Cisco
Emerging Technologies
and Incubation
Technical Workshop Series
Cloud Native Solutions

Nickolay Belchugov
Cloud-Native Security Engineer

Stefan Braicu
Software Architect

Sabitha Krishnamurthy
Director of Engineering

Ed McNicholas
Technical Solutions Architect

Patrice Nivaggioli
Modern Apps Engineer

Ivan Padilla Ojeda
Technical Engineer

Barry Yuan
Technical Solutions Architect

Panoptica Workshops
Get “Hands On” with Cloud Native Security
Introducing Panoptica - Cisco’s comprehensive solution for Container, Serverless, APIs, Service Mesh, and Kubernetes security which automatically integrate security into every stage of the application lifecycle.
Join us for a workshop on how to leverage Panoptica in your own environment!
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
- Obtain comprehensive inventory of your Containers Images and Workloads.
- Prioritize cloud native application risk by exploitability, view workload connections and assess K8s configurations.
- Demonstrate how to improve your company's overall cloud native security posture.
MAY
17
Wednesday
9:00 AM PT
Get “Hands On” with API Security and Panoptica
Introducing Panoptica - Learn how Panoptica secures APIs across VM’s, Containers, and Serverless Functions.
View API security risks as part of Panoptica’s comprehensive cloud native security platform covering Containers, Kubernetes, Serverless Functions, and API’s. See how Panoptica automatically integrate security into every stage of the application lifecycle.
Join us for this second workshop to learn more about Panoptica capabilities!
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
- Understand OpenAPI Specification principles.
- Understand OWASP Top 10 APIs Security concerns.
- Demonstrate how Panoptica protects both internal and 3rd party APIs.
- Demonstrate how to improve your company's overall cloud native security posture.
MARCH
22
Wednesday
9:00 AM PT
MAY
24
Wednesday
9:00 AM PT

Calisti Workshops
Learn to Deploy, Manage and Troubleshoot your Service Mesh
Introducing Calisti - An enterprise ready Istio platform for DevOps and SREs that automates lifecycle management and simplifies connectivity, security & observability for microservice-based applications.
Join us for an intimate hands-on experience!
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
- Manage your microservices-based applications built on Istio service mesh
- See how Calisti can help in migration of legacy applications to cloud native infrastructure.
- Debug and troubleshoot issues and problems in your application infrastructure via the observability tools provided by Calisti.
MAY
18
Thursday
9:00 AM PT
Simplify Apache Kafka Management using Calisti Streaming Data Manager
Introducing Calisti - Streaming Data Manager
Management tool for setting up and operating production-ready Apache Kafka clusters on Kubernetes, leveraging a cloud native technology stack.
Join us for an intimate hands-on experience!
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
- Operate a production-ready Kafka cluster on Kubernetes.
- Debug and troubleshoot issues and problems in your event-driven application infrastructure via the observability tools provided by Calisti.
MARCH
23
Thursday
9:00 AM PT
MAY
25
Thursday
9:00 AM PT