Cisco Live Amsterdam: discover the power of IT/OT collaboration for digitizing industrial operations

Industrial networks are in the limelight – the target of escalating cyberattacks and the enabler for AI-driven processes behind real-time decision-making and autonomous operations. At Cisco Live Amsterdam 2025, IT pros can explore how to join forces with their operational technology (OT) counterparts to accelerate their digitization journey while building the industrial infrastructure required to scale up their AI strategy. To help you plan your time at Cisco Live Amsterdam, I’ve listed a sampling of sessions focusing on industrial IoT, including demos, case studies, and industry summits for manufacturing, utilities, and transportation.

Watch these demos at the Industrial IoT booth

Stop by our booth throughout the day, February 10-14, to see our industrial IoT portfolio in action. We’ll be showcasing:

• Industrial wireless anywhere. Enterprise Wi-Fi lacks the reliability and low latency needed to connect moving assets (e.g., autonomous vehicles, robots, cranes) or large numbers of industrial assets. Join us as we demonstrate how Wi-Fi 6E and Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul technologies reliably connect industrial assets with low latency and seamless handoffs.
• Managing utility, road, and rail assets at scale with SD-WAN. Critical infrastructure providers are refreshing legacy industrial routers to defend against OT cyber risk and accelerate digital transformation. This demo will highlight the speed and simplicity of using Catalyst SD-WAN Manager to distribute IT security and management policies to thousands of Catalyst Industrial Routers, for stronger security and more effective IT and OT collaboration.
• Unifying IT/OT security. A demo of our Industrial Threat Defense Portfolio will cover visibility into OT assets and security posture with Cyber Vision, automated network segmentation with Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) and Secure Firewall, secure remote access with Cisco Secure Equipment Access (SEA), and unifying IT/OT threat detection and response with Splunk.

Network with peers at industry summits

Join your industry peers from top global companies as they share insights about emerging threats and opportunities in industrial IoT. Topics will include cybersecurity, digitization, innovation, and our industrial IoT portfolio. Register for the Industrial IoT Leaders Summit for manufacturing (Tuesday, February 11) or critical infrastructure (Wednesday, February 12).

Learn from other companies’ real-world experiences

Companies that have already implemented our industrial IoT solutions are seeing significant gains, including improved operational simplicity, efficiency gains, stronger cybersecurity, and faster troubleshooting. Hear first-person accounts of why and how they modernized their industrial networks, and benefits to date.

Converting Unilin’s Brownfield Production Networks – IT/OT Convergence at its Best [CSSIOT-1573] | Wednesday, February 12, 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM CET

Unilin’s Bruno Simoens and Cisco’s Paul Didier will describe how Unilin, a multibillion-euro global household products company, moved from disconnected islands of assets and networks to a modern architecture – and with little change to existing industrial applications and equipment.

The Cisco-Maersk Partnership: An OT Reference Architecture for Container Terminals [CSSIOT-2422] | Tuesday, February 11, 1:30 PM – 2:15 PM CET

Network architects Gurpinder Gill from Maersk and Inigo Alonso from Cisco will explain how our two companies joined forces to develop design standards for Port 4.0, the architecture blueprint, and vendor best practices.

Go beyond

The theme of Cisco Live EMEA in 2025 is “Go Beyond” – to work faster, safer, and smarter. Whether you’re in IT or OT, the path forward begins with collaborating to future-proof the industrial network for cybersecurity and AI. I invite you to participate in the sessions listed above to jumpstart the next phase of your journey. For a deeper dive into a specific technology, check out the session catalog for product and strategy overviews, breakout sessions, and hands-on labs.

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