Connected Futures: A Cisco podcast exploring business innovation insights

Public sector innovations are powering a more inclusive future, from inner cities to rural farms. And Cisco's Marcus Moffett is helping to make it happen. In a free-ranging discussion with Kevin Delaney, senior writer for Cisco's Strategy and Storytelling team, Moffett shares his vision for continuing innovation in the public sector - along with concrete solutions to its biggest challenges.

For Joseph Bradley, artificial intelligence has the potential to support an Inclusive Future, in which opportunity, education, and equality touch even the most disadvantaged people on the planet. In a free-ranging interview with Kevin Delaney - senior writer for Cisco's strategy and Storytelling team - Bradley shares concrete advice for business leaders and society as a whole. To ensure that we successfully navigate the profound changes that the next wave of technology change will bring.

Cisco's Bret Hartman shares key strategies for thwarting cyberthreats in the coming year In a free-ranging podcast interview with Kevin Delaney - senior writer for Cisco's Strategy and Storytelling team - Bret shares some of his warnings, predictions, and, above all, best practices for cybersecurity in 2020. Along with insights into the innovative products and solutions in Cisco's portfolio.

Manufacturing has made astonishing progress in recent decades. But there are even greater changes to come, as the Internet itself undergoes its next level of transformation. 5g and WiFi 6 will be a big part of this, by fully enabling data-intensive manufacturing solutions like AI, virtual reality, advanced robotics, and predictive maintenance. The end result? Factories (and products!) that will be cleaner, safer, and more productive than ever before.

The next wave of urban transformation will incorporate technologies like AI, robotics, and advanced video analytics in exciting new ways. But such data-intensive solutions demand a new dimension in wireless connectivity. In this podcast, Cisco's Kevin Delaney explores what the experts are saying about the promise of 5G and WiFi 6 to meet the those demands. While helping to create cities that are cleaner, safer, and a whole lot smarter.

In this podcast, Connected Futures executive editor Kevin Delaney speaks with some of the key players in the 5G RuralFirst consortium. Featuring: Nick Chrissos Shona Croy Greig Paul Stephen Speirs Greg Whitton

Cracking the Digital Transformation Code

If you've have an unforgettable experience at a big concert or music festival this year, there's a pretty good chance that Matt Clair helped to make it happen. In this podcast Connected Futures executive editor Kevin Delaney chats with Matt Clair about his family's history of fast innovation - and their continuing quest to perfect the live music experience.

In this podcast, Kevin Delaney, executive editor of Connected Futures, speaks with Steven Rogelberg, author of The Surprising Science of Meetings: How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance. Rogelberg has some serious answers: as to why meetings are broken, and what business leaders can do to make them effective, inclusive, and, just maybe, fun.

Cisco's Chief Security Officer shares his top-of-mind concerns for the coming year. In this podcast, John Stewart speaks with Kevin Delaney, Connected Futures' executive editor. It's a free-ranging, year-end discussion about the complex technical, societal, and regulatory trends that business leaders will face in 2019. And what they can do to make cybersecurity part of a winning strategy for the whole organization.

In this podcast, Connected Futures executive editor Kevin Delaney speaks with a number of experts with hands-on experience connecting the unconnected in Africa, particularly through WiFi.

Author David Sanger believes cyberweapons demand a wide range of new solutions - spanning businesses, governments, and innovators. In this podcast, Connected Futures executive editor Kevin Delaney chats with David about the often misunderstood potential of cyberweapons. And how we can better prepare for what he sees as a future of 'low-level, perpetual cyberconflict.'

Recently, Cisco CIO Guillermo Diaz Jr. shared his enthusiasm for culture change - and deep knowledge of IT - before a packed hall at Gartner Symposium ITXPO in Orlando. Then, he met with Connected Futures executive editor Kevin Delaney for a free-ranging one-on-one discussion - on the culture and talent issues that challenge all CIOs.

For Steve Durbin, cybersecurity isn't just a tech issue. It's a business issue, a culture issue, and above all, a leadership issue. In this podcast Connected Futures executive editor Kevin Delaney chats with Steve Durbin, the managing director of the Information Security Forum. It's a free-ranging discussion about what senior leadership teams can do to ensure growth and innovation at a time of ever-increasing cyberthreats.

At a time when AI and machine learning stand poised to replace many rote human tasks, are schools and colleges preparing the workers of tomorrow? In this podcast, Heather McGowan, a thought leader at the intersection of education, business, and technology, chats with Connected Futures executive editor Kevin Delaney. About how the very foundations of learning need to be disrupted, for what she calls the Augmented Age - a time when human ingenuity, creativity and empathy will separate us from the machines.