Trust, Infrastructure, And The Real Work Of Scaling Agentic Ai
Cisco, Thursday, February 5th, 2026
At the Cisco AI Summit, Cisco convened enterprise, government, and ecosystem leaders to have a candid, non-sales discussion about what it actually takes to deploy AI at scale. The event focused on trust, infrastructure readiness, agentic operations, and governance as the gating factors for moving AI from pilots in 2025 to measurable ROI and production impact in 2026.
From my vantage point theCUBE Research AppDev research, what Cisco underscored at the AI Summit is not just a vendor mantra; it mirrors hard market signals we're seeing across multiple independent industry data sources.
According to the latest enterprise AI adoption research, 78% of large organizations now report actively implementing AI solutions, and investment in generative AI exploded to an estimated $37 billion in 2025, with an average reported ROI of about $3.70 per dollar invested when governance and frameworks are in place.