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Susie Wee

SVP & CTO

Cisco DevNet Ecosystem Success

Susie is the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Cisco DevNet Ecosystem Success, focused on accelerating the advancement of Cisco customers, partners, developers, and IT professionals as they innovate with Cisco platforms. She founded and leads DevNet, Cisco's developer program, which catalyzes innovations and accelerates automation and digital transformation in the industry. Under Susie’s leadership, DevNet has grown to a global community of over 500,000 developers, a vibrant ecosystem of DevNet software and solutions partners, and has created professional DevNet certifications for the industry.

Prior to her current role, Susie was the Vice President and Chief Technology and Experience Officer of Cisco’s Collaboration Technology Group. She was responsible for driving innovation and experience design in Cisco's collaboration products and software services, including unified communications, telepresence, web and video conferencing, and cloud collaboration. Before joining Cisco, Susie was Vice President of Experience Software Business and CTO at Hewlett Packard.

Susie served as the co-editor of the JPSEC standard for the security of JPEG-2000 images and as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits, Systems and Video Technology and IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. While serving as Lab Director at HP Labs, Susie was also a consulting assistant professor at Stanford University where she co-taught a graduate-level course on digital video processing.

Susie received Technology Review’s Top 100 Young Innovators award, ComputerWorld's Top 40 Innovators under 40 award, the Red Dot Design Concept award for augmented collaboration, the INCITs Technical Excellence award, the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame award, and was on the Forbes Most Powerful Women list. She is an IEEE Fellow for her contributions in multimedia technology and has authored over 50 international publications and 57 granted patents.

She currently serves on the board of directors for Analog Devices, a leading global high-performance analog technology company dedicated to solving the toughest engineering challenges. She is also an active mentor and member of the International Women’s Forum (IWF) Leadership Foundation, which supports the women leaders of today and tomorrow.

Susie received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Articles

March 16, 2020

DEVELOPER

We Did It – Let’s Celebrate the DevNet 500!

3 min read

Within sixteen days of launching the new Cisco DevNet certifications, 500 dedicated individuals from around the globe have earned a DevNet certification. Help us congratulate the #DevNet500.

February 24, 2020

DEVELOPER

The Wait is Over: DevNet Certifications are Here!

4 min read

Certify your skills in highly valuable areas so you can take your career to the next level - including new emerging job roles like network automation developer, DevSecOps professional, and IoT architect.

January 28, 2020

DEVELOPER

DevNet is Helping Customers with their Digital Transformation Journey

6 min read

The new network is programmable, has APIs, and supports DevOps – i.e. ready to use to solve business problems.

November 5, 2019

DEVELOPER

Accelerating Partner Success with the new Cisco DevNet Specialization

6 min read

New DevNet Specialization will recognize partner's software and automation capabilities to deliver digital transformation using Cisco products and APIs.

June 10, 2019

DEVELOPER

Bringing Software Practices and Software Skills to Networking with Cisco Certifications and DevNet

9 min read

New network technologies and certifications are giving network engineers the opportunity to utilize the programmable network in new and exciting ways.

May 1, 2019

DEVELOPER

Wi-Fi 6 is for Developers!

4 min read

Every major networking technology transition creates a new set of opportunities for applications. Developers take notice.

February 15, 2019

DEVELOPER

Disrupt or Die: Developers and IT Hold the Keys to Business Success

5 min read

Across all industries, from retail to manufacturing to transportation and cities, developers and IT have become strategic partners in business success.

November 27, 2018

DEVELOPER

“Smart Country” Innovation Creates Opportunities for People

5 min read

Innovation! It’s amazing to see how technology transforms our lives. As the founder of Cisco DevNet, I am passionate about ensuring that technology makes our lives better in ways that...

July 23, 2018

DEVELOPER

Introducing the Cisco & Google Cloud Challenge

3 min read

Get tools and training to build modern, microservice-based, cloud applications that span both public and private clouds. Register for the Cisco & Google Cloud Challenge and WIN!

June 12, 2018

NETWORKING

Building the Intent-Based Network with DevNet

3 min read

#Cisco just made an announcement about releasing new developer capabilities for intent-based networking. Cisco's new DNA Center platform adds programmability to DNA Center. #CiscoDNA

June 11, 2018

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco DevNet Hits 500,000 Members, Gaining Critical Mass for the “DevNet Effect”

3 min read

We’re excited to announce that we’ve reached an important moment in Cisco’s history. DevNet now has 500,000 registered members.

May 30, 2018

DEVELOPER

The DevNet Zone at Cisco Live Is the Place to Learn and Connect

3 min read

A robust slate of hands-on workshops and learning labs, interactive demos, and technical sessions await you in the #devnet zone at #CLUS.

May 15, 2018

DEVELOPER

First Ever DevNet Creator Awards Recognize Community Contributions

3 min read

The DevNet Creator awards recognize DevNet community members who have made meaningful contributions to teach others about DevNet and help them discover and use Cisco APIs and platforms.

April 30, 2018

DEVELOPER

DevNet Create Conference Connects with Application Developers

4 min read

The two day DevNet Create conference focused on topics and technologies of interest to application developers, cloud developers, and IT (DevOps) professionals

March 29, 2018

DEVELOPER

Application and Cloud Developers “Connect to Create” at DevNet Create 2018

4 min read

DevNet Create is a great opportunity to meet face-to-face with experts from across the industry.

March 2, 2018

DEVELOPER

NetDevOps, and the Rise of the Programmable Network (PN)

2 min read

NetDevOps is a new discipline that helps applications and network teams work together to utilize a software programmable network to more quickly and accurately provision your infrastructure.

February 28, 2018

DEVELOPER

The Programmable Network and the Rise of the Network API

4 min read

Applications are transforming our businesses...lives. Now Network APIs are providing the bridge for application developers to access the full power of today’s programmable networks.

January 29, 2018

DEVELOPER

The DevNet Zone at Cisco Live is Ready for YOU!

2 min read

Grow your skills and career with a visit to the DevNet Zone at Cisco Live -- join in hands-on workshops, demos, technical sessions, learning labs, fun prize-winning challenges, and more.

November 1, 2017

DEVELOPER

Cisco and Google give developers cloud speed & scale, coupled with enterprise-class security & support

1 min read

Cisco DevNet invites developers to explore technologies for developing and deploying modern apps in a hybrid world and get hands-on with learning labs and running code against live infrastructure.

October 18, 2017

DEVELOPER

Cisco Wins Developer Satisfaction Award

2 min read

As networks become programmable and applications become the central vehicle transforming literally all aspects of our work and lives, Cisco will continue to deliver quality education, training, and support for our rapidly growing developer community.

July 6, 2017

DEVELOPER

Application Developers and Network Programmers: The Superheroes of Cisco Live

7 min read

An explosive opening Picture this… I’m at the Cisco Live opening keynote.  Chuck Robbins has an explosive opening with heart-pounding Thunder...

June 26, 2017

NETWORKING

Cisco is Evolving the Network into the iPhone of the Enterprise

2 min read

Developers that act now will pioneer dramatically more powerful apps in IoT, analytics, AR, VR, data science and other areas incomprehensible to us now.

June 23, 2017

DEVELOPER

Get Ready to Enter the DevNet Zone at Cisco Live

3 min read

If you’re into network programming, Cloud collaboration, IoT application development, or DevOps … this year's Cisco Live is simply the place you need to be.

June 21, 2017

DEVELOPER

Welcome to the Developer Blog at Cisco

3 min read

Hear from DevNet’s Developer Evangelists and the DevNet Innovation Team, and get real world case studies about how Cisco partners, ISVs, and customers are using our APIs and platforms.

June 5, 2017

NETWORKING

DevNet Delivering New Fast Lane Validation Program for iOS Developers

4 min read

As a result of the partnership between Apple and Cisco, enterprises now enjoy a technical advantage of great importance -- mobile apps that reinvent entire workflows and transform businesses.