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title: The Future of IT Automation
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## Wed, April 29, 8:00 AM - 11:30 AM | RBC Convention Centre - Room MR15

##### Join Horizon and IBM for a focused session on strengthening security, improving visibility, and scaling IT operations through automation.

### Agenda

- 8:00 AM - Welcome Breakfast & Context Setting:
  
    - Overview of session objectives and discussion themes for CIO and IT leaders over breakfast.
- 8:30 -AM Identity Access Management and Threat Detection (IAM / Verify):
  
    - Demonstration of IBM Verify and Verify Identity Protection (VIP), highlighting identity observability, anomalous behavior detection, credential-based threat investigation, and secure, frictionless access across hybrid environments.
- Break: 9:00-9:15 AM
- 9:15 AM - Network Observability & Resilience (SevOne):
  
    - How SevOne delivers end-to-end visibility into network and application performance to enable proactive detection, faster root-cause analysis, and resilient digital operations.
- Break: 10-10:15 AM
- 10:15 AM - Infrastructure Automation at Scale (Ansible & Terraform): Policy-driven, repeatable automation across infrastructure, applications, and cloud platforms.
- 11:00 - 11:30AM - Open Discussion, Networking & Q&A: Peer discussion, audience questions, and executive exchange.

 

## Register today!

### Explore the future of IT automation with Horizon and IBM.

### What You'll Learn

- Strengthen identity access and threat detection
- Improve network visibility and performance monitoring
- Automate infrastructure across hybrid environments
- Build a more resilient, scalable IT environments.

### Why Attend

- Practical insights from IBM experts
- Detect threats earlier
- Improve visibility and automate operations

### Who Should Attend

- IT leaders and decision-makers
- Infrastructure and Network
- Admins
- Security and Compliance professionals
- Teams exploring automation and observability

### What You'll Learn

- Strengthen identity access and threat detection
- Improve network visibility and performance monitoring
- Automate infrastructure across hybrid environments
- Build a more resilient, scalable IT environment

### Why Attend

Get practical insights from IBM experts on how to detect threats earlier, improve visibility, and automate operations across your environment.

### Who Should Attend

- IT leaders and decision-makers
- Infrastructure and Network Admins
- Security and Compliance professionals
- Teams exploring automation and observability

### Register today

Explore the future of IT automation with Horizon and IBM.

### What You'll Learn

- Strengthen identity access and threat detection
  
   
- Improve network visibility and performance monitoring
  
   
- Automate infrastructure across hybrid environments
  
   
- Build a more resilient, scalable IT environment

### Why Attend

- Get practical insights from IBM experts
  
   
- Detect threats earlier
  
   
- Improve visibility across your environment
  
   
- Automate operations at scale 

### Who Should Attend

- IT leaders and decision-makers
- Infrastructure and Network Admins
- Security and Compliance professionals
- Teams exploring automation and observability 

## Presenters

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### Valentin Lyashenko 

#### IBM CSE - Identity & Access Management, Infrastructure, Networking Management

Valentin (Val) Lyashenko is a Customer Success Engineer at IBM, specializing in security, identity, and automation. He works with enterprise clients across industries to deliver value through IBM’s Automation and Security solutions.

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### Sri Kasturi

#### Automation Technical Specialist at IBM

Sri Kasturi is a Customer Success Engineer at IBM, specializing in network management and infrastructure automation. He works with organizations across the US and Canada to drive value through IBM’s Automation portfolio.

![Pranjal Patil](https://resources.horizon.ca/hs-fs/hubfs/Pranjal%20Patil.jpg?width=120&height=122&name=Pranjal%20Patil.jpg "Pranjal Patil")

### Pranjal Patil

#### Customer Success Engineer at IBM

Pranjal Patil is a Customer Success Engineer at IBM, specializing in infrastructure automation, security, and network management. He partners with customers to improve efficiency and implement secure, scalable solutions.

 

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