Outshift By Cisco On Connecting The Next Generation Of AI Agents
Release Date: 06/02/2026
Cisco Live: Why the Future Of Work Is About Outcomes, Not Occupancy
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What is the office actually for? It's a question that many organizations are still wrestling with as they balance flexibility, collaboration, employee expectations, and business performance. At Cisco Live, I sat down with Christian Bigsby, Senior Vice President of Workplaces at Cisco, to discuss how the role of the workplace is changing and why measuring success by attendance alone may no longer make sense. Christian shares how Cisco has rethought the relationship between people, place, and technology, bringing together teams that traditionally operated separately to create a more connected...
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Cisco Live: Aruna Ravichandran on Trust, AI Agents, and the Next Era of Networking
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What happens when the newest users on your network aren't people at all? At Cisco Live, I sat down with Aruna Ravichandran, SVP and CMO for AI, Networking, and Collaboration at Cisco, to discuss a shift that could change how organizations think about networks, operations, and AI over the coming years. For decades, enterprise networks have been built around human behavior. People work predictable hours, take holidays, and generally follow familiar patterns. AI agents are different. They work continuously, analyze information around the clock, and increasingly act as digital teammates that can...
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Oyster CEO on Remote Work, AI, Global Teams and the Future of Work
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Have you ever wondered whether the skills that build a company are the same skills needed to scale it? In today's episode of Tech Talks Daily, I sit down with Hadi Moussa, the newly appointed CEO of Oyster, the global employment platform helping businesses hire, pay, and support talent in more than 180 countries. The conversation comes at a fascinating moment for the company, following founder Tony Jamous' decision to step into the Executive Chairman role and hand over the CEO position from a place of strength rather than necessity. What makes this leadership transition particularly...
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Zscaler's Ripple Effect Report Reveals The Cyber Resilience Gap
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Are organizations investing enough in cybersecurity, or are they simply spending more money while falling further behind? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Martyn Ditchburn, CTO in Residence for EMEA at Zscaler, about the findings from the company's latest Ripple Effect Report and what it reveals about the growing gap between cybersecurity investment and true organizational resilience. Drawing on insights from more than 1,700 IT leaders across 14 countries, Martyn explains why many organizations are still struggling to adapt to a threat landscape that is evolving faster than...
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Outshift By Cisco On Connecting The Next Generation Of AI Agents
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At Cisco Live, I sat down with Papi Menon, Vice President of Product Management at Outshift by Cisco, to explore one of the most ambitious ideas emerging in the AI world today. While much of the industry remains focused on larger models and individual AI agents, Outshift is asking a different question. What happens when millions of AI agents need to collaborate across organizations, platforms, and industries? Papi joined me to explain the thinking behind Outshift, Cisco's emerging technology and incubation group, and the work they're doing to help shape the next era of AI. Our conversation...
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Zoho On Balancing AI Innovation With Trust, Control, And Digital Sovereignty
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Can businesses embrace AI without surrendering control over their data, technology choices, and future direction? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I sit down with Sachin Agrawal, Managing Director of Zoho UK, to discuss one of the biggest challenges facing organizations today. As AI adoption accelerates, many leaders are finding themselves caught between the pressure to innovate and the responsibility to maintain trust, transparency, and control. Sachin shares his perspective on what separates successful AI adoption from costly experimentation. Drawing on his experience leading Zoho's...
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Risk Ledger Explains The Hidden Risks Inside Modern AI Supply Chains
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What happens when the weakest link in your technology supply chain becomes the entry point for a national security incident? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I welcome back Haydn Brooks, CEO and founder of Risk Ledger, to discuss why supply chain security has moved from an IT concern to a boardroom and government priority. As organizations race to adopt AI, connect more systems, and depend on increasingly complex ecosystems of vendors, partners, cloud providers, and third-party services, the attack surface continues to expand in ways many businesses still struggle to understand. Haydn...
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How TinyMCE Is Bringing AI Directly Into The Content Creation Workflow
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Have you ever stopped to think about the technology powering almost every text box you interact with online? Whether you're applying for a job, drafting a legal contract, publishing content, or updating a website, there's a good chance a rich text editor is quietly working behind the scenes. In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I caught up with Fredrik Danielsson, Product Manager at TinyMCE, to discuss how one of the internet's most widely used editing platforms is evolving for the AI era. Frédéric shares the remarkable story behind TinyMCE, a tool that traces its roots back to the early...
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Can AI Improve Trust Between Political Campaigns And Voters?
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Have you ever wondered why political campaigns can send millions of text messages but still struggle to have meaningful conversations with voters? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I sit down with Tom Carroll, Co-Founder of Convos, a startup rethinking how political campaigns communicate through SMS. While political texting has become a standard part of modern campaigning, Tom argues that the industry has spent years solving the problem of message delivery while largely ignoring what happens when voters actually respond. We explore how Convos is building a conversational SMS infrastructure...
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Adobe Summit: Why Context Is the Missing Ingredient in Enterprise AI
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How do you move beyond AI experimentation and start building systems that can genuinely reason, act, and create value across an enterprise? Recorded at Adobe Summit in Las Vegas, this episode features Daniel Sheinberg, who leads cross-portfolio product initiatives for Adobe's Customer Experience Orchestration business. Daniel is at the center of Adobe's AI and agentic strategy, helping shape how some of the world's largest organizations think about the next generation of customer experiences. During our conversation, Daniel cuts through the hype surrounding agentic AI and explains what...
info_outlineAt Cisco Live, I sat down with Papi Menon, Vice President of Product Management at Outshift by Cisco, to explore one of the most ambitious ideas emerging in the AI world today.
While much of the industry remains focused on larger models and individual AI agents, Outshift is asking a different question. What happens when millions of AI agents need to collaborate across organizations, platforms, and industries?
Papi joined me to explain the thinking behind Outshift, Cisco's emerging technology and incubation group, and the work they're doing to help shape the next era of AI. Our conversation explored concepts such as the Internet of Agents, the Internet of Cognition, and AGNTCY, an open-source initiative designed to create the foundations for agent-to-agent collaboration at scale.
We discuss why connecting AI agents is only the first step, why shared intent and shared context could become as important as connectivity itself, and how organizations may need entirely new infrastructure to support an increasingly agent-driven future. Papi also shares his perspective on the challenges of interoperability, governance, trust, and security as AI systems become more autonomous and interconnected.
The discussion moves beyond today's AI headlines and into the bigger questions facing the technology industry. If the internet connected people and systems, what infrastructure will be needed to connect intelligence itself? And what role can open standards play in ensuring that future remains collaborative rather than fragmented?
Whether you're a technology leader, developer, strategist, or simply curious about where AI is heading next, this conversation offers a fascinating glimpse into how Cisco is thinking about the future of agentic computing and the foundations that may underpin the next major platform shift in technology.
How do you think AI agents will collaborate in the future, and should that future be built on open standards or closed ecosystems?