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.