Cisco at Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™

Monday, 9 November | 1-1:30 p.m.

Deploying agentic AI is a strategic imperative, but in Europe, success requires balancing rapid innovation with strict regulatory alignment. From the EU AI Act to board-level accountability, the challenge is ensuring that every autonomous action remains transparent, auditable, and policy-compliant. 

In this session, we define the operational foundations needed to transition from theoretical AI models to secure, autonomous execution. We explore how unified infrastructure, granular visibility, and fabric-fused security allow you to maintain policy control without sacrificing velocity. Join us for a strategic roadmap on building the resilient, governed architecture required to thrive in a highly regulated landscape.

Tuesday, 10 November | 11:05-11:25 a.m.

Your AI agents can take actions, access data, and spend money you can't see-generating new risk from runaway token spend to unsafe behavior. Is it prompt hacking, data poisoning, or normal operations?

In this session, Splunk shows how Agent Observability unifies evaluation, visibility, tokenomics, and guardrails, so you can score every agent for safety, track cost and ROI by workflow, and block risky actions in real time.

Wednesday, 11 November | 11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

Humans click; agents swarm. A single prompt can trigger a chain of machine-to-machine interactions across APIs, models, SaaS, private applications, and enterprise data. In this facilitated peer discussion, explore how leaders are moving agentic AI into production without creating performance, security, or resilience gaps. Compare approaches to steering agent traffic, governing what agents can access and do—and for how long—and proving work was completed as intended. Discuss where teams turn to when workflows become slow, costly, blocked, or compromised, and how SASE, zero trust, observability, and operating models must evolve to support autonomous work at scale.