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Dani Schrakamp

Global Government Industry Manager

Marketing & Communications

Dani joined Cisco in 2013 and is a government industry manager in the global public sector marketing and business development organization. She is focused on technology innovation and government transformation across a local, regional and national context, mainly spending her days supporting smart city and digital country engagements

Dani is a California native, and currently living in London. She enjoys all outdoor activities, sporting events and traveling, and can never turn down the opportunity for too much coffee, good food, a good book and fine wine. She holds a BA degree in International Affairs with specializations in international business and politics from The George Washington University’s Elliott School. Dani is now in the process of pursuing her master's degree of public policy and administration at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Articles

April 9, 2018

GOVERNMENT

Getting Started Can be as Easy as 1,2,3…

Co-authored with Carly Botelho, Cisco Meraki Public Sector. Becoming ‘smarter’ is something that municipalities, cities, states and even countries are striving to achieve. Through the process, many questions arise as to what it actually mean to become a smart, connected community. Where…

November 30, 2017

GOVERNMENT

The Formula for Making the Smart City Dream a Reality

It has been an extremely busy and exciting month for us. Our secure data platform was officially renamed to Cisco Kinetic for Cities. We collaborated with Ferrovial to deliver a dynamic waste collection project in Granada, Spain. Chuck sat down with the Wall Street Journal to discuss our smart citie…

July 21, 2016

GOVERNMENT

#TransformationThursday: Fresh Air, Clean Energy, Can’t Lose

You’ve Got the Power: We live in a finite world – there are only so many hours in the day, so much money in your bank account, and so many glasses of wine I can drink. Why then is it that we use precious natural commodities like there’s an endless supply for us to take from?…

June 9, 2016

GOVERNMENT

#TransformationThursday: Are Efficient Public Services Any Good?

Just Ask Dave: Properly and efficiently delivering public services to your constituency can be as important as keeping someone like poor Dave out of the metaphorical doghouse. Or when you consider something such as serving your senior citizens, easy, cost-effective access to services can be absolute…