Join us at Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo 2025
At Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo 2025, we invite you to discover why Cisco is the critical infrastructure for the AI era, helping organizations connect, protect, and scale in an AI-driven world. See how we're reimagining the data center and the workplace, ensuring both stay protected and resilient with security integrated into the network and our AI-powered data platform. Additionally, learn how we're reinventing IT operations with agentic AI to optimize network experiences. Visit Cisco at booth 407.
Thought leadership session:
The CIO blueprint for the AI era
Monday, October 20 | 3:45–4:15 p.m. EST
Speaker: Fletcher Previn, SVP and Chief Information Officer, Cisco
The AI era demands a new strategy for CIOs. Organizations must harness AI’s potential or risk falling behind. In this session, Cisco CIO Fletcher Previn shares how IT leaders can leverage AI to drive business value, accelerate digital transformation, and stay secure. Gain insights on overcoming skill gaps, modernizing infrastructure, and meeting challenges in today’s evolving threat landscape.
Additional speaking sessions
Solution provider session: Redefining operations and innovation with agentic AI
Monday, October 20 | 1:45–2:15 p.m. EST
AI is fundamentally changing the dynamics of networking. With explosive growth in traffic, new AI agents, and a complex threat landscape, IT teams are struggling to keep up with today’s performance, security, and operational demands. In this session, learn how AI-driven enterprises are modernizing their network architectures for the AI era, and how Cisco empowers enterprises to harness AI responsibly and at scale.
Speaker: Alex Foster, Director, Product Management, Cisco
Solution provider session: Securing LLMs: Threats, frameworks, and Cisco AI Defense
Tuesday, October 21 | 1:45–2:15 p.m. EST
The evolving AI security landscape is bringing new threats to large language models (LLMs). This session explores key security frameworks and how Cisco enhances visibility and security to help organizations mitigate risks and protect LLM deployments. Hear real scenarios derived from Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) Top 10 for LLM and MITRE Adversarial Threat Landscape for Artificial-Intelligence Systems (ATLAS) research.
Speaker: Keith O'Brien, Distinguished Security Architect, Field CSO, Cisco
Expo session: Simplifying AI complexity—empowering digital resilience with Splunk
Monday, October 20 | 12:05–12:25 p.m. EST
Visibility and performance across distributed architectures and applications are becoming increasingly complex. This session explores how integrating Cisco’s networking, security, and data center solutions with Splunk’s observability platform enables organizations to turn data into actionable insights. Learn how this approach helps IT teams identify and resolve issues faster, improve reliability, and align IT performance with business objectives.
Speaker: Chris Crocco, Director of Technical Interlock for O11y/Assurance, Splunk
The critical infrastructure
for the AI era
We have powered every major technology transformation over the past four decades. Now, we help organizations connect, protect, and thrive in an AI-driven world.
The catalyst for driving an agentic AI revolution
In his fireside chat with CNN's Matt Egan, Cisco's Jeetu Patel explores how autonomous AI agents are shaping the future of business and the leadership mindset needed to navigate this new era.
News and updates
Explore the latest Cisco news and announcements.
Delivering outcomes that matter
AI-ready data centers
Modernize and transform your data centers to power traditional and AI workloads anywhere—with speed, scale, and flexibility.
Future-proofed workplaces
Create agile, resilient workplaces that evolve with employee needs and deliver incredible customer experiences everywhere.
Digital resilience
Keep your organization securely up and running in the face of any disruption—from cyber attacks to outages and technical failures.
Stop by the Splunk food truck
Fuel your day at Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo 2025 with a visit to the Splunk food truck on Wednesday, October 22 from 10:00 a.m-1:00 p.m. and 2:00-5:00 p.m. Enjoy complimentary refreshments, connect with peers, and learn more about how Splunk and Cisco are working together to deliver powerful solutions for digital resilience.
Customer stories
Hear directly from customers about their transformation journeys and how Cisco’s infrastructure enabled their success.
Workday
Workday leveled up its IT game by building five globally connected data centers—boosting network capacity, scalability, and automation with cutting-edge solutions.
BT
BT partnered with Cisco to deliver the UK’s largest workplace transformation, consolidating 300 offices into 30 smart hubs.
United Airlines
United Airlines gains visibility into its complex environment and improves travel experiences with Cisco.
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