AGNTCY’s latest code drop – Agent Identity

TL;DR: Outshift is heating things up this summer as this edition of The Shift takes you from new AGNTCY code drops and partners to our top moments at Cisco Live 2025 (featuring Cisco’s quantum entanglement networking chip). 

• Secure the future of autonomous agents with Agent Identity
• What happened at Cisco Live? Don’t miss this year’s top moments
• On the Outshift blog: Agent Observability data schema and SDK launched and more
• Upcoming webinars, events, and recent podcasts

Ready to see what Outshift has been up to this month? Let’s go! ✨ 

Secure the future of autonomous agents with Agent Identity

The rise of AI agents is also raising serious security concerns, and the fact is, traditional identity solutions are unable to keep pace with agents. Gone are the days of securing simple, linear workflows. Ensuring that each AI agent operates within its scope, reliably and securely, is critical. That's why the AGNTCY Agent Identity was created. 

The Agent Identity framework assigns, verifies, and manages credentials for AI agents. Through collaborations with leading partners such as Duo Security , Skyfire , and Permit.io , AGNTCY | A Linux Foundation Project is building trust in autonomous agents, and ensuring seamless onboarding, auditability, and governance across platforms, organizations, and systems. 

Internet of Agents and Quantum Networking shine at Cisco Live 2025

Cisco Live 2025 brought together 22,000 people in San Diego, CA, and Outshift showed up big time with what's next in agentic AI and quantum networking. 

Internet of Agents: Packed rooms watched working code, not PowerPoint promises.  

• We had over a dozen sessions sharing how we're making the Internet of Agents a reality and what organizations can do today to prepare for agentic AI across their systems and workflows.
• Vijoy Pandey , Outshift’s SVP and GM, shares more about the Internet of Agents and AGNTCY with Neil C. Hughes on his Tech Talks Daily podcast. Listen now! 

Quantum networking gets real: The gap between quantum marketing and quantum engineering is closing fast. This isn’t just faster computing. It’s rethinking how distributed systems coordinate beyond physical limitations. 

• Vijoy hosted a center stage panel with the heads of Cisco Research, security, and optics to discuss how the Quantum Revolution is Closer Than You Think (TL;DR: start preparing).
• David Bombal left his recording studio to join us at the exclusive Cisco Quantum Lab fireside chat where he interviewed Vijoy and they broke down Cisco’s quantum networking entanglement chip even further. Watch now!  

Mark your calendars for Cisco Live 2026 in Amsterdam, Netherlands: February 9–13, 2026 and Las Vegas, Nevada, USA: May 31–June 4, 2026.

The Outshift blog: Can’t-miss insights

Whether you jumped into agentic AI and quantum early on or are just getting started, we have the content you need to dive deeper: 

• Agent Identity: Securing the future of autonomous agents by Julu Panat
• Transform AI performance with agent observability and evaluation by Giovanna Carofiglio
• CrewAI, AG2, Browserbase, and 50 other companies join AGNTCY by Luke Tucker  

Webinars, events, and podcasts

From webinars to the conference floor, let's connect further: 

• July webinar – Beyond protocols: AGNTCY for multi-agent software | Thursday, July 31 at 10AM PDT | Join Papi Menon , VP of Product Management at Outshift by Cisco to dive into a primer on AGNTCY’s role providing the building blocks for multi-agent systems that run at Enterprise scale. Register now
• TWIML podcast with Sam Charrington – Technical depth without the usual AI hype! Outshift’s SVP and GM Vijoy Pandey gets specific, FAST about how the Internet of Agents becomes reality. Listen now

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