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Abhay Kulkarni

VP/GM, Webex Meetings

Cisco Team Collaboration Group

Abhay Kulkarni is the Vice President and General Manager of Webex Meetings in the Cisco Team Collaboration Group. Abhay and his team are laser focused on creating the best meetings experiences in the industry. His team is responsible for development, product management, support and customer success for the Webex Meetings business line, one of the world’s largest SaaS businesses.

At Cisco, Abhay previously led the Webex Platform that powers Webex Teams, Meetings and Devices. A technologist at heart, his work on the platform delivered highly available, world class performance at scale and enables amazing developer experiences via developer.webex.com.

Abhay brings 20+ years of industry experience in building and scaling large cloud SaaS platforms. Before joining Cisco, Abhay was head of engineering at cloud security startup Netskope. Prior to Netskope, Abhay led engineering for Norton Cloud - one of the largest Enterprise clouds managing many petabytes of data for 40M+ users. Abhay holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from University of Pune.

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September 11, 2019

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Cisco Webex Leader for the 12th Consecutive Year in 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Meeting Solutions

Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant As far as accolades go, being named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant is by far the most coveted. Cisco just has been recognized for the 12th year in a row 1. Cisco Webex is furthest in “Completeness of Vision” and highest in “Ability to Execute.” You can re…

June 11, 2019

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Cisco Webex – Building and Maintaining Trust with Collaboration Administrators

Collaboration Administrators have an unenviable job. Not only do they have to cater to demanding end users who want the best experience, they also have to deal with other functions in a typical IT organization – such as – legal, security and compliance. Often, requirements from those functions are a…

September 10, 2018

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The Webex Backbone: Because Every Millisecond Counts

My global team of infrastructure and cloud engineers spans more than 22 locations worldwide. When I have my team meetings, people join from many continents using Webex. And because video meetings are more productive than just audio meetings, I require my team to use video. Now imagine having users a…