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Cisco AI Rally Kit: Expert Insights
What is the AI Rally Kit Partner Challenge?
The Cisco AI Rally Kit Partner Innovation Challenge gives partners the opportunity to explore ideas, deliver practical AI outcomes, and right-size on-premises deployments.
Selected partners will take part in a guided program with expert support to help bring their AI project to life.
Submit your Expression of Interest to join the Cisco AI Rally Kit Partner Innovation Challenge.
Turn your AI ideas into real-world outcomes with program support, proven guidance, and cash rewards.
EOIs will be reviewed in the order they are received. Limited spots available*
Why Participate?
Turn customer challenges into tangible AI solutions
Create repeatable use cases for future pipeline
Strengthen your AI capability and positioning
Gain structured support from Cisco & Dicker Data
The AI Rally Kit provides an enterprise-ready environment where partners can build, test and validate AI applications, benchmark performance, validate scalability and perform capacity planning before deploying to customers.
What You Get
Program Support
Solution guidance, reference architectures, and templates
Structured Checkpoints
Clear milestones from validation to delivery
Build Proof Points
Develop real, measurable customer outcomes
Visibility Opportunities
Showcase success (subject to approval)
Pipeline Acceleration
Drive co-sell opportunities with Cisco & Dicker Data
How It Works
May-July 2026
EOI Intake and Selection
August 2026
Partner Consultation & Assessment + Use Case Selection Period
September 2026 - June 2027
Partner Use Case Building Period
November 2026
Cisco Live Partner Case Study Opportunity
August 2027
Judging &
Winner Announcements
Win Big While Building Real Outcomes
FIRST PLACE
$20,000
SECOND PLACE
$10,000
THIRD PLACE
$5,000
$1,000 Participation Incentive
Awarded to all accepted entrants (Top 10)
Eligibility:
Open to all approved AI Rally Kit participants. Entries must demonstrate an AI application or solution that has been developed, tested or validated using the AI Rally Kit and submitted before the challenge closing date.
Success Criteria:
Submissions will be assessed on their ability to demonstrate real-world enterprise value, including: Solving a genuine customer or industry use case. Effective use of the AI Rally Kit to build, test and validate the solution. Demonstrated performance, scalability and capacity planning in an on-premises environment. Readiness for enterprise deployment, including considerations for low latency, security, data sovereignty and infrastructure integration.