As the year winds down, the Outshift team is just getting started! 🚀 Check out what we're exploring in the November edition of The Shift: 🔹 As we look to achieve the next era of advanced computing, IBM and Cisco unite the strengths of both leaders to design a connected network of large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers by the early 2030s. 🔸 Missed the AGNTCY Summit? Catch up on the hottest AI topics - from the state of the AI market to the open vs. closed models debate - now available on demand. 🔹 The latest Outshift events, podcasts, and in the news. Ready to see what’s next and new in the world of emerging tech? Let’s go!
Outshift by Cisco
Computer Networking Products
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From emerging technologies to emerging markets, we are Cisco’s incubation engine. Innovation, full speed ahead.
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Tech evolves fast. We evolve faster. Outshift by Cisco is the incubation engine delivering businesses what they need next: Emerging technologies that achieve innovative results. We turn ideas into powerful products, shifting the future of tech into high gear for Cisco's customers—with ground-breaking solutions in agentic AI, quantum, next-gen infra, and beyond. We are engineers, innovators, and explorers. By applying advanced expertise to bold bets with enterprise data and insights, we are geared to outpace the competition while bringing you along for the ride. Innovation, full speed ahead.
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If you’re keen to learn, explore or launch an initiative to apply #AgenticAI in platform engineering, we’re hosting two live hands-on workshops. Option 1: 🔹 Time: 11:00 – 13:00 PST 🔹 Date: Thursday, November 20, 2025 🔹 Registration Link: https://lnkd.in/eApfeWt4 Option 2: 🔹 Time: 14:00 – 16:00 UTC 🔹 Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2025 🔹 Registration Link: https://cs.co/CAIPE-W2EMEA Support the project by checking out and leaving a GitHub star ⭐ @ https://caipe.io/ Specially If you missed Carlos and Sri's talk at #Kubecon earlier this week, this workshop is worthwhile. #AgenticAI #AIAgents #PlatformEngineering #CloudNative #Kubernetes #DevOps #SRE #OpenSource #HandsOnWorkshop Cloud Native Operational Excellence (CNOE) Outshift by Cisco
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What if the most human-feeling teammates on your projects moved at machine speed and collaborated across every vendor you use? I sit down with Vijoy Pandey GM and Senior Vice President of Outshift by Cisco to unpack how agentic AI and quantum networking move from shiny demos to dependable, scaled systems that actually ship results. We start by reframing innovation horizons around risk instead of time. Technology risk is where quantum lives today, with foundational challenges from hardware to protocol. Market risk is where agentic AI thrives, as teams test real enterprise use cases beyond coding assistants. Platform risk is the mandate for a company like Cisco: open, interoperable architectures instead of brittle point tools. That lens shapes everything OutShift builds. You’ll hear a clear blueprint for the Internet of Agents: discover the right capabilities across vendors, grant task and transaction-based access that expires fast, enable real-time many-to-many messaging across voice and video, and close the loop with rigorous measurement that feeds reputation and policy. We spotlight Agency (AGNTCY), the Linux Foundation–hosted open source project backed by a broad industry coalition, designed to make multi-agent collaboration portable and trustworthy. The proof shows up in production. A healthcare triage flow uses a Webex voice agent that coordinates with insurance and diagnostics agents to verify claims and route patients to the right human expert faster. In networking, a multi-agent pipeline built with Swisscom stress-tests configuration changes like a chess engine, exploring outcomes, generating tests, and catching cascading failures before they hit production. On the horizon, quantum networking becomes a scale-out fabric that links quantum computers, data centers, and sensing devices—accelerating timelines by five to ten years while delivering near-term classical benefits in security and precision. If you care about enterprise #AI, open standards, and the road to quantum-ready infrastructure, this conversation maps the path from uncertainty to impact. Subscribe, share with a colleague who’s building with agents, and leave a review with the one capability you want most from an Internet of Agents.
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Can't make it to San Francisco today? No problem! Join us now for the AGNTCY Summit - Building multi-agents at scale - virtually! Learn directly from leaders at Oracle, LinkedIn, Cisco, Strata Identity, solo.io, Decibel Partners and more. Shape tomorrow's technology with us. Join our livestream here: https://cs.co/6041AAFiT #AGNTCY #OpenSource #AI ##OpenSourceAIWeek
AGNTCY Summit: Multi-agent systems at scale
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Excited to join a panel of leaders from Oracle, NVIDIA, and Meta to discuss AI agent ecosystems, open source, interoperability, and at-scale collaboration. If you are at Oracle #AIWorld tomorrow, see you there! https://lnkd.in/eeWKC7CU Hassan Chafi Raghotham Murthy Joey C. Sujith Ravi
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Did you miss the Cisco Quantum Summit? Catch up with the latest in the October edition of The Shift: 🔹 Discover 3 new quantum prototypes from Cisco Quantum Labs, including the industry's first network-aware Quantum Compiler, plus Quantum Sync and Quantum Alert for coordination and security. 🔸 Heading to SF for Linux Open Source AI Week? Meet us in-person at the first-ever AGNTCY Summit! 🔹 Join our next webinar: Multi-agentic systems at scale-A blueprint from SoftServe & AGNTCY. Ready to see what's next and new in quantum and multi-agentic use cases? Let's go! #OpenSourceAIWeek #InternetofAgents #CiscoQuantumSummit #OutshiftbyCisco
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The agents we are building cannot collaborate with each other. You can build the smartest reasoning agent in the world. Deploy it. Watch it work. Then realize it needs to hand off to a specialist agent from a different vendor, different framework, different cloud. And now you are writing custom integration code like it is 2010. You have discovery (how do agents find each other through their capability), identity (how do they verify themselves and the tools they access), messaging (how do they actually collaborate), observability (how do you debug when it breaks). Nobody has solved this at scale. Everyone is building their own version. Or we build it together in the open. That is what the AGNTCY Summit is actually about. Not demos of single agents doing clever things. The infrastructure layer underneath that makes multi-agent systems work across vendors, frameworks, clouds. October 22 in San Francisco at Digital Jungle SF Jocelyn Goldfein, Tim Tully, Saanya Ojha, and Jon Sakoda from the VC side. Karthik Ramgopal from LinkedIn and Holly Watson from Oracle who are dealing with multi agents at scale. Tatyana Mamut, Anand Raghavan, and Eric Olden are talking about production systems. Lin Sun and John Parello the open source pieces. People who have actually hit these problems. If you are writing code that involves agents talking to other agents, you should probably be there. If you are betting your product roadmap on multi-agent systems scaling, you definitely should be there. If you think this is already solved, come argue about it. AGNTCY Summit - October 22, 2PM PDT Digital Jungle, San Francisco Register: bit.ly/48iIsJs Part of The Linux Foundation #OpenSourceAIWeek Limited space because the venue is small and we want the right people in the room.
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Super excited to take part in the Developer Experience Summit and the Platform Engineering Summit in London on 22–23 October 2025. At the Developer Experience Summit, I’m on a panel discussing “Platform Engineering Strategies That Drive Developer Adoption.” 💻🤝 At the Platform Engineering Summit, I’ll share the latest update on our Community AI Platform Engineering (https://caipe.io/) effort that we are driving as part of Cloud Native Operational Excellence (CNOE). 🌐🚀 Developer Experience Summit Agenda: https://lnkd.in/eXZvruGU Platform Engineering Summit Agenda: https://lnkd.in/e5c-d_VT Discount code: Use SPEAKER20 Enterprise Engineering Summit Series #DeveloperExperience #DevEx #PlatformEngineering #DeveloperExperienceSummit #PlatformEngineeringSummit #DeveloperAdoption #InternalDeveloperPlatform #CommunityAI #AgenticAI #CloudNative #CNOE #LondonTech
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Agentic AI is evolving rapidly, and it's raising some interesting questions. Frank Brockners shared his thoughts after participating in a roundtable discussion at the Open Source Summit Europe 2025 this past August. Check out his latest blog to see what the evolution of Agentic AI means for technology, open source, and developers.
AI is entering its next era: Agentic AI. No longer limited to answering questions, AI systems are beginning to pursue goals, collaborate across systems, and even compose applications on the fly. In his new blog, The Evolution of Agentic AI, Frank Brockners explores three phases: 🔹 Phase 1 – Agentic Assistants 🔹 Phase 2 – Agentic Intranets 🔹 Phase 3 – The Internet of Agents 👉 Discover how open source is laying the foundation for an Agentic Network Society: https://lnkd.in/gpjHWUYT #LFNetworking #AI #AgenticAI #OpenSource
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Did you notice? In May, Duo launched powerful new identity tools that make securing your users and devices easier and stronger than ever. From phishing-resistant MFA to seamless passwordless login, Duo’s security-first IAM approach stops attackers while keeping your teams productive. 💡 But that’s not all we're doing. We’re also pioneering the future of identity security for the AI era — tackling the challenges of autonomous AI agents with open-source frameworks like AGNTCY and forward-thinking solutions that extend zero trust beyond people to machines. This upcoming webinar on September 25 offers a rare glimpse into what’s next: securing AI agents and MCP servers with trusted, verifiable identities. Join us to see how Duo is shaping the future of identity security — today and tomorrow. Register now: https://cs.co/6042AkSGr #AGNTCY #MCP #Identity #Duo Outshift by Cisco
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