Cisco Live, Las Vegas 2026

Session 1

• Session title: Retrofitting for sustainable AI factories
• Session type: Speaker session (20 minutes)
• Speaker: Daniel Dollinger, Principal Technology Consultant, NTT DATA
• Date and time: Monday, 1 June, 11:00am PT
• Location: Village Theatre 1 (World of Solution)
• Session summary
  Power and cooling are becoming the dominant constraints on AI growth. This session explores practical strategies for retrofitting existing air‑cooled data centers to support next‑generation workloads. Learn how to selectively introduce liquid cooling for maximum ROI, and balance rapid AI hardware refresh cycles with long-term sustainable facilities. We’ll also share how NTT DATA enables measurable sustainability outcomes through a hybrid approach that modernizes legacy environments with energy‑efficient technologies.

Session 2

• Session title: How edge-to-core integration is forcing new consumption models
• Session type: Speaker session (20 minutes)
• Speaker: Daniel Dollinger, Principal Technology Consultant, NTT DATA
• Date and time: Tuesday, 2 June, 4:00pm PT
• Location: Islander D, Mandalay Bay Convention Centre
• Session summary
  Rising edge requirements, tighter budgets and flexible consumption models are changing cloud‑first strategies. Cisco highlights how service providers can monetize AI through edge inference and by enabling the backbone for gigawatt‑scale AI factories. In this session, learn how NTT DATA’s full‑lifecycle Software-defined Infrastructure Services unify AI‑enabled compute fabrics across multivendor environments, delivering proactive operations and outcome‑based consumption from the edge to the core.