Cisco’s Incubation Engine For Agentic AI And Quantum Networking

Interested in being a guest? Email us at [email protected] if the most human-feeling teammates on your projects moved at machine speed and collaborated across every vendor you use? We sit down with Vijoy Pandey is GM and Senior Vice President of Outshift to unpack how agentic AI and quantum networking move from shiny demos to dependable, scaled systems that actually ship results.We start by reframing innovation horizons around risk instead of time. Technology risk is where quantum lives today, with foundational challenges from hardware to protocol. Market risk is where agentic AI thrives, as teams test real enterprise use cases beyond coding assistants. Platform risk is the mandate for a company like Cisco: open, interoperable architectures instead of brittle point tools. That lens shapes everything OutShift builds.You’ll hear a clear blueprint for the Internet of Agents: discover the right capabilities across vendors, grant task and transaction-based access that expires fast, enable real-time many-to-many messaging across voice and video, and close the loop with rigorous measurement that feeds reputation and policy. We spotlight Agency (AGNTCY), the Linux Foundation–hosted open source project backed by a broad industry coalition, designed to make multi-agent collaboration portable and trustworthy.The proof shows up in production. A healthcare triage flow uses a Webex voice agent that coordinates with insurance and diagnostics agents to verify claims and route patients to the right human expert faster. In networking, a multi-agent pipeline built with Swisscom stress-tests configuration changes like a chess engine, exploring outcomes, generating tests, and catching cascading failures before they hit production. On the horizon, quantum networking becomes a scale-out fabric that links quantum computers, data centers, and sensing devices—accelerating timelines by five to ten years while delivering near-term classical benefits in security and precision.If you care about enterprise AI, open standards, and the road to quantum-ready infrastructure, this conversation maps the path from uncertainty to impact. Subscribe, share with a colleague who’s building with agents, and leave a review with the one capability you want most from an Internet of Agents.Everyday AI: Your daily guide to grown with Generative AICan't keep up with AI? We've got you. Everyday AI helps you keep up and get ahead.Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the showMore at https://linktr.ee/EvanKirstel