March 24–26, 2026 | Palais des Congrès de Paris | Sales space 105
The networking business is present process vital adjustments. As AI workloads remodel knowledge heart 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 desperate to share our newest improvements and be taught from the group in Paris.
Attend insightful classes on AI infrastructure and extra
Be a 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 (introduced 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 (introduced 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 staff.
SONiC in AI Entrance-Finish and Again-Finish Networks—Evolution and Market Adoption (introduced by Jiri Chaloupka) — Covers necessary SONiC applied sciences for AI networks: EVPN with IP knowledge aircraft 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 (introduced by Clarence Filsfils, roundtable with Alibaba Cloud, Verizon, Nebius, Rakuten Cell, Deutsche Telekom) — High hyperscalers and neocloud suppliers share their real-world SRv6 experiences in knowledge heart and DCI architectures.
Wednesday, March 25: Palms-on studying and SRv6 deep dives
AI Networking Take a look at Drive (introduced by Meghan Kachhi) — A hands-on session the place you configure knowledge heart switches, discover reactive and proactive congestion administration, and run InfiniBand Verbs Efficiency and NCCL exams. You’ll go away with sensible RDMA and distributed AI/ML workload optimization expertise.
SRv6 uSID Addressing Design (introduced by Jakub Horn) — Explores how micro-SID addressing makes SRv6 extra scalable and environment friendly, masking structure, encoding codecs, and real-world deployment fashions in fashionable 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 (introduced 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-Primarily based Method in Controllers (introduced 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 a 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 stay 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 knowledge heart materials and uncover how agentic AI is reworking community operations—from detecting anomalies earlier than they escalate to enabling fast, AI-driven troubleshooting. Discover how service suppliers can monetize broadband extra successfully with agile, cloud-native architectures constructed on SRv6 and EVPN, and learn the way clever automation is enabling end-to-end community and repair lifecycle administration.
We’ll additionally showcase how Cisco is tackling two of probably the most urgent challenges in fashionable networks: securing broadband infrastructure in opposition to DDoS assaults at scale and dynamically managing congestion by distributed visitors engineering—all with out compromising efficiency.
Whether or not you’re architecting AI-ready knowledge 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 stay up for seeing you at sales space 105 in Paris!
