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Annie Hardy

Senior Visioneer

Digital Experience (part of CX)

Annie Hardy is Cisco's first Senior Visioneer - and boy does she love it. She spends her days exploring human-machine interaction innovations, thinking about the future of the Internet, and getting people excited about possibilities. Annie has almost two decades of experience evangelizing strategic human-centered design and advocating for women and vulnerable populations. Prior to joining Cisco, she was Founder and Managing Director of zeet insights, an Austin-based market and design research firm focused on cloud, machine learning, solar, smart mobility, and other fun technologies. Her adventurous bent is inherited from her ancestors of 6 generations ago, who settled some of the roughest, toughest land in South Texas. Ask her about her three kids and she'll tell you many, many stories. Ask Alexa to play "Life Bites Back" by Joey Hardy, and you'll hear her album. And ask her about her favorite food and she'll wax poetic about funnel cake. To learn more visit anniehardy.io.

Articles

October 21, 2022

LEARNING

Human-Machine Interactions of the Future: Unpopular Opinions [Part 3]

7 min read

Cisco Futurist Annie Hardy expands on the future of human-machine interaction in Part 3 of her Unpopular Opinions series. In this installment, find out why decentralization may not be as decentralized as many might hope for.

September 28, 2022

LEARNING

Human-Machine Interactions of the Future: Unpopular Opinions [Part 2]

5 min read

Cisco Futurist Annie Hardy expands on the future of human-machine interaction in Part 2 of her Unpopular Opinions series, explaining her vision of what the Metaverse (or Metaverses) will look like, why many aren't buying into the full adoption of Web3, and more.

September 8, 2022

LEARNING

Human-Machine Interactions of the Future: Unpopular Opinions [Part 1]

3 min read

Cisco Futurist Annie Hardy lays the foundation for understanding the terms, trends, and buzz behind the Metaverse and Web3 in the first blog in her series on the future of human-machine interaction.

May 14, 2020

WE ARE CISCO

My First 30 Days at Cisco 

4 min read

From entrepreneur to Cisconian - Annie shares what her first 30 days at Cisco were like.