Cisco Live 2026 in Las Vegas is where innovators, builders, and IT leaders come together to explore what’s next in networking, automation, observability, and AI. This year, the Cisco Network Platform Product team is bringing a standout lineup of sessions that offer a practical look at how modern network teams can move from manual processes to intelligent, scalable operations across complex campus and branch environments.

From hands-on technical workshops to real-world automation use cases, these 20 sessions were selected because they reflect some of the most important priorities for customers today: secure integration, operational simplicity, intelligent troubleshooting, lifecycle automation, observability, and unified management across environments.

They also reflect the breadth of innovation happening across the Network Platform Product team and collaborators who help shape the architectures, APIs, workflows, and operational experiences behind Cisco Meraki, Cisco Catalyst Center, Cisco Agentic Workflows, MCP-enabled automation approaches, and more. For teams managing distributed environments, that means actionable ways to simplify operations, improve visibility, and scale automation more effectively.

Whether you’re a developer building with APIs, an engineer modernizing day-to-day operations, or an IT leader evaluating how AI can improve efficiency and outcomes, here are the sessions you’ll want to add to your Cisco Live agenda.

Oren Brigg

Engineering Product Manager, Cisco

• Fortifying Meraki API Access with OAuth 2.0 [DEVNET-2346]
  Learn how OAuth 2.0 can help strengthen and simplify secure access to Meraki APIs in modern application environments.
  Date: Tuesday, June 2
  Time: 11:30 AM – 12:15 PM PDT
• Creating Your First OAuth 2.0 App with Meraki APIs [DEVWKS-2076]
  Join this hands-on workshop to learn how to configure and deploy your first OAuth application within the Cisco Meraki dashboard.
  Date: Wednesday, June 3
  Time: 4:00 PM – 4:45 PM PDT
• What the World Is Automating: Secrets From Billions of Meraki API Calls [DEVNET-1943]
  Get a data-driven look at billions of Meraki API calls and see how organizations are using automation at scale.
  Date: Thursday, June 4
  Time: 9:30 AM – 10:15 AM PDT

Ed Novak

Technical Marketing Engineer, Cisco

• AgenticOps in Practice: Turn Intent into Action with Agentic Workflows [PSOENT-1037]
  See how Agentic Workflows can turn natural language requests into deterministic automations across Cisco domains and third-party systems with human oversight.
  Date: Monday, June 1
  Time: 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM PDT
• From Prompt to Provisioning: Mastering Natural Language Network Automation [DEVNET-2247]
  Learn how Cisco Agentic Workflows and the AI Assistant can turn natural language prompts into deterministic network automation workflows across your Cisco environment.
  Date: Monday, June 1
  Time: 1:30 PM – 2:15 PM PDT
• Drag, Drop, Deploy: Real-World Automation with Cisco Workflows [DEVNET-1434]
  Get hands-on guidance for using Cisco Workflows to build and deploy drag-and-drop automation across Cisco domains and third-party platforms without writing code.
  Date: Wednesday, June 3
  Time: 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM PDT
• No-Code Network Automation: Instantly Respond to Network Events with Cisco Agentic Workflows [CISCOU-1062]
  Find out how Cisco Agentic Workflows can use webhooks to automatically respond to network events with no-code automation for alert handling and recovery workflows.
  Date: Wednesday, June 3
  Time: 3:00 PM – 3:45 PM PDT

Shweta Palande

Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, Cisco

• API-Driven Multi-Site Automation with Catalyst Center Global Manager [DEVNET-2602]
  Discover how Cisco Catalyst Center Global Manager APIs can help you aggregate multi-site inventory, correlate alerts, automate health dashboards, and integrate network data into existing NOC and ITSM pipelines without changing device configurations.
  Date: Monday, June 1
  Time: 9:30 AM – 10:15 AM PDT
• Splunk + Meraki Integration for Enhanced Network Visibility and Security [DEVNET-1342]
  Discover how integrating Splunk and Meraki can improve network visibility, strengthen security insights, and support smarter operations.
  Date: Monday, June 1
  Time: 11:30 AM – 12:15 PM PDT

Shai Silberman

Engineering PM, Cisco

• Let’s Deploy Unified Global Management (CCGM + Global Overview) for Catalyst Centers and Meraki Organizations [BRKOPS-2492]
  Get step-by-step guidance for deploying Cisco Catalyst Center Global Manager and using it to unify inventory, health monitoring, search, and access across global deployments.
  Date: Monday, June 1
  Time: 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM PDT

Jose Valdez

Technical Marketing Engineer, Technical Leader, Cisco

• Permission Possible: Automating Administrator Access in the Meraki Dashboard [DEVNET-2304]
  Take a closer look at how Meraki dashboard APIs, infrastructure as code, and Agentic Workflows can automate administrator provisioning, custom roles, and just-in-time access at scale.
  Date: Monday, June 1
  Time: 9:30 AM – 10:15 AM PDT
• Embrace the Upgrade: Automating Firmware at Scale for Meraki and Cloud-Managed Catalyst Devices [DEVNET-2619]
  Find out how Meraki APIs and Cisco Agentic Workflows can automate firmware management, testing, and promotion for Meraki and cloud-managed Catalyst devices at scale.
  Date: Thursday, June 4
  Time: 12:30 PM – 1:15 PM PDT

Gabi Zapodeanu

Principal Technical Marketing Engineer, Cisco

• AI Your Way: Building AIOps Agents [TECOPS-2506]
  Learn how MCP, RAG, and core AI technologies come together to power AIOps agents for network insights, event correlation, and intelligent troubleshooting.
  Date: Sunday, May 31
  Time: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM PDT
• AI Client Insights: Unifying Cisco Catalyst Center and Meraki with Agentic AI [DEVNET-3481]
  See how an MCP server can enable AI agents to unify client health and performance insights across Cisco Catalyst Center and Meraki.
  Date: Monday, June 1
  Time: 10:30 AM – 11:15 AM PDT
• Plan, Provision, Validate: MCP-Enabled Network Automation [BRKDEV-2396]
  Discover how MCP can turn existing Ansible, Terraform, and Python automation into composable tools that AI agents can orchestrate from planning through provisioning and validation.
  Date: Monday, June 1
  Time: 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM PDT
• Connecting AI to Your Infrastructure [DEVNET-3192]
  Learn how MCP servers and clients can connect AI to Meraki and Cisco Catalyst Center to enable context-aware automation and infrastructure management.
  Date: Tuesday, June 2
  Time: 11:30 AM – 12:15 PM PDT
• Cisco Catalyst Center Network Operations Essentials Using UI and APIs [DEVNET-2660]
  Get practical guidance on managing Cisco Catalyst Center workflows using the UI, APIs, and DevOps tools such as Python SDK, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, and GitLab.
  Date: Tuesday, June 2
  Time: 3:30 PM – 5:15 PM PDT
• GenAI Your Way: Reimagine Network Troubleshooting [BRKOPS-3822]
  See how the building blocks of an AI platform, including RAG, LLMs, and MCP, can be applied to create guided network troubleshooting workflows using live data and your own best practices.
  Date: Wednesday, June 3
  Time: 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM PDT
• Network Automation Simplified: Building MCP Servers [CISCOU-2320]
  Explore how MCP servers can expose network-wide operational data from Meraki, Cisco Catalyst Center, and other platforms to support AI-driven workflows and unified network insights.
  Date: Wednesday, June 3
  Time: 4:00 PM – 4:45 PM PDT
• MCP Servers to Mobile Apps — AI Insights from Meraki and Catalyst Center [DEVNET-3524]
  See how AI agents can use MCP servers to retrieve and prioritize network insights from Meraki and Cisco Catalyst Center in a mobile app experience.
  Date: Thursday, June 4
  Time: 11:30 AM – 12:15 PM PDT

If you want practical ideas you can apply, direct access to the experts behind these capabilities, and a clearer view of where network operations are headed, you’ll find these sessions worth prioritizing at Cisco Live 2026 in Las Vegas. Save your seat and start building your agenda today.

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