Event Details

About Cisco Live

A Week to Explore New Possibilities and Discover Your Potential.Cisco Live is your passport to a new world of possibilities. It offers a unique combination of in-depth technical education and training and cutting-edge insight from the experts and organizations that are setting the agenda for the future of technology and business.
 

What Is Cisco Live?

Cisco Live is Cisco’s flagship annual technical training, networking and education event built around four pillars:

• Technical Education
• Technology Evaluation
• Networking
• Thought Leadership

When?

Main Conference: January 28 – 31, 2014
Pre-conference: Technical Seminars – January 27, 2014

Where?

Fiera Milano Congressi
P.le Carlo Magno 1
20149 Milano

Who?

Cisco Live is organised into distinct programs enabling you to build a personalised agenda mapped to your individual specialisations and needs, from technical education for Engineers through to IT vision and thought leadership for IT Directors, specific content is tailored for all the areas below:

• Network Engineers
• System Engineers
• Technical Individual Contributors
• Service Provider Engineers and Business Managers
• Developers
• IT Managers
• IT Directors
• IT Architects
• Middle to Senior Level IT Leaders

Technical Education

Cisco Live has a well deserved reputation as one the industry’s best education events. With hundreds of sessions spanning four programs — Networkers, Service Provider, Developer Network and IT Management, you can build a customised curriculum that can make you a more valuable asset to your workplace and advance your career goals.

For an overview of all the Education Programs and Session Types, view the Education & Activities section.

Technology Evaluation

Throughout the week of Cisco Live, the World of Solutions exhibition is a hive of activity and energy. Featuring an array of Cisco business units and partners showcasing their solutions, it’s a great place to explore new technologies and get answers to your unique questions.
Hands-on labs give you the opportunity to explore and evaluate a range of Cisco technologies, and our Meet the Engineer program and Solution Design Clinics give you access to the people who design Cisco’s solutions and give you the insight you need about your own environment and technical challenges.

Networking

As a Cisco Live attendee you benefit from the opportunity to interact with your peers, Cisco staff and partner technical experts in both structured and informal settings. The World of Solutions, at the heart of the event, provides refreshment areas and relaxing lounges; and our Welcome Reception and Customer Appreciation Event are the highlights of the week’s social calendar.
Our online communities on Facebook, Twitter and Cisco Live 365 provide year round access to likeminded individuals as well as valuable content, news and updates.

For all our social networking opportunities, view the Social Networking section.

Thought Leadership

Cisco Live is not just about Technical Education, our Keynote sessions provide visionary and inspirational discussions about the direction of Cisco and the industry. And our ever popular IT Management program gives you an in-depth focus on the “business of IT” and technology’s role in driving business value. This program, which is always oversubscribed, is specifically tailored to help people with a foot in both the IT and business worlds.