Must-See Highlights from Splunk Sessions at Cisco Live Amsterdam 2026

Cisco Live Amsterdam 2026 was a great way to start the year. We brought over 21,000 people together with great conversations at the World of Solutions showcase, a ton of deep dive technical sessions and breakouts, product strategy overviews, and more. Of course, AI took center stage as the most discussed topic around observability and security, AI-ready data centers and networks, enterprise-scale infrastructure, and more.

With so much to do and so little time, you may not have been able to attend the live event. Or maybe you just happened to miss a few sessions you wanted to see. Luckily for you, we put this post together to summarize some just a few of the Splunk sessions from Cisco Live Amsterdam and share the recordings that you don’t want to miss.

Everything You Might Have Missed at Cisco Live Amsterdam

Through our conversations, we learned the majority of network professionals are tasked with security and/or observability as a part of their job role. So of course, a large number of attendees were keen to learn more about Splunk and Cisco, and how we’re driving digital resilience for critical infrastructure in the AI era.

As you might have expected, with some people calling 2026 “the year of the agent”, agentic operations were the main subject of these 3 must-see Splunk sessions from Cisco Live Amsterdam. These must-see sessions cover how to turn your machine data into fuel for agentic operations and win the battle for security and observability in the AI era. With increased complexity and scale, AI is changing how every organization must think about observability and security, and these experts can help walk you through this journey.

Three Must-See Splunk Sessions

Before we dive into these 3 must-see Splunk sessions from Cisco Live Amsterdam, if you want to catch up on even more of Cisco Live 2026 Amsterdam, you can find every recorded session from the conference available on demand at ciscolive.com. Simply sign up and log in to the on-demand session center to view all of this content at no additional cost.

From Chaos to Advantage: Turning Machine Data into Fuel for AgenticOps - CENAI-1500

Speaker: Hanlin Fang, VP, Product Management, Data Platform and AI, Cisco

Learn from Hanlin Fang about the full power of Splunk for the enterprise. Discover how an AI-powered metadata catalog and knowledge graph turn raw machine data into consistent, contextual "truth" that AI can safely act on, shrinking investigation times and unlocking efficiencies with automation. See how machine data can connect the dots between investments and outcomes in the agentic AI era.

Keynote Deep Dive- Agents on the Wire: Securing the Network When Attackers - and Your Apps - Run on AI - KDDSEC-1000

Speakers: Peter Bailey, SVP/GM, Security, Cisco

Rick Miles, VP, Product Management, Cloud and Network Security, Cisco

Kamal Hathi, SVP/GM, Splunk, Cisco

Tom Gillis, SVP/GM Infrastructure & Security, Cisco

AI is supercharging the adversary and driving large-scale social engineering, rapid exploit weaponization, nonstop identity probing, and automated lateral movement across an attack surface now widened by autonomous agents. This keynote deep dive cuts through the noise with a view of the threat landscape and practical defenses to stop them. You will get a first-hand look at how Splunk, Cisco SASE, Hybrid Mesh Firewall, and distributed analytics are delivering modern security at enterprise scale for the agentic AI era.

When watching this session, you'll walk away with a clear view of how Cisco is fusing security into the network simplify your operations, tighten compliance, accelerate troubleshooting, and reduce breach impact, strengthening human + AI teamwork without slowing innovation.

Lessons From the Agentic Frontier: How the SOC is Winning in the AI Era - CENSEC-1203

Speaker: David Dalling, GVP Splunk Security Specialist, Cisco

Agentic AI is rapidly pushing security teams into uncharted territory. The lines between defenders and machines are getting blurred, the mission is shifting, and a new generation of threats works to overwhelm traditional defenses. To survive and thrive in the AI era, organizations are moving to the Agentic SOC with Splunk's industry-leading SecOps platform, Enterprise Security.

In this new operating model, defenders are evolving from manual alert responders into proactive orchestrators of intelligent, automated ecosystems, increasingly leveraging and guiding systems that learn, adapt, and scale. Splunk has been working side-by-side with our own SOC and thousands of global teams on the front lines of this Agentic transformation. This session discusses what we've learned and how to build a modern Agentic SOC that is human-led, machine-accelerated, and ready for what comes next.

Where To Go To Keep Learning About Splunk + Cisco

These sessions from Cisco Live Amsterdam are just the jumping off point for adopting AI and implementing agentic operations across your entire business. And, with how quickly AI continues to change, it’s important that you regularly stay up to date on the latest and greatest.

You can, of course, deep dive more of these topics by watching more sessions here, or continue to check in with the Splunk blog for regular updates on all of the latest information in AI, DevOps, IT, and security operations.

If you’re already curious and want to dive into some technical details, you can check out interactive Splunk product tours in your own time or download Splunk to try it out yourself. Hope to see you at the next event!