The Cisco Workshop Series is a set of four hands-on, practitioner-level labs delivered by Cisco engineers at the AI Networking Summit, powered by ONUG, in New York City on October 28–29, 2026. Built for networking, security, and cloud practitioners at every level, the series goes beyond slides and into guided labs on the infrastructure AI depends on: securing and validating the AI fabric, microsegmentation, continuous validation, secure AI workloads, and zero-trust access. The series includes: - Microsegmentation with Cisco Nexus Smart Switches: Build, Validate, Enforce. Build, test, and validate segmentation policies across virtual machine, Kubernetes, and bare-metal workloads using embedded security and distributed policy enforcement. - Protect and Validate Networks in the Agentic Era: A Hands-On Cisco Live Protect Workshop. Apply real-time vulnerability shielding, continuous validation, and automated remediation, with end-to-end visibility from fabric to workload and a look at encryption and quantum readiness. - Cisco SASE: A Hands-On Lab for Performance, Zero Trust, and Resilient Access. Work through secure access designed for performance, zero-trust principles, and resilience for a distributed workforce. - From Isovalent Private Networks to Secure AI: Hands-On with Isovalent and Cisco Nexus One. Connect Kubernetes and VM workloads to a Cisco Nexus One fabric, migrate VMs without changing their IP addresses, and lock down AI workloads with Isovalent. Each workshop gives participants tested policies, validation blueprints, and reference architectures they can adapt to their own environments. This credential recognizes that hands-on work and is issued by ONUG in partnership with Cisco.