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Cisco at Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™

October 19-22, 2026 | Orlando, Florida

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The critical infrastructure for the AI era.

Agentic AI is the new traffic on your network, the new identity you have to govern, and the new risk your board is asking about, all at once. At the same time, the same frontier AI driving new possibilities is transforming the threat landscape.

Siloed infrastructure wasn’t built for this. Cisco is.

Only Cisco unifies networking, compute, collaboration, security, and observability through a single platform, helping your teams and agents not just keep pace, but stay ahead.

Visit Cisco at Booth 407 during Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo 2026 to see it in action. Explore our activation zone to discover how Cisco can help you scale agentic infrastructure, defend against evolving cyber threats, optimize operations, and strengthen digital resilience.

Thought leadership session

Building the AI enterprise from the inside out with The Kraft Group

Monday, October 19 | 3:45-4:15 p.m. 

Every leader is asking how to transform with AI. Hear from two leaders who are living it: one leading Cisco's largest AI-enabled engineering organization, and the other leading IT for a holding company, operating across sports and entertainment (the New England Patriots), manufacturing, and real estate. Join this session for a candid look at what's working, what's hard, and what every CIO should do next.

  • Anurag Dhingra, SVP/GM, Enterprise Connectivity and Collaboration, Cisco 
  • Michael Israel, CIO, The Kraft Group and Affiliates
Add: Building the AI enterprise

Speaking sessions

Solution provider session

From reactive to resilient: A new operating model for cyber defense

Tuesday, October 20 | 3:45-4:15 p.m.

Frontier AI has compressed the window between vulnerability, discovery, and exploitation. Reactive defense is no longer enough. Modernizing infrastructure is more than a refresh conversation—it's a security, resilience, and business continuity decision.​

In this session, Cisco shares a new operating model for AI-era cyber defense: how to advance infrastructure, modernize aging assets, and elevate security posture to defend at machine speed.​

Rohan Chitradurga

Sr Director, Product Marketing, Network Security, Cisco
Add: From reactive to resilient

Expo session

Do you know the real cost and risk of your AI stack?

Wednesday, October 21 | 10:00–10:20 a.m.

Every Al agent your organization deploys accumulates cost in tokens, infrastructure, and risk—yet most IT leaders cannot confidently attribute that spend to business value. 

This session shows how to turn tokenomics into an executive discipline. Correlate agent behavior, model performance, and infrastructure spend with outcomes like revenue and retention, surfacing risks like latency-driven abandonment, and hallucination-related churn. 

Seth Brickman

Head of Global Product, Splunk Platform
Add: Do you know the real cost?

Solution provider session

Network teams using AgenticOps won't go back—and the numbers show why

Wednesday, October 21 | 11:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

The business case for agentic AI is being made inside enterprise IT operations. Practitioners managing enterprise connectivity champion agentic operations because the results are undeniable: faster remediation, more resolved incidents, and cost reduction at scale.​​ 

In this session, Cisco shares new data on how agentic network operations deliver measurable ROI, and what it means for IT leaders looking to achieve business outcomes with confidence.​ 

Joe Vaccaro

SVP/GM, Network Platform and Assurance, Cisco
Add: Network teams using AgenticOps won't go back

Interact with us

Visit Booth 407

Explore our activation zone to discover how Cisco can help you scale agentic infrastructure, defend against evolving cyber threats, optimize operations, and strengthen digital resilience. Connect with Cisco experts and experience a critical vulnerability response from detection to resolution, powered by Cisco Cloud Control.

Meet one-to-one

Schedule a private session with our experts to discuss your organization’s challenges and where Cisco fits. Reach out to your Cisco sales representative to book a meeting onsite. 

Personalized gift

Your initials, embossed on the spot. Visit a Cisco demo or activation pod to receive a cord holder, do both and you'll also receive a leather catch-all tray. We offer complimentary personalization for both items at our onsite embossing desk.

Innovation in action

Real-world success stories from our customers

See how organizations across every industry are turning technical vision into tangible business impact with Cisco solutions.

The Kraft Group

The Kraft Group, with a family of businesses including the New England Patriots and New England Revolution, ensures seamless operations and winning experiences for fans and broadcast teams on game days, at concerts and more. 

The Kraft Group

Government

To prepare for a cloud-first future, this federal organization migrated their Cisco Secure Firewalls to the latest hardware and software, unlocking greater performance, protection, and operational ease.

Government

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