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Brendan O'Brien

Director Global Product Marketing

Connected Mobile Experiences

Dr Brendan O’Brien, Director Global Product Marketing for Cisco Connected Mobile Experiences.

Brendan leads the marketing and evangelizing of Cisco’s new Connected Mobile Experiences (CMX) solutions -- which enables enterprises to turn WiFi into a business and services innovation platform. Working closely with large enterprises and Service Providers globally he helps address advocate the various business modesl and opportunities that are emerging to enable monetization of WiFi generated data and analytics. 

 

Prior to Cisco as founder and CEO of ThinkSmart Technologies, Brendan successfully led the company from its foundation in mid 2010 to acquisition by Cisco Systems in September 2012.  ThinkSmart was recognized as the leader in pioneering the market for location-based analytics using WiFi. It was founded as a University spin-out, attracted world leading post doctoral researchers, and under Dr O’Brien’s leadership drove awareness and adoption globally through ThinkSmart’s ground-breaking software. 

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September 19, 2014

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Norway Looking to Lead in Customer Experience & Engagement

Norway’s longest running IT conference , IT-tinget concluded yesterday in the beautiful town of Tonsberg about an hour south of Oslo. The event has been running for 31 years now and is organized and run by Cisco’s partner Evry. This years theme is “#UserIsKing” , and Cisco hosted a special Retail Br…

September 12, 2014

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Location Based Services Enabling Smart Connected Cities

Smart Cities and the Internet of Everything have become commonly used terms over the past year or two. Both represent huge opportunities for both business growth and also for the delivery of better services and experiences for consumers and citizens alike. The size of this IoE opportunity has been w…

June 25, 2014

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#HITEC Higlight: How Cisco’s CMX is Delivering Profitable Outcomes to the Hotel Industry

HITEC 2014 takes place this week in Los Angeles, where the brightest minds and hottest technology in the Hospitality industry congregate in one place, with over 300 companies displaying the latest technology solutions to the industry. CMX is featured at the HITEC Convention in both the Cisco booth a…

April 30, 2014

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Explosive Growth in Mobility and Location-based Marketing

It’s exciting to watch the explosive growth of mobile and hyper local based services. Mobile location based services and marketing is rapidly becoming BIG business, with an estimated $4.5B of mobile advertising being location based (rising to over $10B by 2017). Let’s look at some of the funda…

April 7, 2014

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Mobile Marketing & Location Context @ ClickZ New York 2014

Digital Marketing Executives, trade press and specialist companies gathered in New York this week for the latest ClickZ Live NYCevent. Location, location, location…!!! A very clear trend visible here is how location had become a key part of the digital marketing language. It was part of the Ke…

March 28, 2014

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Mobility Trends in the Air Industry 2014

Mobile usage and penetration within the Air Industry is an interesting topic that most of us can relate to and understand to one degree or another. Having attended the recent Air Passenger EXPO in Barcelona, some of the published reports make for interesting reading. Here are some interesting perspe…

March 25, 2014

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Mobile Trends & Airport Passenger Terminal Expo 2014

The annual Passenger Terminal EXPO is underway this week in Barcelona. The event provides a powerful international platform for the airport and airline sectors to interact and share common issues, goals and solutions about the airport industry, with a particular and unique focus on the terminal. Cis…