Cisco Live 2026 Fits Collaboration Into Cisco’s AI Platform Strategy

InnovationCloudCisco Live 2026 Fits Collaboration Into Cisco’s AI Platform StrategyByMelody Brue,Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Principal Analyst, FinTechfor Moor Insights and StrategyFollow AuthorJun 12, 2026, 01:32pm EDTAt Cisco Live 2026, Snorre Kjesbu, senior vice president and general manager for Webex devices at Cisco, showed off the Cisco Board Pro G3 for AI-powered video conferencing and collaboration.Melody BrueThe Cisco Live U.S. 2026 conference put Cisco’s strategy in sharper focus, positioning the company as the control plane for AI-driven enterprise infrastructure. That message came through in discussions of networking, security, observability and collaboration, but it was especially notable how clearly collaboration was woven into the broader portfolio story.Moor Insights & Strategy CEO and chief analyst Patrick Moorhead’s coverage of Cisco Live is useful for its broader architectural context, as it frames Cisco’s thesis that the network is becoming the AI platform. That’s important here because the same shift is what makes Cisco’s story for its collaboration and Webex offerings feel more credible and better integrated for enterprise customers than it has in the past.(Note: Cisco is an advisory client of my firm, Moor Insights & Strategy.)Cisco’s Platform Story For Enterprises Is Getting ClearerCisco has talked about platform breadth for years, but this event showed a more coherent model for how that breadth fits together in service of the work that faces corporate IT departments every day. The company connected Cloud Control, Cisco IQ and Splunk into a shared narrative around agentic operations, digital resilience and cross-domain visibility, presenting networking, security and observability as parts of one architecture rather than adjacent product categories.That direction lines up with what enterprise buyers are looking for. Companies are under pressure to move AI from pilots to production w...