Chetan Anand is a Principal Machine Learning Engineer on the AI Defense team within Cisco’s AI Software and Platform Group, where he helps drive the development of capabilities that enable customers to adopt AI securely and with confidence. Previously at Cisco, Chetan played a key role in the development of the Cisco AI Assistant, which is now integrated into Cisco AI Canvas and the unified AI Assistant experiences across Cisco products. Prior to joining Cisco, Chetan was a co-founder of Armorblox (acquired by Cisco), where he built the foundation for its pioneering natural language understanding platform designed to protect organizations against email threats. Chetan brings nearly two decades of experience spanning engineering, entrepreneurship and innovation.