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Ansible is the simplest way to automate IT. Ansible is the simple, yet powerful IT automation engine that thousands of companies are using to drive complexity out of their environments and accelerate DevOps initiatives.
What is Ansible Automates?
Ansible Automates is a full-day, one-track conference that takes the best Ansible content and presents it to regional audiences around the world. Ansible experts and industry thought leaders will present on trending topics focused around automation.
At this conference, people can learn more about IT automation solutions with Ansible and hearing about the most popular topics for a wide range of use cases.
Attend and learn how automation can impact:
Your team
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Your business
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Why Attend?
Join us at Ansible Automates to learn about all things Ansible + Automation. Hear from top Ansible experts and industry thought leaders about how to improve your team’s effectiveness with Ansible automation. You can expect to hear about trends in IT automation and Ansible best practices.
Who Should Attend?
Ansible Automates is for DevOps engineers, operations engineers, systems engineers, release engineers, system administrators, developers, operations staff, network engineers, security professionals and anyone interested in IT automation.
Ansible Automates is a full-day, one-track conference that takes the best Ansible content and presents it to regional audiences around the world. Ansible experts and industry thought leaders will present on trending topics focused around automation.
At this conference, people can learn more about IT automation solutions with Ansible and hearing about the most popular topics for a wide range of use cases.
Event Details
| Date | : | Wednesday, April 26, 2017 |
| Time | : | 8:30am to 4:30pm (Registration starts at 8:30am) |
| Venue | : | Grand Residence 2, Level 3,
Grand Hyatt Singapore, 10 Scotts Road, Singapore 228211 |
| Enquiries | : | redhat.events@in2ideas.com |
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
| 8:30am - 9:00am | Registration | |
| 9:00am - 9:10am | Welcome | Richard Koh Country Manager, Singapore, Red Hat |
| 9:10am - 9:30am | State of Automation | Kingsley Wood Director, Infrastructure Business Group, Asia Pacific, Red Hat |
| 9:30am - 10:00am | Ansible Product Overview & Roadmap | Timothy Appnel Principal Product Manager, Ansible |
| 10:00am - 10:30am | Ansible & Software Defined Infrastructure | Hariprasad Reddy Technical Sales Specialist, Singapore, Intel |
| 10:30am - 11:00am | Tea Break | |
| 11:00am - 11:20am | Grab's Journey into Systems Automation | Ditesh Gathani Director of Engineering, Grab |
| 11:20am - 12:05pm | Ansible Essentials | Timothy Appnel Principal Product Manager, Ansible |
| 12:05pm - 12:35pm | Extending Ansible | Matt Davis Senior Principal Software Engineer, Ansible Core, Ansible |
| 12:35pm - 1:35pm | Lunch | |
| 1:35pm - 2:05pm | 10 Things I Hate About You: Manage Windows like Linux with Ansible | Matt Davis Senior Principal Software Engineer, Ansible Core, Ansible |
| 2:05pm - 2:50pm | Enterprise Grade Ansible (Tower) | Nicholas Chia Management BU Manager, Asia Pacific, Red Hat |
| 2:50pm - 3:20pm | IT Automation Consulting & Training Offerings | Thomas Low Director, Consulting Services, ASEAN, Red Hat |
| 3:20pm - 3:45pm | Closing & Lucky Draw | Richard Koh Country Manager, Singapore, Red Hat |
| 3:45pm - 4:30pm | Tea Break & Networking |
*Agenda is subject to change.
Session Descriptions
Company update on Ansible’s momentum and key areas of focus. Additionally, trends we’re seeing in the market and our views on how automation needs to impact business and its requirements to scale for success.
Ditesh will cover the journey of Grab into systems automation and how it benefited us in scaling from a small startup into serving millions of users in a short period of time.
Ansible is a Swiss army knife for DevOps, capable of handling many powerful automation tasks with the flexibility to adapt to many environments and workflows. Using real world examples, discover "the essentials" for all Ansible users.
Ansible doesn't do exactly what you want? Learn about the various extension points and plugin capabilities available in Ansible, and when you might want to use them.
Few questions induce fear and hatred into the heart of a Linux admin more than, "Hey, can you manage these Windows servers?" See how Ansible automates away ten Windows pain points simply and securely, with the same tools, language, and philosophy used for Linux hosts. Never log in to a Windows server again!
As you introduce Ansible into your organisation there are additional requirements to make running Ansible ‘Enterprise Grade’. This session is a live demo of some of key use cases for Ansible in the Enterprise. You will get to see Ansible Tower with a specific focus on Application Lifecycle Management.
Ditesh Gathani
Director of Engineering, Grab
 Ditesh Gathani has held several technical management roles over the past 10 years. Prior to becoming the Director of Engineering in Grab, he used to be the Head of Engineering for AirAsia for 5 years.
As an early engineering Grabber, he leads and manages a team of engineers and developers focused on building next generation web and mobile products as well as running the technical operations. Ditesh specializes in large scale web and systems architecture and has a Masters in Computer Science from the University Malaya. |
Hariprasad Reddy
Technical Sales Specialist for Intel, Singapore
 Hariprasad Reddy is a technical sales specialist for Intel in Singapore. Current role in Intel he is responsible to enable SDN / NFV in enterprise and service provider segments. He has held several technical and presales roles over the past 25 years out of which he was Solutions Architect for Cisco in Singapore ten years and prior to that 15 years in Service provider Operations.
As a Solutions Architect he was providing Next Gen Data Centre – Cloud Architectures for high end enterprise customers and service providers. Comprehensive knowledge and experience in designing, testing, implementing and maintaining very large scale service provider and enterprise data center networks. Operational strategies to improve network performance, reduce risk, and accommodate change compliments. He is a Graduate in Electronics and Communications. He is holding industry certifications in the field of networking virtualization and Enterprise Architectures (CCIE, VCP & TOGAF). |
Kingsley Wood
Director, Infrastructure Business Group, Asia Pacific, Red Hat
 Kingsley leads the execution of the Infrastructure Business Group's strategic and go to market plans across Asia Pacific, including the platforms, management, hybrid cloud and storage technologies. He joined Red Hat in March 2015 as Director of Cloud Solutions for the Emerging Products Business Development team. |
Matt Davis
Senior Principal Software Engineer, Ansible Core, Ansible
 Matt is a Senior Principal Software Engineer for Ansible Core, focused on Ansible's Windows support. He has over 20 years experience in software engineering, architecture, and operations at companies large and small. An avid musician, maker, and home hacker, Matt lives with his wife and daughter in Beaverton, Oregon, USA. |
Nicholas Chia
Management BU Manager, Asia Pacific, Red Hat
 Nicholas works for APAC Office of Technology as Product Manager. His role focuses on engaging his audience and inspire them with Ansible capabilities. His passion is in Ansible and getting things done easily with Ansible. He is also a certified Solution Architect (Associate) for Amazon Web Services and believes that leveraging the Hybrid Cloud is the way to go for Enterprises. He has helped "Ansiblize" many customers workflows and requirements across the APAC region. He is most happy when he conducts live demonstration of Ansible Tower and derive satisfaction from developing solutions to solve customer's business challenges. Nicholas regularly host and speaks at Ansible Community Meetups and events around APAC region including GovWare, Cloud Expo Asia, Security Exchange, Ansible Automates etc. |
Richard Koh
Country Manager, Singapore, Red Hat
 Richard has been in the IT software industry for over 15 years at both technical and sales level. Currently, he is the country manager for Singapore at Red Hat. In his current role, he is responsible for the sales and business development activities in the country.
Prior to Red Hat, Richard held key technical and sales management roles in HP Software. He was responsible for building up and managing the technical and sales teams in the Southeast Asia region including Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam and Pakistan. Richard began his career at IBM in the global services team as a consultant with many years of enterprise project implementation experience covering both technical and management roles. |
Timothy Appnel
Principal Product Manager, Ansible
 Timothy Appnel is a Principal Product Manager and "Jack of all trades" at Ansible with over 25 years of corporate IT and start up experience across numerous industries.
Tim is an old-timer in the Ansible community that has been contributing since version v0.5. The synchronize module in Ansible is all his fault. Prior to working for Ansible, Tim was a Development Manager for Electronic Trading Technology at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he used Ansible on the job. |
Presentations
| Title of Presentation | Speaker |
| State of Automation | Kingsley Wood Director, Infrastructure Business Group, Asia Pacific, Red Hat |
| Ansible Product Overview & Roadmap | Timothy Appnel Principal Product Manager, Ansible |
| Ansible & Software Defined Infrastructure | Hariprasad Reddy Technical Sales Specialist, Singapore, Intel |
| Grab's Journey into Systems Automation | Ditesh Gathani Director of Engineering, Grab |
| Ansible Essentials | Timothy Appnel Principal Product Manager, Ansible |
| Extending Ansible | Matt Davis Senior Principal Software Engineer, Ansible Core, Ansible |
| 10 Things I Hate About You: Manage Windows like Linux with Ansible | Matt Davis Senior Principal Software Engineer, Ansible Core, Ansible |
| Enterprise Grade Ansible (Tower) | Nicholas Chia Management BU Manager, Asia Pacific, Red Hat |
| IT Automation Consulting & Training Offerings | Thomas Low Director, Consulting Services, ASEAN, Red Hat |