March 24–26, 2026 | Palais des Congrès de Paris | Sales space 105
The networking business is present process vital modifications. As AI workloads remodel information middle architectures and drive demand for clever, self-managing networks, the selections we make now will form future infrastructure. Cisco is happy to announce our participation in Upperside World Congress Paris 2026, and we’re wanting to share our newest improvements and study from the neighborhood in Paris.
Attend insightful classes on AI infrastructure and extra
Be part of Cisco consultants for classes on AI infrastructure, SRv6, autonomous networks, and extra, gaining sensible insights and hands-on expertise to take your initiatives to the following stage.
Tuesday, March 24: AI infrastructure foundations
Keynote (offered by Michael Beesley) — Opening keynote setting the stage for Cisco’s imaginative and prescient on the Congress.
Principle Meets Actuality: AI Reference Architectures within the Wild (offered by Shelly Cadora) — A candid take a look at deploying reference architectures in manufacturing environments. Shelly walks by concrete NVIDIA GPU-based cluster topologies and shares hard-won classes on cultural resistance, compatibility surprises, and what issues when constraints meet your community crew.
SONiC in AI Entrance-Finish and Again-Finish Networks—Evolution and Market Adoption (offered by Jiri Chaloupka) — Covers essential SONiC applied sciences for AI networks: EVPN with IP information airplane for front-end, DCI choices, and superior load-balancing methods together with flowlet, packet spray, and static pinning. Additionally addresses PFC, ECN, and SONiC programmability necessities.
SRv6 in AI Infrastructure (offered by Clarence Filsfilsroundtable with Alibaba Cloud, Verizon, Nebius, Rakuten Cell, Deutsche Telekom) — Prime hyperscalers and neocloud suppliers share their real-world SRv6 experiences in information middle and DCI architectures.
Wednesday, March 25: Fingers-on studying and SRv6 deep dives
AI Networking Check Drive (offered by Meghan Kachhi) — A hands-on session the place you configure information middle switches, discover reactive and proactive congestion administration, and run InfiniBand Verbs Efficiency and NCCL assessments. You’ll depart with sensible RDMA and distributed AI/ML workload optimization expertise.
SRv6 uSID Addressing Design (offered by Jakub Horn) — Explores how micro-SID addressing makes SRv6 extra scalable and environment friendly, protecting structure, encoding codecs, and real-world deployment fashions in trendy community materials and repair supplier cores.
Thursday, March 26: The path to autonomous networks
From Automation to Autonomy: Figuring out Excessive-Worth Alternatives in Community AI (offered by Daniele Ceccarelli) — Focuses on the place AI-driven automation delivers the quickest wins: intent interpretation, fault triage, service provisioning, and closed-loop remediation, with a transparent framework for prioritizing automation efforts.
Implementing Self-Therapeutic Networks with Agentic AI-Based mostly Method in Controllers (offered by Krishnan Thirukonda) — Covers constructing self-healing networks utilizing agentic AI with main SDN controllers, shifting past rule-based strategies towards true closed-loop automation.
Be part of the unique pre-workshop | March 23, Cisco Paris workplace
Arrive early for buyer tales, SRv6 uSID testimonials, service supplier automation case research, strategic classes on AI-era community transformation, and a networking reception.
Expertise innovation at sales space 105
Cease by sales space 105 for an immersive expertise showcasing how Cisco is redefining the way forward for networking. Throughout six dwell demo stations, our consultants will stroll you thru the applied sciences and architectures that matter most proper now.
See how Cisco powers hyperscaler and neocloud environments with next-generation information middle materials and uncover how agentic AI is remodeling community operations—from detecting anomalies earlier than they escalate to enabling speedy, AI-driven troubleshooting. Discover how service suppliers can monetize broadband extra successfully with agile, cloud-native architectures constructed on SRv6 and EVPN, and find out how clever automation is enabling end-to-end community and repair lifecycle administration.
We’ll additionally showcase how Cisco is tackling two of essentially the most urgent challenges in trendy networks: securing broadband infrastructure in opposition to DDoS assaults at scale and dynamically managing congestion by distributed site visitors engineering—all with out compromising efficiency.
Whether or not you’re architecting AI-ready information facilities, modernizing service supplier infrastructure, or exploring the trail to autonomous networks, sales space 105 is the place you’ll discover sensible solutions and real-world demonstrations.
Register now
Register for the pre-workshop and e book a assembly with our consultants. We sit up for seeing you at sales space 105 in Paris!
