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AI Networking Summit Dallas – Spring 2026

May 12 : Pre-Conference Executive Roundtables and AI Training Workshops
7:30 am

We are currently accepting applications for this Roundtable. If you are a  CIO, CTO, Heads/VPs of Network Infrastructure, Sr Manager, or Director of Network Infrastructure.

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Speakers:
Head Presales and Customer Strategy, Americas
Tata Communications
Co-Founder and Co-Chairman
ONUG
Managing Director, CTO, CISO, Distinguished Architect
JPMorgan Chase (retired)
CTO
Codesealer
8:30 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
Speakers:
Chief Technical Evangelist - NetOps
Broadcom
Editor
Biz-Tech-Insights
VP and Managing Editor
Activate Marketing Services
9:00 am

Enterprise AI is moving from experimentation to production—and infrastructure teams now control whether their companies win or fall behind. We are living in a moment of exponential progress driven by AI, where capabilities accelerate rapidly and traditional planning cycles no longer apply. As agentic systems take on Tier 1 and Tier 2 operations, generative infrastructure designs itself, and governance frameworks mature, a new reality is emerging: AI is driving a workload repatriation wave—as data gravity, IP protection, control, and security concerns force new architectural and operating models.

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Speakers:
Co-Founder and Co-Chairman
ONUG
9:30 am

As enterprise leaders move beyond AI experimentation, the real challenge is turning intelligence into execution at scale. John Feldmeier, CIO & VP Site Engineering at eBay, offers a candid, practitioner-led view of how eBay progressed from early AI exploration to deploying AI-assisted processes that deliver measurable business outcomes.

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Speakers:
CIO
eBay
10:05 am

The rise of AI agents changes everything—from how networks are built to how access and security are enforced. In this keynote, Tom Gillis, Cisco GM for Infrastructure and Security, shares a forward-looking view of the AI-native data center, where networks are designed for machine-to-machine intelligence, autonomous decision-making, and continuous adaptation.

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Speakers:
SVP & GM, Infrastructure & Security Group
Cisco
10:40 am

As AI models continue to scale, both training and inference are growing rapidly in operational importance. Training pushes the limits of compute density and interconnect scale, while inference now dominates production workloads. Together, these forces are reshaping AI system architectures.

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Speakers:
Vice President, Product Management Core Switching Group
Broadcom
11:15 am

The networking industry is undergoing a profound financial and structural reset. With M&A and IPO markets largely stalled, traditional exit paths and liquidity have dried up—just as spending consolidates around a small number of dominant players. NVIDIA has rapidly emerged as one of the largest forces in networking and AI infrastructure, alongside incumbents like Cisco Systems, with as much as 80% of networking investment now concentrated between just two companies—raising critical questions about competition, innovation, and long-term market health. In this candid analyst-led discussion, Woo... Learn More
Speakers:
Senior Hardware Analyst
Bloomberg Intelligence
11:45 am

12:30 pm

Speakers:
Global Director of Public Cloud Architecture and Engineering
Fortinet
12:50 pm

Organizations can’t fully capitalize on the potential of AI—including agentic automation, intent-based operations, and accelerated innovation—if their security is reliant on legacy architectures. In this keynote, Dhawal Sharma, EVP of AI Security at Zscaler, will present a concrete blueprint for both enabling and securing AI applications and infrastructure through a Zero Trust framework. This approach focuses on continuously discovering and managing your AI footprint, ensuring the safe and compliant use of AI applications, and robustly securing the underlying AI infrastructure. Learn More
Speakers:
Executive Vice President, AI Security and Strategic Initiatives
Zscaler
1:10 pm

1:45 pm

ONUG Triple T presentations provide you with a unique opportunity to view Tools, Technologies and Techniques that map to solutions that enable trusted Infrastructure to drive business value in today’s Enterprise. From real-world NetDevOps to automating and securing multi-cloud deployments, you will find answers to your unique requirements and challenges.

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SUB SESSIONS
1:45 pm
From AI Ambition to AI Infrastructure: Your Blueprint to Success for Enterprise Networks – Cisco Triple-T
Sr. Director, Product Management
Cisco
1:45 pm
From Latency to Learning: Adapting Campus Fabrics for LLM Inference via SONiC – Celestica Triple-T
Director Technical Marketing, Platform Solutions
Celestica
2:10 pm
Securing Agentic AI: From Insight to Oversight – Netskope Triple-T
Director of Marketing
Netskope
2:25 pm
AI-Ready Networking: Why Enterprises Are Moving to Network as a Service – Tata Communications Triple-T
Head Presales and Customer Strategy, Americas
Tata Communications
1:45 pm

Enterprise network and security operations centers are sitting on a goldmine of untapped efficiency — not from bleeding-edge autonomous agentic AI, but from mature, battle-tested capabilities already at their fingertips.

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Speakers:
Chief Product Officer
Gluware, Inc.
Senior Director of Network & Critical Infrastructure Engineering
eBay
Vice President of Global Services
NetBrain
Network Design Engineer
Ameriprise Financial Services
Chief Innovation Officer
BigPanda
2:30 pm

Agentic AI overlays promise networks that sense, reason, and act—but the real challenge is treating AI agents as first-class identities in the network. Building on ONUG’s A2A and Agentic Overlay concepts, this session explores how to standardize identity, trust, and messaging among agents, and how those agents interact with the underlying network fabric. Key Questions: – What should an A2A reference architecture look like in a large enterprise (broker vs. mesh, policy dialects, schemas)? – How do we provide Zero-Trust identity and least-privilege capability routing... Learn More
Speakers:
President and Chief Research Officer
Tekonyx
Chief Administrative Officer
DXC
Senior Director of Cloud Security
Evernorth Health Services
Cyber Security Advisor
FedEx
2:30 pm

ONUG Triple T presentations provide you with a unique opportunity to view Tools, Technologies and Techniques that map to solutions that enable trusted Infrastructure to drive business value in today’s Enterprise. From real-world NetDevOps to automating and securing multi-cloud deployments, you will find answers to your unique requirements and challenges.

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SUB SESSIONS
2:30 pm
The AI Stack Is Programmable—Except the Network: Why Deployment Fails & How to Fix It – Connectbase Triple-T
CEO & Founder
Connectbase
2:30 pm
It Is Not Your Fault (But It Is Your Problem): Securing the GenAI Gap – Fortinet Triple-T
US Cloud Engineering Manager
Fortinet
2:50 pm
From NOC to AOC: Architecting the AI-Driven Operations Center – Kentik Triple-T
Director, Enterprise Field Engineering
Kentik
2:50 pm
IBM Network Intelligence: Live AI Detection, Diagnosis, and Remediation – IBM Triple-T
WW Client Engagement Lead – IBM Network Management & Intelligence
IBM
3:05 pm
AI Recommends, Automation Executes: A Practical Framework for GenAI + Deterministic Automation in Network Ops – Network to Code Triple-T
VP of Marketing
Network to Code
3:15 pm

As traffic demands increased, eBay needed to scale network bandwidth without sacrificing cost efficiency or operational predictability. In this session, eBay will discuss how it used open networking and SONiC to move from 100G to 400G, enabling faster upgrades, greater hardware flexibility, and stronger long-term operational control. Attendees will gain practical insight into how standardized, vendor-agnostic networking can help modernize infrastructure while supporting scale, efficiency, and consistent NetOps operations. Learn More
Speakers:
Senior Director of Network & Critical Infrastructure Engineering
eBay
CEO
Aviz
3:15 pm

ONUG Triple T presentations provide you with a unique opportunity to view Tools, Technologies and Techniques that map to solutions that enable trusted Infrastructure to drive business value in today’s Enterprise. From real-world NetDevOps to automating and securing multi-cloud deployments, you will find answers to your unique requirements and challenges.

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SUB SESSIONS
3:15 pm
3 Steps to Reroute Around ISP Trouble, Fast – Zscaler Triple-T
Principal Product Specialist
Zscaler
3:15 pm
Making AI Multitenancy Measurable: A Practical Approach to Job Completion Time SLAs – Keysight Triple-T
Solutions Architect
Keysight
Networking Engineer
NextHop.ai
3:45 pm

As enterprises adopt agentic AI, they face a new class of adversary: autonomous, goal-seeking agents that probe controls, data, and policies at machine speed. Building on ideas like “Digital Darwinism” and adversarial agents competing to optimize infrastructure, this session asks: what happens when attackers weaponize agents—and how do we respond? Key Questions: – How will adversarial agents change red-teaming, penetration testing, and threat modeling? – What defensive patterns are emerging for agent endpoint protection, data controls, and PII sensitivity mitigation? – Where do AI guardrails,... Learn More
Speakers:
Senior Director of Cloud Security
Evernorth Health Services
Cybersecurity Strategy Leader
Accenture
VP and CTO, Security Business Group
Cisco
Director of Marketing
Netskope
3:45 pm

ONUG Triple T presentations provide you with a unique opportunity to view Tools, Technologies and Techniques that map to solutions that enable trusted Infrastructure to drive business value in today’s Enterprise. From real-world NetDevOps to automating and securing multi-cloud deployments, you will find answers to your unique requirements and challenges.

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SUB SESSIONS
3:45 pm
Role-Based AI Agents for the Modern NOC – Grokstream Triple-T
President, COO, & Co-Founder
Grokstream
3:45 pm
Networking for AI Workloads: Making the Network AI-Aware – Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. Triple-T
Director - Product Marketing
Marvell Semiconductor, Inc.
4:00 pm
Why AI Agents Fail Without Operational Memory – BigPanda Triple-T
Chief Innovation Officer
BigPanda
4:00 pm
Simplifying Multi-Cloud Data Transfer – Riverbed Triple-T
Solutions Engineer
Riverbed
4:30 pm

This session explores the growing risk posed by quantum-enabled decryption, referred to as Q-Day, the point at which sufficiently powerful quantum computers could undermine widely used public-key cryptosystems.

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Speakers:
Co-Founder & CTO
Qrypt
Chief Strategy Officer
Quantum Xchange
4:30 pm

ONUG Triple T presentations provide you with a unique opportunity to view Tools, Technologies and Techniques that map to solutions that enable trusted Infrastructure to drive business value in today’s Enterprise. From real-world NetDevOps to automating and securing multi-cloud deployments, you will find answers to your unique requirements and challenges.

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SUB SESSIONS
4:30 pm
You’re Not Behind. You’re Stuck – NetBrain Triple-T
Senior Technical Marketing Manager
NetBrain
4:45 pm
The Edge Is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It – Nile Triple-T
Chief GTM officer
Nile
4:30 pm

eBay operates one of the most advanced enterprise networks built on SONiC and large-scale automation. In this technical deep dive, Rick Casarez provides an inside look at the architecture, design principles, and operational decisions behind eBay’s production SONiC deployment.

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Speakers:
Co-Founder and Co-Chairman
ONUG
Senior Director of Network & Critical Infrastructure Engineering
eBay
5:30 pm

Unwind with fellow collegues and business partners at The AI Networking Summit Day 1 Reception and Best in Show Award ceremony. Enjoy cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, lively music, and great conversations! 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. Hear about breakthrough technologies and innovations in a fun relaxed... 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
Speakers:
Chief Technical Evangelist - NetOps
Broadcom
Editor
Biz-Tech-Insights
VP and Managing Editor
Activate Marketing Services
9:00 am

In this keynote, Michael Milligan, CISO of FedEx Freight, spin-off from FedEx Corporation, shares how FedEx Freight is rapidly scaling AI consumption while implementing the necessary governance, risk, and security guardrails in place from day one and moving forward. Joining Michael will be Corey Allert, Managing Director of Security Engineering and together they will outline how FedEx Freight aligns AI security, data, and infrastructure architectures to accelerate time-to-value without introducing unacceptable risk. The session offers a practical blueprint for enterprises looking to move fast with AI—confidently, responsibly, and at scale.

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Speakers:
CISO
FedEx Freight
Manager - Identity and Access Management
FedEx Freight
9:30 am

AI isn’t failing because of models—it’s failing because enterprise infrastructure and security aren’t ready.

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Speakers:
Deputy CIO/Chief Technology Officer
Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
10:05 am

Large enterprises face a fundamental choice: consume frontier models via APIs or invest in private AI infrastructure to run (and potentially tune) models closer to their data and controls. This panel compares both paths using real-world constraints—security, compliance, latency, reliability, cost, and strategic differentiation—and leaves attendees with a pragmatic way to decide what to rent, what to own, and what to keep hybrid. Learn More
Speakers:
Co-Founder and Co-Chairman
ONUG
SVP & GM, Infrastructure & Security Group
Cisco
CISO
FedEx Freight
10:50 am

ONUG Connect is the industry’s first enterprise-driven, API-first WAN connectivity platform, designed to transform how organizations discover, compare, procure, and manage wide-area network services.

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Speakers:
Managing Director, CTO, CISO, Distinguished Architect
JPMorgan Chase (retired)
CTO
Codesealer
CEO & Founder
Connectbase
11:20 am

As enterprise networks become more critical — and more complex — the limits of traditional network performance monitoring are increasingly exposed. In today’s AI-driven digital environment, networks remain one of the most static and risk-averse layers of infrastructure, even as business demands for agility, resilience, and real-time insight continue to rise. Join IDC’s Mark Leary for a data-driven look at how the bar for network observability has been raised — and what IT leaders and suppliers must do to meet the moment   Learn More
Speakers:
Research Director, Network Analytics & Automation
IDC
11:40 am

Speakers:
Chief Product Officer
Gluware, Inc.
Deputy CIO/Chief Technology Officer
Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
12:00 pm

12:30 pm

Enterprises are deploying agentic AI, but risk controls remain incomplete. Observability tools map which agents exist and how they interact, while gateways filter prompts and responses. Yet neither addresses the core problem: what the agent actually executes inside enterprise systems. The real challenge is controlling and verifying actions in production. In this session, we’ll share real-world examples of monitoring the three W’s of enterprise agent behavior—who accessed a system, what they accessed, and why the action was taken. We’ll demonstrate new technologies that enable precise,... Learn More
Speakers:
Co-founder and CEO
Rein Security
Head of Security Solutions
Rockefeller Capital Management
Board Member, Emeritus
ONUG
12:30 pm

For most organizations, the low-hanging network issues are solved; thresholds, polling, and playbooks handle them. The remainder? Issues that cross domain boundaries, evade static rules, and cannibalize NOC time while defying existing solutions.

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Speakers:
Principal Product Manager, Software Networking Portfolio
IBM
1:00 pm

Agentic AI systems are useless without provable identity, least-privilege authorization, and strong supervision for non-human actors. This session builds directly on board use cases calling for Zero-Trust identity frameworks for agentic AI in Tier-1/Tier-2 operations, extending those concepts into a full enterprise security model. Key Questions: – How do you assign and manage identity, credentials, and posture for agents that can provision, patch, and reconfigure networks, applications, and data pipelines? – What does capability-scoped, time-boxed authorization look like in practice for AI tools and agents?... Learn More
Speakers:
Founder and Principal
AvidThink
Vice President - Global Technology & Cloud Transformation
Evernorth, Health Services
Cyber Security Advisor
FedEx
VP of Product, Identity
Cisco
1:00 pm

ONUG Triple T presentations provide you with a unique opportunity to view Tools, Technologies and Techniques that map to solutions that enable trusted Infrastructure to drive business value in today’s Enterprise. From real-world NetDevOps to automating and securing multi-cloud deployments, you will find answers to your unique requirements and challenges.

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SUB SESSIONS
1:00 pm
From Pilot Purgatory to Production: Agentic NetOps That Actually Scales – Aviz Networks Triple-T
Product Management Director
Aviz Networks
1:00 pm
Reinventing AI Networking for Performance, Openness, and Scale – Upscale AI Triple-T
Vice President of Product Management, Strategy & Marketing
Upscale AI
Director, Product Management
Upscale AI
1:15 pm
Your AI Systems Are Only as Secure as Your Encryption – QuantumXChange Triple-T
Chief Strategy Officer
Quantum Xchange
1:15 pm
Turn Infrastructure Data into a Knowledge Graph to Unlock AIOps – OpsMill Triple-T
CEO
OpsMill
1:15 pm
The Most Important Part of Your AI Cluster Isn’t What You Think – DriveNets Triple-T
Director of AI Networking
DriveNets
1:30 pm
Architecting for Truth, Efficiency & Sustainability in the Agentic Era – DevAI Triple-T
Founding Community & Customer Success Lead
DevAI
1:30 pm
Rethinking the Edge Network: Building the Foundation for AI at the Edge – Highway 9 Triple-T
Founder and CEO
Highway 9 Networks
1:45 pm

This session presents a collaborative approach to building hybrid AI infrastructure that balances public AI services with private model deployment. As AI technology, economics, and governance rapidly evolve in unpredictable ways, the panel will discuss the need for an Enterprise AI Fabric that delivers long-term flexibility and choice.

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Speakers:
Co-Founder and Co-Chairman
ONUG
SVP & GM, Infrastructure & Security Group
Cisco
CTO
Presidio
Vice President - Global Technology & Cloud Transformation
Evernorth, Health Services
1:45 pm

Agentic Networking is the next evolution of cloud and network operations, where intelligent, autonomous agents – powered by LLMs, real-time telemetry, and policy-driven intent – continuously observe, decide, and act across complex, multi-cloud environments. Instead of manually tuning networks or relying solely on static automation, agentic systems interpret high-level business intents (minimize latency for this workload, shift traffic for cost efficiency, isolate anomalies before impact), translate them into actionable network changes, and coordinate with other agents to optimize end-to-end performance.

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Speakers:
President and Chief Research Officer
Tekonyx
Vice President of Product Management, Strategy & Marketing
Upscale AI
WW Client Engagement Lead – IBM Network Management & Intelligence
IBM
2:15 pm

Building on the NYC “From NOC to AOC” concept, this session focuses on operational trust: how to evolve from human-centric operations centers to Agentic Operations Centers (AOCs) where AI agents handle most monitoring and remediation—but humans still own accountability. It ties directly into ONUG’s 2026 focus on agentic operations you can trust, including standard identity, guardrails, and observability. Key Questions: – What work should be fully handed to agents in 2026 (Tier-1, Tier-2 incidents, routine changes), and what must remain human-centric? – How do you... Learn More
Speakers:
Director of Software Engineering, Cloud Networking
Capital One
CEO
OpsMill
President, COO, & Co-Founder
Grokstream
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
DevAI
President
Burns Consulting Services
2:15 pm

This session examines quantum-safe networking as an emerging approach to strengthening security for high-bandwidth connections across large-scale enterprise data center environments. We will define key concepts in quantum-safe networking – including the role of quantum phenomena such as entanglement in supporting secure, tamper-evident communications over fiber infrastructure and hybrid solutions.

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Speakers:
Co-Founder & CTO
Qrypt
2:15 pm

ONUG Triple-T presentations provide you with a unique opportunity to view Tools, Technologies and Techniques that map to solutions that enable trusted Infrastructure to drive business value in today’s Enterprise. From real-world NetDevOps to automating and securing multi-cloud deployments, you will find answers to your unique requirements and challenges.

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SUB SESSIONS
2:15 pm
Secure Multi-Tenancy on AI Networks – Hedgehog Triple-T
CEO and Founder
Hedgehog
2:30 pm
Turn AI Factories into Profit Centers – Aviz SONiC Triple-T
Chief Product Officer
Aviz Networks
3:00 pm

Across the Global 2000, most AI initiatives remain stuck in experimentation and proof-of-concept phases. The reasons are clear: GPU and accelerator costs remain high, hardware obsolescence cycles are accelerating, skilled infrastructure talent is scarce, equipment lead times are unpredictable, and many enterprises lack the power, cooling, and space required to scale AI infrastructure.

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Speakers:
Chief Analyst
451 Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence
CEO and Founder
Hedgehog
Vice President, Product Management Core Switching Group
Broadcom
Senior Director of Product Management
Marvell
Head of Cyber AI Services
Citi
4:00 pm

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