What does the office of the future look like? Will we even have physical offices anymore? How important are humans in the future workforce? Take a peek into your future workplace as Annella Heytens, VP of Human Resources for Cisco in APJC, shares insights on what the workplace will look like in 20 years, flexible working (is it here to stay?) and how to maintain productivity in an always-on world.

What makes managing software so hard? Issues with contract terms, compliance, and license management hold back your progress, as cloud complexity and uncertainty compound the challenge. In order to move forward, you first must understand where you stand now. That’s why Cisco recently commissioned IDC to identify the top IT challenges with infrastructure software management.

In this podcast, host Candace Inscoe chats with John Marshall, senior director of enterprise buying strategy, and Andrew Sigarto, software marketing specialist, to walk through the IDC research findings, highlighting Cisco’s take on software management along the way.

For more, visit: http://cs.co/9005DJePc

No Network, no nothing. The best way to understand the meaning of something, is to picture a life without it. Would our world be the same without the network? Would business?

In this #CiscoChat Podcast, Brink Sanders, MD of Software and Network Transformation for Cisco in APJ, will talk about the power of networking, explore the reasons and consequences of slow or broken networks and show us the way forward to thrive in 2018 and beyond.

On 21 November 2017, Cisco and INTERPOL announced an agreement to share threat intelligence as the first step in jointly fighting cybercrime. In this episode, TechWise TV host, Robb Boyd, interviews President of Cisco Southeast Asia, Naveen Menon, about the significance of this global agreement signed out of Singapore, and how Cisco’s level of security expertise will help law enforcement in INTERPOL’S 192 member countries combat cybercrime.

For more information on the announcement, please check out the link below:

Press Release - http://cs.co/9009D8Frb

Cisco Trust Center - http://cs.co/9002D8FXK

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are upon us, the most important shopping days of the year! IoT is playing an increasingly important role in the retail experience, both in-store and online. Listen as our expert panel discusses the current and future impact of IoT in retail.

Check out these great resources for more information:

Digital Retail - http://cs.co/9009D8PNc

Free trial of Mobility Express and CMX Cloud - http://cs.co/9009D8P4X

CMX Experience for Retail video - http://cs.co/9005D8Pfb

Mobility in Retail - http://cs.co/9007D8YUf

Cisco IoT - http://cs.co/9009D8PfL

While October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month around the world, education and action should continue all year long. Michael Kaiser, Executive Director of the National Cyber Security Alliance joins Cisco SVP and Chief Security and Trust Officer, John N. Stewart to discuss today’s threats and how to prepare for our digital future. They discuss how governments, businesses of all sizes, education institutions, and individuals can protect themselves today, and what to anticipate and how to plan for a more safe and secure tomorrow.

For more information and to continue the conversation, check out these links:

• Cisco Cybersecurity Month: www.cisco.com/go/cybersecuritymonth

• Cisco Trust Center: http://www.cisco.com/go/trust.cisco.com

• European Cyber Security Month:

https://cybersecuritymonth.eu/

• National Cyber Security Awareness Month: www.dhs.gov/national-cyber-security-awareness-month

• StaySafeOnline: https://staysafeonline.org

As connected devices continue to proliferate across the extended enterprise, so too do the risks of security breaches. This is the challenge many companies now face: How to make the most of IoT opportunities while protecting infrastructure and data. In this podcast episode, we discuss the current IoT landscape before sharing how Cisco’s IoT Threat Defense solution helps customers keep their operations secure.

Remember to contribute to the conversation yourself in the comments or on social media by following https://twitter.com/Cisco_IoT on Twitter.

To learn more about the topics on this episode, please visit the links below:

• Cisco IoT Threat Defense: http://cisco.com/go/iotthreatdefense

• Cisco Internet of Things: https://www.cisco.com/go/iot

• Register for the IoT and Real-World Cyber Risks Webinar on October 16th: http://cs.co/g0927a

Sure, you’ve heard about virtual reality, and probably associate it most with gaming and entertainment. But VR is still very much an emerging, rapidly advancing technology, and to the Cisco Emerge team, the possibilities are endless. That’s why we’re thinking big and breaking the boundaries between tech solutions — by using VR simulations to enhance real-life collaboration in Cisco Spark. Want to find out more? Visit https://www.ciscospark.com/VR and watch our video of Spark in VR in action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMtjzcgLG-c. And, contact us on Twitter, https://twitter.com/CiscoCollab or https://twitter.com/ciscoemerge, with your thoughts and questions.

Cisco ONE for Switching is revolutionary to how you run and manage your network from provisioning to security and everything in between. Join us as we discuss what's included with Cisco ONE and how you can start taking advantage of the benefits today.

To learn more about Cisco One, visit http://cisco.com/go/onedna

For more on Cisco DNA, visit http://cs.co/90028awY6

Recorded live from the Cisco Live Las Vegas floor, host Brian Remmel chats with TK Keanini, principal engineer in the Cisco Security Group, about the ins and outs of encryption — and unveil Encrypted Traffic Analytics. TK and Brian walk through the evolving role of encryption, how it’s expanded over the years to encompass half of all web traffic, and the benefits it can bring to the business. Then, TK discusses the latest Cisco security solution, Encrypted Traffic Analytics, and shares some initial feedback from users.

Learn more about the business value of creating digital ready networks with Cisco DNA solutions here: http://cs.co/90098oqA3

Explore more around Cisco DNA at cisco.com/go/dna