Transform your business
through automation

Virtual Event
Wednesday 25th August (GMT +8)

Every business has accelerated their digital transformation journey because the New Norm has forever changed the way we work. Automation, already useful in routine tasks, is now urgent and key to bringing your business to a new level of efficiency, cost savings, scalability, cohesiveness, security and speed to market.

Come together with us at Ansible Automates 2021 as we bring you leading business and tech expertise to further your automation journey, or even how to start it. Learn about automation trends shaping the business landscape, strategies, what to look for from provisioning, security and compliance, integration to the overall economic impact automation brings to your enterprise.

Every session of our virtual event contains bite-sized content that is easy to follow, relatable, practical and features the most popular automation use cases on-ground. Ask questions ‘live’, interact with presenters, find out everything you’ve been wanting to know about Automation and start reaping its benefits. Register now!

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Agenda

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Automation in the New Norm

Sean Sim, Cloud Solutions Director, ASEAN, Red Hat

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM

The Acceleration of Digital Transformation

Christopher Tan, Partner Revenue Acceleration Global ISV, APJ Global Markets & Partners, Intel Technology Asia Pte. Ltd.

10:30 AM - 10:50 AM

Step by Step Guide To Your Automation Journey

Marc Petrivelli, Managing Architect Automation, Red Hat

10:50 AM - 10:55 AM

Breakout Track

10:55 AM - 11:30 AM

Business Track

10:55 AM - 11:10 AM

ROI of a Successful Automation Project

Jerome Gotangco, Hybrid Cloud Specialist, Red Hat,

Automation is key towards successful implementation and continuous operation of critical IT projects in the enterprise. To understand the benefits of automation prior to the start of a project, a well crafted Return of Investment study that supports the technical benefits is very helpful in justifying the need for automation. This session will show the data points, prescribed tools, and data gathering methods to help you build a solid ROI study for your automation projects.

11:10 AM - 11:30 AM

Automate Your Workflow

Anthony Lin, Cloud Automation Specialist, ASEAN, Red Hat

Daniel Ng, Head, IT Transformation Portfolio, ServiceNow

Abhishek Gupta, Advisory Solution Consultant, ServiceNow,

Yes, your environment is complex, and headed to hybrid, if it isn’t already. But when you look at the wide variety of infrastructure operations and the tools currently being used by your systems administration, development, and network teams, how can you start to change the way your teams interact across the whole system? The answer? You need a tool that can act as the glue layer automating across services and applications no matter where they are. Once one person on your team learns how to do something, they can capture their solution in an Ansible Playbook and enable everyone to use it. In this session, Red Hat will co-present with ServiceNow to discuss, how an organization automate the workflows in their day-to-day operations.

11:30 AM - 11:50 AM

Trust, The Currency Of Compliance - Automated Governance In Financial Services

Will Watkins, Lead Transformation Catalyst, Red Hat

Monica Sasso, EMEA FSI Chief Technologist, Red Hat,

With the rapid pace of technology expansion in financial services, it’s easy to forget that the industry’s foundational pillar is trust. Join this session to find out how technology can provide provenance, traceability, and transparency through automated governance to establish trust - the currency of regulatory compliance.

Technical Track

10:55 AM - 11:10 AM

Server Provisioning & Patching

John Lemuel Nicolas, Solutions Architect, Philippines, Red Hat,

Your operating system teams need to support environments that are more dynamic and dispersed than ever before. Find out how the Ansible way allows your organisation to augment current investments in tools, people, teams and process by providing a common language of automation across these silos - bridging the gap between security, applications and operations to meet modern business requirements.

11:10 AM - 11:30 AM

Security & Compliance

Wisa Prabowo, Solutions Architect, Indonesia, Red Hat,

In large, complex IT environments, the functions of operations, security/cyber-security and applications teams are often siloed to boost security and meet compliance and governance requirements. However, the growing need for accelerated IT is challenging these traditional siloes, requiring teams to work closer to meet business requirements while balancing speed and risk. Discover how the Ansible way allows your organisation to augment current investments in tools, people, teams and process by providing a common language of automation across these silos - bridging the gap between security, applications and operations to meet modern business requirements.

11:30 AM - 11:50 AM

Network Automation

Lew Kok Hui, Specialist Solutions Architect, Malaysia, Red Hat,

Networks are integral parts of IT enterprises, yet true automation of the network stack is nearly non-existent. When organizations are automating networks, they’re using proprietary vendor-specific tooling that requires significant training to use. Ansible’s simple automation framework means that previously isolated network administrators can finally speak the same language of automation as the rest of the IT organization, extending the capabilities of Ansible to include native support for both legacy and open network infrastructure devices. Network devices and systems can now be included in an organization's overall automation strategy for a holistic approach to application workload management. The Ansible way allows the network team in an organization to: 1. Use the same simple, powerful, and agentless automation framework IT operations and development are already using 2. Use a data model (a playbook or role) that’s separate from the execution layer (Ansible automation engine) that easily spans heterogeneous network hardware 3. Benefit from a wide variety of community and vendor-generated playbook and role content to help accelerate network automation projects

11:50 AM - 12:05 PM

Take A Coffee Break Special Segment

12:05 PM - 1:05 PM

Business Track

12:05 PM - 12:25 PM

Unlocking New Opportunities Of The Edge With Automation: Use Cases In The Telecom Industry

Michael Tadault, Chief Technologist (Telco), APAC Office of Technology,

The edge has become prime real estate - with a drive to commoditise and derive more value from the assets stored there. Join this session to gain an understanding of the increasing value of edge computing, why scale is a key topic, and how Red Hat's automation technology can help you take advantage of the edge for business success

12:25 PM - 12:45 PM

Ansible Automation Platform Content Strategy

Nicholas Chia, Senior Principal Product Marketing Manager, Asia Pacific, Red Hat,

Join us to uncover how we create Ansible content, focusing on the technical strategy for content as part of the Ansible subscription. Learn about requirements and dependencies around developing, building, testing, and delivering content to upstream repositories and the Ansible Automation Hub for certification. Gain an understanding of the full Ansible development & deployment technical life cycle with examples in various industries, and how it’s applicable to the larger Ansible partner ecosystem and the upstream open-source community.

12:45 PM - 1:05 PM

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Roadmap

Anthony Lin, Cloud Automation Specialist, ASEAN, Red Hat,

Join us to explore how Ansible can create value for your business by helping your team to automate what they do now, so that they can focus on innovation. Discover the many creative ways automation can be applied today, how it can benefit your business, and more.

1:05 PM - 1:25 PM

Event-Driven Automation: When Infrastructure Events meets Automation

Anirban Mukherjee Director, Strategic Business Development, Asia Growth Emerging Markets, Red Hat,

There has never been a more challenging time for running the services that power your organization - data moves at real-time speed, digital has become the rule, and customers expect secure, always on services. Distributed architectures continue to grow in both size and complexity, challenging even the most capable organization’s ability to effectively manage them. Businesses need to contain cost and manage risk while coping with an ever evolving technology estate. In this session we'll cover how Ansible's ecosystem in combination with Ansible Automation Platform and modern technologies like AI and Containers can help organizations to transform how they operate their entire IT infrastructure stack. By leveraging Event-Driven Automation across the organization, teams can collaborate more effectively and securely, improving SLAs and lowering overall IT operational costs.

Technical Track

12:05 PM - 12:25 PM

Integrating with Common IT Tools

Stefanus Soehono, Associate Principle Solutions Architect, Indonesia, Red Hat,

As you shift to a hybrid environment, relook at the DevOps tools being used by your systems administration, development, and network teams. How can you start to change the way your teams interact across the whole system? You need a tool that can enable automation across services and applications, no matter where they are. Discover how the Ansible way connects your teams and tools to automate the workflows in their day-to-day operations via a common automation platform.

12:25 PM - 12:45 PM

Hybrid Multi-Cloud Deployment

Ryan Ye, Solutions Architect, Singapore, Red Hat,

To avoid lock-in, hybrid and multi cloud are the default choices for enterprise. However, this also implies increased complexity for resource provisioning, configuration, security and application deployment. Your best approach? Make use of automation to support the management of hybrid cloud as code. Discover how the Ansible way allows your organisation to reduce complexity and respond faster to changing business requirements. Learn how these new services and offerings connect business managers with automation leaders, so they can better align automation strategies with the needs of the business and extend its capabilities.

12:45 PM - 1:05 PM

CI/CD Pipelines

Mei Yang Chai, Solutions Architect, Malaysia, Red Hat,

Join this session to find out how Ansible’s numerous tools and features make it an ideal Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) solution - with the ability to finely orchestrate multi-tier, multi-step processes in zero-downtime rolling update workflows. Discover how Ansible’s unique architecture, coupled with an agentless approach, helps to simplify complex manual IT processes. In addition, learn how the Ansible way can put deployment on full autopilot - enabling the true promise of agile processes: delivering change faster, with fewer errors and expensive context shifts.

1:05 PM - 1:25 PM

Event Driven Automation for the Cloud with Ansible and Knative

Darrick Leong, Associate Solutions Architect, Singapore, Red Hat,

IT automation in the cloud-native era is full of event-driven systems - from system failure notifications to log processing. Reacting to those events in a scalable way has always been a challenge, but serverless platforms like Knative can make this process uniform and easier when running on Kubernetes. Join this session to know more about Knative, and how it provides a powerful set of features that allow containers to auto-scale based on several event sources. Discover automation scenarios and tasks that can be simplified by a modern event-driven automation architecture powered by Ansible and Knative.

Speakers

Jerome Gotangco

Hybrid Cloud Specialist, Red Hat

Jerome Gotangco is Red Hat's Hybrid Cloud Specialist with over 13+ years’ experience on design, strategy, and execution of hybrid cloud solutions in the enterprise. As a member of the Strategic Business Development team at Red Hat, he champions an Open Hybrid Cloud strategy approach for the enterprise by adopting open source and lead with Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, and Red Hat Application Services. Jerome has deep experience in open source, being previously involved in upstream development for OpenStack and Ubuntu.

Christopher Tan

Partner Revenue Acceleration Global ISV, APJ Global Markets & Partners Intel Technology Asia Pte. Ltd.

Christopher has over 25 years of experience in the ICT industry. As the Partner Revenue Acceleration Manager for APJ, Chris is responsible for the business relationship & go to market programs with our global ISV partners across APJ, which include VMware, SAP, Red Hat & SAS. Before this role, he was the APJ Datacenter Platform Marketing Manager, owning the product marketing for Xeon & Atom server product lines. Other roles in his 15 years Intel career included the Business Development Manager for Singapore & the Enterprise Sales Manager for South East Asia, where he managed the account relationships with large enterprise end-customers, OEM partners and service providers.

Sean

Cloud Solutions Director,  ASEAN, Red Hat

Sean Sim cares for Red Hat’s cloud portfolio. Over the past 6 years, he has helped Asean customers implement hybrid clouds for modern applications to monetise their digital transformation journey. He spends most time working with customers directly to carve strategies aligned to their priorities.

Nicholas Chia

Senior Principal Product Marketing Manager, Asia Pacific, Red Hat

At Red Hat Asia Pacific, Nicholas is the Technical Product Manager 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.

Anthony Lin

Cloud Automation Specialist, ASEAN, Red Hat

Anthony started his career with SingTel as a Technical Lead for the 3G Network Operations Team before joining Ericsson as a Technical Support Engineer in the United States. He worked as a Radio Access Network engineer supporting the North America region for 2 years before moving on to the role of a System/Software Services Engineer. 

John Lemuel Nicolas

Solutions Architect, Philippines, Red Hat

Being a Product Solutions Engineer for VST ECS, one of the largest IT Distributors in the Philippines, Lem supported various brands such as Red Hat and Oracle Software, IBM Power and Storage, and IBM Softlayer. In his 5 years with VST ECS, he was involved from enabling partners, providing, and also implementing platform solutions. Upon joining Red Hat, he took on the role of a Channels Solutions Architect, where he is able to work with the broader team to help partners grow their skills and provide enterprise-class solutions to customers.

Wisa Prabowo

Solutions Architect,  Indonesia, Red Hat

Wisa is a Solution Architect with over 10 years experience in system administrator and infrastructure engineer. Wisa has deep experience in mission critical systems in various industries. He has helped customers in Virtualization, Cloud solution and Container platform.

Lew Kok Hui

Specialist Solutions Architect,  Malaysia, Red Hat

Kok Hui Lew is a specialist solutions architect from Red Hat Malaysia, focusing on platform technologies. Lew has been working in IT for 17 years, across Telco and FSI industries and has over 15 years experience in Red Hat Linux and open source projects deployment and integration. With a particular interest in containers and kubernetes.

Mei Yang Chai

Solutions Architect, Malaysia, Red Hat

Mei Yang is a platform Solutions Architect in Red Hat Malaysia. He is responsible to consult and architect IT solutions encompassing services and technologies in focus areas of Red Hat Platform Solution such as Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, Red Hat Virtualization, Red Hat Ansible Automation. 

Ryan Ye

Solutions Architect, Singapore, Red Hat

Ryan is Solutions Architect in Red Hat Singapore focus on telco industry. Over the last 5 years, he has helped customers in Automating and Cloud Native transformation to achieve higher agility and efficiency. 

Stefanus Soehono

Associate Principle Solutions Architect,  Indonesia, Red Hat

Stefanus Soehono supports Red Hat platform business in Indonesia from the technical perspective. As a Solutions Architect, he takes care of Red Hat’s Cloud solution, Virtualization, Container, and Linux infrastructure as a part of the total solution proposed to the customer. He also helps to increase the awareness of enterprise open source.

Darrick Leong

Associate Solutions Architect, Singapore, Red Hat

Darrick Leong is a Solutions Architect at Red Hat. He works with enterprise customers as well as Partners & Alliances to adopt various cloud native platform technology through engagements or enablements, to support their digital transformation initiative.

Anirban Mukherjee

Director, Strategic Business Development, Asia Growth Emerging Markets, Red Hat

Anirban Mukherjee is Red Hat’ Director for Development Director for Cloud. In this role, he works with customers, partners, and members of the open-source community to facilitate the adoption of Red Hat Cloud technologies. His focus is to help companies harnessing the potential of technologies to build practices that expedite the execution of their business strategies towards the development of digital capabilities. His work involves working with key customers embarking on transformation projects in order to drive agility and operational efficiencies within their IT organization.

Michael Tadault

Chief Technologist (Telco), APAC Office of Technology

Michael Tadault is Chief Technologist Telco in Red Hat’s APAC Office of Technology. He helps telco service providers become more agile, innovative and efficient by adopting technologies like cloud native development, containers, virtualization and the open hybrid cloud, as well as changing their processes and culture to make the best use of these technologies.
Before joining Red Hat Michael spent more than 20 years in the telco industry holding key positions in project management, product management, system integration, presales, and solution architecture across numerous technical domains like fixed/mobile access, transport, core, and OSS/BSS. While working for Alcatel-Lucent he joined the internal startup that pioneered the telco cloud which eventually became known as Network Function Virtualization (NFV). He contributed to the adoption of telco cloud by several leading service providers. Prior to joining Red Hat, Michael worked for Netcracker, a leading OSS/BSS provider, where he focused on NFV, end-to-end orchestration, and digital transformation.
Michael holds Masters Degrees in Engineering from École Polytechnique and Télécom Paris.

Daniel Ng

Head, IT Transformation Portfolio, ServiceNow

With experience in broad areas of IT Operations Management, IT Asset Management, IT Business Management, Automation, DevOps & Agile Solutions, Daniel Ng is responsible for leading and building the IT Transformation business across Asia. Prior to ServiceNow, Daniel leads the APJ SAP transformation sales at a german company, SNP. He had also spent years in technology enterprises like Computer Associates, Oracle, Dell, HP and even a technology start-up in various leadership capacity.

Abhishek Gupta

Advisory Solution Consultant, ServiceNow

I make the world of work, work better for people. I have been with the IT industry for more than 10 years working on the ServiceNow platform as an engineer and leader, currently helping our customers for driving digital transformation around IT Service, Operations and Asset management