As IT teams are increasingly challenged to deliver optimally configured infrastructure to meet business demands in an agile manner, automation becomes a necessary IT practice. Automation powered by APIs becomes the building block of integrations across multi-vendor products and Cisco has showcased this capability by providing open platforms like Cisco Nexus Dashboard and Nexus Cloud. This session will cover the diverse set of integration use cases that customers typically deploy in their data center to ease operations and management of their networking infrastructure. This enables ITOps, NetOps and DevOps teams to innovate and meet the business need of infrastructure automation and accelerate a critical part of their application deployment journey. Learn more www.cisco.com/go/dcecosystem www.cisco.com/go/nexuscloud www.cisco.com/go/nexusascode Follow us twitter.com/CiscoChampion Cisco Champion Hosts Alexander Deca (twitter.com/AlexanderDeca_), NTT Limited, Principal Network Engineer Michael Witte (twitter.com/themikewitte), WWT, Technical Solutions Architect, (Blog: https://www.wwt.com/article/examinining-cisco-nexus-dashboard-using-new-hands-on-labs) Guests Mayuri Kulkarni, Cisco, Director, Product Management, DC Switching Will Zupan, Cisco, Product Manager, DC Switching Moderator Amilee San Juan (twitter.com/amileesan1), Cisco, Customer Voices and Cisco Champion Program Cisco Champion 2023 Applications ciscocx.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bNjQ0G0SJoDWKeW