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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

February 28, 2018

DEVELOPER

The Programmable Network and the Rise of the Network API

There is a really important trend in front of us in the industry. I call it “the rise of the network API.” We’ve entered a whole new world where the network is programmable. And what’s really exciting…the programmable network has APIs. As a result, the power and capabilities of networks and network…

January 29, 2018

DEVELOPER

The DevNet Zone at Cisco Live is Ready for YOU!

Finally! The wait is over. Cisco Live Barcelona is here! The DevNet team has been burning the midnight oil for months to get ready for YOU to visit us in the DevNet Zone. We’ve put together an amazing breadth and depth of demos, sessions, learning labs, hands-on workshops, and fun prize-winning cha…

November 1, 2017

DEVELOPER

Cisco and Google give developers cloud speed & scale, coupled with enterprise-class security & support

Enterprise app developers want to use the power and ease of cloud services with enterprise-class security, and cloud developers want to reach the information in enterprise applications and data warehouses. Cisco DevNet is excited to bring developers a new solution from Cisco & Google. This solut…

October 18, 2017

DEVELOPER

Cisco Wins Developer Satisfaction Award

How do you build a developer program that is focused on what developers truly want? It’s a question we ask ourselves here at Cisco DevNet every day. So last week DevNet Senior Director Rick Tywoniak attended SlashData’s annual Future Developer Summit, with the goal of continuing our search for answe…

July 6, 2017

DEVELOPER

Application Developers and Network Programmers: The Superheroes of Cisco Live

An explosive opening Picture this… I’m at the Cisco Live opening keynote.  Chuck Robbins has an explosive opening with heart-pounding Thunder and immersive light visuals.  Over 26,000 people are in the stands cheering.  Chuck Robbins opens by introducing the new era in networking and makes Cisco’s…

June 26, 2017

NETWORKING

Cisco is Evolving the Network into the iPhone of the Enterprise

It’s an exciting time in the networking industry. According to IDC, the worldwide programmability market will experience huge growth over the next three years and be worth nearly $12.5 billion. Cisco is leading the charge in this market and recently unveiled a new generation of intent-based networki…

June 23, 2017

DEVELOPER

Get Ready to Enter the DevNet Zone at Cisco Live

If you already have a visit to the DevNet Zone on your Cisco Live agenda, you can stop reading now.  If not…you need to put it on your calendar now. The range of learning, coding, connecting, and inspiring activities and sessions at this year’s Cisco Live is greater than ever! More learning l…

June 21, 2017

DEVELOPER

Welcome to the Developer Blog at Cisco

A blog from Cisco, dedicated specifically to developers? Really? Yes really. In fact, if you still think of Cisco as the routers and switches company… well, I’m not sure what rock you’ve been living under. Cisco is a software company, playing a major role in this era of digital transformation. Our p…

June 5, 2017

NETWORKING

DevNet Delivering New Fast Lane Validation Program for iOS Developers

Last year I was excited to blog about the Apple and Cisco partnership.  It was amazing to see the opportunities being created for developers with iOS 10.  A lot has happened since then, and the opportunities for developers just keep getting better! Now we are happy to announce DevNet Fast lane valid…