Cisco recently held its signature Live event in the United States, returning to Las Vegas and featuring over 1,200 sessions, including keynotes, technical demos, and breakouts. Themes related to scaling networking for AI, securing the agentic workforce, and reimagining operations dominated agendas, and I had the opportunity to spend time with company executives, customers, and partners to dive deeper into deployments and business outcomes. The launch payload was massive again this year as Cisco continues to move its solution development at the speed of modern AI. With a continued practice of summarizing my event attendance with three big takeaways – let’s dive in! Maintaining Control Through Chaos This year marks…


