Name: Automating the enterprise with Ansible Automation Platform
Start: 2023-05-05T03:00:00Z
End: 2023-05-05T03:00:37.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Organizations are looking to embed AI intelligence into their applications. But the increasing complexity of integrating AI/ML solutions with existing infrastructure, deployment delays, and difficulty scaling AI/ML projects causes many efforts to fail before making it into production. 

Learn more from Red Hat experts about Red Hat® OpenShift® AI, a flexible, scalable MLOps platform with tools to build, deploy, and manage AI-enabled applications. Built using open source technologies, it provides trusted, operationally consistent capabilities for teams to experiment, serve models, and deliver innovative apps. Dive into best practices and use cases to help launch your AI/ML projects faster and achieve business objectives.

-Overview of the Importance of Data Science Platforms in Enterprises
-Roadblocks that stop organizations from operationalizing AI models faster
-Introduction to Red Hat OpenShift AI 
-Key capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift AI and Red Hat OpenShift
-Leveraging Red Hat Services for Successful Implementation
-Bridge the skills gap to help your organization adopt AI/ML faster

Speaker: 
Sreejith Anujan, Learning and Development Instructor, Principal Instructor, Red Hat
Sreejith Anujan is a cloud technology professional with more than 14 years of experience in on-premise and public cloud providers. He enjoys working with customers on their enablement plans to upskill the technical team on container and automation tooling. In his current role as a Lead Technical Instructor within Red Hat, Sreejith designs and delivers custom, tailored technology training and workshops to strategic customers across Asia Pacific (APAC), Australia, and New Zealand (ANZ).

Accelerate your AI/ML Strategy with Red Hat Services

According to TechTarget's 2024 Technology Spending Intentions Study, the following areas have become significantly more important to organisations over the past 2 years:

1. Generative AI - 27% of respondents
2. Business and/or IT automation - 32% of respondents

Clearly, there is high interest to invest in AI. However, the journey to enterprise AI is full of challenges and potential pitfalls, and there is a more fundamental consideration in order to ensure greater ease and security for AI - IT Automation. 

On top of that, many questions remain:
-Which use cases make sense? Should we start small and only think about scaling across the enterprise later?
-What about Shadow AI? Shouldn’t the use of AI be “democratised” to ensure greater adoption?
-What are the human and platform capabilities that need to be established in order to eventually build enterprise AI at scale and help AI live up to its promises?

Join us in this IDC webinar sponsored by Red Hat as we answer those questions and discuss how we can make the most of AI while minimising risk.

Our speakers: 
Dr. Chris Marshall:
Chris Marshall is a Vice President responsible for several areas of research at IDC. Chris leads the Asia/Pacific regional industry research teams, which includes coverage of healthcare, government, retail, energy, manufacturing, and financial services.   Additionally, Chris leads our regional teams in data, analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), future of work, and sustainability.

Nicholas Chia: 
At Red Hat Asia Pacific, Nicholas is the Automation Platform Specialist for management solutions in Red Hat’s APAC Office of Technology. He spends most of his time engaging his audiences in both the enterprise and community space on Red Hat management and automation capabilities.

Reducing Shadow AI risk with Enterprise-level Automation

Are you seeking to streamline your virtual machine (VM) management process while maximizing efficiency and performance? Despite the adoption of cloud-native approaches for new workloads, many organizations still grapple with legacy platforms for virtualization. OpenShift Virtualization offers a cloud-native approach to virtualization—that offers scalability, agility, and operational efficiency.

Join our exclusive webinar, "Modernize your hybrid cloud strategy with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization," where Red Hat Training experts will showcase OpenShift Virtualization architecture and how it seamlessly integrates container orchestration with the management of virtualized workloads—all within a unified platform.

Experience a deep dive demo showcasing OpenShift Virtualization in action, guiding you through the intricacies of managing virtual machines with this powerful platform.

During this webinar, you'll gain invaluable insights into:
-Creating a pathway to application modernization with OpenShift Virtualization 
-Best practices for managing VMs to increase your IT operational efficiency.
-Demo: OpenShift Virtualization in Action 
-Skills path for OpenShift and OpenShift Virtualization

Speaker: 
Sreejith Anujan is a cloud technology professional with more than 15 years of experience in on-premise data center solutions and 10 years with public cloud providers. He enjoys working with customers on their enablement plans to upskill the technical team on container and automation tooling. In his current role as a Principal Instructor within Red Hat, Sreejith is responsible for designing and delivering custom & tailored technology training and workshops to strategic customers across the Asia Pacific region.

Modernize your hybrid cloud strategy with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

According to Forrester’s 2023 data, over 90% of global enterprise AI decision-makers have concrete plans to implement Generative AI (GenAI). While production use cases are limited to a few sophisticated organizations, enterprises expect broad value from GenAI, with productivity as the leading benefit (47%) and innovation and cost efficiencies coming close with unlimited possibilities to explore . As governments race to unlock the potential of GenAI, the obsession with adding GenAI into existing Chatbots risks obscuring the truly revolutionary opportunities the technology promises and limiting itself to only incremental improvements. For instance, the US . National Bureau of Economic Research and MIT’s Department for Economic Research (respectively) found that adding GenAI into customer service environments provides a 14% productivity improvement versus a 59% in existing document-oriented business operations. 

The truth is GenAI's most profound benefits for public services lie in augmenting human capabilities and streamlining operational efficiencies, with the resulting impact extending far beyond mere customer interactions. Mission as well as the technology leaders who support them must explore the broader applications of GenAI to revolutionize public sector services and operations, harnessing its power to not just improve, but transform service delivery and governmental processes.

Join leaders from Red Hat and Intel, along with our guest speaker, Forrester’s Principal Analyst Sam Higgins, as we explore the state of GenAI adoption in public sector, what traps to avoid when adopting this emerging technology, the benefits government agencies should expect as well as the options and considerations for implementation, drawing on Forrester’s latest research “The State Of AI In The Public Sector”, panel discussion and audience Q&A.

GenAI Innovation In Government: Going Beyond Chatbot Renovation

A recent Harvard Business Review Analytic Services survey highlights the importance of IT automation: 80% of respondents say adopting IT automation is “extremely important” or “very important” to the future success of their organization. However, only 34% of respondents say that IT leaders are actually embracing that role¹.

As companies strive to become more agile and digitize their operations, IT automation has evolved into a business imperative and has become a critical element in digital transformation. IT leaders must not focus solely on technical matters like selecting the right technology. They should also become evangelists by developing a strategic vision for IT automation and serving as a proponent of culture change to overcome the resistance present at many organizations today.

In this webinar, we’ll cover:
How Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform supports your digital transformation
Understand how organizational change and culture impact the advancement of IT automation.
Identify top priorities and define the roles IT leaders should play to advance IT automation

¹Harvard Business Review Pulse Survey: Taking the lead on IT automation [https://www.redhat.com/en/resources/taking-lead-on-it-automation-analyst-material]

Strategies for adopting IT Automation across your organization

As organizations adopt cloud-native approaches for new workloads, they are often still encumbered with a traditional legacy platform for virtualization. So, when is the time to replace your legacy hypervisor?

This webinar introduces a cloud-native approach to virtualization—that offers scalability, agility, and operational efficiency—and explores the transformative potential of OpenShift Virtualization, providing an on-premises capability that also extends to AWS. 

Join us to delve into:
- Legacy vs. Modernization: Compare traditional hypervisors with the modern, container-centric approach of OpenShift Virtualization.
- Operational Benefits: Discover the operational efficiencies, scalability, and agility offered by adopting a cloud-native virtualization strategy.
- Unified experience: Common platform for deployment and management of container and virtual machine workloads, using DevSecOps practices.
- Real-World Applications: Learn from case studies how businesses successfully migrated to cloud-native virtualization, overcoming challenges and reaping benefits.  

Speakers: 
Paul Whiten, Cloud Services Advocate, Red Hat - helps customers focus on delivering better software more efficiently through the adoption of Red Hat Cloud Services application platforms. 

Steven Ellis, APAC Principal Portfolio Architect, Red Hat - is a Principal Portfolio Architect in the Red Hat APAC Office of Technology. During his 30 years in the technology industry Steven has transitioned from development through infrastructure and operations, with a bit of devops on the side, into architecture roles. 

Hiro Okashita, APAC Product Specialist of App Platform, Red Hat - serves as the Application Platform Product Specialist for Red Hat's APAC Office of Technology, focusing on go-to-market strategies and execution. With over 15 years at Red Hat, Hiro has been instrumental in shaping the strategic business development vision in Japan.

Introducing a Cloud Native approach to virtualization

Automation is now prevalent in enterprises of all sizes, industries, and geographies. Islands of automation have been in place for years, but it is time to graduate to a more structured approach for the whole business. We are entering the age of the Automation Fabric, a comprehensive philosophy and technology architecture that aims to join the isolated islands and automate the entire enterprise. 

Join us to learn how infrastructure automation plays a pivotal role in your automation fabric pursuit through Mission Critical use cases. Industry experts explain the technology, process, and cultural developments transforming business through enhanced automation.

Speakers: 
Glenn O'Donnell:
Glenn leads the team researching automation and technology operations, with his fingers in multiple technology dimensions. He is widely regarded as a top thought leader in technology development and operations, automation, and the broader social implications of technology evolution. His own current research themes focus on modern technology operations, business process and technology automation, and semiconductors. 

Nicholas Chia:
At Red Hat Asia Pacific, Nicholas is the Automation Platform Specialist for management solutions in Red Hat’s APAC Office of Technology. He spends most of his time engaging his audiences in both the enterprise and community space on Red Hat management and automation capabilities.

Automation fabric: balancing ambition and practicality

The current economic situation in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region shows us how crucial it is to do more with limited resources, especially human resources. However, even in frugal times like these, the APAC region still has the chance to be truly innovative. 

IT Automation can definitely help fill the gaps in our workforce. However, some organizations have gone beyond that to using automation in a bigger and more holistic manner—by incorporating automation into the very fabric of everything they do. These organizations are reaping benefits not limited to cost reductions, but also seeing more creativity, innovation, and effectiveness. 

Join Forrester and Red Hat APAC experts as they discuss the future of IT automation, and how it can help companies be more successful and resilient.

Enhance your organization's resilience through IT automation In 2023

Red Hat Enterprise Linux and AWS deliver the most optimal value for your organization’s IT infrastructure in a hybrid environment that enables high-quality customer experiences, reduces complexity, and hence allows you to scale your infrastructure in any direction. 

Join our “Ask the Expert session” to learn more about benefits of using Red Hat Enterprise Linux on AWS. Learn: 
- How Red Hat Enterprise Linux delivers a seamless hybrid and migration experience with AWS  such as deployment flexibility, award-winning support, proactive management services, security certifications, built-in tools, developer resources and programs.
- How customers accelerate migration and modernization via validated partners, assessment pathways and programs available in your region such as the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) and Red Hat Consulting services.
- How to navigate CentOS Linux End-Of-Life in June 30th 2024 and migrate to Red Hat Enterprise Linux  on AWS 
- How to get started with AWS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux with insights on pricing models and value added services

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This webinar is ideal for IT decision makers, system administrators, and infrastructure architects with a technical background who have a role to play in migrating your infrastructure on to cloud.

Our Speakers: 
Will Garcia, Sr Partner Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Will helps AWS partners and customers connect technology to business outcomes and provide better developer experience through the adoption of modern architectures leveraging AWS services and Red Hat solutions on AWS. 

Shashank Dixit, RHEL Business Unit Owner-APAC - Shashank Dixit is the Asia Pacific Geography Business Owner for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Business Unit, responsible for delivering product and business unit strategies for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux portfolio to the region.

Modernize your infrastructure with Red Hat Enterprise Linux on AWS

If you are like most IT teams, there simply is not enough time in a workday to get everything done. This leaves you and your team working extended hours just to keep pace. What if you could automate some of the repetitive and routine, yet still necessary tasks? You can with Event-Driven Ansible®.

Start small—think big, is the approach we recommend for adopting Event-Driven Ansible. This means beginning with some simple, low-risk tasks and expanding the use and sophistication of event-driven automation from there. By automating simple tasks, you will begin to reclaim some free time so you can focus on the priorities that are important. Join this webinar to learn about several simple use cases that are straightforward and low-impact ways to understand the time-savings benefits of Event-Driven Ansible. We’ll also show you a demonstration so you can see this solution in action.

3 use cases for getting started with Event-Driven Ansible

Imagine you're at the helm of managing IT operations in a dynamic landscape encompassing on-premises, cloud, and edge environments. Navigating the complexities of maintaining free and paid operating systems (OS) across these diverse platforms presents a spectrum of security challenges—ranging from ensuring uniform functionality to upholding stringent security protocols, compliance mandates, and data governance across multiple cloud providers. 

Join our webinar hosted by the Red Hat Enterprise Linux experts, where our goal is to provide actionable insights and real-world strategies to streamline security operations and learn more about :
 
- The risks of free OS &  Master OS Security: Learn how to build a security foundation that extends seamlessly across on-premises, cloud, and edge setups.
- How to Mitigate Security Breaches with a trusted Supply chain for your Software Lifecycle: Gain insights into creating a trustworthy supply chain for your entire software lifecycle that can reduce the risk of a breach, from development to deployment.
- Managing Compliance & Auditing Demands: Navigate compliance standards and regulations with expert strategies. 
 - Engage with experts, share experiences, and fortify your OS security knowledge.  Walk away empowered to safeguard applications effectively across evolving IT landscapes. 

Speakers: 
Steve Elills - Principal Solution Architect. With over 30 years in the technology industry Steven has transitioned from development through infrastructure and operations. 

Ben Blasco - Senior Ecosystem Solution Architect. Working with customers and partners to get the best from Linux, automation, and containers. With a history in services and telecommunications.

Laura Kalra - Automation Specialist, Red Hat. Supporting the automation journeys of organizations across Australia and New Zealand.

Conquer OS security challenges with RHEL experts

Security encompasses a wide range of products and services designed to help protect individuals and organizations from loss or damage to their data, applications, systems IT, networks, and devices for malicious or unintentional activity.

Security attacks can be frightening, and manually responding to them is inefficient and ineffective. Organizations that automate extensively are better able to prevent security incidents and business disruptions. Fully deploying security automation can reduce the average cost of a security breach by 95%.¹

In this security automation-focused session, you'll learn how Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform can contribute to:

-Investigation enrichment, which collects logs from firewalls, intrusion detection systems (IDS), and other systems in an automated way to optimize classification activities carried out through security information and event management systems (SIEM).

-Threat hunting, which automatically adjusts the logging level, creates new intrusion detection system (IDS) rules, and new firewall policies, making it easier to detect more threats in less time.

-Incident response, which fixes automation actions faster, such as blocklisting attacked IP addresses or domains, allowlisting non-threatening traffic, or isolating suspicious workloads for further investigation.

IT solutions and security integration in changing environments

In today's rapidly-evolving digital landscape, the application build and release processes have emerged as a critical focal point for potential security vulnerabilities. Keeping track of all the components used to build and run your applications is a critical part of maintaining a strong security posture. It is also a well-known fact that addressing vulnerabilities early on during the development or build and release process is more cost effective and reassuring.

Join Red Hat® experts for a comprehensive examination of the challenges faced by developers and businesses to explore how the Red Hat Trusted Software Supply Chain can support your DevSecOps initiatives across all phases of the application life cycle—from development, build and deploy to runtime to unlock developer productivity—and improve operational efficiency. Whether you're a developer, IT security professional, or a business leader, this session will equip you with the knowledge and tools to holistically protect your software supply chain.

In this session, Red Hat experts will discuss ways to help you better protect your end-to-end software supply chain and unlock the potential of DevSecOps through:
- Managing the risk profile of your unique software supply chain.
- Coding with integrated application security checks.
- Build with security focused continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) workflows.
- Monitoring and identifying runtime security incidents.

Speakers: 
Ahilan Ponnusamy, Application Platform Specialist, Red Hat, APAC - has more than 24 years of global work experience in middleware and cloud-native technologies across Europe, the United States and APAC.

Paul Whiten, Emerging Sales Specialist - Cloud Services, Red Hat - helps customers focus on delivering better software more efficiently through the adoption of Red Hat Cloud Services application platforms.

Uncover the hidden threats in developing, deploying and managing software

Modern enterprises want to innovate better, improve resilience and become more agile. However, increasingly complex ecosystems, coupled with manual IT processes and isolated team structures, can hold them back. These limitations lead to inefficiency, missed opportunities for innovation, and heightened risks in terms of security and compliance. 

In this webinar, experts from Red Hat, Dynatrace, and ServiceNow will discuss real-life examples of these challenges from organizations they have worked with. They will also illustrate how Event-Driven Ansible® brings their technologies together to amplify their strengths, propelling the modern enterprise forward. 

Watch this webinar to hear our panel discuss:  

- How the analysis of diverse data sources, identification of areas of attention, and gaining of precise insights for swift and efficient issue resolution can transform an IT organization.
- Different use cases for Event-Driven Ansible.
- Benefits organizations are gaining from Event-Driven Ansible.
- How to get started with Event-Driven Ansible.

Speakers: 
Nicholas Chia - Senior Principal Product Manager, Ansible BU, Red Hat, APAC
Jason Nai, Partner Cloud Evangelist, Dynatrace, APAC
Steve Ng, Advisory Solution Consultant, ServiceNow, APAC

Automating observability and auditability through intelligent remediation

Network engineers experience increasing pressure from a growing number of digital applications, expansion into edge devices, hybrid cloud transformations, and remote work. These demands mean that enterprise networks are growing in scale and complexity, both in device types (including edge devices) and scope. Responsive network management through automation is more important than ever. 

In this webinar, we will explore how Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform can be used across different domains to automate and integrate network and IT processes. We will discuss the unique challenges of automating at the edge and show how automation can be used to manage globally distributed edge devices at scale. 

We will cover: 
-How task-based single function automation and excessive reliance on the command line can impact network device management.
-Key network automation use cases that will show the edge automation journey from beginning to end.
-Unique challenges of automation at the edge including security, control, and management of a vast global landscape of devices.

Automating network management at scale and at the edge

Earning customer trust is an imperative; governments simply can’t operate without it. When trust in institutions is strong, governments reap social, economic, and reputational benefits enabling them to expand and extend their relationship with the people they serve. 

When trust is weak, they lose those benefits and must work harder to create and maintain economic well-being and social cohesion in order for people to prosper. But the number and severity of extraordinary political and social instability, environmental pressures, health crises, and other systemic risks has shaken stakeholders trust in government - especially when it comes to the use of data and artificial intelligence. 

This is a reality mission leaders understand, with government decision makers in Forester’s Data And Analytics Survey, 2023 indicating a “lack of trust in AI systems” is the biggest concern public sector agencies face when it comes to using Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, followed by “ethical and privacy challenges.” But what can be done to close the gap and building stakeholder trust in government, data, and AI?

To find out join our guest, Sam Higgins, Principal Analyst at Forrester, as he explores the relationship between trust and driving up mission-critical behaviors such as compliance, advocacy, and engagement. Sam will also facilitate a fireside discussion with Red Hat’s Chief Technology Officer for APAC, Vincent Caldeira, and Jamie Ng, APJ Regional Center of Excellence, Government & Education Segment Lead, Intel Corporation on what mission-based organizations must understand when developing, training, running trusted AI solutions.

Speakers:
• Sam Higgins, Principal Analyst, Forrester (Guest)
• Jamie Ng, APJ Regional Center of Excellence, Government & Education Segment Lead, Intel Corporation
• Christopher Tan, Global Partner Revenue Acceleration Director, Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ), Intel Corporation
• Vincent Caldeira, Senior Director & Field CTO, Red Hat APAC

Closing The Gap: Building Stakeholder Trust In Government, Data And AI

As 2023 draws to a close, investing in your team's growth and development has never been more critical. Research has shown that IT talent gaps are one of the biggest obstacles to digital transformation. In today's dynamic business landscape, your workforce's adaptability and skill sets will define your competitive edge. 

Join our webinar, "Modern Learning for Modern Technologies with Red Hat Learning Subscription," aimed at showcasing the substantial benefits and opportunities of upskilling your team members and how Red Hat's learning platform can help bridge the gap.

We will also share insights on creating an effective skills path with a live demo of Red Hat Learning Subscription, a powerful tool that offers a wealth of resources, comprehensive training modules, and hands-on learning experiences that cater to the diverse needs of IT professionals. You will learn:

-Effective strategies to close skill gaps in your organization.
-Exploring the comprehensive features of Red Hat Learning Subscription.
-Demo on how to navigate your learning journey with Red Hat products.
-How to use the lab environment in Red Hat Training courses effectively.
-Enrolling in Red Hat certification exams to validate your team's skills.

Watch the webinar today and create your path to success.

Our Speakers:
Christopher Schunke is a Senior Product Manager for Red Hat Learning Subscription. He has spent his career specializing in user experience design, primarily focusing on IT training. 

Sreejith Anujan is a cloud technology professional with more than 14 years of experience in on-premise and public cloud providers. He enjoys working with customers on their enablement plans to upskill the technical team on container and automation tooling.

Modern Learning for Modern Technologies with Red Hat Learning Subscription

As automation becomes more prevalent and configuration as code becomes more important to many organizations providing scalability, reliability, and repeatability is a key need to be addressed. The use of Ansible® execution environments and version control allows automation controller to execute jobs in an expected behavior with predictable and repeatable results. Through automation controller, Red Hat® Ansible Automation Platform allows enterprises to effectively implement complex and repeatable automation sequences. Automation controller provides the ability to create inventories, projects, and, most importantly, automation jobs through job templates.

In this Red Hat training webinar, we will use preconfigured resources in automation controller to construct a job workflow template with an approval node to simulate a DevOps pipeline and a deployment scenario modeling actual environments.

Using Ansible Automation Platform and automation controller, we will:
-Create a simplified automation job template
-Use existing job templates and resources to create a job workflow template
-Demonstrate the approval process for job workflow templates

Automating the enterprise with Ansible Automation Platform

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