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Brendan O'Brien

Director Global Product Marketing

Connected Mobile Experiences

Dr Brendan O’Brien, Director Global Product Marketing for Cisco Connected Mobile Experiences.

Brendan leads the marketing and evangelizing of Cisco’s new Connected Mobile Experiences (CMX) solutions -- which enables enterprises to turn WiFi into a business and services innovation platform. Working closely with large enterprises and Service Providers globally he helps address advocate the various business modesl and opportunities that are emerging to enable monetization of WiFi generated data and analytics. 

 

Prior to Cisco as founder and CEO of ThinkSmart Technologies, Brendan successfully led the company from its foundation in mid 2010 to acquisition by Cisco Systems in September 2012.  ThinkSmart was recognized as the leader in pioneering the market for location-based analytics using WiFi. It was founded as a University spin-out, attracted world leading post doctoral researchers, and under Dr O’Brien’s leadership drove awareness and adoption globally through ThinkSmart’s ground-breaking software. 

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January 23, 2014

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Cisco CMX @ NRF 2014

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NRF 2014 was held last week at the Javits Centre in New York City. It’s the biggest retail event of the year where vendors show off the future of the industry to all the delegates both using inspiring key notes and exciting demos on the Expo floors. 2014 and beyond: It wasn’t too hard to […]

January 9, 2014

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Mobile Location Based Services Trends of 2013

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The holiday season which began with Cyber Monday on December 2nd 2013 has just ended and analyzing the impact on mobile commerce sales and location based services unveils some very interesting...

December 3, 2013

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Cisco CMX at Dreamhack Winter 2013 in Jonkoping Sweden

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Dreamhack Winter 2013 in the small city of Jonkoping in central Sweden claims to be the world’s largest digital event. I was skeptical at first, but when I arrived for...

November 21, 2013

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Cisco CMX Enables the Future of ‘Digital Malls’ at the DIGIWORLD Summit 2013

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Montpellier, France this week hosted the 35th edition of the DigiWorld Summit whose overall theme was "The digital gold mines". The event focused on digital...

November 15, 2013

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Blurring the Lines between Online and Offline

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Mobility comes down to the lines between online and offline blurring rapidly, with organizations sprinting to put the infrastructure in place to catch up with the trend. The blurring of...

October 30, 2013

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Cisco CMX Solution In Action at the Internet of Things World Forum

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Today’s events at the IoT World Forum included a very interesting keynote address by Cisco's CEO John Chambers, as well as some exciting breakout sessions. Leading business executives shared their...

October 29, 2013

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CMX plays an important role in the Internet of Things at IoT World Forum in Barcelona

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I have the privilege of attending the Internet of Things (IoT) World Forum in Barcelona. The event brought in global executives across multiple industries, all...

October 22, 2013

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Deep Dive: Major User Interface Transformation in CMX 7.6

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You read about the three flavors of analytics we offer with the Connected Mobile Experiences solution last week. One of the key innovations Evyatar discussed is the a completely...

October 15, 2013

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CMX to be featured at the inaugural IoT World Forum 2013

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On October 29-31, 2013 in Barcelona, Spain, Cisco will host customers, partners, influencers and policy-makers at the inaugural Internet of Things World Forum.

August 21, 2013

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CableLabs Summer Conference 2013– CMX Live Demo

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At the CableLabs Summer Conference last week in the Keystone Conference Center outside of Denver, Colorado, Cisco CMX was demonstrated live on stage showing up to the moment information on...