We're looking forward to seeing you on Tuesday, April 16th for Cisco Investments Innovation Day. Below is the agenda for the event. We will also have a pre-briefing scheduled for Thursday, April 4th to go review the event and answer any questions you may have.
Location: 300 E. Tasman Drive San Jose, CA 95134 | Building 10 | Floor # 2 Room: Union Square
8:30 - 9:00 AM - Arrival/Breakfast
9:00 - 9:15 AM - Opening | Bill Kohut, VP Commercial West, Sales
9:15 - 9:30 AM - Hitesh Saijpal, Head of Cisco Investments Portfolio Development
As the leader for Portfolio Development, Hitesh is committed to bringing external innovation from startups together with internal opportunities with Cisco's customers, partners, and business functions. His team partners with portfolio companies in markets both core to Cisco, as well as markets of the future. He is a 19-year Cisco veteran, starting his career in U.S. Commercial.
9:30 - 10:00 AM - Mike Lim, Cisco Investments
Disruption in Data Center: Evolving in a Multi-Cloud WorldToday’s applications are deployed throughout the extended enterprise, generating data everywhere - from the branch to field locations to the edges of the network to the cloud. Data centers must operate without boundaries and expand to where the applications and the data live. During this session, Mike Lim will share his insights on Cisco’s vision in areas rapidly evolving today – such as data center networking, compute, and storage – as well as areas revolutionizing the future, including quantum computing. Mike’s background includes 13 years in M&A and investments, and since joining Cisco, he drove investments in Cohesity and AVI Networks among others.
10:00 - 10:30 AM - Cohesity
Cohesity delivers web-scale simplicity and eliminates mass data fragmentation by consolidating secondary workloads and silos onto a single platform. All Secondary Data and Apps. Simplified.
10:30 - 11:00 AM - Avi Networks
Avi Networks provides a 100% software approach that significantly reduces the costs and constraints oftraditional load balancers such as F5 Networks and Citrix NetScaler. Products include Smart Load Balancer, Intelligent Web Application Firewall, and Elastic Service Mesh.
11:00 - 11:45 PM - Lunch
The Best Security Defense? Self Attack.
Prasad Parthasarathi, who leads the Security Domain for the Cisco Investments and Corporate Development team, will share perspectives on sector trends and how we navigate this highly-fragmented $100 billion market. Prasad has over 12 years of technology M&A and venture investment background in advisory and lead transaction roles at large capital serial technology acquirers. At Cisco, Prasad has driven several strategic acquisitions, including Duo Security, Lancope, and OpenDNS, as well as best-in-class investments, including Exabeam, Verodin and Flashpoint.
12:15 - 12:45 PM - Verodin
Verodin is defining the emerging concept of Instrumented Security. The company’s revolutionary platform empowers customers to measure and continuously validate the cumulative effectiveness of layered security infrastructures – across technologies and people – revealing true security postures.
12:45 - 1:15 PM - Panaseer
The Panaseer Platform is a cyber-security intelligence platform which operates at the intersection of risk and security – the first of its kind to offer the breadth and depth of insight that’s required to take a proactive risk-based control of your cyber security programes.
1:15 - 1:30 PM- Coffee Break
1:30 - 2:00 PM - Noah Yago, Cisco Investments
The Next Decade of Data: How Analytics and AI Are Shaping Your Business
Noah Yago, who leads the big data and analytics strategy for Cisco Investments, will speak to our future vision and how emerging trends in artificial intelligence and machine learning will redefine the way customers approach tomorrow’s business challenges. Noah has two decades of experience building companies as a venture capitalist, entrepreneur, and board member, and he has led investments in numerous companies, including DataRobot, Dremio, Mesosphere, Cyber-Ark, Qlik Technologies, CyOptics, Getaround and many others.
2:00 - 2:30 PM - Dremio
Dremio is the Data-as-a-Service Platform - providing a quantum leap in performance, based on four areas of innovation: Apache Arrow Execution, Data Reflections, Native Push-Downs, and Vertically Integrated Query Engine.
2:30 - 3:00 PM - Gong
Gong.io helps your sales team generate more revenue by having better sales conversations. It records, transcribes, and analyzes your team's conversations so you can replicate what your A-Players do, coach your B-Players, and ramp new hires faster.
