Session 1 – From Chaos to Clarity: How the AI Ops Cycle Modernizes IT Operations

1:15 – 2:15 pm

Every enterprise is feeling the strain from accelerating change, rising system complexity, shrinking teams, and relentless demands for uptime and efficiency. Traditional IT operations—rooted in manual effort, noisy alerts, and reactive firefighting—isn’t keeping pace. The organizations gaining an advantage today are the ones that have embraced AI Ops as a continuous practice, not a tool.

In this session, we’ll explore the AI Ops Flywheel, a modern operating model where Operational Data → Visibility → Automation → Outcomes → Assessment power a self‑reinforcing cycle of improvement. You’ll learn how leading teams unlock real gains by reducing toil, correlating telemetry across complex estates, automating routine behaviors, and using outcomes to fuel the next iteration of operational intelligence.

Through real‑world examples and patterns, we’ll break down how organizations modernize each part of the cycle—starting with foundational data readiness and observability, moving through AI-driven insights and automation, and ending with measurable, business-aligned outcomes. We’ll also show how Evolving Solutions supports clients at each stage of the journey with practical, fixed-fee workshops and accelerators – from Operational Data Readiness and Visibility Governance, to Automation Sprints, AI Ops Intelligence Labs, and broader modernization roadmaps. Attendees will leave with a guide to evaluating where they are in the AI Ops maturity cycle, what steps to take next, and how to build momentum toward a truly modern, self-improving operations practice.

If your IT teams are stuck reacting instead of predicting, or if you’re exploring how AI can reshape your operations, this session will show you what’s possible—and how to get started.

  • Rael Rodning, Principal AIOps Architect, Evolving Solutions

 

 

Session 2 – IaC at Scale: Preventing Drift, Enforcing Policy, and Keeping Costs Visible

2:30 – 3:30 pm

Migration to cloud infrastructure entails outsourcing datacenter operations to specialized providers (such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google) to enable the rapid creation and deployment of applications. However, organizations that prioritize only speed and convenience during this transition often encounter three major challenges: inefficiency arising from IT decentralization, where a lack of guidance leads to fragmented, unscalable IT and a productivity plateau; elevated risk due to insufficient embedded security, where the absence of standardized guardrails results in weaker controls and complex management; and increased cloud costs stemming from uncontrolled usage, where the growing infrastructure footprint causes organizations to provision excess resources or lose visibility, leaving unneeded infrastructure deployed.  This discussion will cover how companies tackle these challenges with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and how the strategies they deploy.

  • Bryan Schleisman, Senior Regional Manager Solution Engineering, HashiCorp, an IBM Company

 

 

Session 3 – The Future of Virtualization

3:45 – 4:45 pm

With IT budgets tighten and infrastructure strategies shifting, many organizations are re-evaluating their virtualization environments in search of greater efficiency and cost savings. This session will guide attendees through the current hypervisor landscape and explore strategic transformation options that align with operational and financial goals. From understanding licensing trends to evaluating emerging alternatives and open-source solutions, participants will gain insights into how to modernize their virtualization approach without compromising performance or security. The discussion will also review the future of virtualization, including containerization, cloud-native platforms, and automation, as key enablers of long-term cost optimization and agility.