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Cisco CEO John Chambers: Thoughts Prior to WEF2012

January 11, 2012 at 11:54 am PST

This month, Cisco Chairman and CEO is attending his 12th World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland.  In this video he prepared for WEF, he answers the following questions.

What great transformation will the world see in the next decade?
What new models will drive change in your industry?
How can organizations build competitive innovation for the next generation?
How can your industry work with other stakeholders to improve the state of the world?

John states that the internet and business “innovation will drive GDP growth, job creation and productivity” in the next decade. He says that any device will be connected to any content and that video will be everywhere.  Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, he says, will be in the enterprise, in their current form or in a more business-friendly form (note: such as Cisco Quad).  He says that mobility will continue to grow in importance and the proliferation of devices will make the network and its security and policies even more important.

Solving the worlds problems, he says, takes bringing diverse people together…both physically, but more and more through collaborative platforms.

Watch the video and let us know what you think technology’s impact will have on our lives in the next decade.

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CTO Padmasree Warrior’s Experience at the World Economic Forum

February 7, 2011 at 4:02 pm PST

Watch Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior talk about her “mind-blowing” experience at this year’s World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland.  She mingled with experts from around the world discussing topics like cloud computing, security, and hyper connectivity.

“The breadth and depth of the expertise that comes together in one place from around the world is simply mind blowing.”

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Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior talks World Economic Forum Experience

Armed with my Flip Camera, I had a chance to catch up today with Padmasree Warrior, Cisco’s Chief Technology Officer.  This is her first trip to the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

Padma talks about her experiences in the technology tract, as well as being a little star struck by WEF attendees.  Padma notes that cloud computing is a hot topic at this year’s event, and trend Cisco is well positioned to lead.

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Deutsche Telekom CEO On the Flip Camera

Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers and I ran into the Deutsche Telekom CEO Rene Obermann today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.  Rene professed his love of his Flip camera for video blogging as soon as he saw John, so I grabbed my own Flip and asked him to speak into the camera….

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