I truly believe that there has never been a better time for technology. Companies, cities and countries around the world are embracing digital transformation, and they’re looking to Cisco to be their strategic partner on their digital journeys. With our capabilities firmly rooted in a digital-ready network, Cisco provides the foundation for digital transformation. Our strengths in next-generation data center, collaboration, analytics, automation and security also make us uniquely positioned to help companies embrace all that technology makes possible. At Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, be sure to visit with us to see how we bring digital transformation to life.
– Chuck Robbins
Are you thinking about digital changes that are coming and working on a strategic plan to reimagine the future of your organization? Then take advantage of one-on-one time with a Cisco executive to discuss your unique challenges and we will present solutions that will help you compete in this ever-evolving digital marketplace.
Kevin is Cisco’s Chief Digital Officer where he drives the digital transformation of Cisco and its customers. His expertise includes global channel development, entrepreneurship, and operational excellence. Bandy defines Cisco’s digital vision and strategy and leads the digital portfolio growth efforts involving long, complex shifts in operating models, go-to-market efforts and portfolio evolutions. His work experience includes global management, organizational development, transformational growth, and strategic development.
John Manville is Senior Vice President of the IT Global Infrastructure Services team at Cisco where he leads the strategy and operations for Cisco’s networks and data centers. John plays a key role in establishing Cisco IT as a trusted advisor to business partners, both internal and external to Cisco. He collaborates with external partners to integrate their technologies with Cisco's and demonstrate the value both provide as one solution. John is recognized for successfully improving operational metrics, service availability and user experience through his innovation and operational excellence of Cisco’s technology solutions.
Inbar Lasser-Raab is Vice President of Infrastructure and Digital Solutions Marketing at Cisco. She leads the global marketing strategy and execution for Cisco’s market-leading Cloud, Data Center, Networking and the Internet of Things (IoT) Enterprise solutions. Inbar has 20 years of experience in creating global marketing strategies and managing product development and growth across large, medium and small companies. She is responsible for several of Cisco’s most successful marketing campaigns and currently leads Cisco’s strong efforts in digital transformation for its partners and solutions.
DD Dasgupta is the Vice President of the Cisco Data Center Product and Solution Marketing for network, computer, storage and software technologies. DD brings more than two decades of experience in enterprise and service provider networking industries in various roles spanning software development to marketing.
Doug Bellin is the global marketing lead for manufacturing and energy industries at Cisco. Mr. Bellin has been creating and marketing innovative solutions for energy and manufacturing industries including food and steel for over 15 years. Prior to Cisco, Doug was instrumental in managing Business Intelligence Software Company and expanding the company into the Asia market.
As the global marketing lead for the financial services industry at Cisco, Leni Selvaggio is responsible for strategic marketing and business development across banking, insurance and financial markets. He has been instrumental in creating and marketing innovative solutions for financial services firms for over 30 years as a supplier of software, hardware and services to the United States and international markets.
Brian McDonald is the global senior marketing manager for retail, hospitality, sports and entertainment at Cisco. His work focuses on defining digital transformation roadmaps for retailers and hospitality operators, creating world-class fan experiences for sports and entertainment customers, and developing strategies for customer solutions and product offers. Brian has a successful track record of leading innovative product marketing, product management, sales, and strategic alliance initiatives.
Pankaj Gupta is the Senior Director of Marketing and leads the global marketing for Cisco Enterprise products and solutions portfolio, SDN, infrastructure security and Cisco software. He has rich experience in high-tech marketing, product management, strategy, and sales across Service Provider and Enterprise segments. Pankaj specializes in incubating, developing, and executing high impact strategies and initiatives for markets in transition.
Tim Coogan is the Area Vice President for the Enterprise East Area which includes some of the largest financial, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, and high-tech organizations in the Fortune 500. He is chartered with driving Cisco’s Vision, Strategy, and Execution for the US Enterprise Theatre.
Greg Gall is the Director of Systems Engineering for Cisco’s Commercial South Sales. Greg has been with Cisco for 15 years primarily focusing on enablement strategy and execution of Cisco’s partners in the Americas.
Ross Daniels is the Senior Director of Collaboration Marketing. He is responsible for product positioning, solution messaging, collateral creation, sales and channel engagement, and go-to-market activities. He also leads content marketing, digital and social marketing, and demand generation for Cisco’s Collaboration portfolio which includes Unified Communications (including Cisco Spark), Conferencing (including Cisco WebEx), Telephony and Video Endpoints, and Customer Care/Contact Center.
Cécile Willems is Cisco’s Director of the Global Public sector including the government, healthcare, education and transportation markets. Her role focuses on country and city digitization and strategic alliances. Cécile led the public sector initiatives in Germany by implementing smart, connected transformation. She has driven results with leadership responsibilities for strategic system integrators, service providers, managed service partners, banking and insurance. Her expertise includes public-private partnerships and funding models.
Sunday, October 16th
The Industrial IoT Transforms the Manufacturing Industry
Bryan Tantzen, Senior Director, Manufacturing Solutions
3:00pm – 3:30pm
Swan Ballroom 6, Swan Hotel
Monday, October 17th
Evolving the Data Center for today’s mobile, social, cloud and app-centric world
DD Dasgupta, VP of the Cisco Data Center Product and Solution Marketing
1:15pm – 1:45pm
Southern I, Dolphin Hotel
Monday, October 17th
Digitization and the Evolution of Infrastructure
John Manville, SVP IT – Global Infrastructure Services
3:30pm – 4:15pm
Southern III, Dolphin Hotel
Tuesday, October 18th
How to Compete and Win in a Digital World
Kevin Bandy, SVP, Chief Digital Officer
10:30am – 11:15am
Northern A-E, Dolphin Hotel
Tuesday, October 18th
Ransomware Defense: Keeping an Emerging Threat at Bay
Jason Wright, Sr. Manager, Vertical and Solutions Marketing, Cisco Security
3:45pm – 4:30pm
Southern II, Dolphin Hotel
Tuesday, October 18th
Mastermind Keynote
Chuck Robbins, Chief Executive Officer
5:00pm – 5:45pm
Hemisphere Ballroom, Dolphin Hotel
Wednesday, October 19th
The Death of Traditional Offices & the Rise of Workforce Experience
Ross Daniels, Senior Director, Collaboration Marketing
Pankaj Gupta, Senior Director, Enterprise Portfolio and Solutions Marketing
10:15am – 11:00am
Europe II, Dolphin Hotel
Chuck Robbins will be a highlighted speaker at Gartner Symposium Orlando-- the world’s most important gathering of CIOs and Senior IT Executives. He’ll be interviewed on stage by a senior Gartner analyst to discuss top trends in our industry today.
Speaker Bio
Chuck Robbins is the Chief Executive Officer of Cisco. Under his leadership, Cisco is empowering its customers to create and deliver value as every country, city and company becomes digital.
Chuck has more than 20 years of leadership experience. Over his 17 years at Cisco, he served as Senior Vice President of The Americas, Cisco’s largest geographic region; Senior Vice President of U.S. Enterprise, Commercial and Canada; Senior Vice President of U.S. Commercial Sales; and Segment Vice President, U.S. and Canada channel organization, where he was instrumental in helping build the industry’s most powerful partner program.
True digitization requires connecting all aspects of a business in a synchronized and cross-functional way. It’s not about automating existing processes or having a “digital” mindset. It’s not the job of the CIO or CDO alone.
It starts with executive leadership uniting around digital transformation to capitalize on disruptive market opportunities. Join Kevin Bandy, Cisco’s Chief Digital Officer, to learn about the business-led transformation he is driving at Cisco, the lessons he’s learned over the past 12 months and the continuous cycle of innovation he has introduced into Cisco’s product portfolio and operating model.
Speaker Bio
Kevin is Cisco’s Chief Digital Officer. He has a bold vision, coupled with a diverse set of abilities – a combination of global channel development, entrepreneurship, and operational excellence – that he is using to drive the digital transformation of Cisco and our customers.
A member of the Executive Leadership Team, Bandy is defining Cisco’s digital vision and strategy, functioning as a force driver behind the company’s innovation and growth. He leads our digital portfolio growth efforts, working cross functionally throughout the organization, to design and implement a comprehensive model that will enable Cisco’s broad portfolio of solutions and services to be offered in the different ways our customers want to consume.
In his previous role as Senior Vice President, Enterprise Transformation at Salesforce.com, Bandy was responsible for growth and market expansion by making Salesforce.com the foundation on which companies reengineer their front office operations. Creating faster responses to market transitions, increasing customer relevance, redefining ROI and establishing greater relevance in channel partner relationships generated wider, global adoption of broader cloud enabled operating models.
The CIO and his/her team have become indispensable co-creators of the core business strategy and value proposition. Digitization and disruption are IT’s new best friend, presenting opportunities to take the lead in demonstrating how digital transformation can drive business performance and outcomes.
But, talking about digitization from the technology perspective is one thing, managing the practical transformation internally is another. Join John Manville, SVP, GIS/IT at Cisco as he leads an exploration of the challenges and the opportunities of taking IT digital.
Speaker Bio
John Manville is Senior Vice President of the IT Global Infrastructure Services team at Cisco. In this role, Manville leads the strategy and operations for the networks and data centers that provide technology infrastructure services for Cisco's global workforce of more than 65,000 people. His focus is on addressing critical business requirements while maintaining a balance of operational excellence and innovation.
John joined Cisco in 2007 and plays a key role in establishing Cisco IT as a trusted advisor to business partners, both internal and external to Cisco. He collaborates with external partners to integrate their technologies with Cisco's and demonstrate the value both provide as one solution. Prior to Cisco, Manville held a variety of positions in IT with several Wall Street financial companies.
Trillions of dollars in “Digital Value” are at stake across every customer segment, enterprise and service provider through digital transformation. To support these strategic initiatives, there has never been a better time to take a fresh look at the infrastructure requirements to support the greater diversity in scale and types of users, apps and locations. This presentation will examine how enterprise IT can fundamentally evolve itself in both infrastructure and operations, toward the larger goal of empowering end-users with more self-service ways to deploy their apps, the lifeblood of the new digital economy
There is no question that the pace of digital transformation is accelerating at breakneck speed with trillions of dollars in “Digital Value” at stake across every customer segment, enterprise and service provider alike. For most companies the gating factor for successful digital transformation will be how effectively and quickly they can adapt their current technology strategies and practices to enable the modern-day apps that drive today’s economy.
With this in mind, there has never been a better time to take a fresh look at the requirements for modernizing the enterprise data center as a necessary step to support the greater diversity in scale and types of users, apps and locations that enterprise IT has to manage today. Smart enterprises and their IT organizations are taking action now. Gartner’s recent prediction states that more than 125,000 enterprises have or will launch major digital transformation projects in 2016 with that number growing exponentially in the coming years.
This presentation will take the audience through a journey from the legacy to the next-gen specifically focused on the data center as the strategic venue for operating enterprise apps. However, as will be explained in this presentation, this evolution of users, apps, and locations will not happen in any orderly sequence. In fact, it is very likely that the legacy and the next-gen will co-exist, requiring enterprise IT to navigate a complex environment that consists of traditional and modern apps, centralized and distributed users, as well as on-prem and cloud infrastructure.
To achieve this, enterprise IT has to fundamentally evolve in terms of both operations and infrastructure, toward the larger goal of empowering end-users with more self-service ways to deploy their apps, the lifeblood of the digital economy. In this session, you will learn the step-by-step ways to accomplish this evolution successfully.
Speaker Bio
DD Dasgupta is the Vice President of the Cisco Data Center Product and Solution Marketing. DD brings more than two decades of experience in enterprise and service provider networking industries in various roles spanning software development to marketing. To read the latest blogs and commentary from DD, please visit here.
Transforming the workplace requires more than a simple rearrangement of furniture. In order to empower workforce innovation, organizations need to design employee-centric workplaces that meet the needs and working styles of their digital, multi-generational workforces.
The future of work is increasingly digital, global, and mobile. Unfortunately, most of today’s workplaces are not well-suited to engaging employees who increasingly expect to be able to work across a variety of geographic locations, time zones, and digital platforms. 60% of employees worldwide do not believe that their workplaces support their working needs. Not only do sub-optimal workplace layouts adversely impact employee productivity, but they also contribute to lower levels of employee engagement and innovation.
Transforming the workplace requires more than a simple rearrangement of furniture. In order to empower workforce innovation, organizations need to design employee-centric workplaces that meet the needs and working styles of their digital, multi-generational workforces.
At Cisco, our IT leaders have partnered with Human Resources and Corporate Real Estate leaders to create an experience that engages our employees while optimizing costs and reducing operational complexity. By aligning our workplaces, policies, and technology with the needs of our people, Cisco has been named one of Fortune’s “Best Companies to Work For” every year since 2010. Join us and see how you can lead the charge in architecting a workplace transformation strategy that is at once executable, scalable, and impactful.
Ross' Bio
Ross Daniels is the Senior Director of Collaboration Marketing, Cisco’s nearly $5B Collaboration business. Additionally, Ross leads content marketing, digital and social marketing, and demand generation for Cisco’s Collaboration portfolio, which includes Unified Communications (including Cisco Spark), Conferencing (including Cisco WebEx), Telephony and Video Endpoints, and Customer Care/Contact Center.
Ross joined Cisco as part of its November 1999 acquisition of WebLine Communications. While at WebLine, he held a variety of technical sales and marketing roles. Ross is a regular speaker at industry events, Cisco events, and customer briefings. Ross has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Harvard University and a Masters in Business Administration from Babson College.
Pankaj's Bio
Pankaj Gupta, Senior Director of Marketing, leads the global marketing for Cisco Enterprise products and solutions portfolio, SDN, infrastructure security and Cisco software. Pankaj has rich experience in high-tech marketing, product management, strategy, and sales across Service Provider and Enterprise segments.
Pankaj received his education from Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business, and Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology.
Traditional manufacturing has evolved into a connected industry with the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). In this session, we’ll explore trends shaping manufacturing digitization and the value machine-embedded solutions offer.
Files and information are the lifeblood of an organization. Keeping this information—and an organization’s productivity—intact and secure is nonnegotiable. Without the appropriate defenses, ransomware can reduce an organization to operating with pen and paper.
With the emergence of ransomware, malware that encrypts and holds for ransom an organization’s vital documents and files, the ongoing access to an organization’s information must be assured. Without the appropriate defenses, ransomware can reduce an organization to operating with pen and paper.
In this session we’ll discuss the various ways in which ransomware operates and infects and what defenses should be considered to both reduce the risk of ransomware and mitigate damage should an infection unfortunately take hold.
Speaker Bio
Jason Wright leads the global vertical and solutions marketing team for Cisco Security. Through ongoing interactions with customers, partners, developers and sales team members, Jason defines positioning and go-to-market strategies for Cisco’s suite of security solutions. Prior to joining the vendor community, Mr. Wright led the Security Technologies practice at market research and consulting firm Frost & Sullivan.
As a fifteen-year veteran of the network security industry, Mr. Wright offers a unique blend of business and technical experience and is passionate about sharing his experiences with others in the industry.
This 16-18 of October we will be
gathering at Walt Disney World.
1500 Epcot Resort Boulevard
Lake Buena Vista, Florida,
United States - 32830
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