Despite taking place in the conferences’ largest venue, Cisco Live’s keynote addresses are frank, down-to-earth discussions about the direction of Cisco and the industry. Attendees look forward to hearing about what’s on the horizon for Cisco solutions and the potential impact on their businesses. You’ll get a better understanding of how emerging trends will affect network and communication technology, which can help you adopt a more informed and proactive approach toward deciding your own IT priorities and business objectives.
Tuesday, June 29, 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers outlines his vision for the ways Cisco and its customers will embrace tomorrow’s technology and business trends.
As the CEO of the worldwide leader in networking solutions, John Chambers has led Cisco through 15 years of the most dynamic, innovative era in information technology. During that time, the company has grown revenue from $1.2 billion to $36 billion. Under his leadership, Cisco has also emphasized worldwide corporate social responsibility initiatives in areas such as healthcare, education, and infrastructure. Prior to joining Cisco, Chambers held leadership positions with Wang and IBM.
Wednesday, June 30, 10:30–11:30 a.m.
Chief Technology Officer
Cisco
As Chief Technology Officer, Padmasree Warrior is responsible for helping drive the company’s technological innovations and strategy, and works closely with its senior executive team and board of directors to align these efforts with Cisco’s corporate goals. As an evangelist for what’s possible, she pushes the organization to stretch beyond its current capabilities both in technology and in its strategic partnerships and new business models.
Senior Vice President
Cisco
Carlos Dominguez is an energetic advocate for the ways new technologies such as social networking and Web 2.0 applications can broaden access to ideas and information and improve the way we collaborate and work. With Cisco since 1992, he was recently named one of the “Top 50 Hispanic Executives” in the United States by Hispanic Engineer and Information Technology magazine.
Author
Join Ben Mezrich, author of several bestsellers including "The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal;" and "Busting Vegas: A True Story of Monumental Excess, Sex, Love, Violence, and Beating the Odds," to learn how taking an innovative approach to solving problems can yield unexpected windfalls. From a pair of outcast Harvard undergrads who set out to get dates and ended up creating a global social networking juggernaut to a group of MIT students who put their mathematical genius up against Las Vegas odds and achieved unbelievable riches, Mezrich tells the wildly addictive tales of intellectual mavericks who combined sheer genius with a penchant for risk and won in the end.
