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Jason Goecke

Vice President & General Manager

Cognitive Collaboration & Cisco Spark Platform

Jason Goecke is the Vice President and General Manager responsible for Cognitive Collaboration and Cisco Spark Platform, which includes Cisco Spark for Developers, Cisco Spark Depot and Tropo. Goecke joined Cisco with the acquisition of Tropo in 2015 where he was co-founder and CEO.

Goecke brings more than 20 years of experience in cloud telecommunication services and open source application development. He has extensive experience working with carriers and enterprises around the world. Prior to Tropo, he was the Vice President of Innovation with Voxeo Labs. He spearheaded the company’s vision in investing in core platform research and innovating new communications solutions that led to spinning Tropo off into a standalone company.

Additional experience includes Presence Technology where Goecke designed and launched OpenGate, Multi- Channel Contact Center Solutions, Proofpoint, SaaS security, and Exigen, BPO/ITO. Goecke was also a co- founder of the Adhearsion open source telephony development framework and previous board member of the Adhearsion Foundation.

Goecke serves on the board of Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, an independent, education nonprofit whose mission is to improve the practice of continuous learning, collaboration, and change in the education sector. Previously, Goecke has been on industry advisory boards for Ericsson and Telstra.

Goecke holds several patents in computer security and real-time communications

Articles

June 11, 2018

COLLABORATION

Announcing a More Intuitive Intelligent Boardroom

How do you build a better boardroom? I don’t mean physically build. What tools do you use to enable your team to collaborate better, build relationships, and make more informed decisions? How do you improve how work is done in the boardroom? I love the way my colleague Jonathan Rosenberg approaches…

November 2, 2017

COLLABORATION

Meet Cisco Spark Assistant, Your Virtual Assistant for Meetings

Hey Spark, let’s get started. We’re all familiar with Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant—virtual assistants that help you save time and get things done at home like check the weather, turn on your TV, set a reminder, or summon your car from the garage. These products are great in your personal life,…

October 18, 2017

COLLABORATION

Cisco Spark for Salesforce Is Now Available

Some people spend most of their time working in collaboration tools. They message, attend meetings, and share documents — living in applications designed to help them connect faster, better. Others work almost entirely in specialized applications. Healthcare staff, financial services teams, sa…

October 12, 2017

COLLABORATION

Funding the Future of Collaboration

The Cisco Spark Innovation Fund is a $150 million initiative to enable exceptional startups, developers, and ISVs to create new solutions to improve the Cisco Spark experience. We distribute funding in a variety of ways, including: Direct investments Partnerships with startup accelerators Micro-gra…

May 23, 2017

COLLABORATION

Working Smarter with Cisco Spark Widgets and SDKs

Working smarter while we work together. That’s what we’re all about. In fact, it’s this exact idea that forms the foundation of the Cisco Spark Depot, the hub for all Cisco Spark integrations and bots. (See my previous post.) If you haven’t had a chance to check out the Cisco Spark Depot in the past…

November 2, 2016

COLLABORATION

Discover the Cisco Spark Depot

The rate at which innovation is happening is astounding. We are constantly challenging the status quo and finding new ways to make work and life easier for everyone. Among the many innovations revealed at Partner Summit, Rowan Trollope announced Cisco Spark Depot. This latest expansion of the Cisco…

March 10, 2016

COLLABORATION

$150M New Reasons to Explore Cisco Spark

It’s an exciting time to be at Cisco. The pace of innovation and change is astounding, and we’re barely beginning to scratch the surface. And I’m saying this coming from a fast-moving startup environment just 10 months ago. Many of you are already using Cisco Spark and Tropo APIs to spin up amazing…

December 3, 2015

COLLABORATION

Building a Developer Ecosystem

This is part of a series on the evolution of the Cisco Collaboration Cloud platform, exploring the technical and design principles behind its unique architecture. So far in this series my colleagues have talked about various elements of our Cisco Collaboration Cloud platform. Rowan mentioned its ori…