I'm excited to attend Cisco Live! 2026 taking place in Las Vegas! This is a great event that brings the worlds of networking of every scale (enterprise campus, scale up, scale out, scale across, edge and IoT) together with security and trust for the fast-approach epoch of agentic AI and physical AI. In the AI era, Cisco is working on the networking and security fabrics that are essential for safe and enterprise-, industrial-grade, and consumer-responsible AI from chatbots to the frontier of agentic and physical AI. I'll be delving into the following themes in this year's event: 💥 The state of Cisco's enterprise agentic AI and security stack. 💥 What's the latest in Cisco's security foundation and platform strategy? 💥 What's new with Cisco's Secure AI Factory in the era of inference & agents? 💥 Infrastructure modernization and network automation. 💥 Cisco's 5G core modernization accelerators and AI Grid. 💥 The latest in Cisco's Silicon One family and AI data center networking. 💥 Cisco's power solutions and technologies for the AI data center. 💥 What's new with Cisco's edge AI and IoT portfolio and industrial solutions? Follow my coverage on my neXt Curve Substack thread. 💡Follow here! 👉 https://lnkd.in/gN7iTg7P #ciscolive2026 #nextcurve #technology #innovation Forbes Technology Council Questex IEEE Spectrum EDGE AI FOUNDATION Joely Urton Grace Chung Aimee Jen Melissa Pereira Lisa Atherfold Chris Petty Gloria Caughlin Esther Andrews Alison St.Cyr (Parker) Kelly Cordrey Jocelyn Johnston Cynthia Aguas (Leong) Ruth Busbee Kelsi Moles
I can already tell you, this is going to be good. Make sure to tune in. I might even have a chat with Jeetu Patel if I’m lucky.
Secure and safe AI first, Bill Pugh⚡️
Sandy Hawke, Joely Urton says no guitar! 🥺
Wow! Packed schedule! A lot of great sessions and briefings!
Just had a great dinner and conversation with a dear friend and amazing analyst, Ray Mota PhD. It’s all about Jingle Cats!
See you next week
Should I bring my guitar to Vegas?