Ansible Automates | Boston, MA
October 6, 2026 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM EDT
Westin Boston Seaport District, Boston MA
About Ansible Automates Boston
Ansible Automates is a full-day, in-person conference where IT leaders and their teams come together to solve real automation and AIOps challenges. Join Ansible experts, Red Hat® product leadership, and peers navigating the same landscape. This no-cost event focuses on what's shaping automation in 2026, including how to close the gap between AI-accelerated threats and your team's ability to respond.
What you'll walk away with
You'll leave with real, applicable insight from technical experts, peer practitioners, and Red Hat product leadership, and a clear, useful path to a stronger automation strategy built for the hybrid cloud infrastructure you're already running, including:
- A preview of the Ansible Automation Platform roadmap,
- A chance to ask questions and learn about a practical playbook for automating security response—because when AI can find and exploit a vulnerability in hours, manual patching cycles measured in weeks are the real risk,
- Strategies from peers already running automation across on-prem, cloud, and edge environments.
Who should attend?
#AnsibleAutomates2026 is for IT business leaders and their teams:
- CIOs, CTOs, and IT Directors,
- Enterprise and Network Architects,
- IT Operations and DevOps Leads,
- Security and Compliance Professionals,
- Automation Architects shaping AI and modernization strategy,
- Anyone interested in Automation—no matter where you are in your journey.
Capacity for this event is limited. Grab your spot today.
If you have any questions about this event and/or difficulties registering, please email: infrastructure@redhat.com
Continuing Professional Education Credits
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We are pleased to offer Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits to those who attend the event, with up to 5.4 credits awarded based on session attendance. CPE certification at Ansible Automates is administered by Carahsoft Technology Corp. Carahsoft is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of Continuing Professional Education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. For more information on the CPE credits offered, Carahsoft’s NASBA sponsorship, and the submission process, please click the link here. |
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Beyond the Sessions
Book a coffee meeting with a Red Hat Services Expert
Bring your toughest technical hurdles and sync 1-on-1 with a Red Hat Services expert over coffee to map out your next architectural breakthrough. Let's grab a coffee and discuss how Red Hat Consultants or Technical Account Managers can help. |
Learn about your local Red Hat User Group
Did you know about RHUGs? Join our community of developers and open source enthusiasts that gather regularly and informally to share experiences and common interests, learn more about Red Hat solutions and network with peers. |
Network with industry peers + partners
Swap real-world automation stories with practitioners solving the same challenges you are, and connect with partner solutions built to extend Ansible into your stack. Genuine conversations, real use cases, straight from the people doing the work. |
Ask the experts your pressing questions
Connect directly with Red Hat experts, view demos, and experience Ansible in an interactive way. Our experts may even invite you to “act as a threat to a simple system” and observe Event-Driven Ansible (EDA) perform instantaneous remediation. |
Registration
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Agenda
Registration & Breakfast
Welcome Remarks
Dave Cohn, Sr. Director, North America Ansible Platform GTM, Red Hat
Keynote
Dave Bertin, Worldwide Platform Leader, Red Hat Ansible
Sysadmin to Infrastructure Developer: Using Configuration as Code to Build Secure, Event-Driven Workflows at M&T Bank
Tom Reed, Lead Technical Engineer, M&T Bank
Rich Rostek, Technical Engineer II, M&T Bank
In technology, automation is essential to operational efficiency. Implementing automation at scale in a regulated environment with Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) requires balancing developer enablement with the need for governance.
In this session, learn how M&T Bank is leveraging Configuration as Code to change how users interact with AAP while satisfying Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) practices and security requirements. You will learn how this approach enforces standards within AAP and enables Ansible users to create ServiceNow-driven workloads using Event-Driven Ansible while limiting platform privileges and exposure. Finally, discover how laying a secure foundation today is preparing the bank for the adoption of Agentic AI tomorrow.
Partner Panel
Moderator: Dave Cohn, Sr. Director, North America Ansible Platform GTM, Red Hat
Panelists:
• Marc Nufrio, NE Operations Architect, Cisco
• Michael O'Leary, Director of Solutions Engineering, F5
• James Reid, Senior Field Architect, Insight
Morning Break
Red Hat + Intel
Automation Divide: Leap Ahead In The AI Era
Guest speaker: Naveen Chhabra, Principal Analyst, Forrester
A new automation divide is emerging. On the one hand, are the organizations that use AI and automation to continuously improve operations, accelerate service delivery, strengthen resilience, and augment their workforce. On the other will be organizations that continue to automate individual tasks while maintaining the same operating models, decision structures, and manual dependencies.
This session explores why this divide is forming, what separates automation leaders from automation followers, and how technology leaders can build the foundations for automation at scale. Attendees will leave with a practical framework for accelerating adoption, governing automation responsibly, and preparing their organizations for the future.
Unlock AI-driven automation: From AIOps insights to trusted action
Nelson Hsu, Product Management Director, Red Hat Ansible
Devin Parrish, Principal Specialist Solutions Architect, Red Hat Ansible
Your observability and AI tools are generating insights faster than your team can act on them. Every manual handoff between detection and remediation introduces delay, inconsistency, and the kind of ungoverned change that keeps operations leaders up at night. The missing piece isn't better insights. It's a trusted, governed execution layer that can close the loop. This session explores how Ansible Automation Platform bridges the insight-to-action gap, enabling IT teams to move from reactive firefighting to intelligent, automated remediation, without sacrificing the audit trails, change control, and compliance requirements that enterprise operations require.
We will cover:
• A practical framework for architecting the execution layer your AIOps strategy needs
• Real-world use cases including automated ticket enrichment, self-healing workflows, and intelligent capacity orchestration
• Proven results from enterprises that have operationalized observability data with Red Hat Ansible
• Guidance on integrating AI assistance within enterprise guardrails
How to position your automation practice today to take advantage of agentic AI without introducing unacceptable risk
If you're dealing with alert fatigue, looking to operationalize observability data, or preparing your automation practice for the next generation of IT ops, this session gives you the blueprint to move from insights to outcomes with confidence.
The Ansible Roadmap
Kaete Piccirilli, Director, Product Marketing, Ansible Automation, Red Hat
As technological complexity and the adoption of AI accelerate, a trusted foundation for enterprise automation becomes a strategic imperative. The latest evolution of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform reinforces its position as the central orchestration layer for the enterprise, providing stability and governance in a shifting landscape.
In this roadmap session, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform product leadership will share key investments and the strategic vision for the coming year to accelerate adoption, enhance usability, and scale to meet the needs of modern IT. We will explore the platform's simplified visual interface, including future workflow tooling that streamlines the process of designing, managing, and governing complex automation across the enterprise.
Lunch
Please choose your Afternoon lab from 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Note: there will be a 15min break in-between
Defend, Contain, Comply: Vulnerability Lifecycle Automation with Ansible Automation Platform
Devin Parrish, Principal Specialist Solutions Architect, Red Hat Ansible
Get hands-on with the full vulnerability lifecycle: detect, contain, patch, and prove compliance on a live CVE, using Event-Driven Ansible, AAP Controller, Splunk, and OPA, all without manual intervention.
Key themes explored in the workshop:
• Event-Driven Ansible for automated incident response
• Policy-as-Code with OPA for gated patching decisions
• Workflow orchestration with approval gates and compliance verification
• Secure supply chain delivery with Podman containerization and image scanning
• End-to-end audit trail from detection to remediation
The Automation Imperative: Building a Business Case for Security Orchestration
Ashish Nainwal, Global Value Leader - Emerging Solutions and Growth Industries, Red Hat Business Value Practice
Is your automation ready to handle AI-driven security threats exploited by frontier AI models? As the volume of AI-driven CVEs accelerates, organizations face unprecedented complexity in maintaining security and compliance. Managing these machine-speed vulnerabilities now demands a proactive, machine-scale approach to automated remediation. In this interactive lab, learn how to position Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform as a foundational pillar of your IT security strategy. Using the "Vision to Value" framework, we will guide you in translating technical automation capabilities into a data-driven business case to secure cross-functional alignment and project funding.
What You Will Learn:
• Proactive Defense: Respond to the evolving landscape with rapid, machine-scale threat remediation.
• Strategic Alignment: Link IT security initiatives directly to broader business strategy and financial KPIs.
• ROI Justification: Build a tailored, data-driven business case that resonates with business stakeholders and executives.
Networking Reception
Sponsors
Travel Information
Westin Boston Seaport District
425 Summer St | Boston MA | United States
If you are taking public transitWe highly recommend using the MBTA. The venue is a short walk from:
- South Station (Red Line, Silver Line, Amtrak & Commuter Rail)
- World Trade Center (Silver Line)
- Courthouse (Silver Line)
Red Hat will cover the cost of valet or self-service parking at the Westin for all attendees.
If your are flying inThe Silver Line (SL1) runs directly from Boston Logan International Airport to World Trade Center station — just a 5-minute walk from the hotel — and it's free when traveling from the airport into the city.
Red Hat is committed to the health and safety of our customers, partners, employees, and attendees. All attendees will be expected to follow Red Hat, venue, and local guidelines regarding health and safety. Please note that all protocols are subject to change.
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