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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

September 1, 2020

DEVELOPER

Listening sessions with DevNet: Powering an Inclusive Future for our Community

1 min read

Hear from DevNet Community member, Derek Winchester, on how we can all embrace diversity and be champions for each other in our careers and as humans.

August 24, 2020

CISCO SERVICES (CX)

Reimagine what’s possible for our customers and partners at Cisco IMPACT

4 min read

At Cisco IMPACT, our entire global sales team, along with our Cisco executives and business leaders, come together to learn, strategize, celebrate, and innovate. Learn how Customer Experience is at the top of Cisco’s strategy re-imagining the possibilities for our customers and partners.

August 18, 2020

DEVELOPER

Get Answers to Your Questions on the DevNet Specialization for Partners

3 min read

Watch the replay of our recent webinar with Zeus Kerravala. Hear how Cisco partners around the globe can use new automation and programmability skills to differentiate their skillsets, and create new possibilities for their customers.

June 30, 2020

DEVELOPER

Learning Never Stops: DevNet Day Sessions Now Available On-demand

4 min read

Watch coding classes and session replays from all eight Cisco DevNet Day technology tracks. Learn more about the latest innovations, explore real-time demos, and celebrate our community.

June 16, 2020

DEVELOPER

Cisco Live & DevNet Day Celebrate Possibilities

4 min read

Join us June 16-18 for Cisco Live and DevNet Day. Explore the possibilities as new use cases create new job roles, and new opportunities to transform IT team skills for the future.

May 27, 2020

DEVELOPER

New DevNet Specialization for Partners – Show Customers Your Automation & Software Skills

3 min read

See how the new DevNet Specialization enables Cisco partners to move businesses forward faster, and differentiate their service offerings.

May 13, 2020

DEVELOPER

Business Continuity Series: Collaboration Solutions

4 min read

Explore demos, use cases, and code to see how companies and industries are bringing human connection to digital interactions using collaboration tools and automation.

May 4, 2020

DEVELOPER

Connectivity: A Blog Series on Business Continuity

3 min read

Learn how you can advance connectivity for your organization and drive business continuity forward. Two real world use cases with instructions, specific code, or demonstrations from the DevNet Automation Exchange.

April 1, 2020

CISCO SERVICES (CX)

Discover Share IT Solutions, the Cisco community that’s enabling business continuity

2 min read

Discover Share IT Solutions, Cisco’s community forum to enable business continuity, where IT professionals can share their IT challenges and best practices. Read on to learn more.

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...