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.
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…
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.
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. In this session, you’ll learn how to move from pilots to production and discover how AI is already being used to build, operate, and secure the infrastructure of the future, security and access control models…
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. John shares hard-earned lessons from eBay’s AI journey, highlighting key decisions, challenges and what ultimately enabled adoption at scale. Real-world use cases will demonstrate measurable impact across operations, support, and business processes. We conclude with some thoughts…
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?…
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…
