Underlays on Autopilot, Overlays on Autonomy: Automation for the Agentic AI Era

As networks sprawl across sovereign domains of data centers, clouds, and edge sites, soaring complexity combined with a deepening talent shortfall is driving enterprises to fully automate private underlay build-outs (design, provisioning, verification, and day-2 remediation). At the same time, Agentic AI—distributed, federated swarms of task-driven agents—demands advanced automation and intent-driven orchestration in the overlay to dynamically stitch policy, identity, security, and data paths across public and private domains. In this fast-paced 30-minute panel, practitioners and vendors dissect what “closed-loop” really looks like (telemetry → intent → action → assurance), how to codify underlay patterns as reusable pipelines, and how to expose network capabilities to AI runtimes via APIs and service catalogs. We’ll cover zero-trust guardrails, multi-tenant segmentation, cost/SLA trade-offs, and the org skills shift from CLI to platform engineering—so your network can power autonomous agents without sacrificing reliability or compliance.