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:
Vice President - Solutions Engineering, Customer Success & Alliances
Tata Communications
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
Speakers:
8:20 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
12:30 pm
Cigna has made an all-in commitment to AI — a company-wide bet in which infrastructure and cloud are one component of a far broader strategy. Michael Wheeler, who leads the infrastructure organization behind it, takes the mainstage to walk through how that commitment was framed, how it’s being executed, and what it demands of the people responsible for delivering it. Mike begins where the decision actually begins: with the company’s overall strategy, and how enabling AI follows from it rather than the other way around.... Learn More
Speakers:
Vice President - Global Infrastructure Services - Platforms, Data, and Intelligence
Cigna
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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1:00 pm
As AI agents become part of everyday business operations, organizations need secure connectivity built for the agentic era. In this hands-on workshop, explore how Cisco SASE helps identify slow, blocked, or failing workflows; use identity, device, posture, and risk context to guide least-privilege decisions; and connect secure edge and WAN operations to business continuity. Whether you work in networking, security, infrastructure, or AI, you’ll leave with a SASE reference architecture for improving performance, governing actions, and protecting access for users, devices, applications, and AI-powered workflows. Learn More
Speakers:
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
2:40 pm
Your AI Agents Are Already Talking to Each Other. Who’s Watching? – Netskope 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
Speakers:
2x CISO, Including Fortune 150 Company
2:45 pm
SUB SESSIONS
2:45 pm
Building Networks on Demand: A Practical Blueprint for AI – Lumen Triple-T
3:05 pm
Building an AI-Ready Front-End Fabric: Meeting Enterprise Requirements with Celestica SONiC Plus & DS4150 – Celestica Triple-T
3:05 pm
Beyond Tokens per Second: An SLO-First Blueprint for Agentic AI Benchmarking Across Cloud Providers – Akamai Triple-T
3:10 pm
Programmable Proximity: How Connectivity Shapes Enterprise AI Economics – Connectbase Triple-T
3:25 pm
Rewiring Intelligence: Evolving Your Network Strategy for Driving Success of Your Agentic Enterprise – Tata Communications Triple-T
Vice President - Solutions Engineering, Customer Success & Alliances
Tata Communications
3:25 pm
Why Traditional Observability Doesn’t Scale in the AI Era – Grepr Triple-T
3:00 pm
Join a guided workshop exploring how Isovalent Private Networks connect Kubernetes and virtualized workloads with a Cisco Nexus One data center fabric, how Isovalent Network Bridge helps migrate VMs into Private Networks while preserving IP addresses and connectivity, and how Isovalent can help secure AI/ML workloads on Kubernetes. Through practical exercises, explore network connectivity, workload policies, security visibility, and runtime protection, then share questions and design ideas with peers. The session welcomes learners at all experience levels; basic networking or Kubernetes familiarity is helpful, but... 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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3:30 pm
SUB SESSIONS
3:30 pm
Six Queries, One Agent, No Identity: Making Agentic Traffic Legible – BlueCat Triple-T
3:30 pm
Encryption Has an Expiration Date. Your Security Strategy Shouldn’t – World Wide Technology Triple-T
3:50 pm
Defending Against Hidden Risks of AI Tools in the Workplace – ThreatLocker Triple-T
3:55 pm
Customer Zero: A Private AI Journey – Digital Realty Triple-T
3:30 pm
Agentic AI is increasing the demands on enterprise infrastructure. A single request can trigger multiple model calls, tool interactions, and data retrieval steps, putting greater pressure on front-end network services. Behind those requests, scale-up and scale-out networks help GPUs work together efficiently. The network is no longer a passive layer. It plays a direct role in AI performance, utilization, and cost. This session examines what AI networking optimization requires in practice: programmable DPUs that accelerate infrastructure services, resilient scale-up connectivity within the rack, and intelligent... Learn More
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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
Speakers:
Vice President - Solutions Engineering, Customer Success & Alliances
Tata Communications
4:00 pm
SUB SESSIONS
4:05 pm
Investigation to Delegation: Trusted Autonomous Operations – Droma Triple-T
4:00 pm
Orchestrating AI Inference across Models, Sites & Networks – Arrcus 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
4:30 pm
Beyond the Network: Building a Tiered Fabric for Agentic AI Inference – Marvell Technologies 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
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
Speakers:
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:
Technology Executive, Inventor & Entrepreneur
Formerly Chief Administrative Officer
DXC
CTO and Head of Enterprise Technology Services (Infrastructure)
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Vice President - Global Technology & Cloud Transformation
Evernorth, Health Services
Executive Director, Enterprise Services Infrastructure - Digital Resiliency Services
RTX
10:20 am
10:30 am
In this two-hour community workshop, explore embedded security and distributed policy enforcement with Cisco Nexus Smart Switches. Learn how microsegmentation applies across virtual machines, Kubernetes, and bare-metal workloads, then join a guided lab to build and test a segmentation policy, discover and validate policies, and discuss safe deployment practices. The session welcomes networking, security, and cloud practitioners at all experience levels. You’ll leave with a tested policy and a best practices architecture that you can adapt for your environment. Learn More
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10:35 am
AI is becoming a structural force in the cybersecurity market, reshaping buyer priorities, vendor differentiation, and investment focus. This session will examine the give-and-take of that shift: how AI can create new demand and operating leverage, while also compressing differentiation, accelerating consolidation, and increasing scrutiny around trust, value, and hype. Learn More
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10:55 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
Executive Director, Enterprise Services Infrastructure - Digital Resiliency Services
RTX
11:40 am
For forty years we built networks for one purpose: human-to-human communication. Ask an AI to design a network for what’s actually coming — agents talking to agents, machine-speed flows with traffic patterns no one can fully predict, full-mesh communication returning at a scale telephony never imagined — and it would not build what we built. That gap is now the defining problem of the wide area network. The center of gravity has already shifted: applications moved into the clouds, the WAN’s spokes now point at... Learn More
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12:10 pm
You built what connected the world, and you decided what could reach what. Then the cloud providers made those decisions instead, the security budget went to agents and detection, and the work became a ticket queue. The network did not stop mattering. For fifty years everyone agreed on its three jobs, encrypt data in motion, govern every exit, segment so one compromise stays one, and almost no one did them, because each one done wrong takes production down. That fear is earned, and everyone in... Learn More
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12:30 pm
12:30 pm
Why operations needs a foundation model, not more agents Three times in thirty years this industry has shipped the same idea. Micromuse made it event correlation. Moogsoft made it AIOps — I named that category. This generation wraps a language model around the same telemetry and calls it agentic operations. Every one of them rests on a single assumption: that the job is to reduce machine data until a human can cope with it. That assumption was correct when the consumer was a human. It... Learn More
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1:00 pm
AI is accelerating the path from vulnerability disclosure to exploitation, while enterprises still need time to test and deploy permanent fixes. How can leaders reduce exposure without disrupting critical services? Tom Gillis explores how network infrastructure can help stabilize risk while remediation proceeds. The session examines how Cisco Live Protect mitigates vulnerability exposure while teams prepare permanent fixes, alongside security enforcement in the fabric with Cisco Smart Switches. It also connects post-quantum cryptography to infrastructure decisions made today: protecting sensitive communications and preserving trust in... Learn More
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1:00 pm
Many organizations that adopt a source of truth already run Ansible. Yet, frequently the two rarely interact; inventory lives in a static file, variables live in group_vars, and every job template asks an operator to retype facts the network already knows. This workshop connects the source of truth with the orchestration controller layer.
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1:30 pm
SUB SESSIONS
1:30 pm
Your GPUs Are Ready. Is Your AI Factory? – Aviz Networks Triple-T
1:30 pm
Protecting Your AI Systems from the Quantum Threat – Quantum XChange Triple-T
1:30 pm
Architecting the AI Data Foundation: Interconnecting Governed Data Platforms Across Hybrid AI Ecosystems – Equinix Triple-T
1:45 pm
Building the Automation Stack for the AI Era – OpsMill Triple-T
1:45 pm
No Shortcuts: Making Agentic Network Operations Reliable Enough to Trust – CodiLime Triple-T
1:45 pm
AI Infrastructure Acceleration: Scaling AI in Production – EchoStor Technologies Triple-T
2:00 pm
Which Telecom Workflows Are Actually Agent-Ready? Lightyear 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
Speakers:
Independent AI Cybersecurity Researcher
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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2:00 pm
In this two-hour workshop, explore how to protect and validate modern network infrastructure as AI workloads expand. Learn how Cisco Live Protect provides real-time vulnerability shielding, then join a guided lab on continuous validation and automated remediation. The session also features an end-to-end fabric-to-workload visibility demo, a discussion of infrastructure security, encryption, and quantum readiness, and a peer conversation about customer use cases. Designed for networking and security practitioners at all experience levels, the workshop will leave you with a practical validation and remediation blueprint... 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
Speakers:
2:15 pm
SUB SESSIONS
2:15 pm
The Next Security Layer: Entanglement Networks for the Age of AI and Beyond – Aliro Quantum Triple-T
2:15 pm
Stop Paying for L1 Guesswork: Build an Agentic NOC You Can Actually Trust – BigPanda Triple-T
2:30 pm
AI Networking & Full-stack Optimization for AMD Clusters – DriveNets Triple-T
2:30 pm
You Spent a Lot. But Your Network Edge Is Still Insecure. Now What? – Nile Triple-T
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 Missing Layer in Enterprise AI: Mobile Infrastructure for the Autonomous Edge – Highway 9 Networks Triple-T
3:00 pm
The Enterprise ISP Maturity Curve – zLinq Triple-T
3:00 pm
Don’t Feed the AI Lies: Data Truth Before Automation – DevAI Triple-T
3:15 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
Speakers:
3:30 pm
SUB SESSIONS
3:30 pm
From Network Data to Business Impact: Operationalizing Corvil Insights in AI-Driven Observability – Pico Triple-T
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
Two days of AI. One epic send-off. Join us for live music, networking, and drinks as Wall Street Rocks closes out the Summit in style. Since 2011, Wall Street Rocks has united the finance and tech community to raise millions for military veterans. Join us to celebrate while supporting a great cause. Learn More