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.
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…
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…
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,…
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…
