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Simon Young

General Manager - IoT - Energy & Transportation

Digital Transformation Office - ANZ

Simon Young is a General Manager in the Cisco Digital Transformation Office focusing on the Energy and Transportation market and based in Melbourne, Australia.

As a member of the APJ Digital Transformation Office, Young is responsible for helping customers define and deliver new digital businesses through go-to-market models and engagement methodologies. Helping customers seize the opportunities of tomorrow by proving that amazing things can happen when you connect the previously unconnected.

He leads the Australian and New Zealand team with deep industry expertise, a clear digital transformation platform and a defined set of capabilities to drive measurable business outcomes. Young has driven transformational initiatives across various sales and engineering roles during his 14 years with Cisco including leading the Internet of Things (IoT) business across Australia and New Zealand.

Previously, he had also led the Connected Energy and Resources team and spent time developing solutions for the Service Provider market.

Before joining Cisco, Young held a number of sales, consulting and engineering roles at a variety of System Integrators servicing customers in the Energy, Education, Retail, Banking, Gaming and Public Sector verticals.

Articles

November 20, 2020

INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT)

How innovation in technology is driving safer roads

With over 90% of road crashes caused by human error, leveraging technology to reduce incidents is vital.  Connected vehicles are a perfect example of Internet of Things (IoT) in action and demonstrates how technology can create safer roads. Australia’s largest on-road pilot of connected vehicles…

November 27, 2019

ENERGY/UTILITIES

Using IoT to enable Agile Trading of Distributed Energy Resources

In 2018, the number of Australian households with rooftop solar passed 2 million – that’s one in five.¹ Tomorrow’s smart grid will be a constellation of many generation sources working together, shifting from the traditional one-way power flows from generation through grids to consumers…

Keeping the Traffic (and Transport Network) Flowing with IoT

Globally, more than 1.25 million people die in road traffic crashes every year and a further 50 million people are injured or disabled.¹ Meanwhile, congestion costs Australians $16.5 billion in 2015, according to the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics. The price of congestion…

Building a Smarter Intersection for Improved Road Safety and Congestion Busting

Like many other countries around the world, Australia is seeing significant population growth, particularly in our larger cities and built up urban environments. At the same time, there is a digital transformation underway in transportation, with Mobility-as-a-Service, smart phone ride-hailing…