Alessandro Duminuco

Alessandro Duminuco is a Principal Engineer at Cisco with 14 years at the company. Currently part of Outshift, he has led innovation across mobile networks, media production virtualization, SD-WAN, and cloud-native security with particular focus on API Security. In the AI space, Alessandro contributed to the launch of AGNTCY and the Internet of Agents, focusing on agentic protocols and directory systems. He currently leads the cognition engines engineering group within the Internet of Cognition initiative, with a primary focus on agentic security in multi-agent systems. Prior to Cisco, he worked at Bell-Labs and Accenture. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Telecom ParisTech.