As AI agents, cyber risk and infrastructure demand accelerate, IT leaders must move beyond experimentation and build the visibility, agility and resilience needed to operate at AI speed. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, we dive into the key lessons learned at Cisco Live 2026 and how enterprise business and technology leaders should think about them moving forward.

At Cisco Live 2025, the networking giant rolled out a sweeping agenda to make AI not just powerful, but practical — and secure. In this episode, we caught up with leaders from Cisco, NVIDIA and WWT to talk about what this year's announcements actually mean for enterprise teams tasked with building scalable, secure, AI-ready infrastructure. From the rise of the Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA to the reality of agentic workflows and persistent inference traffic, this episode unpacks the architectural shifts reshaping the modern data center.

Explore how AI is transforming cybersecurity, the risks posed by advanced models like Mythos, and actionable strategies for building resilience against emerging threats.

Watch an exclusive webinar where we  Go Beyond the headlines of Cisco Live 2025. We'll unpack the biggest announcements across Cisco's key focus areas —Security, Networking, and AI.

At Cisco Live 2025 Christine Fierro, Sr. Director of Networking at WWT sat down with Annie Shain, Sr. Director, Global Networking Partner Sales at Cisco, to talk about Cisco's latest announcements and how WWT is leveraging these innovations to help customers scale in their business.

Tune in to our Cisco Live podcast and listen to Gigamon's Cloud Evangelist, Stephen Goudreault, and WWT's Global Head of Security Strategy and GTM, Traci Byrne, as they discuss the rapidly evolving threat landscape, WWT's unique capabilities in that area and how lateral visibility is critical to mitigate risks.

Learn how Unified Branch and Branch as Code technologies streamline branch network deployment, drive standardization, embed security from day one, and enable scalable, efficient operations for the modern enterprise.