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Solutions Keynotes and Executive Q&A

Solutions Keynotes

Get your week of education off to a fast start by attending a Solution Keynote address on Monday afternoon, prior to the formal opening of Cisco Live. Senior engineering executives will be discussing the future strategy and vision for Cisco solutions, focusing on topics such as Collaboration and Video, Data Center/Cloud, and Core Network Architecture and the technologies behind them. These sessions will introduce you to Cisco’s direction and set the stage for what you will learn about throughout the week. Learn More

Executive Q&A

Want to add some context on Cisco product direction and strategy following your week of in-depth education? At the end of the conference on Thursday, you can attend a panel of senior engineering executives and ask any lingering questions you might have. The panel will be composed of Cisco’s lead engineering executives – including vice presidents of key engineering business units focused on a technology area such as Collaboration, Video, Data Center, and Borderless Networks.

Why You Should Attend

Be sure you don’t slip out of Cisco Live early. You’ll want to be around for Thursday afternoon’s Executive Q&A session.

The Executive Q&A is specifically designed not to be another presentation. It’s a fully unscripted session where you and your fellow attendees set the agenda. It’s your chance to ask the hard questions, voice your thoughts, and hear directly from the Cisco executives and general managers who make decisions on product strategy and direction. No marketing speak. No excuses. Just questions and answers.

You’ll be able to pose your questions live, via Twitter and email. The questions will appear on the venue’s display screen, and the session moderator will choose the panelist best qualified to provide a response.

It’s a great way to cap off your week at Cisco Live and tie up any loose ends before you head back to the workplace. Learn More

Solutions Keynotes
Monday, June 11, 3:30 p.m. — 4:30 p.m.

Collaboration and Video

Marthin Marthin De Beer De Beer, Senior Vice President, Video and Collaboration Group

Engage the Empowered User

The world is changing at a rapid pace with the explosion of video consumption, consumer demands and the proliferation of devices. Consumers today are demanding freedom to “work my way” and looking to better engage with the people, interests and content they care about- regardless of whether they are at work, at home or on the go. It’s all about the experience that is inherently more virtual, visual, social and mobile.

Marthin De Beer will talk about the role of collaboration and video technologies in delivering consistent and integrated experiences, enabling the “empowered user”. Are you ready for the new opportunities and challenges this creates for your business?

Borderless Networks & Mobile Device Proliferation

Rob Rob Soderbery Soderbery, SVP/GM, Enterprise Networking Group

The Future of the Enterprise Network in the Post-PC Era

By the year 2020 it is estimated that 56 billion devices will be connected to the Internet. Your organization will serve an increasing variety of cloud-based applications to users tethered to the network using a broad range of mobile devices. In addition to your employees, every touch point with a customer, partner or the infrastructure that runs your business will be enabled by the network. Industrial, transportation, process control, manufacturing and other industries will have migrated to the Internet of Things. What is Cisco doing to help you deal with the implications of these trends on your network?

Join Rob Soderbery, SVP for Cisco’s Enterprise Networking Group, for a discussion about how Cisco is driving innovation across its core portfolio of Catalyst switching, access routing and wireless networking technologies that will help you navigate these transitions. Soderbery will demonstrate how Cisco solutions come together so you can deliver a secure and uncompromised user experience to your customers, partners and employees.

Data Center & Cloud

David david yen Yen, SVP of Data Center Technology Group

Technologies Transforming the Data Center: The Evolution to Cloud

The journey to Cloud is not linear. Realistically, most environments will have workloads that continue to run on both physical and virtualized infrastructures for some time. Join David Yen, Senior Vice President of Cisco’s Data Center Technology Group, as he outlines the key technologies transforming the data center, enabling an intelligent infrastructure which will support physical, virtualized and cloud applications as part of Cisco’s Unified Data Center Architecture. In this session, Mr. Yen will discuss the key networking, compute and storage technologies that are transforming the data center from disparate technology islands to integrated, cohesive resource pools, which can be provisioned and re-provisioned as quickly as end users needs change.

Cisco’s Data Center solutions offer customers unique innovation to solve real world challenges, which ensure that the data center is truly, a strategic business resource. Mr. Yen will outline innovations in the switching portfolio that enable critical requirements for security, scale, performance and workload mobility. He will describe how next generation data centers can be built leveraging Cisco’s intelligent data center fabric that is more open, programmable, and application aware. Learn how Cisco is extending our industry leadership and expertise in switching, to deliver software defined networking (SDN) capabilities, offering both innovation and investment protection. Mr. Yen will also analyze Cisco’s differentiation in the server market, leading a unique market transition with the Unified Computing System. And finally, he will detail how we consistently implement these innovations throughout our solutions to enable our Unified Data Center Architecture.

No matter where you are with virtualization, consolidation or defining a Cloud strategy…you can leverage these innovative technologies in a practical way, to transform your data center to an architecture that is proven, innovative and ready for challenges that the future will present.

Executive Q&A
Thursday, June 14, 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.