AGENDA
DAY 1 - Wednesday, April 1st, 2020
Time (GMT +8)
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9:00 - 9.20
The Bridge to Possible in Unprecedented Times
Presenter: Miyuki Suzuki, President, Cisco, Asia Pacific, Japan and China
We are living and working in unprecedented times. Countries, companies and communities across the APJC region and the world, must find new ways to keep business and society in operation. Technology will be the bridge to overcoming some of the greatest challenges we are facing, and realizing some of the biggest opportunities. The future will now look different, and the potential for positive change is immense.
Presenter: Chuck Robbins, Chief Executive Officer, Cisco
9:20-9:25
A message from our CEO for our customers across Asia Pacific, Japan and China
9:25-10:10
"Flexibility: The Ultimate IT Superpower"
Presenter: Todd Nightingale, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Networking and Cloud, Cisco Presenter: Scott Harrell, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Intent Based Networking Group, Cisco
10:10-10:25
Cisco SecureX: Protecting What’s Now and What’s Next
Presenter: Gee Rittenhouse, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Security Business Group, Cisco
For many companies, security has largely been piecemeal where they introduce point products into their environment to address every new threat category that arises.
10:40-10:55
Mass-scale Infrastructure: 5G and the Internet for the Future
Presenter: Jonathan Davidson, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Mass-Scale Infrastructure, Cisco
"The Internet is vital. Connectivity, video conferencing, e-commerce, and content streaming are enabling societies to function in a new normal. However, unrelenting traffic growth challenges service provider profitability.
Cisco is the most trusted business partner when it comes to building the largest, most advanced networks in the world. Join this session to learn how our mass-scale infrastructure strategy is helping operators successfully grow revenue, reduce costs, and mitigate risks as they begin to harness the power of 5G and build the Internet for the future."
11:15-11:45
A Practical Approach to Building a Zero Trust Architecture
Presenter: Yazan Mughrabi, Technical Marketing Engineer, Cisco
Interested in Zero trust? Discover how adopting Zero Trust into your organisation doesn’t have to be complex.
Presenter: Dave Robbins, Regional Manager, Workload Protection, Cisco
Cisco Tetration enables you to understand application behaviours, to automate micro segmentation and to use advanced security analytics to speed detection. Explore Workload Protection with a Cisco Tetration Demo.
12:15-12:45
A Multicloud Segmentation Journey through Big Data with Tetration
Day 2 – Thursday, April 2nd, 2020
At Cisco, we focus on building innovative solutions that unleash the potential of our digital world. We build flexibility and automation into systems so we are ready for anything. Join Cisco leaders Todd Nightingale and Scott Harrell for the technology keynote to hear about innovations we are delivering across the enterprise networking and cloud portfolio to transform your business, industry, and the world.
10:25-10:40
Enabling Remote Work with Cisco Collaboration
Presenter: Sri Srinivasan, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Collaboration, Cisco
Work the way you want from anywhere. Keep your organization connected across distributed teams and diverse locations.
10:55-11:15
Customer Experience: Accelerating Your Success
Presenter: Chris Heckscher, Senior Vice President, Customer Experience (CX), Cisco, Asia Pacific, Japan and China
According to Industry research, CIO's are being asked to innovate more to increase their company's competitive advantage through new business models and at the same time, need to deliver consistent and stable IT performance.
11:45-12:15
Duo Security: Zero Trust for the Workforce
Presenter: Mark Pretty, Cybersecurity Architect, Cisco
Jump into Zero trust with Mark Pretty and discover the advantages of Multi-Factor Authentications, deep visibility and device health in his Duo Demo.
12:45-13:15
Security Simplified, Introducing Cisco SecureX
Presenter: Jatin Sachdeva, Multi-Domain Security Architect, Cisco Global Security Architecture Team, Cisco
Cisco SecureX is Cisco's integrated security portfolio that you can connect to your existing infrastructure for a consistent experience that unifies visibility.
13:15-13:45
Building a Programmable Open Platform for a Dynamic 5G Future
Presenter: Andrew Mackay, Mobile Solutions, Cisco
True 5G networks with “stand-alone” 5G core supporting slicing, low latency and high resiliency, are being built now. The foundation of these are a confluence of new technologies; 5G New Radio, virtual RAN, SDN transport fabric, distributed network cloud and automation. We discuss these and show the blue-print architecture for a 5G network.
13:45-13:15
Orchestration And Management key enabler for E2E Slicing
Presenter: Kasu Venkat Reddy, Principal Architect, Cisco
E2E 5G slicing is the key enabler to explore new B2B business opportunities for operator’s. Will explain the importance of having right E2E architecture blue-print strategy with Orchestration & Management framework integrating E2E domains (RAN , Transport , 5G core ) to achieve E2E slicing outcomes.
The Value of Cisco DevNet and Critical New Skills for your Career
Presenter: Adam Radford, Distinguished Systems Engineer, Cisco
Cisco DevNet is Cisco's developer program to help developers and IT professionals who want to write applications and develop integrations with Cisco products, platforms, and APIs.
14:15-14:45
14:45-15:15
Cisco AppDynamics and Cisco Intersight Workload Optimiser: Taking the Data Center to Profit Center One Automated Action at a Time
Presenter: Daniel Aherne-McInteer, Field Architect, Cisco AppDynamics
In the current world climate, it's more important than ever to ensure that digital experiences perform as intended, this could be arranging and conducting Telehealth appointments, or ensuring that grocery delivery platforms are servicing the increased demands.
16:45-17:15
Next-Gen Cisco SD-WAN Architecture
Presenter: Huaye Zhang, Technical Solutions Specialist, Cisco
Featuring a SD-WAN demo with presenter Huaye Zhang.
15:15-16:15
Presenter: Jerome Dolphin, Technical Marketing Engineer, Cisco
Demo: Jeff Lee, Technical Solutions Architect, Cisco
Today’s networks are extended across multiple sites, domains, private and public clouds and multiple geographies with complex networking infrastructure.
Creating a Multi-domain Architecture Using Cisco SD-Access, ISE, ETA, Firepower, ACI and AMP
16:15-16:45
Digital Network Architecture (DNA) Assurance and Analytics
Presenter: Adam Radford, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco
Featuring a Cisco DNA Demo with Distinguished Engineer Adam Radford.
17:15-17:45
Understanding RF Fundamentals and the Implications for Wi-Fi 6
Presenter: Mark Krischer, Principal Architect, Cisco
Demo: Robin Mok, Systems Engineer, Cisco"
Including Insights into High-density Wi-Fi 6 Powered by Cisco Catalyst and a DNAC Intelligent Capture demo by Robin Mok.
Time (GMT+8)
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9:00-9:35
Top Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Trends for 2020
Presenter: Kevin Bloch, Chief Technology Officer, Cisco Australia and New Zealand
Welcome to the cognitive era albeit at a very difficult time. Kevin will review which technologies in particular will have the most impact in 2020 and touch on some which are a bit further off. He will provide a well-researched, realistic, global perspective of their impact so that we can be better positioned for what lies ahead. Although these predictions were researched late 2019 and published early 2020, they have been reviewed in the context of the current environment.
9:35-9:50
Re-imagining Cisco IT: A Group CIO Perspective
Presenter: Jacqueline Guichelaar, Senior Vice President and Group Chief Information Officer, Cisco
Tune in to hear Jacqui Guichelaar, Global CIO for Cisco, share her view of the IT industry and why there’s never been a better time to be in IT. Jacqui will share what Cisco is doing to reimagine IT, help transform Cisco, and the non-negotiables required to make it possible.
9:50-10:05
Preparations and Learnings from Cisco’s Mandatory Work From Home Strategy
Presenter: Bailey Szeto, Vice President, Customer and Seller experience, IT, Cisco
As the current situation spreads globally, Cisco is providing unprecedented support for employees, partners and customers needing connectivity, collaboration, business processes and complex use case innovation. Bailey Szeto, Vice President of Cisco Customer & Seller IT, will share key learnings from the period leading up to and perspectives from the first 30 days of business continuity. Learn about Cisco’s advanced planning, agility as the crisis unfolded, and our focus as we move forward.
Presenter: Susie Wee, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cisco DevNet and CX Ecosystem Success
10:05-10:20
Redefining How We Work: Critical Skills for IT Teams
In this brave new world, connectivity and collaboration tools delivered in a secure way at a broader scale are needed more than ever before. Programmability, automation and software skills remain critical - as these skills empower IT Teams who are increasingly responsible for meeting business demands. Join Susie Wee, Senior Vice President/General Manager, Cisco DevNet & CX Ecosystem Success, as she speaks to the critical skills that make it possible for businesses to find creative new ways to operate by harnessing the full capabilities of the new network.
10:20-11:00
Cisco Designed for Small Business
Presenter: DD Dasgupta, Vice President, Product Strategy and Marketing, Small Business Solutions, Cisco
Small Businesses make up two-thirds of the global workforce and are responsible for 50% of the world's GDP. In this session, we will share how we are addressing the small business market segment, and also announce our "Cisco Designed" portfolio of products and solutions that are designed with simplicity and security in mind.
Built-in artificial intelligence and security help small businesses with fewer than 250 employees accelerate their digital transformation with the same technology that powers large enterprises. Please join us as we demonstrate our new innovations in wireless, simplified management and AI-enabled surveillance.
11:00-11:30
Enabling Workforce and Workspace Transformation
Presenter: Vanessa Sulikowski, Distinguished Architect, Cisco
Demo: Neha Gautam, Systems Engineer, Cisco
Workplace transformation in the past few years has been very focused on creating new or refreshing workplace environments, workspace transformation today needs to focus on transforming both the workplace and the workforce experience in unison. This session will look at the evolution to cognitive workspaces that use AI techniques and solutions to enhance flexible agile workspace. Exploring some the AI innovations that you can enable to transform the workforce experience and really change the way your people are working.
11:30-12:00
Understanding Cisco Webex Calling Solution
Presenter: Josh Fallon, Technical Solutions Architect, Cisco
Demo: Valerie Kan, Cloud and Hosted Technical Solution Specialist, Value Added Reseller, Cisco
In this introductory session for Cisco Webex Calling, Josh will cover areas such as user & admin experience, included features and station types, regional availability and what options are available for PSTN connectivity.
12:00-12:30
Cisco Webex Contact Center Overview
Presenter: Andrew Grose, Digital Customer Experience Technology Lead, Cisco
Over 3 million agents across 30,000+ different enterprises use Cisco Contact Center solutions. Explore the how Cisco Webex Contact Center brings your business the innovation, flexibility, and agility of the cloud with the security and global scalability you have come to expect from Cisco.
12:30-13:00
Understanding Cisco Cloud Meetings and Cisco Collaboration Clients
Presenter: Shaun Robinson, Technical Solutions Architect, Cisco
Cloud, on-premises, or a hybrid of the two; no matter where your Collaboration environment currently sits, your users expect a client that provides a simple, intuitive Collaboration workflow. This session will cover updates to Cisco Webex Teams and Jabber, revealing how each client has evolved to provide a fully integrated experience for messaging, meetings and calling. We'll also touch on what your roadmap for each client can look like.
13:00-13:30
Automation and Orchestration Strategies for Intelligent Networking
Presenter: David Malik, Fellow and Chief Architect, Customer Experience (CX) Product Group, Cisco
As digital transformation is at the forefront in enabling applications to run anywhere, a cloud mindset is necessary to simplify how we build, manage and operate the infrastructure to keep up with the demand. Automation and Orchestration is essential to leverage for common tasks and workflows that are enabled on a programmable network. A DevOps toolchain is important to leverage modern tools such as Network Services Orchestration, Ansible, Business Process Automation, etc. This session will provide a view into the Automation framework, tools required to get started, how to orchestrate workflows across a multi-domain environment and drive simplicity to reduce OPEX. Emerging concepts relating maintaining reliability of services will also be discussed. Practical examples across Enterprise and Service Provider segments will reveal practical implementations and best practices from the Customer Experience team on how Automation frameworks are put into action.
13:30-14:00
Accelerate Cloud Adoption with Best Practices from Customer Experience
Presenter: David Malik, Fellow and Chief Architect, Customer Experience (CX) Product Group, Cisco
The influx of multiple devices, application sprawl across multiple clouds has made the IT landscape more complex and widened the skills gap. Customers are seeking for cloud experts who have in-depth experience of everything- from infrastructure, networks, data centers to applications, and ensure seamless integrations through APIs. This session will present the methodology that the Cisco Customer Experience team is using to enable our customers in a hybrid multicloud world. Insights into how we help our customers implement cloud networking, deploy Kubernetes environments, leverage full-stack solutions with integrated Security, Observability, Management and embrace DevOps principles to build modern and scalable cloud environments to support the most demanding applications.
14:00-14:30
Zero trust and Zero Touch for a Secure Network
Presenter: Peter Watson, Director, Customer Delivery for Security Services, Cisco
Understand what it takes to establish a zero trust zero touch network. What are the required building blocks to deliver the required capabilities. What role do these capabilities deliver in the effective management of a network element. Why do you need both zero touch and zero trust. How does this benefit your organisation's network operations and security monitoring.
14:30-15:00
The Future of Work - Business Continuity in the “New Normal” World
Presenter: Mark Krischer, Principal Architect, Cisco
Each day brings us rapidly changing news and new restrictions to our daily lives. This situation is impacting all aspects of life.
IT can take a lead in meeting this environment while enabling organisations and professionals to maintain productivity and continue to deliver on necessary outcomes.
In this session we will explore solutions you may not have previously considered, how you can get started right now, and how to begin planning for a very different future… one that redefines the nature of work.
15:00-15:30
Cisco Multicloud: The How!
Presenter: Chris Gascoigne,Technical Solutions Architect, Cisco
Demo: Greg Scarlett, Technical Solutions Architect, Cisco
Learn how you can manage and optimise your cloud including Greg Scarlett's Cisco Cloud Center Suite Demo.
15:30-16:00
Multicloud Connectivity with ACI
Presenter: Justin Cooke, Technical Solutions Architect, Cisco
Demo: Camillo Rossi, Technical Marketing Engineer, Cisco
Cisco ACI Anywhere, the industry-leading SDN solution, facilitates application agility and data center automation. Explore multicloud networking with Camillo Rossi, in his Cloud, ACI, AWS and Azure Demo
16:00-16:30
Simplifying Data Center Operations with Cisco Intersight
Presenter: Greg Scarlett,Technical Solutions Architect, Cisco
Demo: Ming Prince, Data Center Systems Engineer, Cisco
Discover how you can onboard, deploy and manage every compute resource in the data center and at remote sites from a single unified management interface, including Ming Prince's Cisco Intersight Demo.
16:30-17:00
Introduction to Hyperconverged with Cisco HyperFlex
Presenter: Serge Charles, Technical Solutions Architect, Cisco
Take a look into the day to day operations and administration of Cisco Hyperflex to discover just how simple storage management can be.
17:00-17:30
Delivering an Intent Based Network with Cisco Meraki
Presenter: David Lombardi, Consulting Systems Engineer, Cisco Meraki
Cisco Meraki changed the way we think about network management today. Its out-of-band cloud architecture creates secure, scalable and easy-to-deploy networks that can be managed from anywhere. This can be done from almost any device using web-based Meraki Dashboard and Meraki Mobile App.
Learn how Cisco's Meraki portfolio of cloud managed IT products can help organizations reap the benefits of an intent based network - from easing the pain of day to day operational challenges to enabling new digital initiatives.
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Cisco Live Virtual Event APJC
LIVE
HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE EVENT
Tune in 1-2 April at 9am GMT +11 (9am AEDT) GMT +8 (9am SGT), 2020 for the latest technology insights delivered by Cisco leaders, experts and technologists.
9 AM GMT+8 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1
The Bridge to Possible in Unprecedented Times
Miyuki Suzuki
President for Cisco Asia Pacific, Japan and Greater China (APJC).
9 AM GMT+8 THURSDAY, APRIL 2
Top Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Trends for 2020
Kevin Bloch
Chief Technology Officer, Cisco Australia and New Zealand
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17:45-18:15
The OT (Operational Technology) World Becomes an Extension of the Campus.
Presenter: Keith Pereira, Solutions Architect, IoT Partners, Cisco
The OT (Operational Technology) world has become an extension of our campus, learn what Cisco is doing in this area to streamline and simplify this.