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#383 How to Coordinate Intelligence Across Teams & Agents | Vijoy Pandey, SVP of Outshift at Cisco

Oct 19, 2026 · 1h 5m

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AI agents are getting easier to build and connect. Open standards now let them discover each other, pass messages and use shared tools. But connecting agents is not the same as getting them to work toward the same goal, and research on multi-agent systems shows that misalignment grows with every agent you add. For professionals deploying agents, this shows up as handoffs that fail and results that don’t add up, even when each agent is right on its own. How do agents agree on what a task means? What does a team need in place before adding more agents? And how do you know the combined result is better? Vijoy Pandey is SVP and GM of Outshift by Cisco, the company’s incubation engine for…