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Vijoy Pandey
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Vijoy Pandey is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Outshift by Cisco, the company's incubation engine for emerging technologies. He argues that the defining question across today's new forms of computing - agentic computing, energy-based computing, quantum computing, and embodied intelligence - is the same one: how do you scale beyond a single node without losing the properties that make each form of computing useful? That means distributing intelligence, probability, quantum state, and physical action across many endpoints.
Under his direction, Outshift brings together product, engineering, research and go-to-market teams with Cisco Research, Cisco Quantum Labs, DevNet and the Open Source Program Office (OSPO) to identify these emerging technologies early, build and test real technology around them, and then graduate what works - into the open source community, Cisco's existing portfolio, or an entirely new opportunity.
In agentic AI, his teams are building beyond basic connectivity toward systems that can share intent, context and knowledge across agents and humans - the shift from an Internet of Agents to what Vijoy calls an Internet of Cognition, where agents reason together rather than simply exchange messages. That work includes AGNTCY, now governed by the Linux Foundation, and formative involvement in A2A and the Agentic AI Foundation. In quantum, Cisco Quantum Labs is working across the stack, from entanglement sources and switching to compilers, control systems and applications, to make quantum networking scalable, interoperable and practical. The same thesis extends to energy-based computing and embodied intelligence, where his teams are exploring forms of computation that depend on physical dynamics, probability, sensing and action.
Vijoy has spent three decades building distributed infrastructure, including at Google, IBM and startups that were acquired or went public. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Davis and has filed more than 80 patents across distributed systems, networking and computing architecture. He writes at Coherent Cognition on emerging computing architectures and how complex systems scale.
Vijoy Pandey is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Outshift by Cisco, the company's incubation engine for emerging technologies. He argues that the defining question across today's new forms of computing - agentic computing, energy-based computing, quantum computing, and embodied intelligence - is the same one: how do you scale beyond a single node without losing the properties that make each form of computing useful? That means distributing intelligence, probability, quantum state, and physical action across many endpoints.
Under his direction, Outshift brings together product, engineering, research and go-to-market teams with Cisco Research, Cisco Quantum Labs, DevNet and the Open Source Program Office (OSPO) to identify these emerging technologies early, build and test real technology around them, and then graduate what works - into the open source community, Cisco's existing portfolio, or an entirely new opportunity.
In agentic AI, his teams are building beyond basic connectivity toward systems that can share intent, context and knowledge across agents and humans - the shift from an Internet of Agents to what Vijoy calls an Internet of Cognition, where agents reason together rather than simply exchange messages. That work includes AGNTCY, now governed by the Linux Foundation, and formative involvement in A2A and the Agentic AI Foundation. In quantum, Cisco Quantum Labs is working across the stack, from entanglement sources and switching to compilers, control systems and applications, to make quantum networking scalable, interoperable and practical. The same thesis extends to energy-based computing and embodied intelligence, where his teams are exploring forms of computation that depend on physical dynamics, probability, sensing and action.
Vijoy has spent three decades building distributed infrastructure, including at Google, IBM and startups that were acquired or went public. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Davis and has filed more than 80 patents across distributed systems, networking and computing architecture. He writes at Coherent Cognition on emerging computing architectures and how complex systems scale.