Cisco Quantum Summit 2026 - Quantum Data Centers in Support of Machine Learning Outshift by Cisco 2026-09-17 | Cisco Quantum Summit 2026 - Quantum Data Centers in Support of Machine Learning
AGNTCY Agent Directory & OASF in action: Find the right agent for the job Outshift by Cisco 2026-08-20 | Agent and MCP server discovery remains a critical challenge in scaling multi-agent software deployments. How do you find the best agent for the task at hand – reliably, efficiently, and at scale? From automating internal workflows to integrating external AI capabilities, teams need a robust way to discover, compare, and utilize agents and MCP servers based on their actual skills, tools, and requirements.We explore the latest features of AGNTCY Agent Directory and AGNTCY Open Agent Schema Framework (OASF), and how they solve this problem in a standardized, scalable way. Learn about the underlying open source technology, get hands-on with new features—including support for MCP servers and A2A cards—and see how these tools help automate agent and MCP server discovery, selection, and integration. We're also showcasing a real-world demo with CNOE's AI Platform Engineering project, highlighting a multi-agent system that automates toil-laden DevOps tasks. Using AGNTCY Agent Directory, OASF, MCP servers, and A2A, the system optimizes performance and collaboration between agents. In this webinar, you will:🔸Understand the role of OASF in agent discovery and consumption at scale.🔸Learn about the latest enhancements in AGNTCY Agent Directory for managing and integrating agents and MCP servers.🔸See best practices for registering and consuming AI agents and MCP servers in your own environment.🔸Explore our hosted Agent Directory service—a reference implementation with a user-friendly web GUI, provided as a test bed for anyone to try out Agent Directory features right from your browser.🔸Watch a real-world example: how CNOE’s AI Platform Engineering project achieves seamless agent discovery and integration to multi-agent systems.
Beyond Protocols: AGNTCY for Multi-agent Software Outshift by Cisco 2026-08-18 | Imagine the problems that can be solved when AI agents can discover, interact, and work together seamlessly, regardless of how they were built or where they run—this is the promise of multi-agent systems. But today, that vision remains largely unrealized due to critical challenges:🔸Agents can't easily find each other 🔸Agents that are built on different frameworks can't talk to each other 🔸There is no standard way to compose agent workflows 🔸Security, scalability, and observability are afterthoughts, especially for the agent ensembleThat’s why AGNTCY was formed as the open source collective building the foundational technologies and standards for the Internet of Agents: to break down every barrier stopping agents from collaborating as they should to run complex workflows at scale.Join Papi Menon, VP of Product Management at Outshift by Cisco, to dive into AGNTCY’s role providing the building blocks for the Internet of Agents. Menon will walk through how its core components across discovery, identity, messaging and observability integrate with and augment popular protocols like Agent-to-Agent (A2A) and Model Context Protocol (MCP) to enable the full multi-agent software development lifecycle.In this session, we will:🔹Explain why multi-agent software requires a new OSI model, and key requirements of this model.🔹Explore the Internet of Agents architecture and its core components, giving you a clear understanding of its structure and how it enables agent-to-agent collaboration. 🔹Show how AGNTCY components are being built to support all protocols, including MCP and A2A, allowing for seamless integration and collaboration across diverse systems.🔹Discuss real-world examples of multi-agent workflows that are already transforming critical areas like IT operations, security response, and customer support This session is designed for everyone, whether you're just starting or are already deep into development. You'll gain insights and knowledge to navigate and build in this exciting new era of the Internet of Agents.
Solving the Agent Communication Puzzle: Messaging Layers for Agentic Systems Outshift by Cisco 2026-08-14 | As AI systems evolve into more sophisticated multi-agent architectures—think LangGraph, AutoGen, LlamaIndex—the messaging infrastructure, both semantic and transport, becomes critical. This becomes the foundation for all agent-to-agent, agent-to-tool, and agent-to-context communication.Multi-agent systems require complex communication patterns: real-time collaboration, multi-modal streaming, and coordination mechanisms like voting or consensus. As agents begin to share context, memory, and computation, the security stakes rise fast.Explore the role semantic messaging protocols like A2A and MCP play—alongside efficient transport layers—in enabling real multi-agent collaboration.Cisco Principal Engineer John Parello walks through Secure Low-Latency Interactive Messaging (SLIM) from AGNTCY. See how SLIM as a transport and messaging layer fits into the broader agent communication landscape, helping AI systems coordinate to achieve complex goals.In this session, you’ll:🔹Learn why semantic messaging is becoming foundational in multi-agent systems.🔹Understand how transport protocols impact multi-agent collaboration at scale.🔹Unpack the challenges in coordinating agents at scale.🔹Dive into SLIM from AGNTCY and see how efficient session and transport layers help streamline development of multi-agentic systems.
The Agent Discovery Problem Solved: Build Better Multi-Agent Software with AGNTCY Outshift by Cisco 2026-08-12 | When enterprises build AI agents in silos, these systems operate as isolated islands, unable to efficiently discover and collaborate with each other across frameworks and organizations. This fundamental limitation hinders the entire ecosystem, causing agent sprawl and duplication of effort.The AGNTCY collective is breaking down these barriers with open source solutions. Discover Agent Directory, a decentralized "source of truth" that will transform how we discover, share, and integrate AI agents - regardless of who built them or what framework they use.In this technical session, you'll learn:🔹How developers will discover and assess agent capabilities for their workflows in minutes, not days and seamlessly integrate with external agents🔹How enterprises will be able to implement their own internal agent “marketplace” that operates independently of vendor app stores while strategically determining which agents to share with external teams🔹How Agent Directory will provide decentralized infrastructure for discoverable, independent multi-agent software that scales without surrendering control to a central hosting authorityCisco Principal Engineer John Parello shares how the Agent Directory is shaping the future of connecting agents across organizational boundaries. Learn how this foundational layer will enable the open, interoperable Internet of Agents.
Meet the Cisco Universal Quantum Switch Outshift by Cisco 2026-08-06 | This first-of-its-kind switch is the foundational building block needed to scale the quantum internet.
Securing Networks with Quantum Alert Outshift by Cisco 2026-08-05 | Learn how Quantum Alert utilizes entangled photons and the no-cloning theorem to detect eavesdroppers on classical fiber networks, providing a powerful defense against modern cryptographic threats.
Building the Future: The Need for Heterogeneous Quantum Data Centers Outshift by Cisco 2026-08-04 | Discover why a universal switching approach is essential for supporting diverse quantum computing modalities and building flexible, future-proof quantum data centers.
Extending the OSI Stack for AI Agents: Layers 8 and 9 explained Outshift by Cisco 2026-07-30 | The Internet of Cognition is a new open, interoperable layer that lets AI agents do more than exchange messages — it lets them think together. As multi-agent systems scale across different platforms, frameworks, and infrastructure, agents struggle to share context, align on intent, and reach consensus. This video explains how the Internet of Cognition extends the Internet of Agents to enable collective intelligence — agents that understand context, learn from history, and ratchet up their capabilities together at machine speed and scale.Learn about: multi-agent systems, agentic AI, agent interoperability, collective intelligence, and the layer 9 vision beyond the OSI application layer.
Beyond Packets: Comparing Classical and Quantum Networking Architectures Outshift by Cisco 2026-07-24 | Discover how quantum networking shifts from traditional packet-based data transfer to using entanglement and teleportation to move information between nodes.
Scaling agentic intelligence horizontally Outshift by Cisco 2026-07-23 | Vertical scaling only gets you so far. Vijoy Pandey, SVP/GM at Outshift by Cisco, makes the case for both vertical and horizontal scaling in agentic AI systems — and what that architecture actually looks like in practice.
Solving Complex Challenges with Quantum Infrastructure Outshift by Cisco 2026-07-22 | Explore how the Cisco Universal Quantum Switch overcomes critical infrastructure bottlenecks to enable a scalable, room-temperature path toward the future of distributed quantum computing.
The Internet of Cognition: Explained in 60 seconds Outshift by Cisco 2026-07-21 | Today's AI agents can connect, but they can't think together. Connectivity isn't cognition.Vijoy Pandey, SVP & GM of Outshift by Cisco, explains the Internet of Cognition in 60 seconds.#InternetOfCognition #MultiAgentSystems
OSI layers 8 & 9: the key to agent interoperability Outshift by Cisco 2026-07-20 | The OSI model already gave us a framework for network communication. Now layers 8 and 9 are being applied to the Internet of Agents — to solve interoperability at scale. This is how the Internet of Cognition works.
Why supervisor agents alone arent enough Outshift by Cisco 2026-07-16 | Supervisor agents sound like the answer — until you hit the problems they can't solve. Vijoy Pandey, SVP/GM at Outshift by Cisco, explains where the supervisor model breaks down and what architecture actually gets you further.
The agentic brain dump: how it finally becomes possible Outshift by Cisco 2026-07-13 | What if agents could transfer knowledge the way humans do — fluid, in-context, like speaking English? Vijoy Pandey, SVP/GM at Outshift by Cisco, explains what it actually takes to make the agentic brain dump real, and why it matters for what's being built today.
The 6 attributes of superintelligent agent communication Outshift by Cisco 2026-07-09 | Agents that can't communicate clearly can't work together. This roundtable breaks down the six attributes that define how superintelligent agents communicate — and what goes wrong when they misinterpret each other.
Agent superintelligence starts with human intelligence Outshift by Cisco 2026-07-07 | The path to agent superintelligence isn't abstract — it follows a pattern we already know. Vijoy Pandey, SVP/GM at Outshift by Cisco, breaks down how agentic AI is evolving the same way human intelligence does, and what that means for building the Internet of Agents.
Outshift by Cisco - Innovation born from curiosity Outshift by Cisco 2026-07-07 | Innovation is born from curiosity — from the spark of an idea to a world-changing breakthrough.At Outshift, we bring together researchers, strategists, builders. A team of diverse minds pioneering bold solutions for tomorrow's emerging tech challenges.Inventing. Exploring. Shifting — and pushing the boundaries on what's possible.We innovate: Internet of Agents. Superintelligence. Quantum.We don't just adapt to the future — we build it.Tech evolves fast. We evolve faster.We are Outshift by Cisco.
Quantum Secure Networks - BRKETI-2008 Outshift by Cisco 2026-06-29 | Advances in Quantum computing, Quantum networks and error correction capabilities are taking the world closer and faster to Q-Day, when quantum computers can break classical cryptography such as RSA, and Diffie-Hellman. Such quantum threats to cryptography are based on the Shor's and Grover's quantum algorithms and their derivatives and are threatening the very foundations of security not only for networks but also for AI. In this talk, you will learn about the quantum threats, and how to protect your infrastructure from them in an end-to-end manner. We will explore how to make networks quantum safe and secure against these threats using post quantum cryptography (NIST PQC) and other techniques. We will present the systematic approach and framework at Cisco to address the quantum threats in a unified, holistic and adaptive manner. You will learn about the three components of this quantum resistance framework - (1) cryptography observability, (2) post-quantum resiliency, and (3) cryptography agility, and how they help an enterprise achieve quantum secure computing and networks. Join us to learn about how our cutting-edge solutions developed across various groups within Cisco help enterprises develop their cryptography supply chain (CBOM), cryptography dependency graphs, and prepare their networks to migrate to PQC, how to protect sensitive data from harvest-now-decrypt-later and how to govern quantum resistance in an adaptive manner.Speaker: Ashish Kundu, Head of Cybersecurity Research, CiscoEvent: 2026 Las VegasLearning Map: SecurityTechnical Level: IntermediateTechnology: Quantum, SecuritySession Type: BreakoutTrack: Emerging Technologies------Technology doesn't just evolve. It transforms. And that transformative edge is where you’ll find Outshift by Cisco. Outshift pursues emerging frontiers to help Cisco connect and protect the world’s tech, delivering innovative solutions in agentic AI, superintelligence, quantum networking, and beyond. As Outshifters, we blend startup speed with enterprise strength. We feed our curiosity, act with urgency, embrace challenges, and make bold ideas real. From quantum-safe infrastructure to agentic AI-first applications and platform services, we're building the foundation that will shape tomorrow's technology landscape. Keep up with the speed of innovation:→ Learn more: http://cs.co/6050psmui → Read our blog: http://cs.co/9004B16NkE→ Learn more about quantum networking: http://cs.co/9009B16NjzConnect with us on social media:→ LinkedIn: http://cs.co/6052psmuY → Bluesky: http://cs.co/6058F2CsI→ Twitter / X: http://cs.co/6053psmul → Subscribe to our YouTube channel: http://cs.co/6054psmum
Your AI Agents Dont Talk to My AI Agents - Lets Fix That! - BRKETI-1009 Outshift by Cisco 2026-06-29 | Everyone is building AI agents - but almost no one is building the Internet they need to run on. To unlock the full potential of this new digital workforce, organizations are moving from single agents to networks of specialized agents. But fragmentation is becoming the biggest blocker: incompatible frameworks, closed runtimes, and no shared way for agents to discover, trust, and communicate across environments. In this session, Outshift by Cisco introduces the Internet of Agents and the role of AGNTCY.org, a Linux Foundation open-source project building the foundational infrastructure for agent-to-agent collaboration at scale. We'll cover the four core AGNTCY technologies - agent directory, agent identity, SLIM messaging, and observability - and demonstrate practical multi-agent use cases with demo and shared code.Speakers: Sabitha Krishnamurthy, Senior Director, Engineering, Cisco; Mayank Gupta, Engineering Product Manager, Cisco; Papi Menon, VP and CPO, Outshift by Cisco, CiscoEvent: 2026 Las VegasTechnical Level: IntroductoryTechnology: AISession Type: BreakoutTrack: AI, Emerging Technologies
How AI Agents Think: The Architecture Behind Collective Intelligence - BRKETI-1100 Outshift by Cisco 2026-06-29 | What does it take to build AI agents that can think, reason, and collaborate? This session breaks down the core architecture behind agent cognition - shared memory layers, semantic alignment, reasoning protocols, and the knowledge systems that make multi?agent collaboration work. You'll see how agents use dynamic, auditable knowledge systems to create persistent memory, reusable context, and trustworthy decisions. We'll also cover how agents exchange meaning - not just data - to speed up collaboration and reduce rework. Whether you're exploring or deploying multi?agent systems, you'll leave with clear patterns and practical guidance for designing true collective intelligence.Speaker: Papi Menon, VP and CPO, Outshift by Cisco, CiscoEvent: 2026 Las VegasTechnical Level: IntroductoryTechnology: AI, Observability, Emerging TechnologiesSession Type: BreakoutTrack: AI, Emerging Technologies
Ciscos Quantum Networking Vision: Architecting the Infrastructure of the Future - BRKETI-2007 Outshift by Cisco 2026-06-29 | Quantum networking is no longer a distant research concept, it is rapidly emerging as a foundational technology that will reshape enterprise infrastructure. In this session, we outline a clear path toward realizing a practical quantum networking, unlocking new levels of computational scale, resilience, synchornisation and security. We will showcase real-world breakthroughs in building a full-stack quantum network, including Cisco's quantum networking hardware and our quantum software stack. These innovations demonstrate that quantum networking is not merely a physics milestone - it is a systems engineering challenge requiring tight integration of hardware, synchronization, control, and orchestration to operate at scale. Participants will gain insight into how quantum networking can enhance classical infrastructure today - strengthening secure communications, enabling advanced optimization and decision workflows, and preparing data centers to effectively integrate and leverage quantum computing resources. Join us to understand why quantum networking is becoming a strategic imperative, and how collaborations with industry leaders such as IBM are accelerating the path from lab to large-scale deployment. This session will equip you with the perspective needed to position your organization for leadership in the quantum era.Speaker: Reza Nejabati, Head of Quantum Research, CiscoEvent: 2026 Las VegasTechnical Level: IntermediateTechnology: Quantum, Emerging Technologies, Data CenterSession Type: BreakoutTrack: Emerging Technologies, Networking------Technology doesn't just evolve. It transforms. And that transformative edge is where you’ll find Outshift by Cisco. Outshift pursues emerging frontiers to help Cisco connect and protect the world’s tech, delivering innovative solutions in agentic AI, superintelligence, quantum networking, and beyond. As Outshifters, we blend startup speed with enterprise strength. We feed our curiosity, act with urgency, embrace challenges, and make bold ideas real. From quantum-safe infrastructure to agentic AI-first applications and platform services, we're building the foundation that will shape tomorrow's technology landscape. Keep up with the speed of innovation:→ Learn more: http://cs.co/6050psmui → Read our blog: http://cs.co/9004B16NkE→ Learn more about quantum networking: http://cs.co/9009B16NjzConnect with us on social media:→ LinkedIn: http://cs.co/6052psmuY → Bluesky: http://cs.co/6058F2CsI→ Twitter / X: http://cs.co/6053psmul → Subscribe to our YouTube channel: http://cs.co/6054psmum
Agentic AI Standards: An Overview - BRKNWT-2622 Outshift by Cisco 2026-06-29 | Agentic AI is evolving rapidly - and a new set of standards is being created. From formal efforts in organizations like the IETF, TM Forum, and 3GPP to emerging open-source initiatives in the Linux Foundation (AAIF, A2A, AGNTCY, and more), a new ecosystem of specifications is taking shape to define how autonomous AI agents interoperate, communicate, and scale. This session provides a clear, practical overview of the key standardization efforts shaping Agentic AI. The session explores who's doing what, where mandates overlap, and how these initiatives may ultimately fit together. Whether you're building, deploying, or governing AI agents, you'll leave with a structured map of the standards landscape - and a better understanding of where it's headed.Speakers: Suresh Krishnan, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco and Frank Brockners, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco - Distinguished Speaker, Hall of Fame Elite SpeakerEvent: 2026 Las VegasTechnical Level: IntermediateTechnology: AI, AI Canvas, AI DefenseSession Type: BreakoutTrack: AI, Networking
Agentic AI for Networkers - BRKOPS-1327 Outshift by Cisco 2026-06-29 | As Yuval Noah Harari notes, humanity's unique ability to collaborate in large groups is what sets us apart from all other species. Today, generative AI is enabling a similar leap - enabling software to collaborate with software in natural language - similar to humans: Agentic AI. Agentic AI refers to systems composed of multiple AI agents that can autonomously reason, plan, collaborate, and act in pursuit of complex goals, with minimal or no human supervision. This session explores the past, present, and future of agentic AI, with a strong emphasis on practical, demo-driven insights into how these systems support and enhance networking use cases. We begin with a review of current AI assistants in networking, then transition to a deeper dive into how agents can coordinate, reflect, leverage tools, and work together to solve problems. Demos will showcase agentic AI automating workflows, customizing user interactions (e.g., AgenticOps with AI Canvas), and even reasoning across unfamiliar data schemas in cross-domain and cross-organizational troubleshooting scenarios. The session concludes by exploring distributed agentic AI - what some call the Internet of Agents. We'll discuss both the infrastructure and semantic layers: how agents are discovered, connected, secured, and observed using protocols like A2A, MCP, and frameworks like AGNTCY.ORG; and how they simulate human-like cognition through structured reasoning, group memory, goal alignment, and interaction patterns. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of the current landscape of agentic AI, its real-world applications in networking, and where this transformative technology is headed next.Speaker: Frank Brockners, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco - Distinguished Speaker, Hall of Fame Elite SpeakerEvent: 2026 Las VegasTechnical Level: IntroductoryTechnology: AISession Type: BreakoutTrack: AI, Networking
A Quantum Leap in Networking: Ciscos Blueprint for Tomorrows Infrastructure - CENETI-1281 Outshift by Cisco 2026-06-29 | Quantum networking is no longer a distant concept-it's a transformative technology reshaping the future of enterprise infrastructure. This session will explore how quantum networking, a vision we intend to realize in the next five years, can unlock unprecedented computational power and security capabilities. We'll dive into real-world advancements, including Cisco's groundbreaking Quantum Network Entanglement Chip and Network-Aware Quantum Compiler, which are paving the way for scalable, distributed quantum systems. Attendees will learn how quantum networking enhances classical systems today, from secure communications to advanced decision-making, while preparing enterprises for the quantum era. Join us to discover why understanding quantum networking is critical for staying ahead and how our partnerships with quantum leaders like IBM can deliver a strategic advantage. Don't miss this opportunity to understand the advantages and considerations your organization can take to harness the power of distributed quantum computing.Speaker: Ramana Kompella, Cisco Fellow & Head of Cisco Research, CiscoEvent: 2026 Las VegasTechnical Level: GeneralTechnology: Quantum, Emerging TechnologiesSession Type: Center StageTrack: Emerging Technologies------Technology doesn't just evolve. It transforms. And that transformative edge is where you’ll find Outshift by Cisco. Outshift pursues emerging frontiers to help Cisco connect and protect the world’s tech, delivering innovative solutions in agentic AI, superintelligence, quantum networking, and beyond. As Outshifters, we blend startup speed with enterprise strength. We feed our curiosity, act with urgency, embrace challenges, and make bold ideas real. From quantum-safe infrastructure to agentic AI-first applications and platform services, we're building the foundation that will shape tomorrow's technology landscape. Keep up with the speed of innovation:→ Learn more: http://cs.co/6050psmui → Read our blog: http://cs.co/9004B16NkE→ Learn more about quantum networking: http://cs.co/9009B16NjzConnect with us on social media:→ LinkedIn: http://cs.co/6052psmuY → Bluesky: http://cs.co/6058F2CsI→ Twitter / X: http://cs.co/6053psmul → Subscribe to our YouTube channel: http://cs.co/6054psmum
Multi-Agent AI in the Wild: Real Partner Architectures, Real Outcomes - PSOETI-1000 Outshift by Cisco 2026-06-29 | Everyone is talking about AI agents, but who is actually deploying them? Join Outshift by Cisco and our lead ecosystem partners for a deep dive into the "Agentic Reality." We're moving past the POC and into production. In this 30?minute session, we will examine live use cases from the field, including Digital Realty's hybrid-environment orchestration and SoftServe's modular multi-agent video intelligence architecture. You'll learn how to leverage emerging partner playbooks to ensure your agentic workflows are secure, observable, and governed - giving you a clear path to scale your infrastructure and services for the next era of AI.Speaker: Darin Osborne, Director, Business Development, CiscoEvent: 2026 Las VegasTechnical Level: IntroductoryTechnology: AI, Emerging TechnologiesSession Type: Product or Strategy OverviewTrack: AI
Real Multi-Agent AI: What Outshift by Cisco Is Deploying Today - PSOETI-2001 Outshift by Cisco 2026-06-29 | Multi-agent AI is moving beyond ideas and into real business experimentation. Let's examine how Outshift by Cisco is translating multi-agentic AI into practical reference use cases across the ecosystem. You'll see examples like Swisscom's multi?agent change validation workflow that reduces outage risk, Webex?powered multi?agent journeys for complex healthcare scheduling, and emerging cognitive patterns running on popular autonomous agent platforms such as Claude Code. We'll also highlight the core ecosystem capabilities making these deployments viable - discovery, interoperability, identity, observability, and cognition, - and share what these early implementations reveal about where multi-agent systems can deliver measurable value next.Speaker: Tushar Agrawal, Senior Director, Product Management, CiscoEvent: 2026 Las VegasTechnical Level: IntermediateTechnology: AI, Emerging TechnologiesSession Type: Product or Strategy OverviewTrack: AI, Emerging Technologies
Beyond OSI: Rethinking the Stack for Al Agents Outshift by Cisco 2026-06-24 | Roundtable discussion with Vijoy Pandey, Ramana Kompella, and Guillaume De Saint Marc about the current OSI Stack, and its limitations in the agentic AI era.
Securing Multi-Agent Systems with CASA | AI Agent Authorization Outshift by Cisco 2026-06-23 | Are you building autonomous agents? In this video, we explore Continuous Agent Semantic Authorization (CASA), a powerful solution designed to provide intent-scoped AI agent authorization for Multi-Agent Systems.As AI applications become more complex, traditional identity systems fall short. CASA bridges this gap by enforcing security at the network layer, ensuring that agents only perform actions that align with the user's original intent—all without requiring a single line of code change to your agents or MCP servers.In this demo, you will learn:🔹Outshift’s Approach: How we move beyond human-centric identity models to secure dynamic, autonomous AI workflows.🔹Intent-Scoped Authorization: A deep dive into how deterministic and semantic checks work together to block unauthorized tool usage.🔹Architecture Overview: How sidecars and eBPF provide kernel-level visibility and control.🔹Live Demo: See how CASA silently protects a system by blocking malicious tool calls from a compromised agent while allowing legitimate requests to proceed seamlessly.🔹Observability: A walkthrough of the CASA Explorer UI for monitoring tasks, traces, and authorization decisions.Key Features:➡️Intent Validation: Real-time AI-powered checks to ensure tool calls match user requests.➡️Comprehensive Observability: Full traceability for every agent action and authorization decision.➡️Zero-Code Integration: Deploy security without modifying your existing agentic applications.Learn more about CASA: GitHub - outshift-open/CASA: Continuous Agent Semantic Authorization - Intent-scoped authorization for Kubernetes multi-agent systems, enforced at the network layer. #AI #Cybersecurity #MultiAgentSystems #Kubernetes #CASA #TechDemo #CloudNative #AIagentauthorization
OSI 9 Layer Stack Explained Outshift by Cisco 2026-06-23 | The OSI Stack needs 2 more layers for multi-agent systems, here’s why.
Scaling out superintelligence with Vijoy Pandey Outshift by Cisco 2026-06-23 | In deploying today’s multi-agent systems, we’re discovering that agents can connect. They cannot think together. In this video, Vijoy Pandey explains how the Internet of Cognition inspires from human semantic evolution to enable agents to also finally share intent, build shared context, and reason collectively.
Internet of Agents 101: Building the Open Infrastructure for AIs Collaborative Future Outshift by Cisco 2026-06-18 | Today's internet wasn't built for AI agents that need to collaborate, reason, and take action together. As these agents become essential to business operations, scientific discovery, and even physical robotics, they need a new infrastructure foundation to communicate.Enter the Internet of Agents - an open, interoperable collaboration layer enabling AI agents to discover each other, establish trust, and collaborate securely across organizational boundaries.Join Papi Menon, VP of Product Management at Outshift, to understand why now is the time to build the Internet of Agents and how it will transform industries.
ServiceNow and Outshift by Cisco: Distributed Workflow Execution workflow Outshift by Cisco 2026-06-09 | AI agents take on the entire network change verification workflow — quality checks, risk analysis, impact assessment, and full test execution. See how ServiceNow and Cisco ANV agents collaborate to produce CAB‑ready evidence in minutes, not weeks.
ServiceNow and Outshift by Cisco: Governed Federated Discovery Outshift by Cisco 2026-06-09 | This demo shows how ServiceNow and Cisco enable centralized governance and distributed AI autonomy using open, vendor‑neutral standards. Agents discover each other through AGNTCY Directory Service + OASF and execute governed workflows across clouds and orgs. ServiceNow AI Control Tower (AICT) acts as the governance control plane, enforcing enterprise and industry compliance across every AI asset.
Cisco Research Embodied AI Summit Outshift by Cisco 2026-05-21 | Cisco Research's inaugural summit on Embodied AI brought together leading researchers and industry leaders in the field of Embodied AI and related topics to discuss technological challenges, solutions, and use cases.0:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks - Ramana Kompella (Cisco Fellow, Head of Cisco Research)2:49 Fireside Chat - Vijoy Pandey (SVP/GM, Outshift by Cisco) & DJ Sampath (SVP/GM, AI Software and Platform, Cisco) **Session 1 | Chair: Gaowen Liu (Cisco AI Researcher, Cisco Research)** 28:58 Scaling Embodied AI for Urban Logistics - Bolei Zhou (Associate Professor, UCLA) 49:30 Beyond Chatbots with Arms: Rethinking the Development of Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotics - Chris Xiaoxuan Lu (Associate Professor, University College London) 1:10:15 Do we need 3D for robotics? - Shubham Tulsiani (Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University) 1:30:02 Physically-Grounded Perception, Prediction, and Manipulation - Jiajun Wu (Assistant Professor, Stanford University) **Session 2 | Chair: Charles Fleming (Cisco AI Researcher, Cisco Research)** 1:51:30 Physically-Grounded Agentic Upskilling - Jason Corso (Professor, University of Michigan) 2:12:25 The Next Frontier of Embodied AI: Scaling Intelligence in Unstructured Environments - Lirong Xiang (Assistant Professor, Cornell University) 2:33:14 Where are World Models Heading? - Achuta Kadambi (Associate Professor, UCLA) **Session 3 | Chair: Jayanth Srinivasa (Cisco AI Researcher, Cisco Research)** 2:54:04 Seeing The World: A Multimodal, Uncertainty-Aware Approach to Perception for Embodied AI - Upinder Kaur (Assistant Professor, Purdue University) 3:11:56 From Digital AI to Physical AI: The Next Computing Shift - Ashutosh Saxena (Founder & CEO, TorqueAGI) 3:36:17 Panel: Challenges in Embodied AI - Moderator: Ramana Kompella (Cisco Fellow, Head of Cisco Research) - Panelists: - Bolei Zhou (Associate Professor, UCLA) - Upinder Kaur (Assistant Professor, Purdue University) - Achuta Kadambi (Associate Professor, UCLA) - Ashutosh Saxena (Founder & CEO, TorqueAGI)
How the Internet of Cognition enables distributed AI Outshift by Cisco 2026-05-18 | AI agents need more than just a connection to reach their full potential. Papi Menon, VP of PM at Outshift, explains how the Internet of Cognition enables distributed artificial intelligence to coordinate and scale.Catch the full webinar on demand: cs.co/6057BB4xzF
CAIPE Automated Alert Remediation Demo Outshift by Cisco 2026-05-06 | In this video, we demo the potential of CAIPE automatically taking a slack alert, triaging the issue, researching potential solutions, and automatically creating an MR to fix.
Introduction to CAIPE Architecture and Current Features Outshift by Cisco 2026-05-06 | Welcome to an inside look at CAIPE, Outshift’s open‑source framework for building and operating multi‑agent systems in real engineering environments. In this demo, we break down the architecture behind CAIPE’s agent runtime, how agents coordinate across tools and APIs, and the features already powering real‑world platform engineering use cases—from automated runbook execution to cross‑system workflow orchestration.Get Started with CAIPE! 🔗 GitHub: cs.co/6058BBMxSg
Cisco Research Quantum Security & PQC Summit Outshift by Cisco 2026-04-29 | Cisco Research hosted a virtual summit on Quantum security and PQC, bringing together researchers to explore challenges. The summit includes presentations from the Cisco Research team as well as university professors and NIST, including Dustin Moody (NIST), Elisa Bertino (Purdue University), Attila A. Yavuz (University of South Florida), Jaideep Vaidya (Rutgers University) and Cristina Nita-Rotaru (Northeastern University).0:00 Kickoff and Introduction - Dr. Ramana Kompella, Cisco Fellow, Head of Cisco Research 13:30 Software-Defined Cryptographic Agility - Dr. Ashish Kundu, Head of Cybersecurity Research at Cisco Research 33:05 The NIST PQC Standards - Dr. Dustin Moody, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 52:20 Quantum-Resistant Networks: Beyond Cryptographic Substitution - Prof. Elisa Bertino, Purdue University 1:14:41 Deployable, Resilient, and Quantum-Safe Critical National Infrastructures - Assoc. Prof. Attila A. Yavuz, University of South Florida 1:35:25 Trustworthy AI/ML in the Post-Quantum Age - Dr. Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University 1:54:40 Quantum Disruption: How Post-Quantum Attackers Reshape Blockchain Security and Performance - Prof. Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Northeastern University 2:19:50 Panel Discussion and Concluding Remarks------Technology doesn't just evolve. It transforms. And that transformative edge is where you’ll find Outshift by Cisco. Outshift pursues emerging frontiers to help Cisco connect and protect the world’s tech, delivering innovative solutions in agentic AI, superintelligence, quantum networking, and beyond. As Outshifters, we blend startup speed with enterprise strength. We feed our curiosity, act with urgency, embrace challenges, and make bold ideas real. From quantum-safe infrastructure to agentic AI-first applications and platform services, we're building the foundation that will shape tomorrow's technology landscape. Keep up with the speed of innovation:→ Learn more: http://cs.co/6050psmui → Read our blog: http://cs.co/9004B16NkE→ Learn more about quantum networking: http://cs.co/9009B16NjzConnect with us on social media:→ LinkedIn: http://cs.co/6052psmuY → Bluesky: http://cs.co/6058F2CsI→ Twitter / X: http://cs.co/6053psmul → Subscribe to our YouTube channel: http://cs.co/6054psmum
Cisco Universal Quantum Switch explained Outshift by Cisco 2026-04-23 | A first-of-its-kind, patented photonic quantum switch designed to bridge quantum devices from any provider and preserve fragile quantum information while performing entanglement switching.------Technology doesn't just evolve. It transforms. And that transformative edge is where you’ll find Outshift by Cisco. Outshift pursues emerging frontiers to help Cisco connect and protect the world’s tech, delivering innovative solutions in agentic AI, superintelligence, quantum networking, and beyond. As Outshifters, we blend startup speed with enterprise strength. We feed our curiosity, act with urgency, embrace challenges, and make bold ideas real. From quantum-safe infrastructure to agentic AI-first applications and platform services, we're building the foundation that will shape tomorrow's technology landscape. Keep up with the speed of innovation:→ Learn more: http://cs.co/6050psmui → Read our blog: http://cs.co/9004B16NkE→ Learn more about quantum networking: http://cs.co/9009B16NjzConnect with us on social media:→ LinkedIn: http://cs.co/6052psmuY → Bluesky: http://cs.co/6058F2CsI→ Twitter / X: http://cs.co/6053psmul → Subscribe to our YouTube channel: http://cs.co/6054psmum
Unveiling the Cisco Universal Quantum Switch Outshift by Cisco 2026-04-23 | The Cisco Universal Quantum Switch will power data center networks of the future, interconnecting quantum processors that use different modalities. Outshift and Cisco Research leaders Vijoy Pandey, Ramana Kompella, and Reza Nejabati explain how this pioneering technology enables scalable, distributed quantum computing.------Technology doesn't just evolve. It transforms. And that transformative edge is where you’ll find Outshift by Cisco. Outshift pursues emerging frontiers to help Cisco connect and protect the world’s tech, delivering innovative solutions in agentic AI, superintelligence, quantum networking, and beyond. As Outshifters, we blend startup speed with enterprise strength. We feed our curiosity, act with urgency, embrace challenges, and make bold ideas real. From quantum-safe infrastructure to agentic AI-first applications and platform services, we're building the foundation that will shape tomorrow's technology landscape. Keep up with the speed of innovation:→ Learn more: http://cs.co/6050psmui → Read our blog: http://cs.co/9004B16NkE→ Learn more about quantum networking: http://cs.co/9009B16NjzConnect with us on social media:→ LinkedIn: http://cs.co/6052psmuY → Bluesky: http://cs.co/6058F2CsI→ Twitter / X: http://cs.co/6053psmul → Subscribe to our YouTube channel: http://cs.co/6054psmum
Empowering Businesses with Secure, Private and Sovereign AI: A Guide to Deploying LLMs Outshift by Cisco 2026-03-26 | The success of large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude 2, and Google's Bard has indisputably sparked a renaissance in AI utilization across businesses. The ability to harness these powerful technologies is enticing, yet there remain understandable concerns about data security, sovereignty, and accessibility that need addressing. Enter a brave new world where you have control over your AI's data and infrastructure. This session from Cisco Live EMEA 2026 provides a deep dive into deploying LLMs with open-source technologies on cloud-native infrastructure, fostering a ChatGPT-like interactive AI experience that is both private and secure. While the prospect of using and controlling your own LLM is enticing, the path to realizing it isn't without challenges. Join us as we unveil the nitty-gritty of managing your LLM on cloud or on-premise infrastructure. Gain insights into the trade-offs in terms of engineering time, costs, and performance, preparing you to navigate the potential pitfalls and unexpected hurdles. But we won't stop at just helping you deploy your models. This session will explore the steps you can take to safeguard the APIs and software that interact with your LLM services. By the end, you will be equipped with the knowledge to bring more control and privacy back to your users and developers, revolutionizing the way your business leverages AI technology.
Agentic AI Experience for Cisco Security Developers Outshift by Cisco 2026-03-26 | Unlock the power of Agentic AI to accelerate innovation in Cisco Security by integrating with Cisco Security Cloud Control MCP server. This session from Cisco Live EMEA 2026 showcases how security developers can easily discover and consume Security Cloud Control Platform and Product APIs through the Agentic AI Experience, simplifying integration and enabling the rapid creation of AI agents for security automation. Learn how Cisco Security Cloud Control empowers enterprise customers and partners to customize and extend their security applications to meet unique needs including Managed Service Provider (MSP) use-cases.
DevOps Tools Fight for Relevance Outshift by Cisco 2026-03-26 | Two of the most popular DevOps configuration management tools are Ansible and Terraform. If you're just getting started with configuration automation, and are not sure which one would suit best your environment and use cases, then join me in exploring both of these tools. In this Cisco Live EMEA 2026 session, we'll have a look at their features, how to install and run them, and advantages and disadvantages for each of them. And we might just find out also which one would fare better in the struggle for survival.
AI-Powered Scripting with GitHub Copilot Outshift by Cisco 2026-03-26 | The irony of automation is that although there is plenty to be automated, we don't always have time to do it. With GitHub Copilot, you can provide natural language prompts and receive AI code suggestions, answers to questions found in your organization's documentation, and suggested descriptions for pull requests. This session from Cisco Live EMEA 2026 dives into how these features can power your scripting workflow by using AI-powered scripts and Cisco Security APIs as examples.
Cisco Catalyst Center Network Operations Essentials using UI and APIs Outshift by Cisco 2026-03-26 | In this session, will explore the essential workflows for managing your Cisco Catalyst Center infrastructure.We'll focus on the Catalyst Center platform, covering topics such as device onboarding, provisioning, software upgrades, and device configuration.Learn how to configure the Catalyst Center features using the Graphical User Interface, APIs and the DevOps libraries: Python SDK, Ansible, Terraform.We will review also the options to integrate with third party platforms for your runbook environment: Jenkins and GitLab.The session includes demos for Catalyst Center network operations and open-source code.
Embracing DevOps for my NSO Use Cases lifecycle Outshift by Cisco 2026-03-26 | Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) is a powerful platform for network automation and coding of custom services. However, have you ever wondered which version of your services is rock-solid stable, or why something that worked flawlessly in your lab is a mess in production? Or maybe you're scratching your head over why new features are throwing old ones out of whack?This session is your gateway to mastering those challenges. We'll explore how DevOps practices, automated testing and seamless packaging can become your new best friends. Get ready to design pipelines using tools like GitHub, Robot, and the official NSO Docker image, all tuned to supercharge your development and deployment process.Intermediate skills in NSO and Git are recommended.
Post-Quantum Security: Preparing Security Teams for the Cryptographic Transition Outshift by Cisco 2026-03-26 | Quantum computers are expected to break current encryption within 5-15 years, creating urgent security challenges. NIST mandates quantum-resistant systems by 2035, with 112-bit algorithm deprecation by 2030. RSA-2048 cracking time drops from 10 years to one day with quantum computers. Network protocols are adapting: IKEv2 supports quantum-resistant keys via RFC 8784, while ML-KEM, ML-DSA integrate into TLS 1.3, SSH, and IPsec. Cisco's SKIP automates post-quantum key distribution without hardware refresh. Organizations must inventory cryptographic assets, implement crypto-agile architectures, and train teams on lattice mathematics for incident response and compliance readiness.
MCP for DevOps: Unleashing the Power of AI and Model Context Protocol in Dev/Net/SecOps Outshift by Cisco 2026-03-26 | Discover how the open source project, Model Context Protocol (MCP), redefines DevOps, NetOps, and SecOps by seamlessly integrating AI-driven context awareness into modern workflows. In this session, we'll unveil MCP's architecture and demonstrate how it simplifies complex automation challenges while dramatically accelerating workflows for Cisco solutions. Through real-world use cases, including integrations with GitHub, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, and Cisco technologies, you'll see firsthand how MCP empowers teams to enhance efficiency, reduce complexity, and unlock the full potential of their DevOps ecosystems. Join us to learn how to harness MCP to transform your automation strategy and stay ahead in an AI-driven world.
Navigating Compliance to Secure Spatial AI Agents with MCP Outshift by Cisco 2026-03-26 | Many organizations want to harness the potential of spatial artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous agents, but face a maze of "red tape" - from strict compliance policies, to data security and operational restrictions. This session from Cisco Live EMEA 2026 reveals how Model Context Protocols (MCP) transform those barriers into practical guardrails, enabling you to deploy AI agents securely and confidently, even in highly regulated or sensitive environments.🔸Discover how MCP provides a blueprint for defining clear boundaries, enforcing policy, and maintaining auditable control over spatial AI agents🔹Learn how Cisco Spaces, Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), and Cisco SecureX work together to enable compliant, context-aware automation and data protection🔹Explore real-world strategies for overcoming policy and compliance obstacles without sacrificing innovationYou'll leave this session with ideas to help you break through organizational red tape, deploy secure and compliant AI agents in smart spaces, and accelerate responsible AI adoption. The session is ideal for IT leaders, architects, and compliance professionals; no advanced experience required.
