The critical infrastructure for the AI era
Like water and power, the network has become essential to how the world works. Now, as we enter the AI era, Cisco is helping customers power workloads anywhere, modernize everywhere people and technology work, and keep the entire organization secure and reliable. Cisco is the critical infrastructure for the AI era.
At AWS re:Invent 2025, visit Cisco and Splunk, a Cisco company, onsite for expert conversations, speaking sessions, and actionable insights.
Speaking sessions
Driving resilience with assurance and visibility from edge to cloud
Thursday, December 4 | 12:00 p.m. PT | The Venetian
In today’s complex digital environments, traditional monitoring leaves critical gaps—especially across third-party, SaaS, and cloud networks. This session shows how the integration of Splunk’s real-time observability with Cisco ThousandEyes’ end-to-end assurance eliminates blind spots and empowers Ops teams to move from reactive to proactive. See how this unified approach accelerates root cause analysis, reduces downtime, and keeps digital experiences resilient—no matter where issues arise.
Jonathan Zarkower
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Cisco
Find clarity among chaos with Cisco Data Fabric
Monday, December 1 | 3:00 p.m. PT | The Venetian
With the Splunk platform as its engine, the Cisco Data Fabric serves as a strategic foundation unifying machine data across your entire digital ecosystem. Discover how our AI-native platform transforms raw telemetry into actionable intelligence, enabling real-time insights across security, networking, and IT operations. Learn about comprehensive data management, federated search, and analytics capabilities, allowing you to access data wherever it resides. See how the Cisco Data Fabric serves as a foundation for building and fueling your next-generation AI models, driving operational excellence and digital resilience. Join us to revolutionize your data strategy.
Seth Brickman
VP of Global Product Management - Platform, Splunk, a Cisco company
Sean Scott
Distinguished Engineer, Splunk, a Cisco company
Connecting context to performance: real-world enterprise observability
Tuesday, December 2 | 2:30 p.m. PT | Location: coming soon
Enterprises today run a complex mix of AWS, multicloud, hybrid environments, distributed offices, and legacy systems. Each creates visibility gaps making it harder to deliver reliable, high-performing digital services. In this session, learn how Splunk and Cisco are working together to simplify observability across the real-world enterprise. We’ll explore how organizations can cut through complexity, connect business context to technical performance, and build holistic visibility that spans infrastructure, applications, networks, and user experience. You’ll hear about recent innovations and get a look at what’s next as we continue to deliver new ways to manage complexity and improve resiliency at scale.
Mike Simon
Senior Staff Developer Evangelist – Observability, Splunk, a Cisco company
In-booth theater
Monday, December 1
Be more resilient and get value faster with Splunk Cloud Platform
4:30—4:50 p.m. PT
Gain insights on how Splunk Cloud Platform customers accelerate time to value by delivering use cases 3X faster and get access to data resilience features up to 12 months sooner than self managed customers. Understanding how deploying Splunk in a SaaS environment leads to peace of mind for compliance and protection of your critical business data 24x7, all while delivering with economies of scale and lower operating costs.
Cisco: Protect your applications Everywhere with Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall
5—5:20 p.m. PT
As enterprise IT environments become increasingly complex with distributed applications, AI technologies, and mobile workforces, traditional security approaches are no longer sufficient. This presentation explores Cisco's Hybrid Mesh Firewall solution—a highly distributed security fabric designed to address modern security challenges across hybrid environments.
Cisco: Connected intelligence: Collaboration at the intersection of people and AI
5:30—5:50 p.m. PT
Discover the latest cutting-edge innovations shaping the AI landscape and transforming how people work and connect. We’ll explore the rise of Agentic AI—where humans and intelligent agents work side by side—redefining both employee and customer experiences with intelligence that acts, adapts, and scales. This is your opportunity to learn, be inspired, and imagine what’s possible when AI becomes a true partner in driving enterprise transformation.
Cisco Data Fabric: From machine data to agentic operations
6—6:20 p.m. PT
Discover the Cisco Data Fabric, the strategic framework transforming machine data into real-time intelligence for the agentic AI era. Learn how this foundation empowers organizations to achieve unparalleled digital resilience and drive innovation.
Tuesday, December 2
Unify, innovate, and future-proof: Unlocking digital resilience with the Splunk platform
10:30—10:50 a.m. PT
Discover how the Splunk Platform, the engine powering the Cisco Data Fabric, provides the essential foundation for the Agentic AI Era. Splunk transforms fragmented telemetry into real-time intelligence, breaking down silos to deliver full-fidelity, cross-domain visibility and cost-optimized insights across any environment, including direct analytics on data stored in Amazon S3 and more!
SQL or SPL? Master both with SPL2: Simplifying data access in Splunk
11—11:20 a.m. PT
Discover SPL2, Splunk's next-generation search and stream language, designed to unify data preparation and analytics across your entire ecosystem. Learn how its intuitive SQL syntax, module editor, and advanced data handling features empower all users to accelerate insights and optimize data management.
From chaos to control: Next-gen data management with Splunk
11:30—11:50 a.m. PT
Explore Splunk's advanced data management capabilities, a cornerstone of the Cisco Data Fabric, empowering full control over data ingestion, transformation, and routing from edge to cloud. Optimize costs and ensure only relevant data fuels your insights and AI workflows.
Cisco: Driving resilience with assurance and visibility from edge to cloud
12—12:20 p.m. PT
In today’s complex digital environments, traditional monitoring leaves critical gaps—especially across third-party, SaaS, and cloud networks. This session shows how the integration of Splunk’s real-time observability with Cisco ThousandEyes’ end-to-end assurance eliminates blind spots and empowers Ops teams to move from reactive to proactive. See how this unified approach accelerates root cause analysis, reduces downtime, and keeps digital experiences resilient—no matter where issues arise.
Amazon Bedrock business visibility with Splunk
12:30—12:50 p.m. PT
If your business is using Amazon Bedrock for anything, then this session is for you! We will explore how you can turn on logging inside of Amazon Bedrock and after deploying a few simple dashboards get you visibility into the usage, cost and business insights on how your Amazon Bedrock is running.
No more silos: Get the full picture with Splunk Federated Search
1—1:20 p.m. PT
Learn how Splunk's Federated Search, a key pillar of the Cisco Data Fabric, allows you to access and correlate data wherever it resides—on-premises, in any cloud, or across diverse data lakes. Gain real-time, unified insights without the cost and complexity of data movement.
Cisco: Transforming IT operations with Cisco AgenticOps and Cisco AI Canvas
1:30—1:50 p.m. PT
Cisco’s AgenticOps and AI Canvas are revolutionizing IT operations by integrating AI-driven automation, network troubleshooting, and security management. AgenticOps leverages intelligent agents to turn real-time telemetry and Cisco expertise into autonomous network actions. Cisco AI Canvas provides a collaborative workspace, enabling NetOps, SecOps, and IT teams to accelerate troubleshooting and decision-making. Powered by Cisco’s Deep Network Model, these solutions deliver advanced network reasoning and actionable insights, empowering organizations to streamline operations and boost efficiency.
Enhanced observability with Splunk for SAP LogServ on AWS - customer case study (Hilcorp)
2—2:20 p.m. PT
SAP LogServ provides visibility into infrastructure/OS/network logs which can now be ingested by Splunk featuring our new Splunk for SAP LogServ Add-On built to work with AWS. Hear from a live customer (Hilcorp) leveraging this new observability solution from Splunk to gain comprehensive insight into SAP log data via AWS complementing the standard SAP monitoring tools provided by SAP. Hear about the 2,000+ predelivered use cases with SAP PowerConnect for Splunk which is fully certified to seamless integrate to RISE with SAP and can be quickly deployed in less than an hour on the SAP tenant.
Promote data with Splunk S3 Promote
2:30—2:50 p.m. PT
Promote data that is stored in a S3 bucket back into Splunk to perform threat hunting and threat detection use cases on the data. The data can be promoted back into an index where the data can be aged out once you have completed your task.
Unlocking agentic AI: Fueling innovation with Splunk's AI-Native Data Foundation on AWS
3—3:20 p.m. PT
The Agentic AI era demands a unified data foundation. Discover how the Splunk platform, a core component of the Cisco Data Fabric, transforms fragmented machine data into actionable intelligence. We'll showcase Splunk's AI-native capabilities, including the AI Assistant, to unify, enrich, and contextualize telemetry. Learn how to accelerate advanced AI workloads, automate operations, and drive proactive decision-making across SecOps, ITOps, and NetOps, ensuring your organization leads in the AI revolution.
Fueling agentic AI: The Splunk machine data lake for Cisco Data Fabric
4—4:20 p.m. PT
Discover how Splunk's Machine Data Lake (MDL), a core pillar of the Intelligent Data Fabric, provides a secure and scalable landing zone for all your machine data. Learn to activate relevant data on-demand to fuel AI innovation and real-time operational intelligence without upfront indexing.
Cisco: Assurance checkup: Monitoring the health of AI agents
4:30—4:50 p.m. PT
As we deploy AI agents for mission-critical operations, infrastructure reliability and performance become paramount. These agents depend on two essential components that must operate reliably: inference providers and MCP servers. When the performance of either degrades, the impact can cascade into significant business disruption, compromised decision-making, and failed automation workflows.
Wednesday, December 3
Cisco: Connected intelligence: Collaboration at the intersection of people and AI
11:30—11:50 a.m. PT
Discover the latest cutting-edge innovations shaping the AI landscape and transforming how people work and connect. We’ll explore the rise of Agentic AI—where humans and intelligent agents work side by side—redefining both employee and customer experiences with intelligence that acts, adapts, and scales. This is your opportunity to learn, be inspired, and imagine what’s possible when AI becomes a true partner in driving enterprise transformation.
Data Federation Made Easy with Splunk
12—12:20 p.m. PT
Not all data is equal. This talk will go through how Splunk's federation capabilities can be used to search your data in Amazon S3 or Amazon Security Lake. We will also go through some best practices and use cases of when and when not to federate your data.
The hidden foundation: How effective data management drives AI system success
12:30—12:50 p.m. PT
Artificial intelligence systems are failing in production not because of algorithmic limitations, but due to fundamental data management failures that remain hidden beneath the surface. While organizations focus extensively on model selection and hyperparameter tuning, they often overlook the critical foundation that determines AI success: robust, reliable data management.
This talk will cover practical approaches for building resilient data foundations using cloud native technologies and principles. The session addresses critical governance frameworks necessary for AI-ready data platforms, examining how organizations can establish sustainable data management practices that support both traditional workloads and AI applications.
Cisco: Driving resilience with assurance and visibility from edge to cloud
1—1:20 p.m. PT
In today’s complex digital environments, traditional monitoring leaves critical gaps—especially across third-party, SaaS, and cloud networks. This session shows how the integration of Splunk’s real-time observability with Cisco ThousandEyes’ end-to-end assurance eliminates blind spots and empowers Ops teams to move from reactive to proactive. See how this unified approach accelerates root cause analysis, reduces downtime, and keeps digital experiences resilient—no matter where issues arise.
Federated Search 2.0
1:30—1:50 p.m. PT
Learn about what is new with Federated Search 2.0.
Cisco Data Fabric: From machine data to agentic operations
2:30—2:50 p.m. PT
Discover the Cisco Data Fabric, the strategic framework transforming machine data into real-time intelligence for the agentic AI era. Learn how this foundation empowers organizations to achieve unparalleled digital resilience and drive innovation.
Cisco: Transforming IT operations with Cisco AgenticOps and Cisco AI Canvas
3—3:20 p.m. PT
Cisco’s AgenticOps and AI Canvas are revolutionizing IT operations by integrating AI-driven automation, network troubleshooting, and security management. AgenticOps leverages intelligent agents to turn real-time telemetry and Cisco expertise into autonomous network actions. Cisco AI Canvas provides a collaborative workspace, enabling NetOps, SecOps, and IT teams to accelerate troubleshooting and decision-making. Powered by Cisco’s Deep Network Model, these solutions deliver advanced network reasoning and actionable insights, empowering organizations to streamline operations and boost efficiency.
Commanding the Cloud: Intelligent infrastructure management with Accenture Continuum Control Plane powered by Splunk
3:30—3:50 p.m. PT
By 2026, hybrid cloud complexity and billions of alerts per second will overwhelm traditional IT operations. See how Accenture’s Continuum Control Plane (CCP), powered by Splunk, transforms infrastructure management with cross-domain agentic AI. In this demo, explore how a unified “Glass” of data fuels intelligent agents in the “Cockpit” to shift from reactive to proactive operations—minimizing errors, automating responses, and unlocking new business value across hybrid environments.
Thursday, December 4
The hidden foundation: How effective data management drives AI system success
10:30—10:50 a.m. PT
Artificial intelligence systems are failing in production not because of algorithmic limitations, but due to fundamental data management failures that remain hidden beneath the surface. While organizations focus extensively on model selection and hyperparameter tuning, they often overlook the critical foundation that determines AI success: robust, reliable data management.
Cisco: Protect your applications everywhere with Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall
11—11:50 a.m. PT
As enterprise IT environments become increasingly complex with distributed applications, AI technologies, and mobile workforces, traditional security approaches are no longer sufficient. This presentation explores Cisco's Hybrid Mesh Firewall solution—a highly distributed security fabric designed to address modern security challenges across hybrid environments.
Don't roll the dice - turn your spend into sustainable growth
12—12:20 p.m. PT
Cloud consumption is no longer a sunk cost — it’s a safe bet and a strategic asset. Learn how to redirect your existing hyperscaler spend into high-value solutions through marketplace acceleration and partner-led growth to fuel long-term business outcomes.
Cisco: Assurance checkup: Monitoring the health of AI agents
1—1:20 p.m. PT
As we deploy AI agents for mission-critical operations, infrastructure reliability and performance become paramount. These agents depend on two essential components that must operate reliably: inference providers and MCP servers. When the performance of either degrades, the impact can cascade into significant business disruption, compromised decision-making, and failed automation workflows.
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