How Cisco Is Becoming AI-Native: Jeetu Patel on Agents, Security and Work

Cisco's AI-native push runs on two tracks at once. The first is people: redesigning how 90,000 employees actually work with AI — Patel's message to the company is to become dangerously good at it, without waiting for permission. The second is machines: rebuilding security for autonomous agents that act on their own.

Jeetu Patel, Cisco's President and Chief Product Officer, talks through what that transformation looks like from the top of one of the world's largest infrastructure companies — how work changes, how agents are secured, and what both mean for the people doing the work today.