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AutoCon 5

Munich, Germany

From RAG to MCP: New Tools for a New Era in Network Operations

A hands-on workshop with William Collins and Joksan Flores, building agents against live networking use cases.

Cisco Live 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

Live builds, VibeOps, and the agent era

My field notes from Cisco Live, with NetClaw demonstrations and conversations about putting agents to work.

TORNOG 1

MaRS Centre · Toronto, Canada

From CLI to GPT — A Guide for an AIOps Journey

Sharing the practical path from network engineering to building with AI at the Toronto Network Operators Group.

• 4:45–5:15 p.m. · conference agenda

AutoCon 4

Austin, Texas

From CLI to GPT: How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Network Automation

A conference talk and a workshop exploring RAG, MCP, and practical network automation with William Collins.

ONUG · AI Networking Summit Fall 2025

New York, New York

Protocols, RAG, and the future of AIOps

Workshops, protocol discussions, and a Selector MCP demonstration across the Fall summit program.

Selector · First AI for Network Leaders Summit

Civic Hall · New York City & online

RAG, MCP, and AI for network leaders

Selector’s inaugural summit, with sessions on building RAG applications and using Selector MCP. My pre-event Packet Pushers conversation introduces the event and my sessions.

ONUG · AI Networking Summit Spring 2025

Dallas, Texas

MCP, A2A, and building a first RAG application

Practical sessions on agent protocols and retrieval-augmented generation for network engineers.

ONUG · AI Networking Summit 2024

New York, New York

Exploring RAFT and a network language model

A Selector technical demonstration and summit hosting, preserved in the ONUG event archive.

Cisco Live EMEA 2024

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Talking to Your Network

With Dave Zacks, exploring how AI and LLMs can help engineers understand and operate their networks.

• BRKOPS-2583
• LTRCRT-2002 · CCNP Enterprise Hands-On Troubleshooting v2.0 · with Patrick Gargano

Cisco Automation Developer Days 2023

Online

ChatGPT Integration with CNC

Connecting network automation and conversational AI in a Cisco Developer Days demonstration.

Cisco Live 2023

Las Vegas, Nevada

Test Driven Automation with pyATS

A practical approach to repeatable network testing and automation, with the original presentation available from Cisco.

• BRKCRT-2013
• Cisco U. Theatre · The Future of Network Operations in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Cisco Live EMEA 2023

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Enterprise programmability & automated testing with pyATS

A lab with Palmer Sample and Juulia Santala, plus my Cisco U. Theatre introduction to testing network state with pyATS.

• LTRCRT-2157 · The ABCs of Enterprise Networking Programmability
• Cisco U. Theatre · Automated Testing with pyATS

Cisco Live US 2022 · Labs

Las Vegas, Nevada

Enterprise programmability & Cisco ACI

My first Cisco Live as a presenter, teaching with Palmer Sample, Juulia Santala, and Joe Rinehart.

• LTRCRT-2157 · The ABCs of Enterprise Networking Programmability · June 14, 1–5 p.m. PDT
• LTRCRT-2003 · Cisco ACI Product Mini-Bootcamp · June 15, 8 a.m.–noon PDT

DevNet Create 2021

Online · global broadcasts

Building a foundation in automation

A Start Now channel conversation with DuAn Lightfoot about tools, getting started, and the journey behind Merlin.

AnsibleFest 2020

Online

Automate Your Network: Introducing the Modern Approach to Enterprise Network Management

My 30-minute breakout on modern enterprise network management. The original deck survives in my GitHub repository; the historic recording catalogue has not been verified as accessible today.

DevNet Create 2020

Online · Americas broadcast

North American Spotlight: my automation journey

A conversation about a practical roadmap into network automation, preserved in the official Cisco DevNet broadcast.