One other nice Cisco Stay is within the books. Who doesn’t love per week stuffed with Cisco innovation, networking, inspiration, and leisure alongside 22,000 of your closest international mates?
AI Was In every single place
From the opening keynote showcasing an spectacular lineup of AI-powered improvementsto the World of Options filled with participating demos, and numerous alternatives to listen to Cisco specialists on stage, it’s clear that Cisco is constructing the important infrastructure for the AI period. Throughout Cisco, together with CX, we’re serving to prospects navigate the shift to agentic AI.
This was the main target of Chief Buyer Officer Liz Centoni’s, Day 2 Keynote: Remodeling Cisco Buyer Expertise with AI and Human Experiencethe place she shared the pivotal function of agentic AI in Buyer Expertise, and the way we’re delivering safety, resiliency, and ease with CX options like Companies as Code. Cisco’s new analysis on agentic AI – The Race to an Agentic Future: How agentic AI will remodel buyer expertise – is a superb supply for extra data.
Whereas Cisco Stay 2024 was AI-focused, it felt like a teaser in comparison with the unimaginable depth of AI innovation I witnessed final week. The expansion of AI is exponential, however as Dr. Vince Kellen, CIO of UC San Diego, shared within the Day 2 Keynote, getting worth out of AI is like choosing olives reasonably than grapefruit. With a grapefruit tree, you’re consuming juice in 10 minutes, however with an olive tree it takes 4 months of processing and persistence earlier than you’ll be able to benefit from the olives.
It takes time to grasp your AI use case, design/validate, construct, deploy, undertake, and in the end understand the return in your funding. Positively extra olive and fewer grapefruit. This was the main target of my session with Carlos Pereira – Accelerating Modernization and Execution Methods for AI the place we explored the challenges prospects face and the way CX helps them on their AI adoption journey.
I briefly stepped away from CX subjects to affix Martin Lund, EVP of the Frequent {Hardware} Group, on stage at IT Management. Collectively, we mentioned making ready for AI-ready infrastructure with Silicon One and emphasised the significance of flexibility, efficiency, and effectivity in modernizing information middle environments. And sure, he actually does carry the newest Silicon One chip in his pocket!
One other spotlight of Cisco Stay was the Cisco Buyer Achievement Awards ceremony. Winners have been chosen from tons of of nominations of shoppers main the way in which in AI-readiness, future-proofed workplaces, digital resilience, and sustainability. We additionally celebrated a number of CX-specific award winners, together with our 2025 CX Buyer Hero of the 12 months winner – Joe Gleeson from Intel. Congratulations to Joe and all the opposite buyer award winners!
I’ll shut this publish with gratitude–for the relationships and experiences I’ve gained over a few years at Cisco, my first as chief of CX Americas, and now 19 complete Cisco Stay occasions. Right here’s to many extra! Bookmark the Cisco Stay On-Demand Library to see replays from San Diego as they’re added.
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