Cisco U. Theater: Where Innovation Meets Learning – Cisco Live

We’ve got the perfect complement to the sun, sand, and surf at Cisco Live San Diego 2025. Bring an extra pair of shades to our Cisco U. Theater and get ready to dazzle your peers with your newfound skills and knowledge. Sign up to join some of the most brilliant minds in tech on some of the hottest topics. A breakneck pace and new eras of change like AI are the norm in tech these days, and we want to help you stay ready, resilient, and ultimately future-proof.

Build resiliency and readiness

Choose from 35 sessions, distinguished speakers, hall of fame elite speakers, and technical leaders on their way to recognition. The top topics critical to the future of tech continue to include AI, network modernization, network security, cybersecurity, automation, observability, ethical hacking, and many more.

Here are some highlights of your session choices. Schedule your favorites and mark your to-do list to watch the recordings. Or, jump right in: check out the complete list of sessions.

Still with me? Let’s start with AI, my favorite topic.

Maximize the value of AI

At Cisco Live 2025 San Diego, we’ve got the alphabet soup of AI sessions. Think accelerating AI with Cisco infrastructure, fireside chat for network engineering, our AI agentic future, AI-driven problem solving for technical support, unlocking data with generative AI, and lots more. Choose a session that takes you to the next level or skip several levels into the yet-to-be-imagined possibilities. Here’s just a sample.

• Accelerating AI with Cisco Infrastructure and NVIDIA Blueprints – CISCOU-2062
  Discover how collaboration between Cisco Compute and NVIDIA advances AI deployments. You’ll also see how full-stack architecture bundles empower organizations to scale intelligence and transform business outcomes.
• A Fireside Chat with Network Engineers about AI – CISCOU-1055
  Join Distinguished Speaker and Hall of Fame Elite Speaker Hank Preston for an open discussion to talk about what it means to work as a network engineer in the age of AI.
• From Code to Conversations: Building Mistral AI Agents for Cisco Devices – CISCOU-1060
  Gain a deep understanding of using the Mistral generative AI platform to drive operational efficiency and enhanced Cisco device management. You’ll learn how to create a task-specific AI Agent from scratch and follow the steps to generate actionable insights for enhanced Cisco workflows. Leave with a working knowledge of Mistral-powered AI potential.

Network automation amplified with the right tools

Network automation is going strong. Learn how to make it even stronger with the right tools like NetBox, Ansible, and Nornir.

• Event-Driven Network Automation with NetBox and Ansible – CISCOU-2055
  Learn how to take an automated approach to network and infrastructure management by combining NetBox as your source of network truth with Ansible for your event-driven automation workflows. Update your intended network state and see how event-driven automation workflows are triggered by NetBox events and data.
• Introduction to Nornir: Pythonic Network Automation – CISCOU-1056
  Uncover how Nornir—a powerful, pluggable, multi-threaded Python automation framework—easily integrates with existing tools and libraries to help you maintain and scale your network automation.

One more option (because it’s too cool to not mention)

Extreme sports have nothing on this session.

Dive into the most intense network environment imaginable and be sure to hit replay any time you think you’re having a hectic day at the office.

• Packets in Space: Networking for the Final Frontier – CISCOU-1057
  Learn what happens when your infrastructure is moving at thousands of miles per hour, facing extreme conditions, and failure isn’t an option. Yes, we have two real “rocket network engineers” who will explore how traditional networking principles adapt (or break) in space, and what it takes to keep packets flowing beyond Earth—the final frontier.

We’ve got you

The Cisco U. Theater has it all. Take advantage of your free ticket to everything you need to strengthen your networking muscle power, tackle whatever comes your way, and sharpen your vision with a glimpse into the future of things to come.

Be ready. Be resilient. Get future-proof.

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