ANSIBLE AUTOMATES - SYDNEY
Scale up and keep up with automation
Thursday, 26 March 2026 | 10:00 AM AEDT | Sydney, NSW | Australia
Overview
Ansible Automates returns to Sydney in 2026!
This exclusive full-day, in-person event is strategically engineered for enterprise IT leaders looking to turn automation and AI into a decisive competitive advantage.
Ansible Automates is dedicated to empowering leaders with a definite vision for enterprise automation in the AI era while equipping IT teams to maximise the impact of their AI initiatives. Learn from industry experts, connect with peers, and walk away with practical insights you can put to work immediately.
Why Attend
The next generation of digital transformation demands a paradigm shift: automation is evolving from a supporting tool to the core engine powering your AI strategy. Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform provides a flexible, unified foundation for AI adoption, bringing teams together to orchestrate AI capabilities and embed generative AI directly into automated workflows.
Join Ansible experts and industry thought leaders for engaging presentations, interactive discussions, and live demonstrations. You’ll gain practical guidance to help your organisation define the right automation strategy and confidently accelerate AI adoption with Ansible Automation Platform.
Who Should Attend
#AnsibleAutomates2026 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
- Anyone interested in Automation - no matter where you are in your journey
Event Details
Date: Thursday, 26 March 2026
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM AEDT
Location: Hyatt Regency Sydney
Address: 161 Sussex St, Sydney NSW Australia
If you have any questions about this event, please reach out to anzevents@redhat.com.
We are sorry, registration for ANSIBLE AUTOMATES - SYDNEY is currently closed.
Agenda
Arrival & Registration
Welcome
Speaker
Mark Carter, MC
Red Hat & IDC Keynote - Operationalising AIOps: Building a Future-Proof Foundation with Multimode Automation
Agentic AI is driving a profound, structural shift in IT operations, moving beyond simple intelligence to effectively collapse the control plane. After years of tool sprawl, we are finally seeing a unification of management layers across cloud and on-prem environments through AI-driven, policy-based automation. IDC research highlights this shift, with 69% of early adopters expecting intelligent infrastructure to reduce tool complexity.
This joint keynote by IDC and Red Hat will move beyond the hype to show how multi-mode automation operationalises AIOps. Learn to match task-based, event-driven, and agentic automation to specific challenges, transitioning your teams from manual remediation to governed, strategic orchestration. We will explore:
- The true place of Agentic AI in IT operations—when it is, the right solution
- The critical success factors for adopting Agentic AI, with a focus on governance and compliance
- How mastering multi-mode automation empowers you to reliably act on observability, solve novel problems, and build the foundation for 2026–2030 infrastructure strategies
Join us to understand how to orchestrate these advanced capabilities for maximum business impact and clearly measure the ROI of your automation journey.
Speakers
Richard Henshall, Red Hat
Linus Lai, IDC Asia/Pacific
Ansible Automation Platform Roadmap: What's new and coming a pragmatic guide for technical practitioners
Since modernising 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.
Speaker
Charles McClelland, Red Hat
Fireside Chat: Customer Automation Journey
Customer Automation Journey moderated by Tertius Bouwer, Automation Specialist at Red Hat.
Speakers
Phillip White, ACC New Zealand - Accident Compensation Corporation
Kenny Cheng, Telstra
Sean Dudding, Westpac
Lunch at the Automation Showcase
Technical Breakout Tracks
| Track A | Track B |
|---|---|
| Core-to-Edge // day-2 NetWork Ops: Cisco and AAP | Unlocking Intelligent Ticket Enrichment - Agentic AI + MCP |
| Modern NetWork environments and connected systems are becoming even more complex, interconnected and vast. While deploying these systems and all their requirements has challenges, day-2 is where we really experience the highest toil and burden. Cisco and AAP together deliver day-0 through day-2 benefits that now include not only Fabric but also Compute systems and all their associated EcoSystems. Come and see how you can utilise the NetOps Cisco + AAP story as a 'better together' capability (including Event Driven Ansible) in your environment to deliver that day-2 relief. Speakers Stu Bernstein, Red Hat Frederick Son, Red Hat | Every minute spent manually triaging and enriching IT tickets is a minute your teams aren't solving problems. Incomplete tickets lead to misrouted incidents, repeated escalations, and slower resolution — all of which directly impact service quality and end-user experience. In this session, we'll show how Agentic AI powered by the Model Context Protocol (MCP) brings intelligent reasoning to ticket enrichment — while Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) serves as the trusted execution backbone that makes it real, reliable, and enterprise-ready. Walk away with a practical, repeatable pattern where Agentic AI brings the intelligence and AAP brings the trust — ready to apply in your organisation immediately. Speaker Mina George, Red Hat |
Technical Breakout Tracks
| Track A | Track B |
|---|---|
| Supercharge OpenShift Virtualization Journey with AAP - Day 0, Day 1, Day 2 | From manual to minimal - Journey to Autonomous networks with AAP |
| Organisations are modernising virtualization by moving from traditional hypervisors to OpenShift Virtualization. Without automation, this shift still leads to
manual toil, inconsistent provisioning, and unscalable operations. Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) closes this gap. Together, AAP and OpenShift Virtualization provide a modern virtualization platform and the automation needed to build, migrate, and operate at scale from day one. This session covers the full lifecycle: Day 0(Plan & Provision): Automate cluster setup, networking, storage, and VM templates. Day 1(Migrate & Deploy): Orchestrate large-scale VM migrations, enforce configurations, and integrate with ITSM/CI/CD. Day 2(Operate & Scale): Enable patching, compliance, lifecycle management, and scaling via governed, repeatable automation. Speakers Mina George, Red Hat Wayne Dovey, Red Hat |
One of Australia's largest Tier-1 telcos, is on a mission to
reach Level 4 Autonomous Network operations. In this session, Telstra shares their journey firsthand: their initial steps on this journey, how they took event-driven automation from concept to production, and how they eliminated manual effort by automating network related use cases. You'll see the architecture behind their use case, the lessons learned along the way, and the cross-domain autonomy roadmap that will take them to L4 and beyond. Speakers Kenny Cheng, Telstra Dev Shanbhag, Red Hat |
Break at the Automation Showcase
Technical Breakout Tracks
| Track A | Track B |
|---|---|
| Network AI-Tomation | The Business of Automation: Governance, Visibility, and Measurable Impact |
| Although the CLI on our favorite routers and switches hasn't
changed much since the day we passed our CCNA and JNCIA, how we interact with our networks has
transformed dramatically. We’ve evolved from basic SNMP, through the era of Perl, Bash, and Python
scripting, into the declarative world of Ansible, and now into the brave new world of AI-driven
automation. Let's dive into the evolution of network automation—exploring our past, examining the present, and catching a glimpse of the future. Speaker Stan Koslov, Red Hat |
Automation is a critical driver of business resilience, speed,
innovation, and value. As organisations scale their automation, the challenge shifts to maintaining
control, ensuring compliance, and proving ROI.This session will show how moving from "task execution" to
"automation observability" transforms IT. Learn how to turn raw automation data into actionable business
insights and drive measurable Business Impact. We'll detail the real-world ROI of enterprise automation,
showing how organisations achieve cost recovery in months, not years. Speaker Ron Tapia-Sealey, Red Hat |
Technical Breakout Tracks
| Track A | Track B |
|---|---|
| Workflows for Secure Ansible Development | Delivering Measurable Value Through Automation in New Zealand Public Sector |
| Learn how a customer brought software development practices such as pre-commit checks, automated deployment pipelines and code signing to their automation practice, with the goals of improving automation code quality and ensuring the security of deployed automations.
Speaker Derek Waters, Red Hat |
From Tooling to Transformation: Real-World Automation in the New Zealand Public Sector. Discover how a New Zealand public sector agency is turning automation into measurable business value. This session showcases real-world implementations—from automated certificate management and platform configuration as code to HashiCorp Packer image standardisation with AAP and ServiceNow integration. Beyond the tooling, Phillip and Joseph share the outcomes that matter: reduced risk, faster delivery, stronger compliance, and clear performance metrics. Learn how automation can evolve from a technical initiative into a strategic enabler of reliability, security, and operational excellence across government environments. Speakers Phillip White, ACC New Zealand - Accident Compensation Corporation Joseph Tejal, Red Hat |
Wrap Up
Networking drinks at the Automation Showcase
Speakers
Master of Ceremonies
MC
Director of Field Product Management for Red Hat Ansible
Red Hat
Group Vice President Research, Services
IDC
Ansible Platform Leader
Red Hat
Automation Specialist
Red Hat
DevOps and Automation Engineer
ACC - New Zealand
Senior Chapter Lead
TELSTRA
Service Owner of Patterns Automation
WESTPAC
Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, Automation
Red Hat
Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, Automation
Red Hat
Associate Principal Specialist Solutions Architect, Automation
Red Hat
Principal Solution Architect
Red Hat
Associate Principal Solution Architect
Red Hat
Associate Principal Solution Architect
Red Hat
Automation Specialist
Red Hat
Solutions Architect
Red Hat
Solutions Architect
Red Hat
Travel information
Hyatt Regency Sydney
161 Sussex St | Sydney, NSW | Australia
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