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March 16-19, 2026 | San Jose, CA
Cisco Booth 1421

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Join Cisco at NVIDIA GTC 2026

Join Cisco at NVIDIA GTC 2026, March 16-19 at the San Jose Convention Center and see how we're building secure and simple AI Factories from core to edge. While fragmented infrastructure holds most organizations back, our integrated approach combines security, observability, AI networking, and accelerated compute with validated designs and a robust partner ecosystem—making it easy to operationalize AI quickly and confidently.
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Featured speaking session

From complexity to confidence: Core-to-edge Secure AI Factories with consistent operations

Session S82186 | Monday, March 16 | 5-5:40 p.m. PT | Location: TBC

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
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Featured speaking session

Transforming bottleneck into breakthroughs: Scaling Secure AI Networks for AI Factories

Session S82187 | Wednesday, March 18 | 2-2:40 p.m. PT | Location: TBC 

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

Telco session

Session S82010 | Wednesday, March 18 | 9:00-9:40 a.m. PT | Location TBC

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

Explore our onsite demos

Visit us at booth 1421 to explore Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA—a streamlined solution for deploying secure, scalable AI environments from core to edge.

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Splunk for infrastructure monitoring

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Cisco Unified Edge for AI inferencing

Join Cisco for an exclusive, invitation-only day of events at NVIDIA GTC 2026

On Monday, March 16, register to attend any or all of our events—just across the street from the San Jose Convention Center. Enjoy coffee and networking with Cisco executives, a live-streamed keynote watch party with gourmet bites, and a VIP evening reception featuring food, music, and giveaways.

 
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AI your way, with Cisco and NVIDIA

Get the secure, scalable, and high-performance AI infrastructure you need to accelerate the development, deployment, and management of AI workloads, and achieve the desired business outcomes.

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