Who:
The big news for Cisco this week is SVP Doug Merritt kicking off the keynotes on Wednesday at 9:15 with “The New IT Agenda: Driving Business Innovation.” If you’re at Interop, you’ll want to check out this keynote and then visit our booth to see our new solutions in action. If you’re not at Interop, we’ll link to the keynote after.
In addition to this talk, we also have a place for you to have a slightly more intimate conversations with Cisco executives. On Thursday we’re hosting a luncheon round table on enabling BYOD with the newest in Unified Access solutions. The hosted luncheon is open only to Interop attendees who have registered you can do so here. Be sure to register though and show up by 12:45pm to room 1E12 to get your seat!
What:
There are two apps you’ll want to check out. The first is the Cisco Enterprise App (download w/ the QR code to the right.) If you’re at Interop, you can take an easy trivia challenge on Wednesday and Thursday. If you’re at the top of the leaderboard, be sure to stop by our booth at the end of each day to pick up a price. There will be three winners each day and prizes include an Apple TV, e
The second app is Interop’s app, sponsored by Cisco. In this app there’s a small Cisco section where you can view each days’ events (updates each day) as well as cool Interop features such as the community of 
participants who have also downloaded the app, the ability to set up your own agenda, and unicorns.
Where:
As mentioned above, we can be on your phone through the Interop app helping guide your location. Additionally, you can find the Cisco booth at the entrance to the conference hall. There are two places you could enter, if you go in onto the left entrance, we’re on your right! It’s booth #221 for those who like to look at maps.
When:
In addition to the above mentioned keynote, Cisco will be out and about in force at Interop. We’ll be at speaking sessions, on panels, giving sponsored talks (which are open to anyone), and giving lightening talks -- 15 minute theater sessions in the theater at our booth every 30 held hour. Below, the mixed-activities list:
Wednesday October 3:
| Time | Where | Title | Speaker | What |
| 9:15 -- 9:37 | General Session | The New IT Agenda: Driving Business Innovation | Doug Merritt, SVP Products & Solutions, Cisco | Keynote |
| 10:30 -- 10:45 | Cisco Booth: 221 | Enabling the Business with a Cloud Intelligent Network | Hugo Vliegen / Matt/Raakhee | Lightening Talk |
| 11:00 -- 11:15 | Cisco Booth | Bringing Added Value to TDM & SIP trunk Solutions | Patty Medberry | Lightening Talk |
| 11:30 -- 11:45 | Cisco Booth | End-to-End Convergence with Cisco Nexus Switches | Brian Farnham | Lightening Talk |
| 12:00 -- 12:15 | Cisco Booth | Cisco Prime for IT -- Accelerating Transitions | Mark Emmerson | Lightening Talk |
| 12:30 -- 12:45 | Cisco Booth | Cisco Unified Access Midmarket Mobility Solutions | Sangita Patel/Frank Petkovich | Lightening Talk |
| 1:00 -- 1:15 | Cisco Booth | Bringing Added Value to TDM & SIP trunk Solutions | Patty Medberry | Lightening Talk |
| 1:30 -- 1:45 | Cisco Booth | Accelerating Your Business Securely | Bill McGee | Lightening Talk |
| 2:00 -- 2:15 | Cisco Booth | Cisco Enabling the Internet of Things | Mahbubul Alam | Lightening Talk |
| 2:15 -- 3:15 | Room 3 | What are the Next Steps for WAN Optimization? | Robert Raffaele, Enterprise Architect American Water, With Jim Metzler | Networking |
| 2:30 -- 2:45 | Cisco Booth | Enforcing Pervasive Cloud Security | Matt Bolick | Lightening Talk |
| 3:00 -- 3:15 | Cisco Booth | Bringing Added Value to TDM & SIP trunk Solutions | Patty Medberry | Lightening Talk |
| 3:30 -- 3:45 | Cisco Booth | Cisco Unified Access: One Network, One Policy,One Management | Steven Song | Lightening Talk |
| 4:00 -- 4:15 | Cisco Booth | Program your Network with Cisco ONE | Shefali Chinni | Lightening Talk |
| 4:30 -- 4:45 | Cisco Booth | Steps to Unified Access | Terri Quinn-Andry | Lightening Talk |
Thursday October 4:
| Time | Where | Title | Speaker | What |
| 10:30 -- 11:30 | Room 4 | Network Virtualization: What Is It & Is It Ready for Production Networks? | Panel | Panel |
| 10:30 -- 10:45 | Cisco Booth | Optimizing Application Performance from Branch-to-Cloud | Bill Reilly | Lightening Talk |
| 11:00 -- 11:15 | Cisco Booth | Fabric Extensibility with Simplified Management | Shefali Chinni | Lightening Talk |
| 11:30 -- 11:45 | Cisco Booth | Cisco Unified Access: Application Visibility and Control | Steven Song | Lightening Talk |
| 12:00 -- 12:15 | Cisco Booth | Accelerating Your Business Securely | Bill McGee | Lightening Talk |
| 12:30 -- 12:45 | Cisco Booth | Policy Management for Network Virtual Services | Ranga Maddipudi | Lightening Talk |
| 1:00 -- 1:15 | Cisco Booth | Bringing Added Value to TDM & SIP trunk Solutions | Patty Medberry | Lightening Talk |
| 1:30 -- 1:45 | Cisco Booth | Extending Virtualization to a Lean Branch | Kishan Ramaswamy | Lightening Talk |
| 2:15 -- 3:15 | Room 4 | Alternatives to the Spanning Tree Protocol | Cisco with Jim Metzler | Networking |
| 2:15 -- 3:15 | Room 4 | The “Desktop” (Workspace?) of the Future | Roberto de la Mora | Virtualization |
| 2:00 -- 2:15 | Cisco Booth | Cisco Prime for IT -- Accelerating Transitions | Mark Emmerson | Lightening Talk |
| 2:30 -- 2:45 | Cisco Booth | Cisco Enabling the Internet of Things | Mahbubul Alam | Lightening Talk |
| 3:00 -- 3:15 | Cisco Booth | Bringing Added Value to TDM & SIP trunk Solutions | Patty Medberry | Lightening Talk |
| 3:30 – 4:30 | Room 4 | How BYOD is Driving Change in the Campus Network | Mitchel Davis & Leah Ward, Bowdoin College | Customer Panel |
| 3:30 -- 3:45 | Cisco Booth | Cisco Unified Access: One Network, One Policy,One Management | Steven Song | Lightening Talk |
| 4:00 -- 4:15 | Cisco Booth | Nexus 3548 Switch and Algo Boost Features | Ganapathi Bhat | Lightening Talk |
Friday October 5th:
| Time | Where | Title | Speaker | What |
| 10:15 – 11:15 | 1E10 | Emerging Technologies: Key Directions in Mobility | Bill Rubino, Product Marketing Manager, Cisco | Wireless & Mobility |
| 10:15 – 11:15 | Room 5 | Best Practices: the Road From Server Virtualization/Consolidation to Private Cloud | Scott Hammond, VP, Strategy & Business Development, Cloud & Systems, Cisco | Virtualization |
| 10:15 – 11:15 | 1E07 | Moving Video from Hardware to Software | Andrew Reitter, Collaboration Tech Group, Cisco | Video |
Hope you enjoy the show!
Tags: Cisco Enterprise WAN App, Interop New York, unified access
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Hey Arum! I’ll hope you mean the challenges in the Cisco Enterprise WAN App? I know they make it pretty challenging (because otherwise it’d bore people) but I hope you find it fun!