Name: Modernizing Off-the-Shelf Software
Start: 2025-03-19T05:00:00Z
End: 2025-03-19T05:00:39.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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We revolutionised the operating system with Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®. Now, we have a broad portfolio, including hybrid cloud infrastructure, middleware, agile integration, cloud-native application development, and management and automation solutions. With Red Hat technologies, companies can successfully adapt as business becomes more digital and interconnected.
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Despite massive attention and investment, operationalizing and scaling AI continues to be incredibly challenging due to high costs, skills gaps, the lack of data hygiene and the prevalence of siloed systems, among other factors. Research shows a sobering result: only 11% of organizations have fully implemented AI.



Successfully putting AI models into production requires a concerted organizational effort and direction to achieve ROI and sustainability. 



Join our AI and Automation experts as we come together to discuss the following:

AI skills gaps, governance issues, and workload management 
Strategies, Automation tools and playbooks to mitigate challenges 
Effective AI governance frameworks for accountability and compliance.

Beyond the AI Pilot - Automation Playbooks for AI talent, workload and governance management

Join Red Hat and AWS for a candid fireside chat as we explore how organisations are rethinking their platform strategy for virtualisation in the cloud era. Discover how Red Hat’s open source portfolio on AWS delivers a modern, flexible, and cost-effective foundation for running workloads at scale— with a simplified migration pathway. Expect fresh insights on:

- Why organisations are shifting from legacy virtualisation to containers
- Transform your legacy workloads the easy way: OpenShift Virtualization on AWS delivers cost savings and simplified operations—No Rewrite Required
- How Red Hat and AWS are partnering to help you future-proof your platform strategy
- Why a modern approach to VMs and containers can unlock faster innovation and adoption of emerging technologies
- How automation can help by simplifying VM management, speeding up migration, and setting the stage for a more agile, modern IT environment.
- How a fully managed Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS offers a secure, scalable platform for modern apps—while lifting the operational weight off your team

Together, Red Hat and AWS help organisations break free from rigid infrastructure, reduce technical debt, and build platforms that are ready for AI, automation, and whatever’s next.

Future-Ready Infrastructure: Virtualisation at Scale with Red Hat and AWS

Many enterprises have realized that when it comes to hybrid cloud ROI, there is often a significant gap between expectations and reality. This webinar explores the challenges enterprises face in today’s complex cloud environments and provides a proven approach to maximize your hybrid cloud investments.  
Join us to: 
• Understand the key concepts of Infrastructure as Code and Configuration as Code.
• Learn how to automate cloud provisioning and management with Terraform and Ansible.
• Discover best practices for maintaining hybrid cloud consistency, compliance, and security. 
• Master end-to-end automation from Day 0 to Day 2 and beyond.
Don’t miss this session, which will help you unlock the full potential of your cloud investments through infrastructure lifecycle management optimization.

Unlocking Hybrid Cloud Success: Master Day 0 & Beyond with Terraform & Ansible

Despite widespread cloud adoption, many enterprises struggle to achieve satisfactory ROI due to challenges in time to market, security, and cost management. The key to unlocking cloud value lies in effective end-to-end Infrastructure Lifecycle Management.
This webinar explores how integrating Red Hat's Ansible Automation Platform and HashiCorp's Terraform can help you optimize your cloud investments. By watching, you’ll learn how these technologies work together to deliver exceptional results:
• Streamline infrastructure lifecycle management
• Enable seamless migration of resources and workloads between on-premise and cloud
• Enforce robust security, governance, and compliance with visibility
• Create a pathway toward zero-touch infrastructure management
Watch now to learn how you can transform your infrastructure management and maximize cloud ROI with integrated automation solutions.

Stop Cloud Migration Disappointment: Transform with Automation

With Artificial intelligence at the peak of its hype cycle, how do you know what can be operationalised in your organisation and what should just be left on the hype pile?  

While AI initiatives are getting the attention of business leaders, organisations still need to maintain and modernise their existing application landscape or risk falling behind the competition today. Increasing complexity, more risks, rising costs and skills shortages are compounding the decisions IT leaders have to make on a daily basis. 

But is it possible to do both - Invest in AI initiatives and app modernisation with minimal compromises?  

Join us to learn how Red Hat OpenShift provides a modern, consistent platform to run your workloads - from legacy virtual machines, to cloud-native services, to AI workloads - in any environment. 

What You'll Learn in This Webinar: 

- Market overview – Understand how technology and market trends are impacting strategic technology decisions and investments for AI and why most AI projects fail! 

- Why you need a common, consistent platform to run all of your apps - whether they are commercial-of-the-shelf (COTS) or custom built, run in Virtual Machines, are cloud-native apps or AI-enabled 

- How you can fast track your AI journey with simple, certified, secure and predictive COTS AI solutions while minimising operational and cost overheads 

- How you can then iterate and create your own AI solutions customised for your business needs 

- Real-World Success Stories – Gain insights from businesses that successfully modernised the deployment and management of their applications and used AI to do it.

Optimise your off-the-shelf AI software

AI is reshaping how businesses compete, innovate, and deliver value. While the potential is massive, many organizations struggle to move beyond experimentation. Turning AI into real business outcomes takes more than just powerful tools - it requires open collaboration, the right strategy, and the right foundation to innovate openly and responsibly.

Join us for an OpenTalk featuring Pushkaraksh Shanbhag, Associate Research Director at IDC and Saii Shahnazi, APAC Services Director; Oliver Senti, Head of Open Innovation Labs at Red Hat; and explore how organizations are building AI-driven business models that unlock new growth, boost efficiency, and deliver more personalized customer experiences.

Together, they’ll unpack the latest AI adoption trends, share best practices, and explain how Red Hat’s open approach empowers enterprises to scale AI across hybrid clouds - while fostering a culture of continuous innovation.

Key Takeaways
- AI Maturity in APAC
Explore IDC’s AI Maturity Model and where your organization stands.
- Scaling beyond pilots
Learn how organizations are turning AI strategies into measurable business outcomes.
- The Open Source Advantage
Discover how Red Hat’s open approach enables scalable, secure AI across hybrid clouds.
- From Vision to Execution
See how Red Hat Services help navigate the AI journey - from strategy to real-world impact.

Speakers' Profiles
Saii Shahnazi is the APAC Services Director at Red Hat. With a global track record in driving enterprise-wide transformation, Saii blends strategic clarity with cultural fluency - guiding teams and customers from early exploration to execution.  

Pushkaraksh Shanbhag is an associate research director with the Asia/Pacific Cloud and IT Services Research group and leads the Asia/Pacific Analytics and Intelligent Automation Services research. 

Oliver M. Senti, a distinguished leader in the field of technology and business innovation, serves as the Lead of Red Hat Open Innovation Labs APAC.

Accelerate your AI journey: Build, scale and innovate the open way

Organizations must adopt cloud-native strategies to take advantage of the modernization benefits that cloud-native platforms can provide. Today’s Enterprise-grade Kubernetes application platforms, such as Red Hat OpenShift can support a variety of use cases across any environment such as VM migration, application development, adoption of AI/ML, edge computing and application and infrastructure modernization initiatives. As organizations consider the best platform to run their VMs as well as to build and deploy new applications, OpenShift Virtualization, a feature of OpenShift, provides a way to migrate and modernize VMs on a unified and scalable platform across hybrid cloud environments.

Sound organizational strategy and expertise is essential for successfully adopting a cloud-native application platform and many times organizations are not equipped to efficiently navigate a path forward due to fluctuations in their IT landscapes, outdated solutions and rising vendor costs. 

Join us for a thought leadership conversation with guest speakers Forrester Principal Analyst, Lee Sustar, Forrester Principal Consultant, Benjamin Brown, and Director of Global Services, Ed Keen to discuss Virtualization and AI trends and what to expect in 2025. We'll dive into key findings from the Total Economic Impact™ study conducted by Forrester Consulting, commissioned by Red Hat, to provide viewers with the framework to evaluate the financial impact of Red Hat Consulting to help deploy Red Hat OpenShift, including Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, within their organizations.

In this webinar, we’ll cover: 

-Market trends and imperatives for migration, virtualization, and modernization
-The Total Economic Impact™, a composite organization representative of interviewed customers, achieved with Red Hat Consulting to migrate and modernize their environments with OpenShift
-How to build your own business case for Red Hat Consulting for OpenShift

Charting your path: Strategies for cloud-native VM migration and future modernization

Without AI, businesses encounter challenges such as inefficiency, slow decision-making, and high operational costs. Therefore, organizations are motivated to accelerate the adoption of AI.
 
Initial investment, absence of internal expertise, and data sovereignty are some of the common challenges hindering this transformation.

To address this, Dell and Red Hat offer "AI-in-a-box",  a simple, tailored solution to accelerate AI adoption. AI-in-Box is a compact and thoroughly tested solution that enables organisations to prototype AI concepts and transition them to production seamlessly. It is designed to help you - 

- Start AI Journey Quickly
- Develop AI Concepts Fast
- Nurture and Experiment different AI Models
- Build Production AI Blueprints 

In this webinar, we’ll cover: 
- What problem we are solving 
- AI-in-a-Box architecture and its value. 
- What all software components you can use on top of AI-in-a-Box.  
- How to use AI-in-a-Box effectively for prototyping AI use cases
 
We invite you to participate in our upcoming webinar to gain further insights into this solution. 

Join us live on 27th March 2024, 11 AM SGT. Webinar Duration - 40 mins

Our speakers line up:
Prosenjit Biswas 
Lead Ecosystem Solution Architect, APAC, Red Hat 

Jacky Lee 
Director, AI Innovation Hub (APJ), Dell Technologies

Prototyping AI concepts to reality with AI-in-a-Box

You’ve probably heard that your AI is only as good as your data. But did you know that the next biggest barrier to AI adoption is insufficient automation integration? How about the growing tech debt organizations are struggling to reduce?

These challenges are only the tip of the iceberg, and that’s why research indicates that only 11% of CIOs have fully implemented AI.

Join Red Hat and a guest speaker from Forrester as we discuss the critical success factors and relationships between AI and Automation, including how Automation not only amplifies AI initiatives, but are mission-critical to making them work.

You can also expect to hear about:
- Criteria to look out for when selecting the best Infrastructure Automation tools
- Top expectations global AI decision makers have for AI implementation
- Top challenges organizations face adopting Infrastructure Automation tools
- Real-life examples of Automation at the core of AI

Our Speakers:
Nicholas Chia, Automation Platform Specialist, Asia Pacific, Red Hat
Naveen Chhabra, Principal Analyst, Forrester

IT Automation: The undercurrent making waves with AI

As machine learning (ML) models become pivotal to driving business outcomes, ensuring seamless and efficient deployment is more critical than ever. Enter Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) — a transformative approach that bridges data science with operations to enable scalable, reliable, and automated ML model deployment and management.

In this 30-minute webinar, we'll dive into the essentials of MLOps, exploring key principles, challenges, and effective strategies, including:
- Recap of the 5 Pillars of a Hybrid AI Strategy to support effective deployments
- Addressing common challenges of deploying ML models to production
- Leveraging model versioning, testing, and validation for reliability
- Automating ML workflows and pipelines to improve efficiency
- Monitoring ML performance to mitigate model drift and data quality issues
- Gaining practical insights from real-world case studies on successful MLOps implementations

Who Should Attend:
- Data scientists and ML engineers
- DevOps and IT professionals
- Business stakeholders and AI leaders
- Anyone eager to elevate the efficiency and dependability of ML deployment processes

Operationalizing your hybrid cloud AI strategy

In a world rapidly transformed by AI and digital innovation, staying ahead demands adaptability and continuous learning. A 2024 Gallup poll found that nearly 25% of workers worry that their jobs can become obsolete because of AI, up from 15% in 2021. In the same study, over 70% of chief human resources officers (CHRO) predicted AI would replace jobs within the next 3 years.

Open-source technology is at the forefront of this revolution, driving innovation and collaboration. However, organisations often face challenges in equipping their workforce with the right skills to harness these advancements. 

This highlights the growing skills gap in open-source technologies and AI-driven working environments which needs to be addressed. If this is not addressed well, it will be difficult to align workforce capabilities with emerging industry demands in organisation in the future. 

In this session, tech leaders and experts from Red Hat will share current workforce development programs and the value of micro-certification. Participants will also be exposed to practical methods to unlock the potential of their workforce and prepare for a future where AI and open-source shape the way we work and innovate.

Key Takeaways:
- Understand why open-source technologies are critical in driving innovation and collaboration in the AI-driven era.
- Recognise the urgency of continuous learning to bridge the skills gap and future-proof the workforce.
- Explore strategies to establish a culture of continuous upskilling, ensuring sustained technical and organisational growth.
- Practical methods to unlock the potential of your workforce and prepare for a future where AI and open-source shape the way we work and innovate.

Future-Ready Workforce: Upskilling in the Age of AI and Open-Source

Join us to explore how Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) can streamline Cisco network management for more efficient and secure operations. As networks expand, manual configuration becomes increasingly complex and error-prone, impacting productivity and consistency. This session will demonstrate how AAP's robust automation capabilities enable Cisco network administrators to eliminate repetitive tasks, reduce errors, and increase agility by deploying reusable automation content.

Designed for network engineers, IT managers, and Cisco users, this webinar will showcase real-world examples of configuring and managing Cisco devices with Ansible, focusing on how reusability and scalability transform network operations. Attendees will learn how to leverage AAP's pre-built modules for Cisco devices, simplify configurations, and establish consistent, automated workflows across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

We’ll cover best practices for implementing Ansible Playbooks for network tasks, achieving compliance, enhancing security, and leveraging reusable automation for long-term scalability. Whether you're just starting with automation or looking to advance your capabilities, this session provides actionable insights to optimize your Cisco networks. Don't miss this chance to see how Ansible Automation Platform can take your network management to the next level.

Our Speakers: 
Nicholas Chia, Automation Platform Specialist, Asia Pacific, Red Hat 
Michael Petrinovic, Technical Solutions Architect, Cisco

Red Hat and Cisco - Simplify Networking through Automation and Reusability

Generative AI to create code has shown promise, but turn the conversation to your infrastructure-as-code, and there’s significantly more concern. With Ansible Lightspeed providing sourceable generative AI recommendations, and Red Hat Consulting providing guidance to incorporate generative AI into your business and technical processes, the promises of generative AI can be unlocked to accelerate your automation goals.

In this session, we will cover:

-The risks of general purpose generative AI for trusted automation
-Using generative AI responsibly when critical infrastructure depends on it
-How Red Hat Consulting can help with crafting an integrated automation and AI strategy

Successes and struggles of generative AI in automation development

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, staying competitive requires more than just keeping up with technology—it demands a commitment to continuous learning and development. To maintain your organization’s edge, it’s essential to equip your IT teams with the skills needed to embrace emerging technologies and foster meaningful career growth.

Watch an insightful webinar featuring KellyAnn Fitzpatrick, Senior Industry Analyst at Red Monk, as she delves into the latest trends in IT training and their transformative impact on talent development. During this session, you'll gain valuable insights into:

-Cross-Skilling for Competitiveness: Discover how expanding your IT teams’ skill sets can drive organizational agility and ensure your business stays ahead of the curve.
-Building a Culture of Continuous Learning: Learn effective strategies for cultivating an environment where ongoing learning aligns with and advances your business goals.
-Training that Matters: Explore the importance of designing training programs that directly address real-world business challenges and optimize your team’s performance.

Training Trends with Red Monk

Join us for an in-depth webinar exploring the often-overlooked yet powerful security controls built into Red Hat Enterprise Linux. With cybersecurity incidents on the rise and the global average cost of a data breach in 2024 reaching 4.48M—a 10% increase over last year and the highest total ever, organizations can't afford to leave these valuable security tools unused. This session will demonstrate how to leverage native RHEL security features like SELinux, application control and malware detection to strengthen your security posture without additional investment. Our experts will show you practical implementations, automation strategies, and best practices for deploying these controls at scale.

Key Takeaways:
- Application Control & Security
- Advanced Malware Protection
- SELinux Implementation
- Automation & Compliance
- Practical Implementation Steps

Who should attend ? This webinar is ideal for organizations looking to maximize their existing RHEL investment while strengthening their security posture using built-in tools and capabilities. 

This webinar is ideal for the below job titles:
Security Engineers, System Administrators, DevOps Engineers, IT Operations Teams, Security Architects, Anyone responsible for RHEL infrastructure security

Maximizing Your Linux Security: The Best Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Security Controls You're Probably Not Using

In today’s digital landscape, business success depends on delivering exceptional customer experiences and rapidly entering new markets. AI, Cloud, DevOps, Containers, Microservices, and Security are at the core of modern innovation, but unlocking their full potential requires the right cloud strategy and streamlined operations.

Join us to discover how Red Hat OpenShift provides a unified, easy-to-manage platform for running all your COTS applications. Learn how a standardized container platform with shared services can simplify infrastructure management, enhance security, improve resiliency, and accelerate innovation—ultimately delivering significant cost savings and a faster path to business growth.

What You'll Learn in This Webinar

- Maximize ROI & Reduce Costs – See how organizations achieved up to 468% ROI in three years with Red Hat OpenShift Cloud Services, while cutting VM footprints by 50%.
- Unify & Modernize Your Workloads – Bring all your COTS applications into a single, modern platform—on your terms.
- Simplify Management & Boost Agility – Discover how OpenShift streamlines operations, scales seamlessly, and enables a cloud-native approach for AI, VMs, and containers.
- Real-World Success Stories – Gain insights from businesses that have successfully migrated and optimized their COTS workloads with OpenShift.
- Accelerate App Modernization – Learn how to modernize legacy applications in place using Red Hat tooling, reducing technical debt and freeing up resources for innovation.

Don’t miss this opportunity to simplify your COTS modernization journey and unlock new business potential.

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