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Live #CiscoChat November 2nd: Leveraging Technology to Accelerate Social Entrepreneurship
Smart home devices, driverless cars, fitness wearables, and retail beacons — our increasingly digitized world is becoming an increasingly connected world. And a connected world is a strong world. Thanks to new, digital solutions, business leaders now have access to the tools and insights they need t…
Health IT innovations come to life at virtual event
After a while, all of the hopeful press on futuristic health technology can start to feel like, well, hype. Breathless headlines touting telemedicine, artificial intelligence, and related technologies sound cool—but somewhat disconnected from reality. Last week, these perceptions were shattered duri…
Professional Development for Educators is About Creating Magic
Ymasumac Marañón Davis is an educational consultant, intuitive life coach and author. This blog is the third in a series around access. All thoughts are her own. I am often invited to visit schools that have received awards because of high ratings in their use of educational technology and as innov…
Calling All Global Problem Solvers: Enter Cisco’s 2018 GPS Challenge
Innovative ideas and technologies drive Cisco’s goal to positively impact one billion people by 2025. With digitization and the surge of connected devices, good ideas can make a difference more quickly–and in more places–than ever before. But without people, such innovations wouldn’t exi…
Cisco & Women: Transforming the Entertainment Industry One Award at a Time!
A few weeks ago, I was named the 2017 Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) Woman to Watch for their newly established Technology category. Talk about honored—I am going to be sharing the stage with some seriously badass movers and shakers: Sara Barnett, BBC America’s President and GM; D’Arcy Ru…
Shifting Perceptions in Technology to Drive Change in Learning
Ymasumac Marañón Davis is an educational consultant, intuitive life coach and author. This blog is the first in a series around access. The cloud and mobility in our devices have caused industries the world over to rethink how they conduct business. Education is no exception to this shift in cultur…
Disruption and Transformation at Cisco Live Vegas: Final Day Recap
The last few entries have talked quite a bit about the technologies, solutions, and services that Cisco and its partners bring to market for prospects and customers. That is the main reason that Cisco Live exists in the first place: it is a platform to showcase where networking and ancillary IT prod…
Disruption and Transformation at Cisco Live Vegas: Day 3 Recap
Several of us on the offer management team in Cisco’s Managed Services group were fortunate enough to have the opportunity to speak in various forums here at Cisco Live 2017. On Day 3, a handful of us hosted a Lunch and Learn on accelerating adoption of IWAN by leveraging the power of managed servi…
Parents in Prison: How Cisco is Helping Families Stay Connected
“When I was growing up in Indianapolis, we didn’t have a lot of money. We weren’t exactly poor, but then again, we never vacationed at Disneyland. Maybe Rock City . . . the Smoky Mountains – or Kings Island if we were lucky. But even then it was just for a weekend. So when our family needed an…