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Cisco Live 2025

June 8, 2025 - June 12, 2025 San Diego, CASan Diego Convention Center
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Visit Red Hat at booth #2534 at Cisco Live 2025!

Connect with Red Hat at booth #2534 during Cisco Live 2025 to check out new product demos, mini-theater sessions, and learn how Red Hat and Cisco simplify hybrid cloud adoption providing a more consistent and automated development and operations experience for digital transformation and IT modernization.

Cisco and Red Hat offer joint industry-standard solutions that operationalize open source software to help you rapidly develop, deploy, and run business-essential applications securely and reliably in multicloud domains.

With the unique ability to anticipate and react to changing demands, Cisco and Red Hat solutions help you simplify network and edge automation, give you uninterrupted Kubernetes integration, and optimize configurations for data-intensive and AI workloads. Explore our strategic partnership further below. 

Speaking Sessions

Monday, June 9

1:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Splunk + Red Hat - Unifying Observability and Automation

Dafne Mendoza,

Principal Product Manager

Tuesday, June 10

11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Red Hat and Cisco: Accelerating modernization together in the AI era

Sean Cavanaugh

11:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m.

Master the Move: Migrating VMs to OpenShift Virtualization in 60 Minutes!

Stefano Gioia,

Technical Solution Architect, Cisco

3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Transition to a New Hypervisor & Build AI Infrastructures Simultaneously with Red Hat OpenShift and Cisco UCS

Michael Hrivnak

Wednesday, June 11

1:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Splunk + Red Hat - Unifying Observability and Automation

Dafne Mendoza,

Principal Product Manager

Thursday, June 12

12:30 p.m. - 12:50 p.m.

Get started with Ansible Automation Platform’s generative AI service

Dafne Mendoza
Icon-Red_Hat-Media_and_documents-Quotemark_Open-B-Red-RGB We’re optimizing and aligning more Cisco products with Red Hat software platforms through technology integrations that enable an open, hybrid cloud environment spanning multiple areas, including embedded platforms, compute, and automation.

Jeremy Foster

SVP and GM, Cisco Compute, Cisco Systems

Red Hat Lab DevNet Automation Workshops

Red Hat, in conjunction with the Cisco DevNet team, is offering a series of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform challenges onsite. Due to popular demand, these are completely waitlisted. If you still have an interest in completing these hands-on challenges come to the Red Hat booth and we will set you up with additional ways to complete the labs.  

Mini theater sessions

Red Hat will be featuring 10 rotating mini-theater sessions in-booth during Cisco Live! Don’t miss your opportunity to hear from our experts and partners– plus collect some Red Hat swag along the way! Check out our sessions below and plan to attend!

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Giveaways

Red Hat is going to have many in-booth giveaways! Stop by our booth during exhibit hours and explore the many ways to get your hands on the latest Red Hat swag. 

Build with us

Come build with us! Stop by our booth and collaborate with other attendees by building our in-booth collage. 

Mini-Theater Schedule

Monday, June 9 

  • 2:00-2:30: Manage Source of Truth and Configuration Drift with Ansible Automation Platform EDA and Netbox, Tony Dubeil and Rich Bibby
  • 2:30-3:00: Riding the Next Wave of Virtualization with Red Hat & Portworx, George James
  • 3:00-3:30: Take action automatically on Splunk alerts, Dafne Mendoza and Anush Jayaraman
  • 3:30-4:00: Navigating the AI Seas: Build on Your Terms with Red Hat & Cisco
  • 4:00-4:30: Optimizing Day 2 Operations with Cisco Compute and Ansible Automation, Steve Fulmer
  • 4:30-5:00: Getting started with Ansible Automation Platform for Network Automation, Rohit Thakur and Sean Cavanaugh
  • 5:00-5:30: Network to code with Nautobot, Dafne Mendoza

Tuesday, June 10 

  • 11:00-11:30: Meraki / Ansible - Ansible Network Automation with  Cisco Nexus, Dafne Mendoza and Oren Brigg
  • 11:30-12:00: Getting started with Ansible Automation Platform for Network Automation, Demond Green and Dafne Mendoza
  • 1:00-1:30: Take action automatically on Splunk alerts, Steve Fulmer and David Tharp
  • 1:30-2:00: Setting Sail for Success with FlexPod: Navigate Virtualization and AI Workloads with Red Hat and NetApp, George James
  • 2:00-2:30: Unlock AIOps with Ansible Automation Platform, Sean Cavanaugh
  • 2:30-3:00: Riding the Next Wave of Virtualization with Red Hat & Portworx, George James
  • 3:00-3:30: Cisco Datacenter Network Automation with  Ansible Automation Platform,
    Dafne Mendoza with Matt Tarkington of Cisco
  • 3:30-4:00: Optimizing Day 2 Operations with Cisco Compute and Ansible Automation, Steve Fulmer
  • 4:00-4:30: Isovalent powered virtualization with Red Hat Openshift, Chris Calderon and Duffie Cooley
  • 4:30-5:00: Insight the BP on Cisco and Ansible , Sean Cavanaugh and Matt Darlington

Wednesday, June 11

  • 10:30-11:00: Unlock AIOps with Ansible Automation Platform, Sean Cavanaugh
  • 11:00-11:30: Meraki / Ansible - Collaboration in the cloud, Dafne Mendoza and Oren Brigg
  • 11:30-12:00: Network Source of Truth and Config Drift Checking with EDA and Netbox, Tony Dubiel and Rich Bibby
  • 1:30-2:00: Setting Sail for Success with FlexPod: Navigate Virtualization and AI Workloads with Red Hat and NetApp, George James
  • 2:00-2:30: Getting started with Network Automation , Demond Green
  • 2:30-3:00: Write Better Playbooks, Sean Cavanaugh
  • 3:00-3:30: Ask me Anything: Ansible Automation Platform, Sean Cavanaugh
  • 3:30-4:00: Navigating the AI Seas: Build on Your Terms with Red Hat & Cisco
  • 4:00-4:30: AIOps with Red Hat and Cisco, Sean Cavanaugh and Taylor Donnelly

Thursday, June 12

  • 10:30-11:00: Getting started with Ansible Automation Platform for Network Automation, Rohit Thakur
  • 11:00-11:30: Isovalent powered virtualization with Openshift, Chris Calderon and Duffie Cooley
  • 11:30-12:00: Network Source of Truth and Config Drift Checking with EDA and Netbox, Tony Dubiel
Icon-Red_Hat-Media_and_documents-Quotemark_Open-B-Red-RGB Red Hat has been an important strategic partner in building solutions to help our customers tackle numerous challenges and meet their business objectives. Ansible Automation Platform is a key component of these solutions. As an open, trusted automation platform, it provides our customers with a simplified path to DevOps/GitOps while preserving the full power and capabilities of their Cisco networking, compute and security investments.

Wes Kinard

Global Strategic Partner Manager, Cisco Systems