Running a Secure AI Factory: From Experimentation to Enterprise Scale | Gruve at Cisco Live 2026

At Cisco Live 2026, Rajeev Khanolkar, Chief Strategy Officer at Gruve, delivers a practitioner’s view on what it actually takes to run a Secure AI Factory at enterprise scale.

In this session from Village Theater 3 at the World of Solutions, Rajeev breaks down why enterprises are moving AI workloads on-prem and how Cisco’s Secure AI Factory architecture, paired with Gruve’s PulseAI platform, turns that shift into something deployable today.

What Rajeev covers:

• Why uncontrolled token consumption from cloud LLMs is driving surprise six-figure bill
• Data sovereignty: where your data really goes when you use cloud-based models
• Protecting enterprise IP and proprietary logic from cloud AI exposure
• Why Nvidia’s AI Factory concept and Cisco’s Secure AI Factory matter for enterprise AI
• How Cisco brings together compute, networking, storage, Red Hat OpenShift, Nvidia, Cisco AI Defense, Isovalent, and Splunk observability into one secure stack
• Introducing PulseAI: Gruve’s small, medium, and large pre-configured, Cisco-aligned platforms for enterprise AI agents, available in both CapEx and OpEx models

Learn more about PulseAI and how Gruve is operationalizing Cisco’s Secure AI Factory.