Cisco Live Amsterdam | Feb 9-13
Meet Isovalent at Cisco Live Amsterdam
Join us at Cisco Live Amsterdam and discover how eBPF-powered networking, security and observability are shaping the future of the cloud native infrastructure.
Isovalent will be hosting multiple demo pods, expert talks, and hands-on sessions throughout the week.
Isovalent Demo Pods
Hybrid Mesh Firewall | Cisco Secure Workload | Cisco Smart Switch
Enforce Segmentation Everywhere | AIDC28
Segmentation that mets you where you are. Learn how Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall can help you on your segmentation journey by providing agentless and agent based segmentation for your traditional and modern applications including Kubernetes, there by minimizing attack surface and stopping unauthorized lateral movement.
Hybrid Mesh Firewall | Isovalent
Secure AI infrastructure | AIDC32
No matter how well you secure the models and agents, AI is software running somewhere. Isovalent uses eBPF to combine network and runtime enforcement in a single system with no seams. See process-level visibility, runtime shields that block container escapes without rebooting, and workload segmentation that contains threats at the source.
Hybrid Mesh Firewall | Splunk | Cisco Cloud Control
Accelerate SecOps with network data | AIDC34
Leverage network and firewall telemetry to accelerate threat detection and response. Integrate firewall logs into Splunk, perform federated search across environments, and enable advanced threat hunting with enriched context. Correlate signals, uncover hidden threats, and act faster with unified visibility across network infrastructure and security operations.
Lightning Talk
Regain Control and Visibility across Kubernetes with Cisco’s Isovalent Enterprise Platform
Gain unified visibility, robust security, and high-performance connectivity for Kubernetes and AI workloads with Cisco’s Isovalent Enterprise Platform, simplifying complexity and empowering IT teams with deep insights and seamless integration across environments.
Speaker: Raymond de Jong
Date & Time: Monday, February 9, 12:30 - 12:45 PM CET
Location: Cisco Showcase (Hall 1), Theatre 2
Isovalent Sessions at Cisco Live Amsterdam
Technical Seminar
Automate with Agentic AI and Infrastructure-as-Code on the Cisco and NVIDIA Secure AI Factory [TECCOM-2788]
Unlock the power of AI in your organization by learning how to automate with Cisco Secure AI Factory and NVIDIA, using Infrastructure-as-Code. This session will provide practical, real-world strategies for deploying AI-driven operations with GitOps and Terraform. You'll discover how to integrate Cisco Networking, AI Pods, RedHat OpenShift, and NVIDIA AI Enterprise to prepare for an AI-driven future.
Speakers: Nico Vibert, Pedro Antunez, Matthew Howlin
Date & Time: Monday, Feb 09 | 8:30 AM - 1:00 PM CET
Location: Session Room D404
Technical Seminar
Being Successful Moving from Legacy Hypervisors to Cloud Native Platforms with Cisco and Isovalent [TECCLD-1773]
Discover how Kubernetes, KubeVirt, and the Isovalent Network Bridge can simplify VM migrations by preserving network identity and connectivity across platforms. This session covers practical strategies and live demos for minimizing downtime and operational friction during migrations. Gain actionable insights to modernize your VM operations without complex network redesigns.
Speakers: Dean Lewis & Dan Finneran
Date & Time: Monday, Feb 09 | 2:15 - 6:45 PM CET
Location: Lab 5 - E107
Technical Seminar
Cisco Hypershield: Mastering Next-Generation Security [TECSEC-2004]
Explore how Cisco Hypershield redefines application and infrastructure protection with AI-native architecture, eBPF, DPUs, and dual data plane technology for modern, multi-cloud environments. This session covers unified policy management, autonomous segmentation, and advanced threat detection, with real-world use cases and technical deep dives. Gain practical insights into transforming your organization’s security posture and simplifying operations across distributed architectures.
Speakers: Aamer Akhter & Jeroen Wittock
Date & Time: Monday, Feb 09 | 2:15 - 6:45 PM CET
Location: Session Room G103
Instructor-led Lab
ACI, Cilium, OpenShift and Rancher - How To Build an Enterprise Ready Platform [LTRSEC-2340]
Learn how to build resilient, scalable container platforms using Cilium Enterprise on RedHat OpenShift and SUSE Rancher-managed RKE2 clusters. This hands-on lab covers configuring Cilium, integrating with Cisco ACI, securing applications with advanced network policies, and leveraging observability tools like Hubble and Timescape. Gain practical skills to unify networking, security, and visibility across diverse Kubernetes environments.
Speakers: Filip Nikolic, Filip Wardzichowski, Iskander Gaifullin
Date & Time: Tuesday, Feb 10 | 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM CET
Location: Lab 1 - E103
Center Stage
Firewalling for the AI Era. Every Workload. Every Connection. Every Time. [CENSEC-1045]
Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall introduces a fundamentally new approach to firewalling: hyper-distributed threat protection and zero-trust segmentation enforced consistently across data centers, cloud, branch, and AI application environments. In this session, learn how Cisco extends network security to modern and AI-driven applications while simplifying operations powered by AI agents in Security Cloud Control. See how centralized, policy-driven management reduces complexity and operational burden across both Cisco and third-party firewalls—helping security teams move faster, reduce risk, and stay ahead of evolving threats.
Speakers: Dan Wendlandt & Rick Miles
Date & Time: Tuesday, Feb 10 | 12:15 - 12:45 PM CET
Location: Center Stage
Instructor-led Lab
Using Isovalent Tetragon and Hypershield for Runtime Security, Observability and Network Policy [LTRSEC-2170]
In this hands-on lab, explore the capabilities of Cisco Hypershield and Isovalent Enterprise for advanced runtime security and observability. Learn how to use Isovalent Tetragon with Splunk for exploit protection, automate security with DevOps tools, and implement segmentation and policy management with Hypershield. Gain practical skills for detecting vulnerabilities, enforcing security, and managing network and workload policies across your environment.
Speakers: Jeroen Wittock, Ova Bear, Duffie Cooley, Patrick Whyte
Date & Time: Wednesday, Feb 11 | 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM CET
Location: Lab 1 - E103
Breakout Session
Introduction to eBPF [BRKSEC-2169]
eBPF is an industry-changing technology that is enabling a new generation of security, networking and observability tools. This session provides an in-depth exploration of its origins, rewards, and challenges, with live demos to give you concrete explanations of what eBPF is, and how it enables advanced, high performance capabilities. You'll leave this talk understanding why eBPF has been called "Superpowers for Linux"
Speaker: Liz Rice
Date & Time: Wednesday, Feb 11 | 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CET
Location: Session Room A3
Keynote deep dive
Keynote Deep Dive- AI Data Centers: Scale, Simplified Operations, and Security at Every Layer [KDDDCN-1000]
Need to future-proof your infrastructure for the AI era? Then you cannot afford to miss this session: Build your AI-Ready Data Center so you’re ready for what comes next.
Cisco has helped customers navigate every major technology transformation of the last 30 years. Now we’re doing the same for AI, with the AI Ready Data Center.
Discover why Cisco is uniquely positioned to help organizations operationalize traditional and AI workloads, accelerating AI adoption without locking in tomorrow.
Speakers: Dan Wendlandt, Tom Gillis, Guru Shenoy, Kevin Deireling, Will Eatherton
Date & Time: Wednesday, Feb 11 | 12:30 - 1:30 PM CET
Location: Elicium 2
Breakout Session
Enhancing Cloud-Native Security: Isovalent's CNI Innovations in Kubernetes [BRKSEC-2891]
Discover how Isovalent’s Cilium and Tetragon, powered by eBPF technology, tackle the networking and security challenges of modern cloud-native applications. Learn how Cilium enhances Kubernetes networking and Tetragon delivers deep application security insights, all without kernel recompilation. Get a preview of how Cisco Hypershield will leverage these tools for a decentralized security architecture.
Speaker: Dirk Stoeckmann
Date & Time: Wednesday, Feb 11 | 3:30 - 4:30 PM CET
Location: Session Room D202
Breakout Session
The Swiss Army Knife of Cloud Native Networking [BRKCLD-1012]
Discover how Cilium, powered by eBPF, streamlines secure and scalable networking for multi-cloud and multi-tenant Kubernetes environments. Learn about advanced features like BGP, load balancing, and multi-IP pool management to optimize connectivity and high availability. Gain practical insights to enhance your Kubernetes networking architecture.
Speaker: Raymond de Jong
Date & Time: Wednesday, Feb 11 | 5:00 - 6:00 PM CET
Location: Session Room D507
Breakout Session
Close the App–Network Gap: Monitor Tetragon (eBPF) Telemetry in Splunk Observability [BRKOBS-1377]
Cloud-native teams often see problems in APM but can’t quickly prove it’s the network. This session shows how Isovalent Tetragon (eBPF) + Splunk Observability correlates traces, metrics, logs, and real DNS/TCP/HTTP flows to pinpoint DNS latency, TCP drops, or policy denies.
Learn to ingest Tetragon with the Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector, pivot from a slow trace to flows/verdicts, and build alerts/SLOs with network context, plus a live demo.
Speakers: Dean Lewis & Alec Chamberlain
Date & Time: Wednesday, Feb 11 | 5:15 - 6:15 PM CET
Location: Session Room D503
Breakout Session
Kubernetes Infrastructure Connectivity for the Modern Data Center [BRKDCN-2663]
Learn how to choose and integrate the right Container Network Interface (CNI) for scalable Kubernetes platforms, focusing on Cilium’s capabilities. This session covers seamless integration with Cisco ACI and NX-OS, network segmentation, service load balancing, and enhanced visibility. Gain practical strategies to optimize your Kubernetes networking and infrastructure.
Speaker: Camillo Rossi
Date & Time: Wednesday, Feb 11 | 5:15 - 6:15 PM CET
Location: Session Room A16
Instructor-led Lab
Create Your Cloud Platform with Infrastructure-as-Code [LTRCLD-2397]
"A cloud platform is just an automated data center"; let’s prove it. This session walks you through end-to-end automation of an on-premises cloud platform using open-source tools (Ansible, Terraform, Git, CI/CD) and Infrastructure-as-Code. You'll deploy a cloud platform from ACI and VMs to a Kubernetes cluster with Cilium CNI, then launch, secure, and observe a microservice app using Hubble.
Speakers: Pedro Antunez, Matthew Howlin, Nico Vibert, David Faxel
Date & Time: Thursday, Feb 12 | 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM CET
Location: Lab 10 - G107
Breakout Session
Taking Away the Network Pain from Cross-Hypervisor Migrations with Isovalent Network Bridge [BRKCLD-1713]
Discover how cloud native hypervisors like Kubernetes and KubeVirt, along with Isovalent Network Bridge, simplify VM migrations by overcoming networking barriers such as static IPs and topologies. Learn best practices and migration strategies to enable seamless communication between VM and Kubernetes workloads without downtime or re-IP disruptions. This session includes a technical deep dive into Cisco’s latest networking solutions for smooth, efficient VM migrations.
Speakers: Dan Finneran & Dean Lewis
Date & Time: Thursday, Feb 12 | 1:00 - 2:30 PM CET
Location: Session Room G103
Instructor-led Lab
Cisco DC Fabrics and Cilium: Deploy, Secure, and Observe Cloud-Native Applications [LTRDCN-2467]
Learn to integrate Cilium with Cisco ACI and NX-OS VXLAN EVPN for enhanced networking, security, and observability in cloud-native applications. This session covers hands-on configuration, applying network policies, and securing traffic across Cisco platforms. Gain practical insights for building and monitoring applications with confidence.
Speaker: Camillo Rossi & Rob van der Kind
Date & Time: Thursday, Feb 12 | 2:00 - 6:00 PM CET
Location: Lab 11 - G109
Breakout Session
Life of a Packet in Kubernetes: A Network Engineer’s Guide [BRKCLD-3734]
Trace and understand advanced Kubernetes traffic flows using Isovalent Cilium, covering overlays, routing, encryption, and multi-cluster networking. See live demos of key technologies and learn to troubleshoot and optimize networks with Hubble, Cilium CLI, and Wireshark. Ideal for experienced network engineers and platform teams.
Speaker: Nico Vibert
Date & Time: Thursday, Feb 12 | 3:00 - 4:30 PM CET
Location: Forum
Breakout Session
Cisco Hypershield: Mastering Next-Generation Security [BRKSEC-2265]
In this 90-minute masterclass, discover how Cisco Hypershield uses eBPF, dual dataplane, and AI to automate security, simplify policy management, and streamline CVE mitigation. See demos of automation tools and learn how to deploy adaptive segmentation strategies without disrupting applications.
Speaker: Jeroen Wittock
Date & Time: Thursday, Feb 12 | 5:00 - 6:30 PM CET
Location: Session Room A7
Special event
Isovalent Mingle at Cisco Live Amsterdam
Join Isovalent for an evening of great conversations, good food, and high-energy fun during Cisco Live Amsterdam.