The Comprehensive Attendee Guide for Splunk at Cisco Live 2026 Melbourne

We’re excited for you to join us at Cisco Live APJC in Melbourne, November 9–12, 2026, at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC)!

Splunk is the data platform for trusted AI at scale, bringing sessions to Cisco Live on defending against modern threats, visibility across hybrid environments, and putting machine data to work for AI.

Plan your week based on your focus, helping you drive greater digital resilience for your business with Splunk by Cisco. Between breakouts, labs, and NOC/SOC tours, stop by the Splunk Lounge for a coffee (maybe a Melbourne “Magic” coffee?) and a conversation with our team.

Three Ways To Enhance Your Digital Resilience

Data Platform: Turn Machine Data into Agentic Action

Use Cisco Data Fabric powered by Splunk to access machine data across edge, cloud, and on-premises environments. Learn how to federate queries at lower cost, correlate telemetry across domains, and prepare data for AI agents.

IT Leadership Session

[ITLGEN-2013]: Turning Machine Data to Trusted Action: Building Digital Resilience

• Speaker: Seth Brickman (VP, Product Management, Splunk)
• Time: Wednesday, Nov 11 | 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM AEDT | Melbourne Room 2
• Overview: Discover how leaders can break through data silos and activate trusted operational context across security, observability, and networking for predictive workflows and agentic operations.

Technical Breakouts

[BRKOBS-2624]: Data Federation Made Easy with Cisco Data Fabric

• Speakers: Trav “T-REX” Kane, Bruce Snell, Ahmadreza Edalat, Cam Dunn
• Time: Monday, Nov 9 | 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM AEDT | Room 217
• Overview: A deep dive into Cisco Data Fabric architecture—from data routing and S3 Promote to MCP, Next Gen Federated Search, and AI Canvas.

[BRKOBS-2628]: Building Intelligent Network Operations with Cisco Data Fabric & Splunk Platform

• Speaker: Raman Jain (Director, Splunk Platform & AI Architects)
• Time: Thursday, Nov 12 | 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM AEDT | Room 212
• Overview: Learn how to bring together telemetry across network domains for cost-effective data tiering, deep analytics, and agentic network operations.

Hands-On Lab

[LTROBS-1653]: Getting Started with Splunk: Hands-On with Cisco

• Speaker: Eddie Thompson (Platform & AI Solutions Architect)
• Time: Thursday, Nov 12 | 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM AEDT | Theatre 2 – World of Solutions
• Overview: Fast-track your Splunk skills in a hands-on workshop covering data ingestion, search fundamentals, and joint Cisco dashboard creation.

Platform Lightning Talks

[LTSSEC-1740]: This Is How We Do It: Scaling Security and Observability with Cisco & Splunk

• Speaker: Julie Gibbs

  • Monday, Nov 9 | 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM AEDT | Lightning Theatre 2 – World of Solutions
  • Monday, Nov 9 | 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM AEDT | Lightning Theatre 2 – World of Solutions

• Overview: How Cisco IT achieved zero network outages and cut major incidents by 25% with Splunk Cloud.

Security: Defend at Machine Speed

Explore ways to evolve security operations for AI-driven threats. Sessions cover governed AI agents, Cisco XDR with Splunk Enterprise Security, faster detection and response, and proactive management of business exposure.

Keynote and Center Stage Sessions

Keynote Deep Dive:

[KDDOBS-1000]: Digital Resilience Redefined: What It Takes to Win in the Agentic Era

• Speakers: David Dalling (GVP GTM), Justin Barney (SVP Sales)
• Time: Wednesday, Nov 11 | 11:15 AM – 12:00 PM AEDT | Centre Stage – World of Solutions
• Overview: Explore the new digital resilience playbook and see how agentic capabilities help defenders predict and prevent modern threats.

Center Stage Session:

[CENOBS-1198]: The AI Reality Check: Defending Your Infrastructure Against Costs and Attacks with Splunk

• Speaker: David Dalling (GVP GTM)
• Time: Tuesday, Nov 10 | 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM AEDT | Centre Stage – World of Solutions
• Overview: Learn how to build an Agentic SOC where trusted AI agents investigate and respond at machine speed while keeping human analysts in control.

[KDDSEC-1000]: Defending the Agentic Enterprise: Outpacing AI Adversaries and Workforce Agents Gone Rogue

• Speakers: Kevin Kennedy, Thomas Graf, Nathan Smith
• Time: Wednesday, Nov 11 | 12:15 PM – 1:00 PM AEDT | Centre Stage – World of Solutions

Technical Seminar and Breakouts

[TECOBS-2629]: Technical Seminar: Build a Better Mousetrap with Cisco Security and Splunk

• Speakers: Bruce Snell, Ahmadreza Edalat, Cam Dunn
• Time: Monday, Nov 9 | 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM AEDT | Room 207 (Technical Seminar pass required)
• Overview: Assess your SOC maturity and learn how to optimize Cisco Security deployments alongside Splunk Enterprise Security and SOAR.

[BRKOBS-2625]: One Step Ahead: Detecting and Defeating Adversarial Attacks with Cisco XDR and Splunk ES

• Speaker: Aditya Sankar (Technical Product Manager)
• Time: Tuesday, Nov 10 | 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM AEDT | Room 217
• Overview: Live demonstrations of complex, multi-stage adversarial attack scenarios and how unified telemetry contains threats faster.

[BRKOBS-2626]: Solving the Detection Dilemma: Renovating Your Security Foundations for an Agentic SOC Future

• Speaker: James Young (Principal Security Architect)
• Time: Wednesday, Nov 11 | 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM AEDT | Room 217
• Overview: Tackle false positives and SOC fatigue with a redesigned detection framework built for high-efficacy SecOps.

[BRKOBS-2629]: Attackers Got Agentic. Your SOC Needs More Than Agents

• Speakers: David Gamer, David Dalling
• Time: Wednesday, Nov 11 | 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM AEDT | Room 217
• Overview: Discover how Detection, Investigation, and Response Agents collaborate through governed decision gates using Cisco Data Fabric and Splunk.

Security Lightning Talk

[LTSSEC-1741]: No Worries in the SOC: How Splunk AI Turns Tier 1 Analysts into Legends

• Speaker: Bruce Snell

  • Tuesday, Nov 10 | 3:30 – 3:45 PM AEDT | Lightning Theatre 1 – World of Solutions
  • Wednesday, Nov 11 | 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM AEDT | Lightning Theatre 2 – World of Solutions

• Overview: See how the AI Assistant for Security acts as an on-demand mentor for front-line defenders.

Observability: Optimize AI at Scale

Use Splunk Observability to monitor modern applications and AI workloads. Sessions cover infrastructure resilience, AI agent behavior and accuracy, token use, and autonomous troubleshooting with AI SRE.

Technical Breakouts

[BRKOBS-2630]: Digital Resilience by Design: Evaluating the Business Impact of AI Agents

• Speaker: Haydn Bowers (Advisor: Observability)
• Time: Tuesday, Nov 10 | 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM AEDT | Room 216
• Overview: Learn how to monitor AI agent interactions against critical business KPIs using Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) and predictive analytics.

[BRKOBS-2656]: From Experiment to Production: A Guide to Trustworthy, Resilient AI Agents with Splunk

• Speakers: Haydn Bowers, Mukund Babbar
• Time: Tuesday, Nov 10 | 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM AEDT | Room 217
• Overview: A practical guide for evaluating AI agent accuracy, safety, and business value—ensuring your agents deliver real revenue and CSAT outcomes.

[BRKOBS-2627]: One Observability Strategy for Every Workload: From Legacy Applications to Cloud Native and AI Agents

• Speaker: Mukund Babbar (Staff Observability Architect)
• Time: Wednesday, Nov 11 | 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM AEDT | Room 217
• Overview: Architectural walkthroughs exploring OpenTelemetry, eBPF, and OpenLLMetry to build end-to-end visibility across complex, multi-generational stacks.

Customer Story and Executive Session

Customer Story: Resilience Blueprint: NH Bank and Cisco CX Co-Engineered AI-Ready Network Operation Model [CSSOBS-2396]

• Speakers: John Jeonghum Kim, Won Hee Jang
• Time: Monday, Nov 9 | 4:30 PM – 5:15 PM AEDT | Room 218
• Overview: Join us to gain a proven, services-led blueprint for building a compliant, resilient, and AI-ready enterprise.

Observability Lightning Talks

[LTSOBS-1742]: Addressing the ASD AI Harness Recommendations with Splunk Agent Observability

• Speaker: Haydn Bowers

  • Wednesday, Nov 11 | 11:45 AM – 12:00 PM AEDT | Lightning Theatre 2 – World of Solutions
  • Wednesday, Nov 11 | 1:45 PM – 2:00 PM AEDT | Lightning Theatre 2 – World of Solutions

• Overview: Practical alignment with Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) guidelines for AI agent governance.

Explore the World of Solutions

Visit the World of Solutions show floor to try the technology, meet technical leaders, and see Splunk in action.

Digital Resilience Pulse Wall and Demo Pods

Experience our 12-foot-tall cinematic LED display simulating a digital enterprise in action. Watch real-time traffic move across Healthy, Attack, and Performance Degradation states. Drill down into real UI workflows at 8 interactive kiosks and 6 dedicated demo pods spanning Digital Resilience and AI-Ready Data Center areas. Don’t miss the Splunk Arcade and KubeDoom capture-the-flag stations!

Splunk Lounge and Barista Café

Grab a fresh Melbourne coffee and pull up a chair in the World of Solutions showcase. Connect 1:1 with architects during Ask the Expert hours:

• Monday: 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
• Tuesday: 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
• Wednesday: 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM & 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
• Thursday: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Behind-the-Scenes NOC and SOC Tours

Visit the heart of Cisco Live operations in the Cisco Stand. See live event dashboards powered by Splunk, chat with our new NOC AI Agent, and see how Cisco Cloud Control and Splunk Enterprise Security defend the event in real time with live NOC and SOC tours.

Networking and Celebrations

• Welcome Reception: Monday, Nov 9 | 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM AEDT | World of Solutions
• Splunk Customer & Partner Reception: Wednesday, Nov 11 | 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM AEDT | Melbourne Cellar Door (South Wharf)
• Cisco Customer Achievement Awards 2026 APJC: Recognizing outstanding digital resilience and AI innovation finalists.
• Cisco Live Celebration Night: Wednesday, Nov 11 | 6:30 PM – 10:30 PM AEDT | Main Arena — featuring host Brihony Dawson, DJs, and headliner Hot Dub Time Machine!

Book a 1:1 Executive or Technical Meeting

Discuss architecture roadmaps, licensing strategies, or long-term transformation plans with Cisco and Splunk leaders.

Request 1:1 briefing sessions in our dedicated Meeting Centre suites (4-seater and 10-seater rooms).

Meet with Cisco executives — including Craig Bates (SVP Splunk APJC), Seth Brickman (VP Product Management), Justin Barney (SVP Sales), and David Dalling (GVP GTM) — by reaching out to your account manager or booking via the Cisco Live Scheduler tool.

Plan Your Melbourne Experience

Register for Cisco Live APJC: Visit the Official Cisco Live Melbourne Registration Page. (Remember: Cisco Learning Credits can be applied toward Full Conference and Technical Seminar passes!).

Build Your Agenda: Log into the Cisco Live Session Catalogue and search for Splunk or specific session IDs (BRKOBS-2624, BRKOBS-2625, etc.) to reserve your seat.

Download the Mobile App: Get the Cisco Events App for real-time schedule updates, interactive venue maps, and the Cisco Live Challenge leaderboard.