Secure, Intelligent, and Future-Ready Networking: The Path to SASE in the AI Era

Thursday, October 16, 2025

Secure, Intelligent, and Future-Ready Networking: The Path to SASE in the AI Era

6:30 PM - 9:30 PM IST | Trident, Gurgaon

Event Overview

Enterprises are under pressure to deliver seamless, secure, and reliable access across cloud and on-premise environments. Legacy architectures can’t keep pace with the demands of hybrid work, multi-cloud adoption, and rising cyber threats. Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and SD-WAN offer a path toward unified management, stronger security, and better user experience. Research by Gartner shows that by 2025, 80% of organizations seeking SSE-related security services will opt for a consolidated solution, up from merely 15% in 2021, underscoring that unified platforms are not just nice-to-haves; they are imperative.

This exclusive CXO Roundtable, hosted by ISMG in collaboration with Cisco, will bring together senior leaders in networking, IT, and security to challenge assumptions, share real-world experiences, and explore strategies to build a unified secure access architecture. The objective of this roundtable is to deliver seamless, safe, and performant access – on-prem and in the cloud – while simplifying operations and delivering measurable business outcomes.

In this exclusive roundtable, you’ll discuss on:

Migrating from fragmented tools to consolidated SSE/SASE architectures without disrupting operations
Ensuring consistent zero trust and security policy across users, devices, locations, and clouds
Maintaining cloud performance & user experience in hybrid & multi-cloud environments
Streamlining operations through unified management, visibility, and governance
Linking investment in secure access to business outcomes like resilience, cost predictability, and risk reduction

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Rahul Neel Mani
Vice President, Community Engagement and Editorial
ISMG (Moderator)

Ujjal Bajaj
SD-WAN & Routing Business Leader
CISCO

Mukesh Chand Thapliyal
Sales Leader, APAC – SD-WAN, Routing & SASE
CISCO

Speakers

Join your peers and thought-leaders Ujjal Bajaj and Mukesh Chand Thapliyal from CISCO along with Rahul Neel Mani to discuss on Secure, Intelligent, and Future-Ready Networking: The Path to SASE in the AI Era.

This session will be:

Chatham house rule
Peer driven
Pitch free

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Venue

Trident, Gurgaon

443, Udyog Vihar Phase V Rd, Phase V, Udyog Vihar, Sector 19, Gurugram, Haryana 122016

Underwritten by

Cisco is a global technology company that securely connects people, devices and applications to enable inclusive digital transformation. It helps organizations reimagine applications, power hybrid work, secure infrastructure and meet sustainability goals. Through innovation and trusted partnerships, it drives solutions that support economic resilience, digital equity and a sustainable future.

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