Cisco Live has come and gone and now is a time to reflect on the incredibly crazy few days and see what was discussed. Business outcomes were top of mind for our customers and analysts, and we had no shortage of them.
We kicked off the week talking to our analysts at CSCAPE and the big theme was customer stories. We had Voith, a machine builder with a focus on the Pulp and Paper industry, talk about implementing a collaboration suite. They now know what's going on and can troubleshoot without having to fly somebody to fix problems due to remote capabilities from Cisco and our partner LibreStream. This brings a huge value to their customers who are in remote areas and allows them to save time and expense.
Another customer we had was Fanuc who talked about how they're implementing their zero downtime offering based on predictive maintenance algorithms. They have 6500 machines currently pushing data to the cloud to allow savings of anywhere from three minutes to hours of downtime. Which when you look at$20,000 per minute of downtime, that starts adding up to a huge return on investment very quickly.
Next our CTO Zorawar Biri Singh shared how digitization requires companies to transform processes, empower their workforce, and personalize their customer experience.
He also shared:
"If you aren't building deep learning/machine learning capabilities into your products, you aren't relevant"
Our VP of Growth Initiatives Ruba Borno then spoke at her session,Business Case for Digitization.Here are some of the takeaways:
Notable Quote: "Be the agility you want to see"
The full presentation is available here.
Ruba and Rowan Trollope also stopped by our booth and we were able to capture this video with her.
On Tuesday my teammate Scot Wlodarczak presented on our work with Daimler Trucks by sharing this video and giving us insight into their transformation at the breakout sessionCisco Digital Manufacturing Solutions in Practice at Daimler Trucks.
Here are a few of the takeaways:
At the first guest keynote, Jason Silva blew the crowd away which was an absolute must-see (recording here -thank me later). The quotes below should speak for themselves:
At the end of Wednesday I hosted a session called:The Case for Machine Intelligence. Here are some of the highlights:
Finally the conference ended with a closing keynote by Kevin Spacey:
As you can see, it was an incredible week full of excitement, content, and some fun. To feel like you were there, check out our twitter feed of the show here. In fact if you were there, it is impossible to see every presentation due to timing so check out the session archive to see what you missed. See you next year!
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