Securing the Agentic Era
Humans click. Agents swarm. As agents work across applications, data, and AI services, they can generate up to 450% more traffic per task—and act at machine speed.
Hear firsthand insights from Cisco leaders, industry analysts, and customers on how SASE is evolving to keep agentic work moving, actions trusted, and infrastructure resilient.
August 11, 2026 | 75 Minutes | Virtual | 3 Sessions
9:30 AM IST / 12:00 PM SGT / 2:00 PM AEST
10 AM GMT
9 AM PT / 12 PM ET
Featured Speaker

Tom Gillis
SVP/GM Infrastructure & Security Group at Cisco
Three conversations. Three priorities for production-ready SASE.
See how to improve agent and user workflow results—and gain the evidence to identify when work is slow, blocked, risky, costly, or failing.
Learn how to know every actor, authorize every action, and adapt to risk in real time across models, tools, applications, APIs, data, and private resources.
Explore how resilient networking and infrastructure keep distributed access trusted, available, upgradeable, and ready for the future.
Meet the voices shaping the conversation
SVP/GM Infrastructure & Security Group at Cisco
Cintas Global Supply Chain
VP of IT and CISO
Chief Analyst
LoneStar Advisory & Research
Peco Foods
IT Infrastructure, Security and Collaboration Manager
CISO Series Podcast Founder and Veteran Tech Journalist
Nexeo Plastics
Vice President, IT
No scripted presentations. No product parade. Just candid perspectives, real-world lessons and proven approaches to help you succeed.
| Session | Discover |
|---|---|
| Welcome: Make Agent Work, Work |
How agentic AI changes network traffic, trust, and the infrastructure every workflow depends on. |
| Podcast Panel | Tom Gillis, Will Townsend, and David Spark discuss what it takes to move AI agents from pilots to production. |
| Through the Leaders' Lens: Work That Performs |
Mario Manzano of Peco Foods shares how his team finds performance drag, pinpoints the cause, and keeps work moving. |
| Through the Leaders' Lens: Trusted Actions |
Rehman Ghuman of Nexeo Plastics explains how identity, risk, and action-level controls help give agents the right access. |
| Through the Leaders' Lens: Resilient Infrastructure |
Jake Lorz of Cintas Global Supply Chain discusses how resilient infrastructure reduces disruption, protects operations, and prepares the business for change. |
| Closing | Three practical actions networking and security leaders can take back to their teams. |
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