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Cisco Live 2026: Opening Keynote: Lead in the Agentic Era

Chuck Robbins · Jeetu Patel · Jun 2, 2026 · 2h 1m · Las Vegas, Nevada

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Summary

Robbins and Patel framed 2026 as the agentic era, where organizations put AI to work alongside people. The keynote covered agentic operations with Cisco Cloud Control, Silicon One networking for AI data centers (the G300 chip and N9300 systems), quantum-safe infrastructure, securing agents with AI Defense and Splunk, and non-human identity.

Key themes: Agents, AI infrastructure, Security · AI-written summary from the published transcript

Where each highlight is said2:00:41
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  1. 10:26

    Agentic operations with Cisco Cloud Control were set up as the day's central theme

  2. 18:48

    Robbins called quantum the next major disruption and said Cisco has invested in it for six or seven years

  3. 58:37

    Networking for AI starts with silicon: Cisco Silicon One was built for this moment

  4. 1:03:55

    The G300 switch chip targets the largest AI clusters, in air- and liquid-cooled systems including the N9300

  5. 1:06:57

    Cisco expanded its partnership with NVIDIA, starting from the Secure AI Factory reference architecture

  6. 1:10:20

    The new infrastructure is designed to be quantum safe

  7. 1:15:30

    AI Defense intercepts models and agents at runtime when they misbehave

Announced

AnnouncedCisco Cloud ControlAgentic operations across domains
AnnouncedSilicon One G300 systemsSwitch chip and systems for AI clusters
AnnouncedQuantum-safe infrastructureNew systems designed to be quantum safe

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About this keynote

Keynote page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUvEyA6KcqQ

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Sources

Photos: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from Washington D.C, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Companies named: Anthropic, Google, Nvidia, Splunk, Cisco

Last changed 2026-09-24.