Collaboration

As the pitter patter of raindrops hits the windshield, you tap the brakes and once more find yourself at a dead stop. Your exit is still eight miles away. Someone behind you honks and your navigation app shows an accident up ahead. With your stomach in knots, you call home to say you may miss dinner…

By now, everyone’s likely heard about the top picks at this year’s NBA Draft. As expected, freshman Markelle Fultz out of the University of Washington was selected No. 1 overall by the Philadelphia 76ers. With so much hoopla surrounding the top picks on Draft Night, it’s hard not to get caught up in…

I recently had the privilege of taking my family to see Hamilton, an American Musical. It blew me away. It was the best play I’ve ever seen. For three hours, we were held captive by the pure energy of the music and lyrics, recounting the history of America’s founding fathers. The song, “My Shot,” wh…

Last week, our industrial design team traveled to Essen, Germany to receive one of the greatest honors in the international design community: the Red Dot award. It would be a great honor to receive one award. Instead, Red Dot awarded us with four. We received awards for Cisco Spark Room Kit, Cisco S…

It definitely took the long weekend to recover from the energy of Cisco Live. From the keynotes to the innovation talks to the DevNet Zone and the show floor, I definitely got my convention center mileage numbers. I’m probably due for an oil change. The good news is that some of those footsteps are…

I may be on the collaboration team, but the security stuff always fascinates me. The stats around cyber crime are mind melting. Today’s keynote focused on security, which is always a timely topic, but even more so today. A few stats from our chief security officer, John Stewart: Almost 2 of every 5…

Tuesday was another day of talks, tech, and more tech for the 28,000 attendees in Las Vegas, not to mention the even larger online audiences. A stat I heard today: 11,000 of this year’s event attendees are first-time attendees. That’s a lot of new faces at the so-called “summer cam…

The first day of Cisco Live 2017 Las Vegas is in the books. It was a busy day, to say the least. The morning started with the opening keynote and jumped right into the World of Solutions and tech sessions throughout the day. It was nonstop technology. I’m not sure the tourists visiting the Mandalay…

Some call it summer camp for nerds. Some call it the world’s biggest annual gathering of Cisco technical experts. The official name is Cisco Live. Whatever it is, an analyst recently predicted that the collective attendance will increase baseline average of technical acumen among Las Vegas hotel gue…