Cisco Live! Las Vegas 2026

Every year at Cisco Live U.S., I spend time with the people who keep the world running. The IT teams behind hospitals, power grids, banks, airlines, and governments. The operators who get paged at 2 a.m. The security teams racing against adversaries who never take a day off. This year there’s more urgency than ever. The environment we’re operating in has changed faster in the last 18 months than in the previous decade. In that context, agentic AI has massive implications for

A year ago, at Cisco Live, we previewed Cisco AI Canvas, an agentic workspace where IT teams and AI agents investigate and resolve issues across every domain. It was built for teams that need to move from alert to evidence, from evidence to decision, and from decision to resolution faster. During beta testing, AI Canvas was available in Meraki and Splunk. Today, Cisco AI Canvas is moving into Controlled Availability as an integrated part of Cisco Cloud Control rather than in

Every few decades, infrastructure gets a new abstraction. We went from racking hardware to virtualizing it, then from clicking through consoles to writing infrastructure as code. Each shift changed who could build, how fast they could move, and what was possible to defend. The next abstraction isn’t coming. It’s already here. As Jeetu Patel captured, agentic AI is kicking off a networking supercycle — the era of managing critical infrastructure at human scale is over. What co

Never miss a crisis to drive meaningful change, and this summer will be one of those crisis-driven opportunities. The entire industry has been operating on the principle that infrastructure should be carefully tested, validated, rolled out and then changed as little as possible. In a pre-Mythos world, this infrastructure might only have a dozen or so critical vulnerabilities over the course of a year, and it would take months before attackers would start to exploit the vulne