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Pratima Aiyagari

Corporate Development- Acquisitions & Investments (Europe)

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Pratima Aiyagari joined Cisco’s Network Management BU in 2001 as a software engineer. After several career moves, she re-joined Cisco’s Corporate Development in 2011 to focus on investments and acquisitions in Europe primarily in the areas of Artificial Intelligence and Enterprise Collaboration.

Notable deals: NDS (acq. 2012), ThinkSmart (acq. 2012), Ubiquisys (acq. 2013), Evrythng (investment, 2014), Adbrain (investment 2016), Notion Capital (Fund investment 2017).

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March 22, 2018

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AImotive: Can Self-Driving Cars be as Safe as Airplanes?

Riding in a plane is significantly safer per mile than traveling by road. For the majority of people, driving or being a passenger in a motor vehicle is the most dangerous action they will perform in a day. Fatalities caused by aviation have steadily declined since the 1960s, but road safety has rem…