Every few decades, technology doesn’t just evolve—it resets the rules.
The internet didn’t simply speed up communication. Mobile didn’t just make it portable.
Cloud didn’t just move workloads. Each one re-architected how productivity and possibility are distributed.
Artificial intelligence is that kind of shift. But what feels different this time, and what I believe many people are underestimating, is not just the speed of change. It’s how quickly AI is moving from tool to infrastructure, moving from something we experiment with to something that will quietly run everything.
Over the last year, I’ve had the same conversation with customers, partners, and our own teams. Everyone feels the momentum, sees the opportunity, and almost everyone is wrestling with the same tension: We know AI is transformative. The question that remains is: How do we choose to shape the AI-powered future?
That tension between promise and uncertainty is why we created Cisco AI Summit.
Happening virtually on February 3, and hosted by Chuck Robbins, Cisco Chair & CEO, and Jeetu Patel, President and Chief Product Officer, this event is a deliberate gathering of the people shaping the trillion-dollar AI economy and what remains after the headlines fade. We’re bringing together the industry’s most influential minds for thought-provoking discussions:
- Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO, NVIDIA
The AI Factory – Infrastructure for Intelligence: AI isn’t a collection of models or machines – it’s a new industrial stack. This candid conversation explores open models, next-generation accelerated computing, and the rise of full-stack AI factories designed to manufacture intelligence at planetary scale. - Sam Altman, CEO & Co-founder, OpenAI
Frontier Models & AI: When intelligence stops being scarce, what changes about the world and business? - Marc Andreessen, Co-founder & General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Venture & AI: No buzzwords—just the power shift. Who wins when AI becomes leverage, and who gets erased by “good enough” intelligence at near-zero cost? - Matt Garman, CEO, Amazon Web Services
Cloud & AI at Scale: As enterprises move from experimentation to AI at scale, success depends on operational readiness, adopting secure, observable, integrated platforms that reduce complexity. This conversation explores why scale, speed, and agility are converging, why unified approaches are becoming essential, and why the next generation of power will be provisioned, not installed. - Dr. Fei-Fei Li, CEO & Co-Founder, World Labs
3D & AI: AI’s next chapter won’t be decided by capability. It will be decided by trust. How can we ensure that AI values are indeed human values? - Lip-Bu Tan, CEO, Intel
Silicon & AI: Every AI breakthrough rests on silicon few truly control. This is an unfiltered conversation about why compute is the real bottleneck, how supply chains become strategy, and why the race for intelligence will be won—or lost—at the chip level. - Amin Vahdat, Chief Technologist for AI Infrastructure, Google
Infrastructure & AI: Models get headlines. Infrastructure decides winners. The essentials of compute, networks, and energy will be the enablers and choke points that will define our AI economy. - Tareq Amin, CEO, HUMAIN
Momentum & AI: The pace of AI is accelerating, and what matters now is how that speed turns into real-world impact. - Mike Krieger, CPO, Anthropic
Kevin Weil, VP, OpenAI for Sciences
Enterprise & AI: From product to science, AI is moving from assistant to agent. What changes occur when systems act, experiments accelerate, and confidence becomes the hardest problem. - Dylan Field, CEO & Co-Founder, Figma
Design & AI: When anyone can design and build instantly, execution stops being the moat. The real edge becomes taste, clarity, and knowing what not to make. This is the future of design. - Aaron Levie, CEO & Co-Founder, Box
Content & AI: Ready or not, AI is already inside your workflows. The question is, are you gaining leverage, or quietly creating chaos at scale? - Anne Neuberger, Strategic Advisor, Cisco
Brett McGurk, Special Advisor of International Affairs, Cisco, & Venture Partner, Lux Capital
Geopolitics & AI: National security is being reshaped by AI and cyber conflict is moving faster than institutions can adapt. What happens when AI transforms both offense and defense in a fragmenting world? - Fran Katsoudas, EVP & Chief People, Policy & Purpose Officer, Cisco
Workforce & AI: AI won’t be won by tools—it’ll be won by agency. As intelligence gets cheap, judgment becomes priceless, and the leaders who win will protect curiosity, reward smart risk, and empower the pioneers already reshaping work from the inside.
This moment is too important to happen behind closed doors. Everyone deserves access to the conversations that will shape their work, their industries, and their future. That’s why Cisco AI Summit will be streamed live, globally, for all to watch and engage. No registration required. Ungated access.
Be part of the transformation – simply visit our site and add the event directly to your calendar.
Why attend Cisco AI Summit
What I see, and what I believe many organizations are still underestimating, is this:
AI is no longer just about models. It’s about systems. About networks, compute, data, energy, security, and the invisible infrastructure that determines who can move fast safely—and who cannot.
At Cisco, we sit at the intersection of connectivity, security, collaboration, and the platforms that make digital work possible. That gives us a unique vantage point into how AI is actually being operationalized inside enterprises and where the friction, risk, and opportunity really live. And it keeps leading me back to one question: What happens when AI becomes infrastructure, when it fades into the background and simply runs the world?
We are already seeing AI move from assistant to agent, from experimentation to dependency, from innovation to advantage. What I’m most eager to explore at this summit is not whether AI will reshape business—it already is. It’s how we ensure it reshapes business in ways that are responsible, resilient, and human-centered.
Cisco AI Summit exists because we felt a responsibility to create a different kind of conversation. Not about what AI can do. But about what it will do because of the choices we make now.
No buzzwords. No marketing theater. Just direct conversations about power, risk, leverage, and responsibility—led by the people with the greatest influence over where AI is actually going.
Mark your calendar for February 3
We are opening the door for you to hear the discussions that are creating a trillion-dollar AI economy. The only question is whether you’ll be in on the conversation or reading about the decisions later.
Join us virtually on February 3 to get your front-row access to the conversations. Visit our site to download the calendar.
