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Simon Young
General Manager - IoT - Energy & Transportation
Digital Transformation Office - ANZ
Simon Young is a General Manager in the Cisco Digital Transformation Office focusing on the Energy and Transportation market and based in Melbourne, Australia.
As a member of the APJ Digital Transformation Office, Young is responsible for helping customers define and deliver new digital businesses through go-to-market models and engagement methodologies. Helping customers seize the opportunities of tomorrow by proving that amazing things can happen when you connect the previously unconnected.
He leads the Australian and New Zealand team with deep industry expertise, a clear digital transformation platform and a defined set of capabilities to drive measurable business outcomes. Young has driven transformational initiatives across various sales and engineering roles during his 14 years with Cisco including leading the Internet of Things (IoT) business across Australia and New Zealand.
Previously, he had also led the Connected Energy and Resources team and spent time developing solutions for the Service Provider market.
Before joining Cisco, Young held a number of sales, consulting and engineering roles at a variety of System Integrators servicing customers in the Energy, Education, Retail, Banking, Gaming and Public Sector verticals.
Articles
Enabling MaaS Through a Distributed IoT Data Fabric, Fog Computing and Network Protocols
Transport networks in cities and regional centres are under increasing pressure from escalating customer demand. Fuelled by population growth, increasing urbanisation and expanding customer expectations, governments and private sector transport operators are facing new challenges.
However, despite r…
Towards a Multimodal Transportation Data Framework
Digitization is occurring at a rapid pace across all modes of transportation. Whether this be future disruptive services such as Mobility-as-a-Service or improving road safety through Connected and Automated Vehicles; it has become apparent that the secure exchange of data is critical to the future…
How Digital is Disrupting Transportation – and Economies
Transportation is the life blood of any city. An efficient, safe and secure network is critical to support an increasing mobile population. Digital business transformation is a journey towards adopting and deploying digital technologies and business models that measurably improve performance. A dig…