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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://www.downtownmelody.com/_x/bG5rZC5pbg/eeWKC7CU Hassan Chafi Raghotham Murthy Joey C. Sujith Ravi
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://www.downtownmelody.com/_x/Y2FpcGUuaW8/) effort that we are driving as part of Cloud Native Operational Excellence (CNOE). 🌐🚀 Developer Experience Summit Agenda: https://www.downtownmelody.com/_x/bG5rZC5pbg/eXZvruGU Platform Engineering Summit Agenda: https://www.downtownmelody.com/_x/bG5rZC5pbg/e5c-d_VT Discount code: Use SPEAKER20 Enterprise Engineering Summit Series #DeveloperExperience #DevEx #PlatformEngineering #DeveloperExperienceSummit #PlatformEngineeringSummit #DeveloperAdoption #InternalDeveloperPlatform #CommunityAI #AgenticAI #CloudNative #CNOE #LondonTech
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://www.downtownmelody.com/_x/bG5rZC5pbg/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://www.downtownmelody.com/_x/Y3MuY28/6042AkSGr #AGNTCY #MCP #Identity #Duo Outshift by Cisco
We've got the September edition of The Shift newsletter hot off the digital press! Trust is at the heart of the AI revolution, and we need identity systems that can keep up with tomorrow’s AI agents. Get ready to explore in this edition: 🔹 Outshift Agent Identity Service – Find out how to link to Cisco Duo, Okta, or ORY identity providers to establish trust for MCP servers, A2A, and OASF agents with this new SaaS application. 🔸 Splunk and the future of AI observability – unlocked through AGNTCY 🔹 Trust begins with identity. Join us for our next webinar: The key to autonomous AI agents and MCP servers you can trust for an overview of AGNTCY Agent Identity. 🔸 Emerging tech insights from the Outshift blog There's never been a more perfect time to check out the latest from Outshift by Cisco!
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Imagine someone materializes inside your house, no knock, no name, no memory. Would you trust them with your most valuable possessions? Probably not. This is the challenge we’ve found with AI agents. They're handling financial transactions, accessing customer databases, and more – often without a clear, verifiable identity. The foundation of trust in any system is identity. That’s why the AGNTCY | A Linux Foundation Project open source project is building the technologies and standards for trusted AI agent and MCP server identity. We’re enabling: ✅ Verifiable badges for agentic services (A2A, MCP, and OASF supported) ✅ Fine-grained access control ✅ Simple policy management Ready to see it in action? Try out the AGNTCY Agent Identity framework in our new SaaS application: https://www.downtownmelody.com/_x/bG5rZC5pbg/gzKYWs8g What are your thoughts on building trust in the age of AI? Let us know! #AGNTCY #InternetofAgents #TrustedAI #IdentityManagement #AIAgents #AutonomousSystems #OpenSource #FutureofTech
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“Our chip can generate up to 200 million pairs of entangled photons per second.” Quantum networking is here. Cisco leaders like Head of Quantum Research Reza Nejabati are building the foundation for secure communications, smarter infrastructure, and scalable quantum networks. Learn how ➡️ https://www.downtownmelody.com/_x/Y3MuY28/6047fIxJU
Congratulations, Rafael Silva! What an incredible achievement—we are excited for your next innovation!
The journey to innovation is not always easy, but it is incredibly rewarding. It is with immense pride that I announce the granting of my patent: "High Scalability and End-to-end Consistency for Web Applications in Distributed Environments"! 🚀 This invention is the result of a lot of hard work and dedication to solve a complex challenge: enabling web applications to achieve massive scalability while maintaining real-time data consistency, without compromising the efficiency of APIs like REST and gRPC. It has already been successfully applied across various projects within Outshift by Cisco. This milestone is not just mine. I would like to express my deep gratitude to my incredible teammates, who made this possible: Frank Brockners, Marco Trinelli, Trevor Smith and Tamás G.. Your collaboration and talent were essential. 🙏 Thank you to everyone who supported me on this journey. Here's to the next innovations! #Patent #Innovation #Technology #Engineering #Invention #SoftwareDevelopment #Cisco #OutshiftbyCisco