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Cisco Live! 2025: How AI Is Making OT More Productive and Secure for Manufacturers Such as Pepsi
At this year's Cisco Live! in San Diego, Rajat Arora discussed the ways Pepsi is leveraging AI to become a more data-driven company as it kicks off efforts to converge its IT and OT. Vikas Butaney and Patrick Lin of Cisco talked about the IT needs — from smart digital video cameras to wireless networking — manufacturers should consider as they pave the way for an AI-powered future.
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Participants
Vikas Butaney, Senior Vice President, General Manager and Chief Product Officer, Secure SDWAN and Industrial IoT, Cisco
Rajat Arora, Senior Director of Strategy and Transformation, PepsiCo
Patrick Lin, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Observability, Splunk (a Cisco company)
Video Highlights
- PepsiCo is implementing AIOps to drive efficiency at its factories as it continues "on a journey of automation," according to Rajat Arora.
- Arora said PepsiCo has also begun converging its IT and OT. Based on early results, the company plans to roll it out "in a big way."
- PepsiCo is using AI platforms to help find patterns and anomalies in its network so it can deploy self-healing bots and uncover innovative uses of automation.
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