Cisco unveils innovations to help businesses push their boundaries by reimagining their applications, empowering their teams, securing their data, and transforming their infrastructure
Cisco welcomes nearly 20,000 attendees to Cisco Live 2020, Barcelona.
Cisco unveils the latest transformative technologies focused on IoT cybersecurity, networking, and collaboration.
A record 2.5million viewers tuned in live online!
Cisco Live 2020, hosted at Barcelona, Fira de Barcelona in Spain, brought together nearly 20,000 customers, partners, IT professionals and visionaries. The event was designed to help customers realize the full realm of opportunities open to them, and give them the cutting-edge knowledge, skills, and technologies to make it happen.
Throughout the week, innovations across Cisco’s cybersecurity, networking and collaboration portfolios, as well as within its DevNet program were unveiled – all designed to help businesses scale, stay secure, and drive digitization. Keynote presentations from Cisco’s President of Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia (EMEAR) region, Wendy Mars, and the EVP and GM of Cisco’s Networking and Security Business, David Goeckeler, as well as other Cisco business leaders, showcased the company’s strategy to help partners and customers seize new business opportunities in the era of digital transformation.
“Cisco is central to helping customers achieve business outcomes beyond what was once thought possible, amidst the fastest and largest tech transition in history,” said Mars. “Organisations worldwide - small to large and across all sectors - are still in the early days of harnessing the sheer potential of many emerging technologies like AI, 5G, adaptive and predictive cybersecurity, intelligent IoT, and more. We are delighted to welcome our customers and partners to Cisco Live and help them capture the real business value that these exciting new technologies can deliver.”
Cisco Corporate Social Responsibility: Cisco outlined its social impact agenda, supporting the company’s commitment to accelerate global problem solving through technology and expertise. Cisco is proud to partner with o3e to improve access to education, medical and other essential services for refugees and the homeless. At “Build a Bike” located in The Park area, volunteers helped build bikes which will be donated to homeless and refugee programs in Barcelona. The initiative's goal is to positively impact 1 billion people by 2025. DevNet Zone: Attendees got hands-on experience with APIs, develop coding skills in the coding lab, and learnt more about Cisco’s new DevNet certifications (launching February 2020). DevNet is Cisco’s software developer resource community aimed at helping developers and network engineers innovate using Cisco technologies and platforms. World of Solutions and Cisco Showcase: Attendees were invited to explore the latest innovations from Cisco and its ecosystem partners in this experiential space where over 130 exhibitors demonstrated their products and solutions. Walk-in Labs: Designed to provide a one-of-a-kind, hands-on experience on a variety of Cisco products and solutions, attendees were able to work on pre-designed scenarios, explore features, and access training. Technical Solutions Clinics: Experts from the Cisco CX Global Center were on-hand to troubleshoot any implementation, application, and integration issues. Capture the Flag: Incredibly popular this year was the Capture the flag game, designed to solve demanding challenges. It was a chance to try your hand at ethical hacking of networks and systems, design and investigate the Software Defined Campus and WAN networks and enhance cloud skills learning and exploring Cisco's Meraki platform. Cisco Investments Village: Opportunity to have met prominent start-ups in the industry and learn about their unique technology solutions and how they are changing the realm of what’s possible.
Source: newsroom.cisco.com
