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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

May 23, 2017

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

DevNet Create kicks off in San Francisco

I just wrapped my opening keynote at the DevNet Create, Cisco’s inaugural IoT and cloud developer conference at Bespoke in San Francisco. Over the next two days, the attendees here, as well as those joining via the live stream, will learn and experience first-hand how applications are meeting…

May 19, 2017

NETWORKING

Get the Most from DevNet Create: Virtual or Live!

As we approach the final week before DevNet Create, I wanted to share with you details on how to make the most of your time. I recently posted about the agenda and the engaging lineup of keynotes and presentations. In addition to these speakers, we have also woven hands-on learning opportunities thr…

February 24, 2017

NETWORKING

Applications Meet Infrastructure at Cisco Live Berlin: DevNet Zone

By all rights I should be exhausted.  But I’m not.  To the contrary, as Cisco Live Berlin 2017 winds down, I’m totally energized.  So much creativity.  So many amazing people, with innovative products and ideas that are truly transforming the way we live and work.  I saw this first-hand in our DevNe…

February 7, 2017

NETWORKING

Introducing DevNet Create: The Developer Conference Where Applications Meet Infrastructure

We’ve grown DevNet over the last 3 years and, thanks to you, we have had tremendous success together. We feel that it’s now time to work with the broader developer community to drive an important industry transformation in front of us: how modern applications and modern infrastructure can work bette…

November 17, 2016

PARTNER

Developers Accelerate Innovation… DevNet Accelerates Developers.

Now more than ever, our partners need to deliver business outcomes to customers at Full Speed.  We also know this often requires custom software development in addition to industry-leading technology. Whether you are a large partner organization that needs to be more nimble, or a small to medium-siz…

March 4, 2016

NETWORKING

Announcing DevNet DNA Network Programmability Dev Center

Have you read about Cisco’s DNA (Digital Network Architecture) announcement? In a nutshell, it is how the network will evolve into a platform that can keep up with the dynamic needs of digital business models, and ultimately –through analytics- even anticipate them. As such, Network Programmability…

July 21, 2014

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco Invests in Developers

One of the marvelous things about community and teamwork is that it allows us to engage with people in a way we couldn’t as individuals. When we pool our strength and work together, we can create something in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This is the philosophy of our Cisco®…

June 2, 2014

PARTNER

How can DevNet Help You?

Have you visited the DevNet portal website yet?  DevNet is our new developer program, and the DevNet portal helps software developers build applications based on Cisco products- these apps can help you enhance and manage Cisco networks or create entirely new solutions for your customers. On the DevN…

May 19, 2014

NETWORKING

What you’ll find in the #DevNet Zone at Cisco Live (#CLUS)

Today the DevNet Developer Conference kicked off in Moscone West.  DevNet is a mini-conference you can attend within the larger Cisco Live that gives hands-on experience with the many APIs Cisco is developing. The DevNet Zone includes the following activities: Theater Sessions: API technical sessio…