If you’ve ever wondered what a Cisco Champion is, you’ll find the answer in this episode. In our very first episode of the Cisco Champion Unfiltered series—where we feature Champion on Champion conversations—we have an informative, yet casual, discussion.

In this discussion, we gain insights into their backgrounds and experiences as technologists and as Cisco Champions. You’ll quickly discover that Cisco Champions are next-level technologists who have a passion for technology and a passion for connecting with their peers and Cisco experts, technology and solutions.

Learn more: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/training-events/events-webinars/influencer-hub.html?dtid=opdcsnc001469

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Cisco Champion Hosts:

Amr Nasher (twitter.com/Amr_Nasher), Twaasol, Business Development Manager and Solution Architect

David Peñaloza Seijas (twitter.com/davidsamuelps), Verizon Business, Principal Engineer

Michael van Kleij (twitter.com/mvankleij_nl), Axians NL, Technical Consultant

Rodrigo Rovere (twitter.com/rar_21), Sencinet, Sales Engineer

Sijbren Beukenkamp (twitter.com/sijbrenb), 3Corners, Director/ Owner

Moderator:

Amilee San Juan (twitter.com/amileesan1), Cisco, Technical Influencer Marketing and Cisco Champion Program

Now more than ever, sustainable and flexible building designs are at the forefront of every developer, constructor and owner’s next big project. The return on investments for creating dynamic, intelligent spaces can be "funded" by net-zero, or even net-positive designs that are easier to spec, deploy and commission with smart building technology.

You cannot automate that which is not connected, and it is exponentially easier to connect tens of thousands of things using the same design than it is to keep track of duplicate and disparate materials and procedures. A single converged network can power, connect and secure buildings systems with 90W PoE in ways never previously imagined, driving complexity and cost out of projects and simplifying the ongoing operations while creating the smartest and most agile spaces to keep up with the changing world.

Tune in to this episode to learn how Cisco Smart Building Solutions create intuitive, trusted facilities that help enhance health, safety and efficiencies to form the foundation to the future of work.

Learn more: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/smart-building.html?dtid=opdcsnc001469

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Cisco Champion Hosts:

Evan Mintzer (twitter.com/EvanMintzer), Ashfield Engage, Information Security Manager

Mark Sibering (twitter.com/netcicd), Devoteam, Principal Architect

Mir Hossein Mirghassemi (twitter.com/PacketRoute), Itron, Principal DevSecOps Cloud Engineer

Guest:

Bob Cicero (twitter.com/RobertJCicero), Cisco, Sales Specialist

Moderator:

Lauren Friedman (twitter.com/lauren), Cisco, Technical Influencer Marketing and Cisco Champion Program

Known as Project Starship when it was introduced in June 2017, Cisco Intersight has come a long way. Intersight is a SaaS based platform that shouldn’t be confused with a monitoring dashboard. Yes, it has a dashboard, but it also has true infrastructure management, application optimization through Intersight Workload Optimizer, a Kubernetes service to deploy and manage consistent production-grade containers, and many ways to do infrastructure as code (IAC) including the Intersight Service for HashiCorp Terraform.

Join long-time Cisco veterans Doron Chosnek and Brandon Beck and Cisco Champions as they discuss the power of the Cisco Intersight API.

Learn more: http://cisco.com/go/intersight?dtid=opdcsnc001469

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Cisco Champion Hosts:

Dan Kelcher, NTT Data Services, Enterprise Architecture Advisor

Joe Houghes (twitter.com/jhoughes), Veeam Software, Solutions Architect

Shai Silberman (twitter.com/shaidom), San Jose State University, Director, Network Services

Guests:

Brandon Beck (twitter.com/@techBeck03), Cisco, Technical Solutions Architect, DC Compute

Doron Chosnek (twitter.com/@dchosnek), Cisco, Technical Solutions Architect, DC Compute

Moderator:

Amilee San Juan (twitter.com/amileesan1), Cisco, Technical Influencer Marketing and Cisco Champion Program

Cisco introduced End to End (E2E) Encryption in 2008 as a Webex Meeting option where only the meeting participants—and not the Webex cloud—have access to the meeting encryption key. Since most business over the last 12 months has been conducted virtually, the security and confidentiality of meetings has become a priority for our customers.

Cisco expects that end to end encryption will become a commonplace meeting feature as privacy and confidentiality become a baseline expectation from many customers, and we have been driving the delivery of a set of open IETF standards that will allow multiple vendors to adopt E2E encryption as a standard.

Tune in to this episode to learn more about Webex's new standards-based approach for secure and confidential meetings with Zero Trust Security which covers:

- The Webex architecture for Zero Trust End to End Encryption and Identity Verification

- The IETF standards that Zero Trust End to End Encryption and Identity uses

- Secure Frame (S-Frame)/ Message Layer Security (MLS)/ Automatic -

- Certificate Management Environment (ACME)

- Supported Webex Apps and Devices

- Call and data flows

- Customer requirements and options

Learn more: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/collaboration/white-paper-c11-744553.html?dtid=opdcsnc001469

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Cisco Champion Hosts:

Ahmad Taamneh (twitter.com/abo_azez9), JBS, Technical and Presales Supervisor

Sebastian Leuser (twitter.com/sleuser), Deutsche Telekom Business Solutions GmbH, System Engineer

Sijbren Beukenkamp (twitter.com/sijbrenb), 3Corners, UC Cloud Architect

Guest:

Tony Mulchrone, Cisco, Technical Marketing Engineer, Cloud Collaboration

Moderator:

Amilee San Juan (twitter.com/amileesan1), Cisco, Technical Influencer Marketing and Cisco Champion Program

99% of organizations use certifications to make hiring decisions. The reason is simple: Cisco certifications bring valuable, measurable rewards to certified IT professionals and the organizations that employ them.

In this episode, we’ll explore all aspects of Cisco certifications, including how Cisco certifications stay relevant in our rapidly changing landscape, insights into test-taking and the various certifications available today and in the future.

Cisco certifications validate the knowledge and skills IT professionals need to connect, secure and automate today’s networks.

Learn more: https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/s/certifications?dtid=opdcsnc001469

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Cisco Champion Hosts:

Dan Kelcher, NTT Data Services, Enterprise Architecture Advisor

Jonathan Mahady (twitter.com/jonathan_mahady), BHP, Wireless Specialist Technical Engineer

Meredith Rose (twitter.com/mer3dithrose), World Wide Technology, Consulting System Engineer

Guest:

Joe Clarke, Cisco, Distinguished Engineer, DevCX

Moderator:

Amilee San Juan (twitter.com/amileesan1), Cisco, Technical Influencer Marketing and Cisco Champion Program

Join us as we explore expansions to the Catalyst 8000 Family and the Cisco Cellular Gateway. Learn about the industry forces that drove the need to create more than just a router, including multicloud application access, remote work resiliency, and a rising secure access services edge (SASE) architecture.

Kureli Sankar and Cisco Champions explore the Catalyst 8000 and Cellular Gateway capabilities, including its custom silicon, multicore X86 architecture, edge compute and storage, along with Sub 6Ghz 5G connectivity. In addition, they explore the firmware security capabilities found in each platform that verifies device integrity, a critical defensive component as the world adopts cloud-managed SD-WAN.

Learn more: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/routers/cloud-edge/index.html#/?dtid=opdcsnc001469

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Cisco Champion Hosts:

Dan Sheldon (twitter.com/SheldonClimbs), WWT, Senior Consulting Systems Engineer

David Penaloza (twitter.com/davidsamuelps), Verizon Business, Principal Engineer

Rodrigo Rovere (twitter.com/rar_21), Sencient, Sales Engineer

Guest:

Kureli Sankar, Cisco, Leader, Technical Marketing Engineer, Routing Platforms

Moderator:

Amilee San Juan (twitter.com/amileesan1), Cisco, Technical Influencer Marketing and Cisco Champion Program

What is all this talk about automation? How do you get started? What resources are out there to help you tackle your automation projects?

Join Cisco Champions, and DevNet Developer Advocate Kareem Iskander, as they discuss 1) the DevNet Automation Exchange, 2) automation use cases, and 3) a special challenge for Cisco Champion Radio listeners that can earn you some cool DevNet swag.

To register for the challenge visit http://cs.co/autochallenge. Once you register, you will be redirected to submit your DevNet Automation Exchange Use Case. Then, simply wait by your mailbox for your swag.

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Cisco Champion Hosts:

Joe Houghes (twitter.com/jhoughes), Veeam Software, Solutions Architect

Mark Sibering (twitter.com/netcicd), Devoteam, Principal Architect

Shala Warner (twitter.com/giftedlane), IT Desktop Analyst

Guest:

Kareem Iskander (twitter.com/kareem_isk), Cisco, DevNet Developer Advocate

Moderator:

Amilee San Juan (twitter.com/amileesan1), Cisco, Technical Influencer Marketing and Cisco Champion Program

Today, applications are the lifeline of digital businesses and so organizations are under pressure to innovate with speed. But with an unprecedented rise in bad actors and malicious security threats, these organizations must be able to maintain speed while effectively protecting organizational and customer assets.

Organizations must embrace an “application-first” approach to security that embeds security inside the application, continuously protects it, and adapts for the makeup of unique and modern applications.

Tune in to this episode to see how leading organizations are leveraging app-first solutions like AppDynamics with Cisco Secure Application to: identify and manage vulnerabilities within the application in production; correlate vulnerabilities and breaches to business impact; and unify app and security teams.

Learn more: https://www.appdynamics.com/product/application-security?utm_source=cisco&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ciscochampion-podcast_210316

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Cisco Champion Hosts:

Artem Tkachov, GAIN Capital, Infrastructure Manager

Shai Silberman (twitter.com/shaidom), San Jose State University, Director, Network Services

Guest:

Randy Birdsall, Cisco, Director, Technical Marketing, Application Security

Moderator:

Amilee San Juan (twitter.com/amileesan1), Cisco, Technical Influencer Marketing and Cisco Champion Program

How do you know for certain that a router in your network has not been altered with since you deployed it? Wouldn’t it be great if you can cryptographically challenge your router to provide its unique identity? In addition to this, what if the underlying OS provides a secure mechanism to detect if the software has been tampered with during boot time and runtime?

Tune in to this podcast to understand the aspects of establishing trust and the security features incorporated in both hardware and software to ensure the trustworthiness of IOS-XR platforms. With 5G deployments gaining traction, networks are being depended on as critical infrastructure. The new security features will ensure customers can validate the authenticity of their devices in both hardware and software.

Learn more: www.cisco.com/go/spsecurity?dtid=opdcsnc00146

Cisco Champion Hosts:

David Penaloza Seijas (twitter.com/davidsamuelps), Verizon Business, Principal Engineer

Mark Sibering (twitter.com/netcicd), Devoteam, Principal Architect

Michael Rhoades (twitter.com/ciscomikey), North American Hoganas, Manager IT

Guest:

Rakesh Kandula, Cisco, Technical Marketing Engineer

Moderator:

Amilee San Juan (twitter.com/amileesan1), Cisco, Technical Influencer Marketing and Cisco Champion Program

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Cognitive Collaboration brings together intelligence and context throughout all collaboration experiences. Bridging AI and ML capabilities with insight and the context of the meeting or customer interaction creates more meaningful experiences and outcomes. Cognitive Collaboration fosters human relationships, enhances customer interactions, and builds high-performance teams across boundaries, enabling smarter and faster decisions.

Tune into this episode to learn more about the four pillars of technology that comprise the collaboration landscape: relationship intelligence, multimodal bots and assistants, audio and speech technologies and computer vision.

Learn more: https://www.webex.com/the-future-of-work.html?dtid=opdcsnc001469

Cisco Champion Hosts:

Amr Nasher (twitter.com/Amr_Nasher), Twaasol, BDM and Solution Architect

David Macias (twitter.com/dmacias), Contact Center Consultant

Sebastian Leuser (twitter.com/sleuser), Deutsche Telekom Business Solutions GmbH, System Engineer

Sijbren Beukenkamp (twitter.com/sijbrenb), 3Corners, UC Cloud Architect

Guest:

Keith Griffin (twitter.com/techkeith), Cisco, Distinguished Engineer, Office of CTO, Webex

Moderator:

Amilee San Juan (twitter.com/amileesan1), Cisco, Technical Influencer Marketing and Cisco Champion Program