June is going to be a sprint. Two events. Two continents. One week apart. More happening at both than I can fit in a single post – but I’m going to try.

Cisco Live US lands first – Las Vegas, June 1–4. One week later we’re in Munich for AutoCon 5, June 8–12. In between we’re running the VibeOps Lounge daily, debuting FlowAI to the world, hosting a sold-out hands-on workshop on MCP and RAG, and Chris Wade is closing AutoCon 5 with the Friday keynote. It’s a lot. It’s intentional.

Here’s everything we’re bringing – and why it’s worth being in the room.

Cisco Live is the biggest networking event on the planet, and this year it’s where FlowAI makes its official debut. We’ve been building toward this for a while. The timing is right. The community is past the “what is AI?” phase and squarely into “okay, show me what it actually does.” That’s exactly what we’re set up to do.

Beyond the booth, we’re running the VibeOps Lounge all week with a full daily session schedule. This is the part I’m most excited about. The lineup is built around the questions I keep getting from practitioners:

• How do I start with RAG?
• What does MCP actually mean for my network?
• How do I build and run an agent without the whole thing going sideways?

Every session gives you a real answer you can take home and use Monday.

The Monday morning workshop – Track WS:A2 – is sold out. William Collins, Joksan Flores, and I are going deep on RAG and MCP: what they are architecturally, how they interact, how to build real agentic operations workflows that use both effectively. This is hands-on. Not a talk. You’ll build something.

The fact that it sold out as fast as it did tells you where the community’s head is at. Everyone is past the conceptual phase. They want to know how to build it, what breaks, and what it takes to get this running in a real environment.

That’s exactly what we’re covering. If you’re registered – come ready. If you’re not – the booth is open all week, and the hallway track at AutoCon has always been just as valuable as the sessions.

Chris is closing out AutoCon 5. The talk is “How NetOps Can Embrace AI to Lead Innovation” and it’s worth staying through Friday for. Chris thinks in systems and architectures, and he’s going to lay out what it actually takes – technically and organizationally – to get AI agents operating on production infrastructure safely and at scale. He’s been building this platform for years. You’re getting the honest version of what that journey looks like. Not the marketing version.

We’re co-hosting the NetBox + Friends Happy Hour Wednesday night with NetBox Labs. This is an AutoCon tradition at this point – and consistently one of the best parts of the event. Light bites, drinks, and the conversations that don’t make it into the session recordings. RSVP details coming soon via the AutoCon site.

Same as Cisco Live: FlowAI running live at the booth all week. Real agents. Real networks. Real conversations. The booth is also where you’ll find the VibeOps community – if you’ve been in the Slack, come put a face to the handle. If you haven’t joined yet, come by and we’ll get you in.

👉 Full AutoCon 5 details →

The questions I’m getting from the community right now are different from a year ago. A year ago it was “should we be thinking about AI?” Now it’s “we’re already thinking about it – how do we actually do this safely?” That shift is real. It’s why both of these events matter this summer.

There’s a progression I think about a lot. MCP gives agents the ability to talk to real systems. RAG gives them the context to understand your environment – your devices, your configs, your institutional knowledge. Skills turn that context into repeatable, reliable actions. And agents are what happen when you wire all of that together with a governance layer that makes it safe to actually run in production.

That’s the stack. That’s what we’re building. That’s what we’re showing at both events.

Come be part of the conversation. Can’t make it live? Follow along in the VibeOps Forum.

See you in Vegas – then Munich.