--- title: Celebrating the Winners of Cisco’s 2026 Partner... description: Cisco announced the winners of its 2026 Partner Innovation Challenge, which showcases AI solutions for diverse industry challenges. Presidio won first place... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/celebrating-the-winners-of-cisco-s-2026-partner-innovation-challenge-nz87prqcn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Celebrating the Winners of Cisco’s 2026 Partner Innovation Challenge | daily.dev og:description: Cisco announced the winners of its 2026 Partner Innovation Challenge, which showcases AI solutions for diverse industry challenges. Presidio won first place... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/celebrating-the-winners-of-cisco-s-2026-partner-innovation-challenge-nz87prqcn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/nZ87PrQCN.png og:image:alt: Celebrating the Winners of Cisco’s 2026 Partner Innovation Challenge og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Celebrating the Winners of Cisco’s 2026 Partner Innovation Challenge **[Cisco](https://daily.dev/sources/cisco)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Cisco announced the winners of its 2026 Partner Innovation Challenge, which showcases AI solutions for diverse industry challenges. Presidio won first place and $250K for ActionGuard, a tool that checks AI agent actions against business policy before execution and logs decisions to Splunk. CDW took second ($100K) with Valkyrie Event Orchestration, a proposal that connects event network design, pre-deployment testing, and live-event operations in one AI-assisted workflow. Orange Business placed third ($50K) with CheckPulse, a managed observability service built on Splunk. Denali Advanced Integration won a $200K Cisco+Splunk award for Pack Bench of the Future, which uses a depth camera and a 3D packing solver to guide packing decisions at a fulfillment bench. Four Partnering for Purpose winners each received $25K, and six APJC regional winners each received $50K. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What did Presidio win Cisco's 2026 Partner Innovation Challenge for? Presidio won first place and $250,000 for ActionGuard, a tool that evaluates each AI agent's proposed action against business policy at the moment of execution, then allows, blocks, or holds it for human review. Decisions can be logged to Splunk, giving security and risk teams a record to refine policy coverage over time. _Teams weighing AI agent guardrails can track emerging approaches like this on daily.dev._ ### What is CheckPulse from Orange Business? CheckPulse is a managed observability service built on Splunk and integrated with Cisco technologies that won third place ($50,000) in Cisco's 2026 Partner Innovation Challenge. 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