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Monique Morrow

CTO-Evangelist

New Frontiers Development and Engineering

Monique Morrow is the CTO – Evangelist for New Frontiers Development and Engineering at Cisco as of November 2014.

Monique was the first CTO of Cisco Services from June 2013 to November 2014 where she lead the development of Cisco Services Technologies mapped to Services Customer Solution Reference Architecture that is now foundational for Cisco Customer Solutions implementation.

Monique has a track record of co-innovating with customers, that has transcended the globe from North America, Europe and Asia

Specialties: Networking technology; Grid, cloud computing, Intercloud-Federation, Internet of Things; M2M Security and E-Health; Semantic web; Business Development

Monique’s current focus in on the intersection between research - economics-technology to portfolio execution e.g. Circular and Exponential Economies as examples.

Synopsis of Sustainable Accomplishments

Monique was engaged with Cisco during the start-up days in the mid-1980s and has since returned to Cisco. Her unique 14+ year journey has taken her from Customer Advocacy to Corporate Consulting Engineering, with an emphasis on the Service Provider Segment. Monique has even held a position in the field [Asia-Pacific], where her goal was to not only build a technology team but to also train her successor as she transitioned her duties.

Monique bet on MPLS as a technology service enabler and was proven right. She was one of the leaders in the development of this critical business opportunity for Cisco in the Service Provider segment, Service Provider Next Gen Network (SP NGN).

Under Cisco’s Office of the CTO, both as an individual contributor and manager, Monique built a strong leadership team in Asia-Pacific. Her specific geo-area targets were China and India. Monique’s role in these important regions drove Cisco’s globalization and country strategies and met all of her targeted goals.

Monique has consistently demonstrated the willingness and courage to take risks and explore new market opportunities for Cisco. These innate qualities are part of her DNA and are of great value to the company and all the global organizations in which she is involved.

Monique has been recognized at Top Ten Influential IT Women in Europe 2014:

http://www.think-progress.com/nordic/en/business-insight/top-ten-influential-women-europe/

Monique is one of 6 Global Achievers recognized for the ITU and UN Women 2014 GEM-TECH Award:

http://www.itu.int/en/action/women/gem/Pages/achievers.aspx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1Cdg6l4cYU

Monique is the 2014 IEEE Region 8 Women in Engineering Clementina Saduwa Award Recipient.

http://www.ieeer8.org/member-activities/women-in-engineering/clementina-saduwa-award-2014-winner/

Monique was an Inspiration Finalist for the 2015 FDM everywoman in Technology:

https://www.everywoman.com/article/finalists-announced-2015-fdm-everywoman-technology-awards

Monique has been selected to be part of the elite group of women for Connected World magazine’s 2015 Women of M2M/Internet of Things feature—or “WoM2M.”

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/02/prweb12548705.htm

Monique is also co-WISE Exec Sponsor at Cisco; advocate for Cisco Women in Technology and Cisco Women for Cybersecurity Communities.

Articles

Define Your Future @Cisco

1 min read

I am looking forward to the Grace Hopper Women in Computing Conference, Oct 14-16 2015, Houston, Texas. From Cisco Women in Cybersecurity to extraordinary software developers and inspiring executive I invite you to join us at Cisco to invent together. Intercloud, security, and IoE are all areas that present massive opportunity for re-invention and innovation. […]

Are We Disrupting Ourselves Out of Jobs?

2 min read

Much has been published in the industry about how automation will result in job loss e.g. the book, The Second Machine Age, as an example. Further, the question is obvious as to whether or not the skills you have today will be relevant tomorrow? Such discussions have been occurring for the past several years since […]

Advocating for The Internet of Change

1 min read

On May 25 2015, I had the honor to participate on a panel on Digital Inclusion of Women for Gender Equality at WSIS 2015, held in Geneva, Switzerland: Women with varying backgrounds from all parts of the world, passionately discussed the opportunities to advocate for change both in the industry and in government. Questions for […]

Securing the Internet of Things: A Proposed Framework

1 min read

By 2020, the number of connected devices is expected to grow exponentially to 50 billion. The world of interconnected objects will have it’s data collected, analyzed and used to initiate...

April 21, 2015

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Should women consider a career in cybersecurity? Absolutely!

3 min read

With the United Nations’ International Girls in ICT day fast approaching on April 23rd, this is a great opportunity to discuss how we can get young women involved in careers in technology. Cybersecurity is an ever-present issue with companies and individuals suffering attacks daily. At Cisco, we believe that protection from threats does not rely […]

The Importance of Service Research to Our Industry

2 min read

If you do not know the International Society of Service Innovation Professionals or ISSP, I encourage you to do so. ISSIP is an amazing organization with very active Cisco engagement; and yes Cisco is a co-founder of ISSIP. ISSIP defines service “as the application of knowledge for the benefit of others, and service science as […]

Be Fearless: The Internet of Women –YOU!

1 min read

It's amazing that March 8 2015 International Women’s Day is already upon us: It is not only the time to celebrate women globally, but to urge everyone to action...

January 20, 2015

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Exploring Global Digital Transformations for 2015

3 min read

2014 ended with a flurry of technology conferences in Europe and the Middle East.  In November, the European Commission’s (EC) annual Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Conference addressed how to make the EC a 21 Century organization.  In December, the International Telecommunications Union Telecommunications Standardization Sector ( ITU-T) hosted a meeting in Doha, Qatar for […]