Samer Salam

Samer Salam is a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco Systems. He focuses on technology incubation in addition to the system and software architecture for networking products. His work covers the areas of Intent Based Networking, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Reasoning, Semantic Technologies and Immersive Visualization.

Previously at Cisco, he held multiple technical leadership and software development positions working on IoT, Layer 2 VPN / EVPN, Carrier/Metro Ethernet services, OAM, network resiliency, system scalability, software quality, multi-service edge, broadband, MPLS and dial solutions.

He holds over ninety US and international patents, is author of "The Internet of Things From Hype to Reality: The Road to Digitization". He authored twelve IETF RFCs, and several articles in telecommunications industry journals. He is also a Distinguished Speaker at CiscoLive.