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Jim Grubb

Chief Technology Evangelist

Cisco Customer Experience Center

 

As an expert in Digitization even before it was called Digitization, Jim has spent most of his career inventing and explaining the Art Of The Possible with technology. He is an exponential thinker and charismatic speaker working with most of Cisco's largest customers as they build their Digital Strategies.

As John Chamber's Sidekick, he delivered over four hundred Keynote demonstrations at industry, technology. and CXO events, including Cisco Live, CES, HIMSS, NRF, Oracle World, Salesforce, DODIS, Cisco Partner Summit, and Cisco's World-wide Sales meeting.

He has also presented to many Government and World Leaders, including Hillary Clinton, George W Bush, Tony Blair, Madeleine Albright, Dimitry Medvedev, Al Gore, Viktor Chernomyrdin, Vicente Fox, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jean Carnahan, and Jim Gilmore

When he's not explaining technology, Jim is an Astronomer, Musician, Photographer, Pilot, and avid Boater..

Follow him on Twitter! @jimgrubb

Articles

January 11, 2018

DEVELOPER

#TheGrubbCast Episode 2: Talking with Viptela’s Khalid Raza About Software Defined Wide Area Networking

5 min read

Cisco's Innovation Strategy In this episode of #TheGrubbCast, I set the stage by talking about Cisco’s Five-Way Strategy for innovation – Build, Buy, Partner, Invest, Co-Develop. Build...

December 5, 2017

DEVELOPER

#TheGrubbCast, Episode 1: How Unified Access Helps Us Respond to Changing Workforce Models

4 min read

Jim Grubb talks to Jeff McLoughlin, Principal TME, Cisco Enterprise Switching & Wireless, about the value adds of SDA (efficiency, automation, scalability, security) and what they mean for network operations...

March 25, 2015

CLOUD

Bringing clarity to cloud usage: a must-do for shaping more effective IT strategies

2 min read

Shadow IT isn’t anything new; it is part of human behavior and started with the first mini-computers in family homes. People will always choose the tools that help them do their jobs in the simplest and most efficient way. Unfortunately, when that means using unsanctioned technologies, well intentioned selections can have unintended and potentially dangerous […]

October 22, 2014

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Summary: Three Ways IoT is Impacting the #InternetOfEverything

2 min read

As a key enabling technology to the Internet of Everything (IoE), the Internet of Things (IoT), is connecting new places and objects. Manufacturing room floors, energy grids and wearable devices are just a few examples of the millions of objects coming online at an unprecedented pace. These “things” are creating vast and increasing amounts of […]

October 21, 2014

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Three Ways IoT is Impacting the #InternetOfEverything

4 min read

As a key enabling technology to the Internet of Everything (IoE), the Internet of Things (IoT), is connecting new places and objects. Manufacturing room floors, energy grids and wearable devices are just a few examples of the millions of objects coming online at an unprecedented pace. These “things” are creating vast and increasing amounts of […]

October 2, 2014

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

The Weather Channel Uses Fast IT to Harness Data

3 min read

When you walk outside and notice dark clouds gathering, or a cheerfully bright sun, little may cross your mind except to grab an umbrella or your shades. But chances are, the team at The Weather Channel knew about these weather conditions days in advance thanks to Fast IT. And with this advance information, The Weather […]

Summary: Survey Says: Fast IT is a Game-Changer

1 min read

Over the last couple of months we have talked about the need to think about your IT model in a new way in order to thrive in the Internet of Everything (IoE). As we know, the Internet of Everything—the intelligent connection of people, processes, data and things—has exploded in recent months. Alongside that growth, the […]

July 10, 2014

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Survey Says: Fast IT is a Game-Changer

3 min read

Over the last couple of months we have talked about Fast IT and the need to think about your IT model in a new way to thrive in the Internet of Everything (IoE). Fast IT is the new model for IT that transforms and simplifies IT operations. It evolves and unifies infrastructure, platform, and applications […]