Five thoughts – plus a comment on the importance of leadership – from Cisco's AI Summit
From experimentation to execution, Cisco's AI Summit spotlights leadership, trust, and the rise of agentic systems
by Zeus Kerravla via SiliconANGLE
Cisco Systems Inc. held its second annual AI Summit this week, with a star-studded lineup of artificial intelligence celebrities. Unlike most vendor events, the Cisco AI Summit was designed to be a "meeting of the minds," bringing together the "builders of the AI economy" to help the industry move past the hype and address the practical realities of a world being reshaped by AI.
This was an interesting summit for Cisco to host. It wasn't about technology or the latest GPU but rather thought leadership. At the event, I spoke with Jim Kavanaugh, CEO of World Wide Technology, Cisco's largest and best transformation partner. The reality is AI success requires a massive ecosystem of players and Cisco touches all of them in some form as it's the network that ties all these AI things together. Cisco has been trying to not just catch the AI wave but drive thought leadership into this industry.