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Speeding Up Innovation in Latin America with Cisco’s ‘Internet for the Future’
Co-author: Max Tremp, Senior Director Sales Engineering & Trustee Board of Directors for the Cisco Foundation In the next decade, we’ll see technology that will unleash new possibilities and generate state-of-the-art benefits to society. But many of the world’s regions, including Latin America,…
Fighting Cybercrime and Creating Jobs for Latin America
The digitization of the world has come a long way since 2016, when I wrote about how Cisco offers cybersecurity scholarships to increase the number of skilled cybersecurity specialists. And today, cybersecurity is more important than ever. Our increasingly digital world is more and more vulnerable t…
History of the IoT (Part 2): How IoT transitioned from the past to the future
In the first installment of this series, I talked about my experience with the Internet of Things (IoT) and the impact that I saw it having on the tech industry. In this post we’ll delve into the transition, or what I would refer to as the needle-movers, and what to expect in the future. There are f…
Is Data Science a Pre-Requisite for AI? The Data Science & AI Hierarchy of Success
Note: this is Part 2 of 2 introducing The Data Science & AI Hierarchy of Success. To Read part 1, “Fostering a Data-Driven Culture: The Data Science & AI Hierarchy of Success”, click here. The prequel to this post established mindset and culture, in the form of Data Literacy and…
Fostering a Data-Driven Culture: The Data Science & AI Hierarchy of Success
In today’s climate of rapid innovation, it’s easy to find examples of companies leveraging data, analytics, and automation to increase revenue, cut costs, improve customer experience, develop new offerings, and achieve other goals. However, very little is written on how these companies operate diffe…
Cisco Co-Innovation Centers are Giving Connectivity a Health-Check
Healthcare is something that, at one point or another, touches upon every single person – whether it’s their own health or that of older or more vulnerable relatives. Yet, across Europe, access to both reactive and preventative healthcare resources is being stretched as a result of people living lon…
Collaboration: A Key Driver for Digital Transformation and the Cisco Story
Driving Digital Transformation Through Collaboration As I walk around the conference floor here at Cisco Live talking to customers and partners, I’m reminded how exciting it is to work with innovative solutions that are driving real, impactful change in businesses. For my team and me, collaboration…
Data Evangelism: Oxymoron, Fluff, or Business Driver?
At first pass, data evangelism may sound more like an oxymoron than a corporate function. Most of us (and our dictionaries) associate evangelism with faith, while data & analytics is core to the scientific method. Evangelism is predominantly qualitative while data & analytics is the definiti…
History of the IoT (Part 1): My time with the technology that founded our IoT world
When I started in technology thirty-plus years ago, I never would have imagined we’d have the smart devices we enjoy today. There are so many types of gadgets that improve our quality of life, from smart lighting and smart refrigerators (to remind you it’s time to buy more milk), even smart hairbrus…