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After two extremely dense and informative days of Cisco's analyst program at Cisco Live! 2025 which too place in San Diego, Leonard Lee of neXt Curve and Maribel Lopez of Lopez Research sat down in the analyst forum plenary ballroom to tape what was supposed to be a greeting video to Jo Peterson, a mutual friend who has been on the neXt Curve podcast. Hi, Jo!

The analyst relations team at Cisco put on a fantastic program this year to give analyst the opportunity to engage with the Cisco executives who were amazingly generous with their time. Maribel and Leonard provide share highlights from two-days of session, roundtables, 1-on-1 briefings, and announcement-packed keynotes.

Maribel and Leonard hit on the following topics:

➡️ Everyone is talking about AI. How is Cisco talking about it? (2:20)

➡️ Network and security convergence (4:00)

➡️ Platformization - the value and the challenges for Cisco (6:18)

➡️ Balancing of consolidation and integration on the road to pjatformization (9:21)

➡️ The great hope and the great threat of agentic AI (12:05)

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