Creating Positive Change and Bringing Equality to Enterprise Technology 

Welcome Remarks

The virtual summit will be packed with insights from industry visionaries, leading investors, and next-generation founders, on the challenges faced by underrepresented leaders in enterprise technology, and the actions that can be taken to create meaningful, positive change.

Featuring Saqib Jalil, Senior Manager, Cisco Corporate Development and Cisco Investments

Opening Keynote

Accelerating Our Innovation Through Purpose-Driven Investments

Purpose is one of the most important topics in business today as companies of all sizes respond to heightened expectations from their stakeholders to help solve the world's biggest social, economic, and environmental challenges. Cisco's purpose—to power an inclusive future for all—is the strategic and moral compass for our decision-making and actions, including our approach to innovation and investments. Guided by our purpose, in 2020 Cisco launched 12 Social Justice Actions backed by a $300M commitment to drive lasting, systemic, and generational change across the full spectrum of diversity. In this opening keynote, Shari Slate, Cisco's Chief Inclusion and Collaboration Officer and SVP Inclusive Future and Strategy, will set the stage for our inaugural Magnetic Aspire by grounding us in Cisco’s purpose and how it inspired us to create a $50M Aspire Fund to accelerate our inorganic innovation through purpose-driven investments.

Featuring Shari Slate, Chief Inclusion and Collaboration Officer and SVP, Inclusive Future and Strategy

A Conversation With Sol Trujillo

Sol Trujillo is synonymous with Telecom. As the former CEO of Orange (France Telecom), Telstra (Australian telecom company), and US West (now CenturyLink), Sol has been at the forefront of transformative innovation. Following a storied executive career, Sol made the decision to focus his efforts on highlighting the contributions of Latino leaders across multiple industries including technology, by creating the L’ATTITUDE organization. In this in-depth conversation, Sol will share how his personal and career journeys have shaped his life and commitment to supporting the next generation of Latino leaders who are transforming the technology landscape.  

Featuring Derek Idemoto, SVP, Cisco Corporate Development and Cisco Investments with Sol Trujillo, Partner and CEO, L'ATTITUDE

Women Founders Transforming Cybersecurity

An insightful conversation on the challenges and opportunities for women founders in enterprise technology specifically Cybersecurity, an industry expected to reach $540B by 2030. Hear from the next generation of female security founders on how they are breaking through the male-dominated security space while delivering industry-changing technologies.  

A Conversation With Lo Toney

In the world of emerging enterprise technology investing, Lo Toney is a name that everyone hears very often. Throughout his illustrious career, Lo has been at the forefront of investing in emerging technologies and creating positive change for BIPOC founders. From his time as a partner with Comcast Ventures’ Catalyst Fund to GV and now leading his own firm, Plexo Capital, Lo Toney has built an incredible record of accomplishment of not only funding but empowering BIPOC technology founders. The National Venture Capital Association recently recognized Lo’s impact in improving DE&I in the venture capital and technology startup world. In this fireside chat, Lo will share his journey to becoming a prominent investor and how those experiences have shaped his approach and commitment to creating a positive impact for diverse technology founders.  

Featuring Kay Min, Senior Director, Cisco Corporate Development and Cisco Investments with Lo Toney, Founding Managing Partner, Plexo Capital

Diversity is Smart Business 

Investing in diversity is no longer just some “nice to have” corporate strategy. In fact, it’s smart business. Investors and corporate leaders are beginning to recognize the power of building community to create positive change within corporate culture and the bottom line. In this insightful conversation with Theresia Gouw of Acrew Capital and Jessica Lin of Work-Bench Capital, you’ll hear firsthand from two leading VCs how their approaches to investing and commitment to building community among their portfolio companies and corporations are leading to positive cultural and business results. 

Featuring Janey Hoe, VP, Cisco Corporate Development and Cisco Investments with Theresia Gouw, Founding Partner, Acrew Capital, Jessica Lin, Co-founder and General Partner, Work-Bench

Closing Keynote

Purpose-Driven Innovation and Investments

Recapping the conversations and knowledge exchanged during the event, Derek Idemoto, SVP of Corporate Development and Cisco Investments, will lay out how Cisco, along with our partners (portfolio companies, fellow investors, customers) will continue to pave the way for creating more opportunities for underrepresented technology leaders and together build an inclusive future.  

Featuring Derek Idemoto, SVP, Cisco Corporate Development and Cisco Investments

Closing Remarks

We'll be wrapping up our virtual summit with final thoughts and key takeaways from our sessions.

Featuring Saqib Jalil, Senior Manager, Cisco Corporate Development and Cisco Investments