Will an 'Internet of Everything' shorten your commute in the morning? Are we at the beginning or the end of the SDN hype cycle? What exactly is 'context aware' computing? How will large format HDTV technology transform the way global teams work together? 

Just before the holidays, I had the pleasure of posing these and other questions to a distinguished panel of Cisco engineers, innovators and business leaders.

Susie Wee, VP and CTO, Networked Experiences, Lauren Cooney, Senior Director, Software Strategy , CTO and Architecture Office, David Ward, CTO of Engineering and Chief Architect and Maciej Kranz, VP of the Corporate Technology Group led a discussion inspired by the work of Cisco's Technology Radar team.

Cisco's Tech Radar brings together a network of 80+ scouts to identify emerging technology trends and forecast their impact on business, governments, and everyday society through a five, ten and twenty-five years time frame. The findings inform Cisco's engineering and corporate development strategy.

During the course of 90 minutes, our panel dissected as many of those trends as they could, from augmented collaboration to WebRTC; mega data centers to SDN; security and privacy to the Internet of Everything. You can view some highlights of the discussion in the video below, or -if your New Year isn't too busy yet -you can watch the entire Technology Radar 2014 program here.

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