Cisco (Outshift by Cisco)
| What they do | Networking and security; at Web Summit it presents Outshift by Cisco (incubation of emerging tech) and Cisco DevNet (developer platform for agentic AI), with open-source projects in agentic AI, quantum and next-gen infrastructure. |
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| Website | https://outshift.cisco.com/ |
| Category | ai-agents |
| Country | United States |
| Attending 2026 | confirmed: listed for LIS26 on Web Summit's event partners page (conferenceSlug lis26) |
| Attending as | partner |
| Why it matters to us | partner/story: Outshift by Cisco and DevNet position themselves as the developer platform for agentic AI with open-source projects; a route to the agent-infrastructure community |
| Decision (proposed) | meet |
| Priority | 1 |
| Owner on our team | to decide |
| Status | to contact |
On the graph
In Agent governance and AI security.
- speaks-at It takes two to trust: Operationalizing public-private security : Cisco Systems speaks on public-private security source
- hosts Democratising AI platform engineering with open-source [Hosted by Cisco Systems] : Cisco Systems hosts the masterclass on open-source AI platform engineering source
- hosts From Automation to Autonomy: How AI is changing the way we run technology (Cisco showcase) : Cisco showcase at the PTW Palace on moving from automation to agentic operations source
- could-partner RiskMandate Agent Behaviour Policies: agentic AI developer platform whose builders need behaviour policies (our judgement)
- relevant-to SHarness: open-source agent infrastructure; a place to run SHarness checks (our judgement)
Assets made for them
None yet.
Sources
- websummit.com/appearances/lis26/00e7c159-84fb-4ba2-9413-e075b2d9f87a/c, read 2026-11-01: LIS26 appearance page: name, country, industry, website
- websummit.com/partners/event-partners-2026/, read 2026-11-01: listed on the 2026 event partners list with its elevator pitch (the "what" field)