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Capturing the benefits of AI is critical. But organizations can’t just focus on technology. It’s equally important to evolve your culture — and use AI not to replace people, but to empower them. Cisco is a leader in AI, both in building the critical infrastructure and security for the AI era and in transforming its own workforce. Along the way, AI is impacting everything from the company’s coding and product design to HR and marketing.

On a drab, wind-swept day in Shinnecock, N.Y., last month, thousands of supercharged fans gathered to see the likes of Viktor Hovland, Maverick McNealy, Cameron Young defy the weather and electrify the 126th U.S. Open Championship. But golf’s biggest stars weren’t the only peak performers at the sport’s premier event.

New research from Cisco and Foundry finds that, three years from now, AI will triple network traffic. In two years, most enterprises will hit campus and branch network capacity limits. And globally, attack surfaces are already expanding beyond what defenses can manage. The report, "No time to wait: The accelerating impact of AI on campus and branch networks" confirms that, alongside compute, the network is now a major factor in whether enterprise AI deployments succeed or fail.

Jeetu Patel, President and Chief Product Officer at Cisco, talks with security leaders Anthony Grieco, SVP and Chief Security & Trust Officer at Cisco, and Drew Hintz, Product Security Lead at OpenAI. Together, they explore how security teams are using AI agents to move at machine speed, strengthen enterprise resilience, and stay ahead of emerging challenges in the AI era.

US$ 600 bilhões de impacto anual: os custos de inatividade (downtime) para grandes empresas aumentaram 50% em apenas dois anos. US$ 15 mil por minuto: é o custo médio da indisponibilidade para as organizações, o que evidencia o impacto financeiro imediato das interrupções da operação. Queda de 3,4% no valor das ações: redução média observada no valor para os acionistas após um único incidente de inatividade, causado por ataques virtuais.

Frontier AI is accelerating innovation for defenders and adversaries alike. The question is who gets ahead of it—and how fast. See how Cisco is rising to meet the challenge.

Cisco Networking Academy e o SENAI reforçam parceria para oferecer a primeira trilha de aprendizado do Brasil focada em redes industriais e tecnologia operacional. A nova parceria visa aprimorar a competitividade e a inovação do Brasil, uma vez que o curso capacitará profissionais de TI a operar em um cenário industrial automatizado e impulsionado por IA. O SENAI visa capacitar 80 instrutores e 3.000 alunos no primeiro ano para suprir a lacuna de talentos da indústria.

Join AB for a candid conversation with AI luminaries Pascal Bornet and Sam Charrington. From the sci-fi films that sparked their early interest in tech to the strategic frameworks for mastering today's AI, this episode bridges the gap between high-level industry insight and the personal stories that shaped their careers. Discover how to move beyond the hype and truly harness the power of AI.

In the agentic AI era, the network is the critical foundation for trust, security, and the seamless operating models from which humans and AI can build the future. But as organizations scramble to gain an AI advantage, there's a wide gap between their ambitions and what legacy infrastructure can support.

Sponsor Message Semafor’s editorial staff had no role in this post’s creation. At this year’s Cisco Live in Las Vegas, Cisco unveiled a comprehensive suite of innovations designed to secure and scale the infrastructure required for the “agentic AI” era.