Cisco at NVIDIA GTC

Thank you for joining us at NVIDIA GTC 2026

Whether you joined a speaking session, explored our demos, or met with us at the booth, we appreciated the opportunity to engage with you at NVIDIA GTC. 

At this year’s event, we shared how Cisco is helping enterprises, neoclouds, sovereign clouds, and service providers navigate the complexities of AI—securely, simply, and at scale.

Explore our resources below or contact sales to discover how Cisco can help you build secure and simple AI factories from core to edge.

NVIDIA GTC Podcast with insights from Cisco

Danny McGinniss, VP of Product Management, Cisco Compute, discusses live at #GTC26 how Cisco helps customers secure, simplify, and scale their AI infrastructure.

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Explore Cisco’s main sessions and view additional sessions featuring our experts at NVIDIA GTC. 

Session S82187

AI networking is at a turning point as performance and security demands surpass traditional infrastructure limits. Cisco and NVIDIA tackle bandwidth, latency, and security challenges head-on with innovations in silicon, systems, software, and optics. Scale fabric architectures to maximize AI workloads, ensuring efficient expansion and secure data in motion. Explore validated architectures that simplify deployment, optimize GPU use, and future-proof AI infrastructure. Chart your path to breakthroughs.

  • Will Eatherton, SVP, Networking Engineering, Cisco

Session S82186

While AI practitioners push rapid innovation, IT teams struggle with fragmented guidance and operational overhead when deploying secure, high-performance AI infrastructure across data center and edge to meet training and inference needs. Discover how prescriptive, validated reference designs such as Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA simplifies deployment and operations of trusted AI infrastructure with the same capabilities and operating model across data center and edge. Get actionable patterns to accelerate deployment and focus on innovation.

  • Kevin Wollenweber, SVP and GM of Data Center and Internet Infrastructure, Cisco

Session S82010

As AI adoption accelerates, isolated AI factories must scale across to a connected, distributed and secure AI grid that can run diverse workloads —from edge AI applications and telco network functions to internal AI services, digital twins, and RAN—while delivering the right performance and efficiency. This session defines what an AI grid is, why it matters, and how to build it. The speakers will walk through its reference architecture, from the compute substrate and high-performance networking to an intelligent, workload-aware control plane and orchestration that spans data centers and sites of all sizes. They will show the types of workloads that are ideal for running on an AI grid and share concrete steps telcos can take to implement a secure AI grid, where to start that journey, and how to unlock new revenue and monetization opportunities today. 

  • Masum Mir, SVP and GM, Provider Mobility, Cisco
  • Sree Sankar, Global Head, AI-Grid, NVIDIA

Presented by Mistral AI featuring Cisco Session 82074

Enterprises need AI that builds on their unique expertise and strengthens their competitive edge. In this session, Mistral reveals how AI's open-source leadership-paired with a full-stack AI approach-delivers unmatched customization, efficiency, and control. We'll reveal new models, products and platforms from Mistral AI that help to unlock the ROI of AI in the enterprise.

  • Bhaskar Jayakrishnan, SVP Engineering, Customer Experience, Cisco

Session S82391 

The era of agentic AI is upon us. Generative AI and agentic architectures are no longer novelties—they’re rapidly becoming core infrastructure in leading enterprises. In this panel, moderated by NVIDIA’s vice president of enterprise AI, leading chief AI officers, CIOs, and AI platform leaders from NVIDIA, customers will share candid perspectives on building, scaling, and governing AI platforms and agentic systems in real-world settings. They will discuss how to move beyond pilot projects to large-scale adoption, manage infrastructure and inference pipelines, integrate agents into business workflows, and maintain trust, transparency, and resilience. Join us to hear from those who are navigating the challenges of enterprise AI transformation at scale.

  • Srini Namineni, SVP and Chief Automation Officer, Cisco
  • Rama Akkiraju, VP, AI for IT, NVIDIA
  • Deepak Agarwal, Chief AI Officer, LinkedIn
  • Ed Chi, VP of Research, Google DeepMind

NVIDIA GTC 2026 news and announcements

Cisco unveiled multiple product announcements at NVIDIA GTC, emphasizing our ongoing commitment to simplifying AI from core to edge. Explore the latest innovations and news below.

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