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AI Networking Summit New York – Fall 2026
Building the Next - Gen Network for Enterprise AI Adoption
8:00 am
Join our Emcees to hear all about the upcoming keynotes and sessions that will explore how to unleash the power of AI in enterprise infrastructure and applications. Get ready for 2 full days of thought leadership from industry leaders across a wide range of major industries. Learn More
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8:30 am
In May, this community left Dallas with a dare: let go of decades of rigid, human-scale architecture and embrace controlled autonomy — AI agents in the fabric, governed by humans at the boundaries. Six months later, the dare has become a deadline. Petabyte networks are no longer the leading edge — they are the baseline. Agentic AI has moved from awards-stage demos to production credentials with the power to provision, reroute, and break things at machine speed. Post-quantum migration clocks started ticking inside the execution... Learn More
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FedEx operates one of the world’s most complex, real-time logistics and digital networks—moving millions of packages daily while transmitting petabytes of data across its systems. To operate at this scale, FedEx has embedded AI across its business, from its Surround® platform, which uses machine learning to monitor shipments in real time, to predictive analytics that anticipate delays, optimize routes, and proactively manage disruptions.
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9:35 am
As enterprises move from AI pilots to production-scale deployments, the network must evolve to support unprecedented compute and data demands across clouds. In this keynote, Google will share its perspective on architecting networking infrastructure capable of powering AI and agentic workloads at scale ensuring experiences that are fast, reliable, secure and open. From data center fabrics, to hybrid and cross-cloud connectivity, agentic networking, and what enterprise network architects should be planning for now. Learn More
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Behind every AI workload is a network that has to move data faster, more reliably, and more efficiently than ever before. Broadcom will discuss the infrastructure layer, from networking silicon to enterprise networking systems that underpins AI readiness, and what it means for enterprises building networks designed to scale with AI demand rather than react to it. Learn More
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2:15 pm
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Every enterprise now has PQC on the board agenda. What separates the organizations that will meet CNSA 2.0 and emerging regulatory horizons from those that won’t is no longer the mandate – it’s the program. This panel convenes cryptography and PKI leaders running active PQC migrations inside large financial services and healthcare institutions.
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2:45 pm
Traditional enterprise IP networks – designed for small, random, short-lived flows – are structurally incompatible with AI’s traffic patterns: synchronized, long-lived, bandwidth-hungry, and catastrophically sensitive to tail latency. This panel brings together the network architects who have actually redesigned their fabrics for AI, sharing what they changed, what they got wrong first, and what every enterprise network team must address before AI workloads hit production. Learn More
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3:30 pm
Recent reporting suggests that Frontier AI systems are moving from assistive tools to autonomous operators capable of conducting end-to-end offensive cyber operations in hours rather than weeks. By reasoning, planning, and adapting without direct instruction, these systems can discover zero-day vulnerabilities, chain exploits, and compress defenders’ decision cycles beyond the pace of human-led security operations.
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4:00 pm
This session transforms ‘AI-native enterprise fabric’ from whiteboard concept to buildable blueprint. Panelists walk through real BOMs, topology choices, and integration patterns for converging high-performance fabrics, GPU/DPU servers, distributed storage, and closed-loop automation into a reference architecture deployable in 2026 – not 2030. The session addresses the five constraints every infrastructure team actually faces: GPU scarcity, power and cooling limits, heterogeneous silicon management, network fabric choices, and the talent gap. Learn More
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2x CISO, Including Fortune 150 Company
5:30 pm
Unwind with fellow collegues and business partners at The AI Networking Summit Day 1 Reception. Enjoy cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, lively music, and great conversations! Learn More
8:30 am
Join our Emcees to hear all about the upcoming Day 2 keynotes and sessions that will explore how to unleash the power of AI in enterprise infrastructure and applications. Get ready for another full day of thought leadership from industry leaders across a wide range of major industries. Learn More
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9:00 am
The direct, unscripted conversation we have already outlined: the operator who absorbed the storm pressing the company behind Mythos on capability, limits, and what comes next — surviving the Summer of Hell, vulnerability and patch management reborn, AI in the SDLC, M&A diligence at machine scale, where the human gate still holds, and the blueprint every CISO and infrastructure leader can act on. (Actually three abstracts that hit this at different angles.) Learn More
9:50 am
Before this summer, infrastructure operations ran on a philosophy decades in the making: qualify a design, test it rigorously, deploy it — and then change it as little as possible. Availability versus change was a balance every operator knew how to strike. The Summer of Mythos destroyed that balance. When AI systems began surfacing critical, exploitable vulnerabilities across the entire installed base — wave after wave, with more waves coming — the “don’t breathe on it” operating model didn’t bend. It broke. In this executive... Learn More
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10:45 am
For decades, the relationship between technology suppliers and enterprise consumers ran on a simple exchange: customers described what they needed, suppliers built it into the roadmap, and everyone waited. Mythos-class AI ended that arrangement. Enterprise teams can now write virtually any feature, integration, or workflow they need — in days, not quarters. The feature request is dying. What customers cannot write for themselves is the thing underneath: the platform, the telemetry, the supported surfaces, and the trust that what they build will run safely on... Learn More
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Enterprises spent two decades building a data stack for humans and reports. Agentic AI is now reading, querying, writing, and recombining that data at machine speed – and the new data layer that feeds it looks nothing like the one that came before. Vector databases, RAG pipelines, embedding stores, and persistent agent memory have become the live substrate of the business. This panel convenes data, security, and network leaders rebuilding the data layer for agentic load: what the stack actually looks like in production, how... Learn More
2:00 pm
The post-quantum cryptography (PQC) transition is no longer theoretical — it’s a procurement requirement. With the U.S. federal government moving toward mandatory PQC compliance for contractors (expected by 2029–2031) and allies like France already refusing to certify non-PQC-compliant software, large enterprises across financial services, healthcare, insurance, and beyond are being forced to act, whether or not they sell directly to government. This session brings together practitioners who have actually started — or are deep into — their quantum-safe journey to share what the work really... Learn More
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The NOC is being replaced – not by a product, but by an operating model. Agentic Operations Centers (AOCs) combine AI-driven monitoring, autonomous remediation, and human oversight in a new operational structure that can handle the speed, complexity, and volume of AI-era infrastructure incidents. This session addresses the hard operational questions: which Tier-1 and Tier-2 operations are genuinely ready for agent delegation today, how do you train agent supervisors who can oversee closed-loop systems without being buried in noise, and what does human-in-the-loop governance look... Learn More
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Executive Order 14413 and the broader federal post-quantum cryptography mandate signal that PQC is moving from a technical recommendation to a requirement for continued participation in government and increasingly regulated markets. This is not another security-program rollout: it is the forced replacement of a hidden mathematical dependency embedded across operating systems, networks, clouds, applications, identities, devices, certificates, code-signing systems, hardware, software libraries, supply chains, and long-lived data while all those systems remain interconnected and operational. The impact will extend beyond prime contractors through cloud providers,... Learn More
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3:30 pm
Agentic AI doesn’t just run on networks – it increasingly manages them. This session explores the emerging reference architecture for treating AI agents as first-class identities in enterprise networking: how to standardize identity and trust among agents, how agents interact with the underlying network fabric, and how to avoid agent sprawl where competing AI assistants issue conflicting network changes. The panel introduces ONUG’s Agent-to-Agent (A2A) framework and explores what Zero-Trust identity for autonomous agents looks like in practice. Learn More
4:15 pm
The Best in Show awards recognize standout products that are easily deployable in large-scale enterprise IT environments and deliver tangible business value. Leading industry analysts and ONUG Board Members will judge entries and up to four AI Networking Sponsors will be chosen as award winners. The Community Advocate Award recognizes outstanding engagement within the community Learn More
4:30 pm
Wall Steet Rocks will be rockin’ the house at our closing party! Wall Street Rocks is a collaboration of professionals from the financial, technology, and entertainment sectors, united by one mission: to support the men and women who protect our freedoms. This event features talented musicians who work hard by day and rock the stage by night. A perfect way to end the AI Networking Summit. Learn More