Cisco President & CPO on Building Security-by-Design in AI Products | Jeetu Patel | E277

We are now squarely going into the second major phase of AI. Now what you're starting to see is these agents that are gonna conduct tasks and jobs almost fully autonomously for us. What's the core characteristic of a model? It's nondeterministic. What does that mean? It's unpredictable, which means that if you ask a question of a model a few times, you're gonna get a slightly different answer. It's gonna be a variant. Learning to learn is the biggest skill that you can have right now, and you have to get out of your mental model the constraint and the baggage that experience brings. One of the things that we should all be asking ourselves is what are the constraints and things that are impediments that hold AI back? And I think there are three, infrastructure, trust, and Hey. This is Carlos's AI voice, CEO at Product School and your host on the product podcast. This episode was recorded live at ProductCon San Francisco, the AI conference for product leaders. Today's guest is Jeetu Patel, president and CPO at Cisco, a company with $56,700,000,000 in annual revenue, serving over 136,000 companies worldwide. Cisco is at the forefront of the AI revolution, pioneering innovations that help businesses scale while ensuring security and trust. In this episode, we will cover Cisco's unique approach to AI and the integration of AI in their products to drive faster, smarter decision making, the role of security in AI driven products, and why trust is now a prerequisite for productivity, how Cisco's recent $28,000,000,000 acquisition of Splunk is creating a unified open ecosystem for product teams, the organizational shifts necessary to build AI first products and drive cross functional collaboration. And finally, we will talk about what product leaders need to understand about the future of AI, the importance of data, and how to prepare your team for the AI era. Let's dive in. You do. You are right. You are feels like I was here just just an hour ago, and it was a year ago. It was a year ago, and you're backed by popular demand. I'm backed by popular demand. Well, not by Just to make sure I don't disappoint. Not by YouTube's demand. They they had to take down the video. We had to reupload it based on all the cursing that happened. But older than that, people loved it. That's that's that's a false accusation. I never fucking curse. So, you started partnering with us, supporting the community way back even before you were at Cisco, the CPO at Vox back in the day. And this is your fifth appearance, which makes me Wow. Is it the fifth one? Yeah. That's amazing. Thank you for having me and tolerating me. You know what's funny? Every single time you get a new title slash promotion, don't want to take any credit, but, like, now you are the president and CPO at Cisco. What does that these jobs to anyone these days, …