AGENDA
AI Networking Summit New York – Fall 2026
Building the Next - Gen Network for Enterprise AI Adoption
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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Learn MoreSpeakers:
Managing Director, CTO, CISO, Distinguished Architect
JPMorgan Chase (retired)
CTO
Codesealer
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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9:00 am
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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10:05 am
AI is reshaping both the opportunities and the attack surface for enterprise networks. Fortinet will explore how security must be built into the network fabric itself, not bolted on after the fact as enterprises adopt AI-driven applications and infrastructure. Expect a practitioner-focused look at converging networking and security to keep pace with AI-scale threats and traffic. Learn More
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10:45 am
We spent the last decade making infrastructure programmable. The next challenge is making it understandable enough to operate itself. More than forty years after the famous quote “the network is the computer,” AI is making that idea impossible to ignore. Before AI agents can safely act across networks, clouds, applications and security domains, they need more than intelligence—they need an accurate, real-time model of how the environment is connected, behaving and changing. This keynote explores why network-centric observability – and the knowledge graph it creates... Learn More
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11:15 am
AI is reshaping enterprise security from both directions at once. Organizations are racing to deploy AI workloads, connect agents to sensitive data, and automate decisions at machine speed. Simultaneously, adversaries are using AI to discover vulnerabilities, craft attacks, and move laterally across networks faster than legacy defenses can respond. Yet some enterprises are scaling AI in production while others remain stuck in pilot. The difference isn’t budget or talent. It’s architecture. In this session, George Moser draws on his experience as a former Fortune 500... Learn More
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11:45 am
1:00 pm
For AI agents handling mission-critical I&O tasks, trust and governance is paramount. That trust is earned by a learning process, reliability, and repeatability. This session will share examples from 100+ production networks of agentic NetOps solving real network problems. See how a learning loop moves operations from reactive diagnosis to programmatic prevention, earning the path toward autonomy. Learn More
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1:20 pm
Seminole Hard Rock Support Services supports non-stop gaming, retail, entertainment, and hospitality, and seventy thousand employees across hundreds of global hotels, casinos, and cafes operating under the Seminole Gaming and Hard Rock International brands. With an over fifty year legacy plus recent rapid expansion, automating networks means dealing with serious legacy footprints, massive greenfield build-outs, and hyper-intense connectivity that has low to no tolerance for down time. In this fireside chat, Franck will share his experience in building automation across one of the most uniquely... Learn More
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1:40 pm
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
Agentic NetOps arrives in three levels, each a larger commitment. Recognize: you can see the activity but not the actor, so operations belonging to one task stay unrelated sessions. Act: knowing, for example, that a firewall pair has drifted isn’t fixing it — that takes version, credentials, known-good state and proven fix steps joined on one device. Assure: the same configuration issue across four hundred devices on a deadline, where a change is verified against declared state before it runs and after. The same thing... Learn More
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2:15 pm
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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2:15 pm
SUB SESSIONS
2:15 pm
AI Networking: From Intent to Intelligent Infrastructure to Rack-Scale – Cisco Triple-T
2:15 pm
When Agents Go Rogue: Network-Enforced Governance for Autonomous AI – Google Cloud Triple-T
2:40 pm
The 3 Imperatives for Trusted Agentic NetOps – Broadcom Triple-T
2:40 pm
Architecture Beats AI Threats: Securing Branches for the AI Era – Zscaler Triple-T
3:30 pm
Encryption Has an Expiration Date. Your Security Strategy Shouldn’t – World Wide Technology Triple-T
2:45 pm
Static security controls break in dynamic environments – and AI-driven infrastructure is the most dynamic environment enterprises have ever operated. This session applies SRE discipline to cybersecurity: treating security controls as SLO-backed services, building continuous validation pipelines that detect control drift before attackers find it, and designing break-glass procedures for when AI-driven automation goes out of bounds. Learn More
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2x CISO, Including Fortune 150 Company
2:45 pm
SUB SESSIONS
3:05 pm
Building an AI-Ready Front-End Fabric: Meeting Enterprise Requirements with Celestica SONiC Plus & DS4150 – Celestica Triple-T
3:25 pm
Rewiring Intelligence: Evolving Your Network Strategy for Driving Success of Your Agentic Enterprise – Tata Communications Triple-T
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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3:30 pm
SUB SESSIONS
3:05 pm
Six Queries, One Agent, No Identity: Making Agentic Traffic Legible – BlueCat Triple-T
4:00 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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4:00 pm
SUB SESSIONS
4:05 pm
Investigation to Delegation: Trusted Autonomous Operations – Droma Triple-T
4:10 pm
How Governance Builds Trust in Agentic NetOps – NetBrain Triple-T
4:20 pm
Agentic Analysis & Remediation of Mythos Network Threats – Gluware Triple-T
4:35 pm
The Agent DMZ: How to Let AI Use Tools Without Giving It the Keys – Cloudflare Triple-T
4:45 pm
SUB SESSIONS
4:50 pm
Beyond the Network: Building a Tiered Fabric for Agentic AI Inference – Marvell Technologies Triple-T
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
Frontier AI models have broken the industry’s release cadence. What used to arrive quarterly now lands monthly — sometimes weekly — as AI systems surface vulnerabilities and generate fixes faster than any enterprise change process was ever designed to absorb. Most organizations are responding by working harder inside a model built for a slower world: longer maintenance windows, bigger patch backlogs, more risk accepted by exception. That path ends in a train wreck. There is another path, and it is not new — it is... Learn More
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9:35 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
Speakers:
CTO and Head of Enterprise Technology Services (Infrastructure)
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Vice President - Global Technology & Cloud Transformation
Evernorth, Health Services
10:20 am
10:35 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. Frontier-class AI ended that arrangement.
Learn MoreSpeakers:
CTO and Head of Enterprise Technology Services (Infrastructure)
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
11:50 am
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12:20 pm
12:30 pm
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1:00 pm
1:30 pm
SUB SESSIONS
1:45 pm
Building the Automation Stack for the AI Era – OpsMill Triple-T
2:15 pm
Architecting the AI Data Foundation: Interconnecting Governed Data Platforms Across Hybrid AI Ecosystems – Equinix Triple-T
1:45 pm
No Shortcuts: Making Agentic Network Operations Reliable Enough to Trust – CodiLime Triple-T
2:00 pm
Which Telecom Workflows Are Actually Agent-Ready? Lightyear Triple-T
2:00 pm
AI Infrastructure Acceleration: Scaling AI in Production – EchoStor Technologies Triple-T
2:15 pm
From Quantum Hype to Quantum Pipeline: Application Intelligence for the Enterprise – Zapata Quantum Triple-T
1:30 pm
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
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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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2:15 pm
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
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2:15 pm
SUB SESSIONS
2:15 pm
AI Networking & Full-stack Optimization for AMD Clusters – DriveNets Triple-T
2:30 pm
The Next Security Layer: Entanglement Networks for the Age of AI and Beyond – Aliro Quantum Triple-T
2:45 pm
2:45 pm
SUB SESSIONS
2:45 pm
What We Can Learn from AI Coding Agents — Raising a Glass-Box AI Agent for NetOps – Net One Triple-T
2:45 pm
The Enterprise ISP Maturity Curve – zLinq Triple-T
zLinq, Inc.
3:00 pm
Defenders Think in Lists. Attackers Think in Graphs – Tufin Triple-T
3:15 pm
The Change Succeeded. Did the Network? Building Confidence in Change Outcomes – REAP Triple-T
2:45 pm
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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2:45 pm
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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3:30 pm
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
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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