Cisco Partner Summit 2016

Co-authors:  Wendy Bahr, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Partner Organization and Steve Taylor, Senior Director, Cisco Capital Global Partner Organization At the last Cisco Partner Summit, our CEO Chuck Robbins said that business has “never been moving faster than it is now.” We think this statemen…

You could feel the energy rumbling through San Francisco’s air as over 2,000 partners stepped onto Moscone Center to learn about Cisco’s latest product news and partner technologies. The November 2016 Partner summit did not disappoint as it became the platform that launched Cisco’s UCS S-Series, a n…

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…

I can’t believe it’s been nearly two weeks since an energizing Partner Summit in San Francisco! As I take a step back and reflect, one word continues to pop into my head – focus. More than ever before, our teams are more focused, aligned and ready to help our partners and customers go Fu…

Wow.  So that’s what a Full Speed Partner Summit feels like? Let me take a second to catch my breath and reflect on #CiscoPS16. As we heard from Chuck Robbins, we’re seeing unprecedented speed and opportunity in our industry with the digital era creating new opportunities for growth and the need for…

Last week’s Partner Summit in San Francisco took place at Full Speed! Let me start by sincerely thanking all of our attendees, partners, analysts, guests and Cisco employees for their energy, enthusiasm and engagement. It is this energy which makes me incredibly optimistic that we really can go supe…

At Cisco’s Partner Summit last week in San Francisco, I was thrilled to host my first Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) regional session. It came a month after I celebrated 30 years in IT sales and channels, and 90 days into my new role as the leader of the APJ Partner Organization. As I said to the room…

Salesforce Scale. Sales Acceleration. Customer Reach and Loyalty. Do these terms sound familiar? To others in different industries, these might just be simple phrases.  To you they mean so much more. They were also a constant theme among partners shared with me during the Partner Summit 2016 Event.…

I have always enjoyed my work. It’s a big part of who I am. Right now I am having an unprecedented amount of fun leading the collaboration team at Cisco. We are completely reinventing how the world connects and communicates. We are right on the cusp of massive change that will be fueled by machine i…