Ansible Automates Dallas
02/19/2026 | 8:30 AM - 4:25 PM | Plano, TX | United States
Event overview:
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.
- Streamline for savings: Expand automation across teams and orchestrate your entire IT estate with one platform.
- Build resilient operations: Automate decision-making and IT actions at every stage of the operational lifecycle.
- Empower teams: Get started quickly with a library of ready-to-use content and an intuitive experience enhanced by generative AI.
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
If you have any questions about this event and/or difficulties registering, please email: infrastructure@redhat.com
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Registration & Breakfast
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
Welcome
9:30 AM - 9:40 AM CST
Event Emcee: Walter Bentley, Americas Services, Ansible GTM team lead, Red Hat
Building a future-proof foundation with multi-mode automation
9:40 AM - 10:10 AM CST
Kaete Piccirilli, Director, Product Marketing, Ansible Automation, Red Hat
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.
Ansible Automation Platform Roadmap: What's New and Coming a Pragmatic Guide for Technical Practitioners
10:10 AM - 10:35 AM CST
Scott Harwell , Senior Manager, Product Management, 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.
Automate Today, Power Tomorrow: The Ansible Blueprint for AI Infrastructure
10:35 AM - 11:05 AM CST
Panel moderator: Tom Simmons, Business Value Director, Red Hat
Richard Marshall, Solutions Architect, Insight Networking Center of Excellence
Ramya Korada, Product Management Leader for AI and Edge Computing Solutions, Cisco
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: 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.
Morning Break
11:05 AM - 11:25 AM CST
Red Hat + Intel
11:25 AM - 11:35 AM CST
William Fowler, AI Solution Architect, Intel
Operationalizing AIOps: Bridging the Gap between Splunk and Ansible
11:35 AM - 12:05 PM CST
Andy Garrett, Automation Sales Specialist, Red Hat
Subarno Mukherjee, SE Leader, Partner Solutions Engineering , Splunk
In the modern enterprise, the sheer volume of telemetry data has outpaced the human ability to manually triage and resolve incidents. While tools like Splunk deliver deep observability and predictive insights through machine learning, insight without action leaves services broken. This is where Ansible becomes essential: it is the execution engine that turns signals into outcomes, enabling fast, consistent, and scalable remediation.
This session explores the synergy between Event-Driven Automation powered by Ansible, observability from Splunk, and AI guidance through Lightspeed to form a closed-loop remediation system. We will demonstrate how organizations can move beyond reactive firefighting and use Ansible to deliver proactive, resilient, and self-healing infrastructure at enterprise scale.
Building a Bulletproof Automation Foundation: Scaling Resilience with Ansible and EDB Postgres
12:05 PM - 12:30 PM CST
Anil Kumar, Director of Product Management, EDB
Chad Ferman, Senior Principal Product Manager, Ansible, Red Hat
In the modern enterprise, automation is no longer a luxury—it is the engine of the business. However, as organizations scale their automation across hybrid clouds, the platform itself becomes a "mission-critical" asset. If the automation platform fails, the business stops.
This session explores how to move beyond basic uptime to achieve true enterprise resilience. We will dive into the collaboration between Red Hat and EDB, demonstrating how to integrate Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform with EDB Postgres AI to create a self-healing, high-availability architecture.
Attendees will learn:
- • How to eliminate the database as a single point of failure in their automation strategy.
- • Strategies for automating the deployment of production-ready PostgreSQL clusters using Ansible.
- • Best practices for disaster recovery, including automated failover and Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR).
- • How to leverage EDB-validated reference architectures to simplify complex infrastructure management.
Join us to learn how to ensure your automation platform is as resilient as the infrastructure it manages
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST
Introduction to AI-Driven Ansible Automation
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CST
Zach LeBlanc, Senior Specialist Solution Architect, Ansible, Red Hat
Joe Brown, Senior Specialist Solution Architect, Ansible, Red Hat & Sean Anderson, Specialist Solution Architect, Ansible, Red Hat
In this interactive workshop, you'll 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.
This workshop will delve into AI-Ops principles and demonstrate flexible, closed-loop workflows that drive transformative outcomes. You'll gain a roadmap for leveraging AI and Ansible Automation Platform to accelerate automation and innovation within your organization.
Through hands-on experience, you will learn to build intelligent, self-healing automation workflows that detect, analyze, and remediate application failures—without manually writing any playbooks. Specifically, you'll work with:
- • Red Hat AI for understanding service issues
- • Ansible Lightspeed to generate remediation playbooks
- • Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) workflows for orchestration
- • Event-Driven Ansible (EDA) to listen for real-time service events.
Telecommunications Breakout Session: Always-On: Building Self-Healing Networks with Ansible
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CST
TiOluwa Olarewaju, Senior Specialist Solution Architect, Application Platform - Telco, Red Hat
Thomas Cameron, Senior Principal Specialist Solution Architect, Ansible - Telco, Red Hat
For telecommunications companies, there is no longer an off-peak window. Networks are always in use, supporting remote work, cloud applications, streaming, AI workloads, IoT, and private 5G. As a result, the network itself has become a mission-critical service. When the network degrades, customers feel it immediately.
This session explores how service providers can move beyond reactive network operations to build self-healing networks. We will look at how Ansible connects AIOps insights with event-driven automation to detect issues early and remediate them automatically, before they turn into outages.
Attendees will learn:
- • Why constant network usage is forcing a shift toward autonomous operations
- • How autonomous network operations can reduce outages and operational load
- • How to use Ansible to automate remediation based on AIOps signals
Afternoon Break
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM CST
Introduction to AI-Driven Ansible Automation (continued)
2:45 PM - 3:15 PM CST
Introduction to AI-Driven Ansible Automation (lab continued)
Telecommunications Breakout Session (continued)
2:45 PM - 3:15 PM CST
Telecommunications Breakout Session (continued)
Closing
3:15 PM - 3:25 PM CST
Sponsored Networking Reception
3:25 PM - 4:25 PM CST
Networking Reception sponsors: Insight and EDB
Platinum Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
Speakers
AG
Automation Sales Specialist
Red Hat
AK
Director of Product Management
EnterpriseDB
CF
Senior Principal Product Manager, Ansible
Red Hat Global Automation and AIOps Strategist
JB
Senior Specialist Solution Architect, Ansible
Red Hat
KP
Director, Product Marketing, Ansible Automation
Red Hat
RK
Product Management Leader for AI and Edge Computing Solutions
Cisco
RM
Solutions Architect
Insight Networking Center of Excellence
SH
Senior Manager, Product Management
Red Hat
SA
Specialist Solution Architect, Ansible
Red Hat
SM
SE Leader, Partner Solutions Engineering
Splunk
TC
Senior Principal Specialist Solution Architect, Ansible - Telco
Red Hat
TO
Senior Specialist Solution Architect, Application Platform - Telco
Red Hat
TS
Business Value Director
Red Hat
WB
Americas Services, Ansible GTM team lead
Red Hat
WF
AI Solution Architect
Intel
ZL
Senior Specialist Solution Architect, Ansible
Red Hat
Travel information
Renaissance Dallas at Plano Legacy West Hotel
6007 Legacy Dr | Plano, TX | 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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