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Susie Wee

Senior Vice President and General Manager

Cisco DevNet & CX Ecosystem Success

Susie is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco DevNet & CX Ecosystem Success. She is the founder of DevNet, Cisco's developer program which catalyzes innovations created by a broader developer ecosystem. DevNet serves infrastructure and application developers across the breadth of Cisco’s portfolio including networking, cloud, data center, security, collaboration and IoT. Under Susie’s leadership, the DevNet community has grown to over 500,000 developers in less than four years.

Prior to her current role, Susie was the Vice President and Chief Technology and Experience Officer of Cisco’s Collaboration Technology Group. She was responsible for driving innovation and experience design in Cisco's collaboration products and software services, including unified communications, telepresence, web and video conferencing, and cloud collaboration. Before joining Cisco, Susie was Vice President of Experience Software Business and CTO at Hewlett Packard.

Susie served as the co-editor of the JPSEC standard for the security of JPEG-2000 images and as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits, Systems and Video Technology and IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. While serving as Lab Director at HP Labs, Susie was also a consulting assistant professor at Stanford University where she co-taught a graduate-level course on digital video processing.

Susie received Technology Review’s Top 100 Young Innovators award, ComputerWorld's Top 40 Innovators under 40 award, the Red Dot Design Concept award for augmented collaboration, the INCITs Technical Excellence award, the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame award, and was on the Forbes Most Powerful Women list. She is an IEEE Fellow for her contributions in multimedia technology and has authored over 50 international publications and 57 granted patents.

Susie received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Articles

March 10, 2020

DEVELOPER

Business Continuity Planning Today

How Cisco is enabling its business and “work from home” in light of current affairs We are living in uncertain times with the recent threat of a global pandemic in our midst. Every business is struggling with how to keep their businesses running while keeping their employees and customer…

February 24, 2020

DEVELOPER

The Wait is Over: DevNet Certifications are Here!

We started DevNet six years ago with the ambitious goal of creating a community of developers who could innovate and succeed with the programmable infrastructure that we knew Cisco and the industry would develop in the next 5 years. Only a few of Cisco’s products had APIs at that time, but we knew t…

January 28, 2020

DEVELOPER

DevNet is Helping Customers with their Digital Transformation Journey

Business customers in every industry are facing fierce competition from digital born-in-the-cloud disruptors. As their businesses have grown, so has the complexity of their networks. Yet, the network is at the heart of their business, and increasingly so is software, cloud, and IoT, so digital trans…

November 5, 2019

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Accelerating Partner Success with the new Cisco DevNet Specialization

Announcing Cisco’s newest business specialization for partners: The DevNet Specialization I’m always amazed by our DevNet community. The DevNet mantra has been “Learn – Code – Inspire – Connect,” and our networkers and software developers have been living this – I’m so inspir…

June 10, 2019

DEVELOPER

Bringing Software Practices and Software Skills to Networking with Cisco Certifications and DevNet

Building IT teams to accelerate business with the new network It’s an exciting time to be in our industry because new networking technologies are catalyzing new applications and changing the role networks play in business. Advances in network technologies have enabled new applications and business m…

May 1, 2019

DEVELOPER

Wi-Fi 6 is for Developers!

Wi-Fi 6 is here, and it opens a new chapter in networking. With its enhanced connectivity, the way we access the network and our experiences while connected fundamentally shifts. It’s certainly an exciting time to be in the industry and even more exciting to be a developer because Wi-Fi 6 is for dev…

February 15, 2019

DEVELOPER

Disrupt or Die: Developers and IT Hold the Keys to Business Success

Getting a big idea to market used to be hard and take time. Today, big ideas that change the technology landscape are the norm. Most CEOs worry about ongoing disruption from digital competitors or new market entrants. We see this across multiple industries, from retail to manufacturing to transporta…

November 27, 2018

DEVELOPER

“Smart Country” Innovation Creates Opportunities for People

I’m continually amazed at how technology transforms our lives. As the founder of Cisco DevNet, I want to ensure that technology benefits countries, cities, businesses, governments, and, most importantly, people and their communities. The network is the center of how people, services, and businesses…

November 13, 2018

DEVELOPER

DevNet Is Working with Partners to Innovate and Differentiate

New Developer Offers for SD-WAN, AWS Hybrid Cloud, Meraki, and Collaboration When I first joined Cisco, I learned that we had a secret weapon…our amazing partner community. Our partners build, manage, and operate mission critical infrastructures for our customers around the world. One of the g…