Top 10 Splunk Things To Do at Cisco Live in Amsterdam

As a Splunk customer, prospect, or partner, you may be wondering whether to attend Cisco Live Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) in Amsterdam. There are so many reasons why you should.

We’re Bringing the Best of Splunk to Cisco Live in Amsterdam

Cisco Live EMEA is now a key destination for Splunk technical content, community building, and product innovation.

Cisco Live offers innovation-packed keynotes, technical training, and professional networking. You’ll find a massive Splunk presence on the show floor dedicated to digital resilience, Splunk products, and integrations with other Cisco products.

We’ve curated dozens of sessions that focus on Splunk use cases, from advanced threat hunting to unified observability. Plus, Cisco Live EMEA  is your opportunity to meet the engineers behind the products, hear from and network with fellow customers, and learn firsthand what’s new and what’s coming.

Cisco Customers and Partners: Learn More About Splunk

If you’re a Cisco customer or partner who is new to Splunk, come and discover how Splunk adds value to your Cisco investments. By integrating Splunk with your existing Cisco footprint, you can achieve end-to-end visibility and security across your entire infrastructure, at massive (some might say ludicrous) scale. You’ll see firsthand how this combination creates a more secure and resilient digital enterprise.

Experience the Power of Cisco and Splunk Integrations

At Cisco Live EMEA, you won’t just hear about integrations; you’ll experience them through interactive demos and expert-led sessions.

For example, visit the World of Solutions to see how Splunk Enterprise Security and Cisco Security Cloud work together to streamline threat detection. Join a SOC tour for a behind-the-scenes look at real-time threat response or attend a keynote deep dive on Splunk Observability Cloud.

In keynotes and breakout sessions, we’ll demonstrate how our unified portfolio and AI innovations, such as Cisco Data Fabric and AI Canvas, provide the foundation for digital resilience in the AI era. Come see how these technologies work in real-time to protect and optimize your entire digital footprint.

Top 10 Splunk Experiences Cisco Live EMEA

1. See How Splunk and Cisco Run Their SOC

Security Operations Center (SOC) Tours

Join a 30-minute, small group guided tour to see how Cisco and Splunk detect and respond to real-time threats using advanced security technologies. The tour includes a live briefing and Q&A with engineers. You can find the SOC Tours in the World of Solutions – Digital Resilience. Reservations are not required but highly encouraged due to small tour size. You can also book private SOC tours with your sales team leader.

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2. Dive In: Keynote and Keynote Deep Dives

Get an inside view into what’s new at the Main State Keynote. Then get more detailed insights at Keynote Deep Dives for further exploration of topics presented on the main stage.

Main Stage Keynote: What’s New Starts Now!

Tuesday, Feb 10 | 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. CET

This year’s keynote features Jeetu Patel, President and Chief Product Officer, Cisco EMEA leaders Gordon Thomson and Adele Trombetta, and Ralk Huebenthal, Global Head of IT Platforms at Nestlé S.A. Cisco leaders, customers, and industry experts will reveal the latest breakthroughs powering AI-ready data centers, future-proofed workplaces, and digital resilience—including solutions designed to meet Europe’s growing need for data sovereignty.

Agents on the Wire: Securing the Network When Attackers and Your Apps Run on AI

Tuesday, Feb 10 | 3:45 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. CET

Learn how Cisco’s security solutions combat AI-driven attacks with identity-first access and policy-driven segmentation. Get a clear view of how Cisco is fusing security into the network simplify your operations, tighten compliance, accelerate troubleshooting, and reduce breach impact. This Keynote Deep Dive is presented by Tom Gillis (SVP/GM Infrastructure & Security, Cisco), Kamal Hathi (SVP/GM, Splunk, Cisco), and Peter Baily (SVP/GM, Security, Cisco). Register now.

Digital Resilience in the Agentic AI Era: Get Ahead of Issues and Minimize Business Impact

Wednesday, Feb 11 | 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. CET

Learn how to use Agentic AI to detect, investigate, and remediate threats and issues. Discover how easyJet is using agentic AI and Splunk to detect and remediate threats, ensuring AI system security and business resilience. You’ll hear from Paul Midian (CISO, easyJet) and James Hodge (VP, Sales – Splunk, Cisco). Register now.

3. Gain Insight at Product Strategy Overview Presentations

These Product Strategy Overviews (PSOs) provide insights into Splunk products, strategies, and solutions. See the session catalog to add these sessions to your schedule.

Cisco Data Fabric for the Agentic AI Era [PSOAI-1399]

Wednesday, Feb 11 | 11:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Learn how the Cisco Data Fabric, the AI-first data architecture for Splunk, enables digital resilience in the new agentic AI era, ensuring your business can build and deploy AI rapidly, operate reliably across edge-to-cloud, and secure data and systems end to end at scale.

Power the Agentic SOC with Splunk [PSOSEC-2401]

Thursday, Feb 12 | 3:30 p.m. - 4 p.m. CET

See the real impact of Agentic AI on the future of security operations. We’ll examine how Splunk is enabling the Agentic SOC, harnessing AI agents to drive efficiency across TDIR workflows. Learn how Agentic AI can amplify existing threats and expand your attack surface. We’ll dive into practical mitigation strategies, including real-time monitoring, anomaly detection, and human-in-the-loop controls to maintain oversight.

Splunk Platform [PSOENS-1400]

Monday, Feb 9 | 5:10 p.m. - 5:40 p.m. CET

Learn how the Splunk Platform, at the heart of the Cisco Data Fabric, unlocks the power of all your data, breaking down silos and delivering real-time insights. We’ll discuss why having a strong data strategy is essential for security, network, IT, and development teams. See how unified data can help you improve operations, boost innovation, and gain a competitive advantage with Cisco and Splunk.

4. Connect With experts 1:1 and at Interactive Breakout Sessions

Connect with experts to discuss your specific business challenges, meet engineers, attend a walk-in lab, and more. Your account manager can help connect you with the right expert. And you can connect with Splunk at our demo stations in the World of Solutions.

Another great way to connect is to attend interactive breakout sessions featuring Splunk:

Learn more and register here.

5. Learn More at Technical Seminars

Looking for a technical educational experience? Join a Splunk Technical Seminar. Note that Technical Seminars are priced in addition to your Full Conference pass or IT Leadership pass fee. You can purchase a Technical Seminar on the registration portal.

Build a Better Mousetrap with Cisco Security and Splunk [TECSEC-2014]

Monday, Feb. 9 | 2:15 – 6:45 p.m. CET

This session will help you assess where you stand on the SOC Maturity spectrum and show you how to enhance your security through the strategic deployment of Cisco and Splunk solutions. It will feature a blend of informative instructions and demos, focusing on using Cisco XDR to optimize your Cisco Security deployment and leveraging Splunk Enterprise Security and SOAR to create comprehensive view of your security infrastructure.

From Data to Action: Transforming Sustainability Observability with Splunk AI [TECOBS-2693]

Monday, Feb. 9 | 2:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. CET

Learn how to create advanced Splunk custom dashboards focused on sustainability in enterprise and data center networking. See how to use Splunk AI assistance to write queries, chat with the AI Assistant iteratively to generate SPL, drill down into your Splunk data for deeper insights, and more. You’ll get practical strategies to optimize network performance, enhance sustainability tracking, and drive better business outcomes. Due to the interactive elements in the session, please bring a laptop or tablet.

6. See Splunk Center Stage Sessions

Splunk will be featured in Center Stage sessions throughout the event.

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

Monday, Feb. 9 | 1:45 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. CET

David Dalling, GVP Splunk Security Specialist, Cisco

Organizations are moving to the Agentic SOC with Splunk’s industry-leading SecOps platform, Enterprise Security. 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 worked side by side with our own SOC and thousands of global teams on the front lines of the Agentic transformation. We’ll share the most compelling insights, surprising lessons, and practical strategies for building a modern Agentic SOC that is human led, machine accelerated, and ready for what comes next. Register now

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

Tuesday, Feb. 10 | 1:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. CET

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

The Cisco Data Fabric architecture evolves Splunk Platform into a unified, AI ready analytics fabric that keeps data where it lives while making it readily accessible by assistants and autonomous agents. See how a governed Machine Data Lake, federated search, and an AI-powered metadata catalog and knowledge graph turn raw machine data into consistent, contextual "truth" that AI can safely act on to shrink investigation times and unlock efficiencies with automation. Learn how to align spend to business outcomes with tiered storage and "promote what matters" strategies. Register now

Security in the Era of AI [CENAI-1325]

Thursday, Feb. 12 | 1:30 AM - 12:00 PM CET

Yaron Singer, VP, Engineering and AI, Cisco

Learn about Foundation AI, a new Cisco initiative designed to accelerate AI transformation in cybersecurity. Built by leading AI and security researchers, Foundation AI delivers open-source, security-tuned models, tools, and datasets that give defenders the control, deployability, and performance they can’t get from proprietary APIs. We’ll show why open innovation is essential for modern security workflows, how small, specialized models can outperform general-purpose LLMs orders of magnitude larger, and what new capabilities Foundation AI is releasing from our purpose-built base model and reasoning model to new real-world benchmarks and AI supply-chain risk intelligence. Register now

7. Catch Splunk at Theater Presentations

Register in advance or simply stop by and grab a seat at these high-energy presentations, located in the Digital Resilience area of the World of Solutions. Registration is available via the session catalog.

Cisco Data Fabric and the Splunk Platform: From Machine Data to Agentic Operations

See how Cisco Data Fabric and Splunk enable automated, agentic operations from machine data.

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

Explore the Agentic SOC model that uses data and AI to scale security operations and stop threats faster.

Unify, Innovate, and Future-Proof: Unlocking Digital Resilience with the Splunk Platform

Discover how the Splunk platform turns data chaos into strategic advantage, accelerating innovation and building digital resilience for AI.

Eliminate Data Silos and Streamline Workflows with Unified Observability from Splunk

Learn how Splunk unifies observability to simplify incident response and optimize application and infrastructure performance.

8. Check out Splunk-focused Breakout Sessions

Breakout sessions provide deep-dive technical knowledge, best practices, and real-world implementation and deployment strategies. There are too many to list in this blog — go to the Session Catalog for the full list and to register.

Here are just a few that feature Splunk:

Leverage the Power of Splunk Using the Latest Cisco Security Integrations

Tuesday, Feb. 10 | 2 - 3:00 p.m. CET

Investigate and respond faster with Splunk's powerful analytics and data management and Cisco's network visibility. See how to streamline threat detection, investigation and response with automated workflows to stop lateral movement in the network. Learn about Splunk's Federated Firewall Analytics capability, the Cisco Security Cloud App on Splunk, and more.

Splunk Unlocks Insights with Generative and Agentic AI Like Never Before

Wednesday, Feb. 11 | 8 a.m. - 9 a.m. CET

Explore Splunk’s latest Generative and Agentic AI capabilities including new Splunk-hosted LLMs, Splunk MCP Servier, and foundational models like our Time Series Foundation Model, which brings anomaly detection, predictive analytics, and natural language summarization to even the messiest operational data.

Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) - A Unified View for Network Service Health

Wednesday, Feb. 11 | 1:45 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. CET

Discover how Splunk IT Service Intelligence integrates data from multiple network controllers into a single interface to accelerate issue detection and root cause analysis. Learn how advanced machine learning helps minimize downtime and optimize network performance for business continuity.

Close the App-Network Gap: Monitor Tetragon (eBPF) Telemetry in Splunk Observability

Wednesday, Feb. 11 | 5:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. CET

With Isovalent Tetragon (eBPF) streaming kernel-level DNS/TCP/HTTP verdicts, Splunk Observability now correlates traces, metrics, logs, and real network flows. Learn how to (1) collect and label Tetragon telemetry using the Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector, (2) pivot from a slow trace span to Tetragon flows and verdicts in dashboards/navigators, and (3) operationalize alerting and SLOs that include network context. The session includes a live demo that follows an SRE from APM to Network Explorer and down to the precise rule/external hop causing trouble.

9. See the Latest Live Demos of Real-World Scenarios

Visit the Digital Resilience Pavillion in the World of Solutions where our experts will be running live demos throughout the week, showcasing real-world scenarios for security, observability, and the Splunk platform. Bring your questions!

10. Schmooze with Splunk and Cisco

Cisco Live isn't all work! Join us at fun social events where you can network with peers, partners, and the Splunk team in a relaxed environment. Join us at the World of Solutions Reception on Tuesday, February 10 from 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. CET.

Have a blast and experience an unforgettable celebration at our annual event for our attendees! The Cisco Live Celebration on Thursday, February 12, 6:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. CET. Join us for live music and delicious food and drink.

Join us Monday February 9, 2026 at Splunk Partner Day. Located at the Forum | RAI Amsterdam. We will have a dedicated Splunk space with our friendly partner team available to chat.

Even More Reasons To Attend Cisco Live EMEA

Cisco Live delivers the latest technical education, insights, and inspiration to support your personal and professional success. Last year’s attendees gave the event top marks in the 2025 Cisco Live EMEA onsite survey:

Register for Cisco Live by visiting the Registration Packages page and see which pass type is best for you. After you register, visit the Cisco Live EMEA Session Catalog to choose your Cisco Live adventure.

We can’t wait to see you there! Don’t forget your comfortable shoes.

Can’t make it in person? We’ll miss you, but you can watch the Cisco Live Broadcast February 10-12, 2026.

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