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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

May 23, 2017

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EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

DevNet Create kicks off in San Francisco

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Join us via the live stream to experience first-hand how applications are meeting the infrastructure, and making the network open to developers like never before. Come join the transformation!

May 19, 2017

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NETWORKING

Get the Most from DevNet Create: Virtual or Live!

2 min read

As we approach the final week before DevNet Create, I wanted to share with you details on how to make the most of your time. I recently posted about the agenda and the engaging lineup of keynotes and presentations. In addition to these speakers, we have also woven hands-on learning opportunities throughout the entire two days.

February 24, 2017

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NETWORKING

Applications Meet Infrastructure at Cisco Live Berlin: DevNet Zone

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By all rights I should be exhausted.  But I’m not.  To the contrary, as Cisco Live Berlin 2017 winds down, I’m totally energized.  So much creativity.  So many amazing people, with innovative products and ideas that are truly transforming the way we live and work.  I saw this first-hand in our DevNet Zone and throughout […]

February 7, 2017

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NETWORKING

Introducing DevNet Create: The Developer Conference Where Applications Meet Infrastructure

2 min read

We’ve grown DevNet over the last 3 years and, thanks to you, we have had tremendous success together. We feel that it’s now time to work with the broader developer community to drive an important industry transformation in front of us: how modern applications and modern infrastructure can work better together to help society and […]

March 4, 2016

NETWORKING

Announcing DevNet DNA Network Programmability Dev Center

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Have you read about Cisco’s DNA (Digital Network Architecture) announcement? In a nutshell, it is how the network will evolve into a platform that can keep up with the dynamic needs of digital business models, and ultimately –through analytics- even anticipate them. As such, Network Programmability, accessible through intuitive APIs, is a key cornerstone of […]

July 21, 2014

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EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco Invests in Developers

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One of the marvelous things about community and teamwork is that it allows us to engage with people in a way we couldn’t as individuals. When we pool our strength and work together, we can create something in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This is the philosophy of our […]

June 2, 2014

PARTNER

How can DevNet Help You?

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Have you visited the DevNet portal website yet? DevNet is our new developer program, and the DevNet portal helps software developers build applications based on Cisco products- these apps can help you enhance and manage Cisco networks or create entirely new solutions for your customers.

May 19, 2014

NETWORKING

What you’ll find in the #DevNet Zone at Cisco Live (#CLUS)

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Today the DevNet Developer Conference kicked off in Moscone West.  DevNet is a mini-conference you can attend within the larger Cisco Live that gives hands-on experience with the many APIs Cisco is developing. The DevNet Zone includes the following activities: Theater Sessions: API technical sessions, executive spotlights, and thought leadership sessions Hands-on learnings labs that let […]

May 16, 2014

NETWORKING

Top 5 Reasons Hackers, Developers and Designers Should Attend DevNet Zone

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Hi all, The DevNet Developer Conference at Cisco Live starts this week! Here are the Top 5 Reasons Hackers, Developers and Designers Should Attend DevNet Zone at Cisco Live: Hands-on learning labs for APIs you’ve probably never tried Networking – meet people in real life 24 Hour Hackathon where you can show your coding chops Get […]

May 16, 2014

NETWORKING

Augmented Collaboration: A Cisco Tech Fund Innovation

2 min read

Hi all, The DevNet team is busy gearing up for DevNet at Cisco Live in San Francisco on May 18-22. It’s just 2 days away… Yikes! I just got off a call with the DevNet team and you can imagine the excitement and nervousness in the air as we’re in the final days of preparation. […]