From Collaboration to Intelligent Workplace: What’s New for Cisco Partners in 2026

From Collaboration to Intelligent Workplace: What’s New for Cisco Partners in 2026

By Kristyn Hogan,
Publication Date: 2026-11-06 19:30:00

Here is everything we announced at Partner Summit, and how you turn it into profitable growth.

At Partner Summit in Vancouver, our Collaboration session was about winning with intelligent workplaces: what that means for your customers and for your business.  The era of treating office space as just square footage is over. Today, the workplace is an active participant in how work gets done. If you missed our session, watch the replay. Here’s the recap.

The workplace is now part of the work.

The return-to-office debate is settled. Customers are now asking how to make their workplaces work better, and that’s opening up a new market:

  • 4 billion square feet of office space comes up for renewal over the next three years.
  • $45 billion in technology spend follows it, and that’s before any of the services you wrap around it.

Cisco brings networking, collaboration, devices, spaces and security together in one platform. That gives customers three things:

  • Security built in. Identity,…