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Anoop Nannra

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Anoop Nannra is a senior leader and Head of Cisco’s Blockchain Initiative. He is focused on identifying disruptive technologies and accelerating their adoption through business incubation via co-development, co-innovation, partnerships and acquisitions.

Anoop has a proven track record of delivering world-first innovation disciplines including security, optics, service provider video, switching and IoT.

Prior to joining Cisco, he led large initiatives at a service provider, was a co-founder at a video startup, ran several small businesses, and spent a number of years at Nortel Networks in Ottawa.

Anoop is an avid photographer and DIY-er, making things long before the maker trend made DIY hip again.

Articles

January 8, 2019

INNOVATION

The Potential of Blockchain for Network Engineers

Everybody’s talking about blockchain these days, but as real-world use cases of the technology are still in early stages of implementation, it’s understandable if network engineers don’t see how blockchain affects them just yet. Let’s cut to the chase: Blockchain technology has the potential to radi…

October 9, 2018

INNOVATION

Why Cisco Has Joined Three More Blockchain Alliances

As we consider the complexity and vastness of the journey we’ve been on with blockchain, it’s become evident there’s still more work to be done at the ecosystem level. Cisco is a big believer in strategic partnerships in the blockchain space — that’s why we’re co-founding members of the Trusted IoT…

August 21, 2018

INNOVATION

How Antifragile Systems of Trust Can Strengthen Blockchain Initiatives

What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. We resist gravity, and our muscles become stronger. We negotiate conflicts, and our emotional intelligence increases. But what if this also applied to IT systems? The next generation of networked systems could autonomously improve themselves as outside forces…

March 28, 2018

INNOVATION

Advancing Planet Scale Blockchain Interoperability

Earlier this week, the Trusted IoT Alliance announced the launch of the first-of-its-kind testnet for blockchain, enabling software engineers worldwide to access a realistic, open-source test environment for the development of blockchain solutions. The multi-protocol, testnet should prove to be a ma…

January 19, 2018

INNOVATION

Blockchain and a Safer Self-Driving Future

Four self-driving cars head toward an intersection at the same time. One plans to go straight, three want to turn, and all vehicles want to get their passengers to destinations as swiftly as possible. Approaching the intersection, each autonomous vehicle is aware of the others, wirelessly communicat…

July 25, 2017

INNOVATION

Leading Blockchain from Exciting Experiment to Widespread Adoption

Like the Internet and the Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain transformation will be a multi-year journey. We’re now at the beginning of that journey—an exciting time, when innovators from across industries are experimenting with new ways to harness blockchain technology in applications that range…

April 19, 2017

INNOVATION

Blockchain Enabled Industrial Strength Trust for Modern Business Environments

Practitioners in the telecommunications space are almost universally aware of the ISO/OSI network management models. These models, along with work done in the International Telecommunications Union, have long defined the dominant model for fault, configuration, account, performance, and security man…

February 2, 2017

INNOVATION

Digital Bridges for Blockchain

Over the last two years the blockchain space has evolved at a fevered pitch.  We have seen new business models emerge, new approaches to old problems, and numerous business pivots. We have also seen a number of announcements of early adopters making fantastic progress in vetting and proving the tech…