Cisco’s Purpose to Power an Inclusive Future for All isn’t a standalone initiative – it’s embedded and operationalized all through our firm and drives progress for our enterprise, folks, and communities.
That’s why you’ll see Purpose entrance and middle at Cisco Live San Diego from June 9-12, 2025 – our greatest international buyer occasion that brings collectively prime specialists, companions, and clients to expertise our improvements firsthand.
We’re celebrating 40 years of impact in our Purpose Pavilion and presenting how we put our Purpose into apply. From theater classes to demos, right here’s what’s in retailer:
Purpose Pavilion Theater
The Purpose Pavilion is situated within the World of Solutions, the place onsite attendees will uncover cutting-edge expertise, get a glimpse into future improvements, and community with specialists and friends.
Our Purpose Pavilion Theater will function leaders in sustainability, digital impact, social impact, public coverage, and AI, sharing enterprise options and business insights. Register for the classes so that you don’t miss out, and don’t fear – these classes will even be out there on-demand just a few weeks after the occasion. Here’s a sampling of the classes you’ll be able to anticipate to see:
- AI Policy: Global Implications and Regulatory Shifts
Speaker: Jeff Campbell, SVP and Chief Government Strategy Officer, Cisco
As AI continues to rework industries and societies, governments are weighing how to stability innovation with oversight, and the U.S. stance might set the tone for regulatory approaches in different areas. In this session, you’ll achieve perception into how U.S. choices might form international AI regulation and Cisco’s function in guiding the way forward for AI coverage. - Offices that Everyone Loves: Smart Tech for Inclusive Spaces
Speakers: Brian Tippens, SVP, Social Impact & Inclusion, Cisco; Christian Bigsby, SVP, Workplace Resources, Cisco; Stephen Brown, SVP Global Market Development, International Well Building Institute
Wondering how to make your workplace a spot the place everybody feels welcome and productive? Join Cisco’s specialists in actual property and social impact & inclusion to see how Cisco blends cutting-edge tech with design to meet the wants of at this time’s workforce. We’ll share real-life examples of Cisco places of work, demonstrating how to create areas that spark innovation and collaboration whereas being conscious of accessibility, private preferences, and wellbeing. - Digital Resiliency Unlocked: Power Sustainable, Secure, and Inclusive Communities
Speakers: Guy Diedrich, SVP and Global Innovation Officer, Cisco; John Paul Morgan, CTO of Morgan Solar; Dr. Xiang Liu, Ph.D. Director of Rutgers Rail & Transit Program at Rutgers University
Celebrate a decade of digital transformation with the Country Digital Acceleration (CDA) program, which powers sustainable, safe, and inclusive communities. Discover how Cisco’s AI-driven applied sciences can improve your operational effectivity and safety, revolutionize public transportation techniques globally, and bridge the digital abilities hole. - Circular Design Can Increase Efficiency and Cut Costs
Speakers: Mary de Wysocki, SVP and Chief Sustainability Officer, Cisco; David Stallings, VP of Hardware Engineering, Cisco
Many IT leaders are tasked with decreasing their community’s impact on the surroundings, all whereas retaining prices down, sustaining efficiency, and supporting elevated workloads. Cisco helps you tackle this problem via its Circular Design Principles – which can assist you retain your {hardware} in service longer, decrease your vitality use, cut back e-waste, and even reduce prices. Hear from a product engineering chief who’s incorporating round design into the merchandise you employ, and see examples of merchandise that may provide help to tackle each business- and sustainability advantages to your organization.
Sustainability
We attempt to cut back Cisco’s environmental footprint and to use our expertise and experience to assist our clients and suppliers cut back theirs. Check out our sustainability demo within the Purpose Pavilion, the place we’ll present how we prolong product life via round packages like product takeback, remanufacture, and reuse.
And, behind the scenes: listed here are simply among the methods we’re decreasing our carbon footprint throughout the occasion, rising our landfill diversion fee, and lowering complete waste per individual onsite:
- We don’t serve plastic water bottles at the occasion – as a substitute, we encourage attendees to carry their very own reusable water bottles and use our onsite water stations. This technique helped get rid of the usage of an estimated 71,000 PET plastic water bottles at Cisco Live ’24*.
- We leverage rental stock. An estimated 500,000 kilos of furnishings, furnishings, and kiosks have been saved for reuse from Cisco Live ‘24*.
- We work carefully with our venues to donate unserved meals. At our Celebration at Cisco Live ’24, we donated nearly 7,000 meals to these in want in the neighborhood*.
* This information is predicated on calculations by MeetGreen and is supplied for informational functions solely.
Demos
We’ve constructed the digital highways which have turn out to be the spine for contemporary communication. Now, we’re harnessing the ability of connection to construct a greater future for folks, communities, and the planet, and Cisco Live attendees can get hands-on with our newest expertise at onsite demos at the Purpose Pavilion.
We’re additionally bringing the spectacular Cisco Crisis Response Network Emergency Responsible Vehicle (NERV) to present how we assist on-the-ground connectivity throughout humanitarian crises and pure disasters – a vital want when folks want entry to digital money, reduction advantages, social companies, communication with family members, and extra.
Health and Well-being
Cisco Live is a jam-packed 4 days, so cease by the Powered by Purpose café for espresso, juice, and seating house to chill out and reenergize.
Powering Purpose Beyond Cisco Live
Our Purpose goes hand-in-hand with our enterprise technique, so make the most of all of the methods to become involved at Cisco Live and past. Check out the progress we’ve made to mix our expertise, folks, and broader networks in our newest FY24 Purpose Report.
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