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Sergey Konovalov

Head of Business Development, Blockchain

Corporate Strategic Innovations Group

Sergey heads Business Development at Cisco's Corporate Strategic Innovations Group for Blockchain initiative and responsible for partnerships development, GTM and delivery models.

Sergey holds MBA from London Business School, Bachelor of Science in Industrial Automation, Masters Degree in Computer Science, and awarded CCIE and CISSP certifications. Author of 3 books and multiple publications.

Articles

June 14, 2018

INNOVATION

The Strategic Role of Blockchain Partnerships

When a nascent technology starts to take off, people talk about the inventors as “pioneers,” evoking pictures of rough-and-tumble loners going it alone. But when it comes to developing a distributed ledger technology like blockchain, it’s much better to join forces than fend for yourself. As the ent…

Navigating the New Digital Oilfield

By Serhii Konovalov with Jon Judson and Julie Fink-White With almost a month behind us now into 2017, we are seeing the usual flurry of predictions and “What to Expect in the Oil & Gas Industry” articles across industry blogs and publications. With the shifting geo-political tides across the glo…

The Future of the Smart Pipeline

Schneider Electric and Cisco recently hosted their first industry Customer Advisory Board meeting on Smart Connected Pipelines, featuring representation from key major North American pipeline operators. The board appreciated that the technology met their highest needs and industry requirements, and…