurity, Insight
James Reid, Sr. Field Architect, Insight
What will IT Automation look like five years from now? Listen to Insight and Red Hat openly discuss their partnership and perspectives on what IT Automation will look like in the future.
Lunch Break
Introduction to AI with Ansible Automation Platform
Raed Soliman, Principal Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat
Discover how the powerful combination of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and AI can revolutionize your IT operations. We'll explore the integration of large language models (deployed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI or Red Hat OpenShift AI), Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed, and policy-as-code to enrich operational data, intelligently generate playbooks, and maintain robust governance across diverse IT scenarios.
*Please note this is a hands-on technical workshop session.
Afternoon Break
Ansible and Open Source LLMs: Enabling Flexible Deployments with RHEL AI
Bart Wolinski, Specialist Solution Architect, Ansible, Red Hat
In a landscape dominated by proprietary SaaS LLMs, Red Hat prioritizes open-source alternatives—ranging from compact to large-scale models—that can run on diverse environments, from edge devices to cloud and datacenter infrastructures. Ansible Lightspeed Intelligent Assistant introduces modular options, supporting OpenAI and Azure AI or natively leveraging on-premises LLMs via RHEL AI Inference.
This talk focuses on Ansible's role in orchestrating LLM optionality with RHEL AI. We'll demonstrate practical workflows for provisioning and deploying custom open-source models, highlighting optimizations for performance, scalability, and security. Ideal for engineers tackling enterprise on-prem AI projects or prototyping weekend experiments, you'll gain actionable insights into automating inference pipelines and integrating LLMs into existing infrastructure stacks.
Closing
Networking Reception
Sponsor
Platinum
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Speakers
FM
Ansible Platform Leader, Financial Services
Red Hat
FW
Ansible Solutions Architect and Sales Leader
red hat
JP
Director, Platform Engineering Infrastructure
Mizuho Financial
JG
Senior Principal Architect
Red Hat
MD
Solution Principal - Cybersecurity
Insight
XL
Senior Director, Product Management Ansible Automation Platform
Red Hat
Travel information
Convene
117 W 46th St | New York, NY | United States
Red Hat is committed to the health and safety of our customers, partners, and employees. All attendees will be expected to follow Red Hat and local guidelines regarding COVID-19. Please do not attend if you are feeling ill or have any symptoms of a viral infection. Please note that all protocols are subject to change.
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Contact
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