In modern IT environments, the speed and scale of operations is simply too much for humans to handle themselves. Enter IT automation. Automation brings the promise of increased speed, cost savings and security, but it can be costly and even risky when done wrong.

In this keynote, get a crash course in automation, including which tasks to automate, common pitfalls to avoid, and best practices for finding the right automation solutions for your business.

Cost savings is a fundamental reason to automate many IT processes. Beyond the obvious financial benefits of reducing labor hours and increasing productivity, automation can also save you money by reducing human errors and preventing costly data breaches. This keynote focuses purely on money: how to save it by automating tasks, and how to spend it wisely when acquiring automation technology.

Automation isn’t out to take your job…or anyone else’s for that matter. It’s also not a tool reserved for the IT elites and other geniuses in our field. Automation is about helping everyone do their jobs more effectively and efficiently by removing the toil and drudgery of monotonous, day-to-day tasks and empowering employees to focus on more challenging and rewarding tasks. It also removes the error-prone nature of repetitive tasks often found in IT.

What’s more, enterprise automation sets its sights higher. It’s about helping the enterprise function in a more orderly and streamlined fashion. Enterprise automation can connect silos and bridge organizations. In the end, automation benefits dummies to geniuses, entry-levels to old pros, admins to architects, and everyone in between.

In this talk, we’ll focus on how a strategy and culture of enterprise automation supported with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform can lead to faster, more reliable outcomes in IT while fostering greater employee satisfaction and cross-team collaboration.

IT Leaders are balancing competing priorities of operations, employee/customer experience, and digital solutions delivery. As an enterprise-scale end-to-end automation platform, UiPath provides a critical path towards both, achieving operational excellence and accelerating the digital transformation journey in an organization. In this session, learn how UiPath helps in achieving IT strategies without adding complexity to the existing IT landscape.

IT leaders have embraced automation as not only an integral part of their long-term digital transformation objectives but now also crucial to their current operating strategy. Done right, IT automation can enable agility that drives significant competitive advantages for both IT and the business. Where to get started and where to implement automation will heavily impact the success—or failure—of your IT automation program. Join Marcus Rebelo, IT industry veteran and VP of Sales Engineering and Security at Resolve, to learn how to build and execute an IT automation strategy that delivers the fastest time to value.

• Where and how to start your IT automation planning process
• What automation outcomes matter and how to approach ROI before you even start
• What essential processes to automate first to get the most out of your IT automation investment

IT teams are spinning their wheels working on mundane, repetitive, and very manual tasks.  This is seen everywhere but perhaps most visible is the IT Service Desk and the Integration teams. What can we do to automate everything and everywhere?

Requests for asks like user / group management, onboarding/offboarding, name updates and so on are draining IT resources and budgets… most IT teams (52%) are still doing these tasks manually, while 38% have a patchwork of scripts and APIs – only 10% have leveraged an integration & automation platform.  Why?  Attend this session to see how you can automate the mundane for better service delivery.

• • Reduce the administrative burden of your ITSM platform with an easy to use, codeless solution
  • Enterprise Service for HR, Facilities and other groups needs to be integrated to their tech stacks for automation
  • Where to begin?  Practical automation to reduce resource drain (i.e. onboarding / offboarding)
  • Where else can you automate?  How does iPaaS change ITSM / ESM and other key systems such as HRIS?

EDR solutions are tremendously powerful tools and represent the next generation in endpoint security. Come learn how Automox’s cloud-native IT operations for modern organizations helps realize outcomes over alerts and avoid the dreaded alert fatigue common with highly sensitive EDR tools today. See how Automox combined with an EDR solution can keep all your endpoints configured and secured, anywhere in the world. With Automox + EDR, SecOps teams can have a recognizable impact on company success – and sleep better at night knowing their environment is secure.

In this panel, we talk to IT professionals who have successfully implemented automation in fields like service management, infrastructure, cybersecurity, DevOps and cloud. Learn from their wins and losses so you can set your team up for success on your next automation project.