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The huge revenue opportunity stemming from recent success of GLP-1 drugs is not just for the pharmaceutical companies. Is your healthcare organization poised to capture the patient care opportunity emerging from GLP-1 pharmaceutical innovation?

Revolutionizing Healthcare with Breakthroughs in Diabetes and Obesity Treatment

The new category of Diabetes, weight loss and obesity drugs called GLP-1s is predicted to be a game-changing innovation in population health management of some chronic disease types.  These drugs have shown tremendous success in treating their target diseases of Diabetes and Obesity, and adoption by patients continues to grow. The 42nd annual J.P. Morgan healthcare conference in San Francisco this month gave considerable coverage to this topic and to the group of pharmaceutical companies at the core of this unparalleled movement in reducing population health issues around diabetes and weight. Drugs such as Wegovy, Mounjaro and Ozempic are currently the most highly in demand and many patients are having trouble finding supply as a result of the accelerating adoption and approvals for use. But innovation in pharma can create opportunity in other areas, and this one is already doing just that for hospitals, clinics and ACOs in the healthcare industry.

Analysts Forecast Massive Growth

Chris Schott, JP Morgan Sr. Analyst covering US Diversified Biopharma says the revenue opportunity for the pharma sector could be as much as $100B as we approach 2030 which would make it the largest therapeutic market they have ever seen.  He further predicts the capacity for GLP-1s to double in 2024 and increase another 50% in 2025, alleviating bottlenecks from a capacity standpoint. (1)

Lisa Gill, JP Morgan Sr. Analyst covering Healthcare services says things to watch are policies around coverage of these drugs. They are not currently covered by Medicaid or Medicare and should that change, volumes would likely be impacted even further. (2)

Seizing the Opportunity in GLP-1

So, what does this mean for healthcare provider organizations?  This is where accelerating healthcare’s digital transformation comes into the equation. The opportunity is huge for providers to realize significant increases in volumes of patients seeking primary care services to authorize, prescribe and manage the use of these medical treatments. These GLP-1 patients will need to be evaluated and monitored throughout their use of these medications and the current staffing levels within the US healthcare system are already strained with patients experiencing delays in appointments, long wait times for scheduling appointments and ongoing challenges in reporting daily vitals into the electronic health records without in-person visits. In addition to tracking vitals, these patients are ideally monitored for lifestyle elements such as sleep, exercise, diet, mental health and overall wellness. They benefit from coaching to help keep them on track with the lifestyle changes that go along with a successful program.

Maximizing Patient Engagement for Financial Growth and Innovation

Providers who have invested in digital-first engagement technologies such as messaging, chat, bots, voice and efficient patient orchestration processes using integrated contact centers will be best poised to handle the volumes of patients seeking care and will see the financial benefits of engaging and servicing these patient’s needs.

Healthcare providers, overwhelmingly experiencing financial challenges stemming from COVID era dips in billable visits and procedures, have been exploring ways to expand into new types of care and new sources of patients. The innovation and success of the GLP-1 category of pharmaceuticals could be one of the opportunities that provides both, and drives acceleration of new care models, digital workflow re-designs and remote patient monitoring. Providers will need to evaluate their infrastructure’s readiness for some of these new engagement models and quickly deploy technologies to capture this new business opportunity.  The good news is Cisco’s Healthcare team is already helping hospital systems deploy next generation collaboration systems including messaging, video conferencing, virtual care, and devices that are interoperable with other collaboration systems, for affordability and ease of use with existing systems and processes.

Experts predict more innovation in the pharmaceutical pipelines that will produce huge gains for other disease types too. Is your hospital system ready with a digital healthcare infrastructure that seamlessly engages patients, scales your valuable clinical resources and secures operations? The time to start is now!

References:

1). Key opportunity spaces for the pharmaceuticals sector in 2024

2). Major themes shaping health care services in 2024

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Security is critical when transmitting information over any untrusted medium, particularly with the internet. Cryptography is typically used to protect information over a public channel between two… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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Security is critical when transmitting information over any untrusted medium, particularly with the internet. Cryptography is typically used to protect information over a public channel between two entities. However, there is an imminent threat to existing cryptography with the advent of quantum computers. According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), “When quantum computers are a reality, our current public key cryptography won’t work anymore… So, we need to start designing now what those replacements will be.”

Quantum computing threat

A quantum computer works with qubits, which can exist in multiple states simultaneously, based on the quantum mechanical principle of superposition. Thus, a quantum computer could explore many possible permutations and combinations for a computational task, simultaneously and swiftly, transcending the limits of classical computing.

While a sufficiently large and commercially feasible quantum computer has yet to be built, there have been massive investments in quantum computing from many corporations, governments, and universities. Quantum computers will empower compelling innovations in areas such as AI/ML and financial and climate modeling. Quantum computers, however, will also give bad actors the ability to break current cryptography.

Public-key cryptography is ubiquitous in modern information security applications such as IPsec, MACsec, and digital signatures. The current public-key cryptography algorithms are based on mathematical problems, such as the factorization of large numbers, which are daunting for classical computers to solve. Shor’s algorithm provides a way for quantum computers to solve these mathematical problems much faster than classical computers. Once a sufficiently large quantum computer is built, existing public-key cryptography (such as RSA, Diffie-Hellman, ECC, and others) will no longer be secure, which will render most current uses of cryptography vulnerable to attacks.

Store now, break later

Why worry now? Most of the transport security protocols like IPsec and MACsec use public-key cryptography during the authentication/key establishment phase to derive the session key. This shared session key is then used for symmetric encryption and decryption of the actual traffic.

Bad actors can use the “harvest now, decrypt later” approach to capture encrypted data right now and decrypt it later, when a capable quantum computer materializes. It is an unacceptable risk to leave sensitive encrypted data susceptible to impending quantum threats. In particular, if there is a need to maintain forward secrecy of the communication beyond a decade, we must act now to make these transport security protocols quantum-safe.

The long-term solution is to adopt post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms to replace the current algorithms that are susceptible to quantum computers. NIST has identified some candidate algorithms for standardization. Once the algorithms are finalized, they must be implemented by the vendors to start the migration. While actively working to provide PQC-based solutions, Cisco already has quantum-safe cryptography solutions that can be deployed now to safeguard the transport security protocols.

Cisco’s solution

Cisco has introduced the Cisco session key import protocol (SKIP), which enables a Cisco router to securely import a post-quantum pre-shared key (PPK) from an external key source such as a quantum key distribution (QKD) device or other source of key material.

Figure 1. External QKD as key source using Cisco SKIP

For deployments that can use an external hardware-based key source, SKIP can be used to derive the session keys on both the routers establishing the MACsec connection (see Figure 1).

With this solution, Cisco offers many benefits to customers, including:

Secure, lightweight protocol that is part of the network operating system (NOS) and does not require customers to run any additional applications
Support for “bring your own key” (BYOK) model, enabling customers to integrate their key sources with Cisco routers
The channel between the router and key source used by SKIP is also quantum-safe, as it uses TLS 1.2 with DHE-PSK cipher suite
Validated with several key-provider partners and end customers
Figure 2. Cisco SKS engine as the key source

In addition to SKIP, Cisco has introduced the session key device (SKS), which is a unique solution that enables routers to derive session keys without having to use an external key source.

Figure 3. Traditional session key distribution

The SKS engine is part of the Cisco IOS XR operating system (see Figure 2). Routers establishing a secure connection like MACsec will derive the session keys directly from their respective SKS engines. The engines are seeded with a one-time, out-of-band operation to make sure they derive the same session keys.

Unlike the traditional method (see Figure 3), where the session keys are exchanged on the wire, only the key identifiers are sent on the wire with quantum key distribution. So, any attacker tapping the links will not be able to derive the session keys, as having just the key identifier is not sufficient (see Figure 4).

Figure 4. Quantum session key distribution

Cisco is leading the way with comprehensive and innovative quantum-safe cryptography solutions that are ready to deploy today.

Watch this Cisco Knowledge Networking (CKN) webinar

and discover how Cisco can help protect your network.

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This guest post was authored by Cisco Designated VIP David Peñaloza Seijas.   

Background/Story 

Since I was a kid, I was fascinated by many things I found interesting. I grew up being the nosy kid, o… Read more on Cisco Blogs

​[[ Instagram ]]  This guest post was authored by Cisco Designated VIP David Peñaloza Seijas.    Background/Story  Since I was a kid, I was fascinated by many things I found interesting. I grew up being the nosy kid, or “preguntón,” in Spanish. I was almost always asking “why?” whenever I got something explained or told, which would drive  Read More Cisco Blogs 

I am constantly amazed by the increasingly rapid pace of innovation in areas ranging from AI, security, automation, and sustainability to data privacy, workplace solutions, multi-cloud networking,… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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I am constantly amazed by the increasingly rapid pace of innovation in areas ranging from AI, security, automation, and sustainability to data privacy, workplace solutions, multi-cloud networking, and more. Successfully adopting some of these incredible technological advancements can be both exhilarating and daunting. Believe me, Cisco Customer Experience (CX) understands this so we’ve built our services portfolio to help you simplify your technology deployment and adoption journey. This will ensure that your business quickly realizes all the amazing benefits from your Cisco technologies for the duration of your product lifecycle. That’s why I am excited to share new enhancements Cisco CX is introducing to increase the business value that you get through your investments and collaboration with Cisco and our partners.

Cisco Success Tracks technology expansion

Now for the news we’ve all been waiting for! As you know, our industry benchmark, the comprehensive suite of customer success services known as Cisco Success Tracks, is delivered via the Cisco CX Cloud unified digital experience platform to empower IT teams to take the powerful step to transition from reactive to proactive and predictive IT operations. We greatly expanded its reach from Campus Network, Cloud Network, Data Center Compute, and Integrated Secure Operations to cover three new areas of your Cisco infrastructure: Wide Area Network (WAN), Cloud Network (Non-Controller), and Collaboration (hardware).

Cisco Success Track for Wide Area Network (WAN) helps our customers with their business imperatives to lower their network costs and remote site deployment time. Through theincredible insights and guidance offered with Success Tracks, they can increase network availability and security and achieve greater bandwidth optimization across their WAN environment.

Cisco Success Track for Cloud Network (Non-Controller) provides the visibility, expert guidance, and trusted support services customers need to better manage cost and risk over their cloud networking assets. This is exciting because it allows more customers who have not deployed a Cisco Intersight controller or a Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) to leverage the benefits of Success Tracks!

Cisco Success Track for Collaboration (hardware) enables customers to reduce device incidents and improve performance and user experience for employees, customers, partners, and other parties with whom they collaborate.

With Success Tracks, our customers are seeing tremendous savings in time and money while experiencing improvements in areas such as lifecycle planning, inventory tracking, software updates, compliance management, support case management, and other IT processes. These recent expansions are our response to customers asking us to broaden the scope of products covered by Success Tracks so that they can realize these same results in other parts of their IT infrastructure.

“The time saved and the visibility from CX Cloud has changed how we manage, respond, and secure the network.” —Riccardo Bortoletti, Network Administrator, Generali

Growing Cisco Lifecycle Services automation and sustainability capabilities

What I love about Cisco Lifecycle Services is that our amazing customer experience experts work side-by-side with you to help you translate technology initiatives into tangible business outcomes. Customers have recently asked for more help with hot initiatives, such as sustainability and automation, so we extended our services in each area to provide the targeted support needed to deliver the business outcomes for which they’ve been asking.

Cisco Lifecycle Services: Energy Optimization Management now covers data centers as well as campus networks! Using a data-driven methodology to track sustainability metrics and insights, this service will help you discover new ways to optimize data center energy efficiency to drive greater cost savings and support your sustainability initiatives.

Cisco Lifecycle Services: Services as Code has expanded to include SD-WAN. This automation service enables organizations to define elements of an SD-WAN network infrastructure as software, and then version and manage it at scale, resulting in expedited provisioning, deployment, configuration, and testing of their SD-WAN infrastructure.

Our new Cisco Meraki adoption service provides you with advisory and consulting expertise to accelerate the full potential of your Meraki solution. This subscription service focuses on delivering ongoing Meraki adoption, deployment, migration, and architecture expansion expertise to help you increase the ROI of your underlying network implementation and strategic agent placements.

Individually, each of the new service enhancements for Cisco Success Tracks, Cisco Lifecycle Services, and Cisco Meraki adoption, delivers greater visibility, insight, and control to enhance your day-to-day business operations and planning. Collectively, they engender the level of agility and intelligence required for successful digital transformation and other related strategic initiatives.

I want to thank you for all the insights you continue to share with us about what you need to achieve your most important business outcomes. This has really allowed us to develop our services capabilities in ways that will help you transform your business. We are committed to continuing on this path together with you! Contact your Cisco sales representative and/or partner to learn more about these new services.

Resources for topics in this blog
• Cisco Success Tracks
• Cisco Lifecycle Services
• Cisco Meraki Solution Attached Services At-a-glance

"}]]  I am constantly amazed by the increasingly rapid pace of innovation in areas ranging from AI, security, automation, and sustainability to data privacy, workplace solutions, multi-cloud networking, and more. Successfully adopting some of these incredible technological advancements can be both exhilarating and daunting. Believe me, Cisco Customer Experience (CX) understands this so we’ve built our services portfolio to help you simplify your technology deployment and adoption journey. This will ensure that your business quickly realizes all the amazing benefits from your Cisco technologies for the duration of your product lifecycle. That’s why I am excited to share new enhancements Cisco CX is introducing to increase the business value that you get through your investments and collaboration with Cisco and our partners.  Read More Cisco Blogs 

This is always an exciting time of year at Cisco. Today not only marks the start of Cisco Live EMEA, it’s also the release date of the 2024 CRN Channel Chiefs list. There’s no better way to kick off a… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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This is always an exciting time of year at Cisco. Today not only marks the start of Cisco Live EMEA, it’s also the release date of the 2024 CRN Channel Chiefs list. There’s no better way to kick off an amazing week with our customers and partners than by celebrating Cisco’s channel leaders—the best in the industry —and their dedication to the partner community.

Once again, Cisco has a strong presence with many leaders receiving honors. I’m also excited to see that Cisco’s new partner leader, Rodney Clark, is recognized as one of top executive leaders in the industry.

I am proud to work alongside these individuals who are deeply committed to Cisco’s global partner ecosystem. Our partners are integral to our success, and I want to thank each of these leaders for supporting the channel so we can deliver exceptional outcomes for our shared customers.

Without question, our strong bond with the channel is one of Cisco’s biggest competitive advantages. We are Greater Together.

Please join me in congratulating each of these amazing Cisco leaders!

Alex Pujols – VP, Global Partner Engineering
Alexandra Zagury – VP, Partner Managed & As-a-Service
Alistair Wildman – SVP/General Manager, Customer Experience (CX)
Andrew Sage – VP, Global Distribution & SMB Sales
Brian Feeney – VP, Global Security Partner Sales
Craig Vario – Global Channel Lead, ThousandEyes
Denzil Samuels – VP, Customer Experience (CX) Partner Success
Jason W. Gallo – VP, Global Partner Go-to-Market Acceleration
John Brookbank III – VP, Americas Distribution Sales
Jose Van Dijk – VP, EMEA Partner Sales & Routes to Market and Partner Performance and Experience
Kristyn Hogan – VP, Global Collaboration Partner Sales
Luxy Thuraisingam – VP, Global SMB & Partner Marketing
Marc Surplus – VP, Partner Strategy & Programs
Mark Maslach – VP, Worldwide Channels & Strategic Alliances, AppDynamics
Nick Holden – VP, Global and Strategic Partners & Co-sell
Rachel Barger – SVP, Americas Sales
Rhonda Henley – VP, Americas Partner Organization
Rodney Clark – SVP, Partnerships and Small & Medium Business

See the full list of 2024 CRN Channel Chiefs here

Learn more about our Global Partner Ecosystem here!

We’d love to hear what you think. Ask a Question, Comment Below, and Stay Connected with #CiscoPartners on social!

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"}]]  This is always an exciting time of year at Cisco. Today not only marks the start of Cisco Live EMEA, it’s also the release date of the 2024 CRN Channel Chiefs list. There’s no better way to kick off an amazing week with our customers and partners than by celebrating Cisco’s channel leaders—the best in  Read More Cisco Blogs 

Tech learners, it’s the week you have been waiting for. It’s time to come together with experts and thousands of your peers to connect, learn, and advance your career with the Learning &… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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Tech learners, it’s the week you have been waiting for. It’s time to come together with experts and thousands of your peers to connect, learn, and advance your career with the Learning & Certifications team at Cisco Live Amsterdam, February 5-9, 2024. 

Let’s dive into how you can make the most of your Cisco Live 2024 experience with us, Cisco Learning and Certifications, whether you join us in person or online.

Read on to explore which topics to keep top of mind, as well as the opportunities, special offers, and activities we have planned for this week. 

Embrace the Multicloud Era with Cisco Learning and Certifications at Cisco Live Amsterdam

As technologies, capabilities, and practices race ahead, unleashing new capabilities to transform how we think about, design, and operate network infrastructure, we empower you—and your team—to keep pace. Today, organizations continue to migrate to public, private, and hybrid clouds at a breakneck pace, rendering multicloud expertise mission-critical.

This week, we invite you to immerse yourself in the rapidly expanding arena of Cloud Connectivity, Security, and Network Assurance, starting with an overview of our all-new Cisco Multicloud Certifications.

Enterprise Network Cloud Connectivity

While Cisco isn’t the cloud, we are what connects the cloud. We connect cloud providers (like AWS and Google) to their cloud customers, and those customers to their own customers, employees, vendors, and so on; the chain of connectivity continues on down, connecting every single user. That means seamless cloud connectivity, without compromising security.

The new Designing and Implementing Cloud Connectivity (ENCC 300-440) 1.0 specialization recently joined the CCNP Enterprise certification track as a new concentration exam, earning network enterprise professionals an Enterprise Cloud Connectivity Specialist certification. Getting Cisco Certified as an Enterprise Cloud Connectivity Specialist validates your skills in designing and implementing cloud connectivity, including architecture models, IPsec, SD-WAN, operation, and design.

The new ENCC exam is now available for testing. Pass this exam to earn the Cisco Certified Specialist – Enterprise Cloud Connectivity certification and fulfill the concentration exam requirement for the CCNP Enterprise certification.

Unlock Track 1 of the Designing and Implementing Cloud Connectivity | ENCC Learning Path in Cisco U. Free today.Get started >>

Secure Cloud Access

Uninterrupted, secure, frictionless digital experiences across multi-vendor, multi-vector, multicloud ecosystems. Secure Cloud Access focuses on the securing the network interconnectivity between public and private clouds; the manner in which enterprises provide users and devices access to applications and data.

The new Designing and Implementing Secure Cloud Access for Users and Endpoints v1.0 (SCAZT 300-740) v1.0 specialization ensures that everything you connect is done securely. SCAZT, joining the CCNP Security certification track’s roster of concentration exam options, delves into emerging topics like Zero Trust, Security Service Edge (SSE), and Extended Detection and Response (XDR).

The SCAZT exam is available now for testing. Pass this exam, and you will earn the Cisco Certified Specialist – Secure Cloud Access certification and satisfy the concentration exam requirement for the CCNP Security certification.

Unlock Track 1 of the Designing and Implementing Secure Cloud Access for Users and Endpoints | SCAZT Learning Path in Cisco U. Free today.Get started >>

Enterprise Network Assurance

End-to-end visibility, proactive monitoring, and automated solutions—whether you own the network 0r not. That’s the power of Network Assurance. Earning the new Cisco Certified Specialist – Enterprise Network Assurance means that you have the ability to understand, monitor, and diagnose network issues across complex multicloud network architecture.

The backbone of this new CCNP Enteprise concentration goes beyond the ability to survive in a multicloud network environment: It shows the world that you have the power to harness the full potential of powerhouse solutions like ThousandEyes, Catalyst Center, AppDynamics, and Catalyst SD-WAN.

Discover how you can elevate your tech career with Cisco Learning and Certifications, located in The Hub.

Drop-in for Cisco U. Theatre sessions.
Test-drive Cisco U. and explore new tutorials and Learning Paths for SD-WAN, ENCC, SCAZT, and much, much more.
Kick back, relax, and connect with your peers in the Cisco Certifications Lounge.
Check out the latest features in Cisco Modeling Labs (CML) in a demo.
Chat with our experts about the latest certification updates and learning offers—like Cisco Training Bootcamps.
Ask us how you can save on Cisco learning products during Cisco Live Amsterdam.

Meet Cisco U. at Cisco Live Amsterdam

Tech learning, shaped to you. Cisco U. isn’t just a learning tool. It’s a tech learning experience built around you. Personalized guidance, based on your existing knowledge, interests, and tech career goals. Pre-skills assessments, used to tailor your tech learning plan to address knowledge gaps.

Help us make your Cisco U. experience exceptional by sharing your feedback. Take survey >>

Swing by Learning & Certifications space in The Hub to take Cisco U. for a test drive—or better yet, bring along a member of your team!

Join our experts in the Cisco U. Theatre

Drop in and grab a seat in the Cisco U. Theatre to hear 30-minute sessions on topics like automation, Meraki, SD-WAN, Wireshark, and more. Of course, you are welcome to add Cisco U. Theatre sessions to your scheduler. However, registration is not required.

Learn more about our new Cisco Multicloud Certifications in the Cisco U. Theatre:

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Can’t make it? Watch the live stream on our YouTube channel. Subscribe now

Get Cisco Certified at Cisco Live Amsterdam

Schedule your certification exam at the Testing Center and test onsite in Amsterdam for 50% off! (Book your exam as soon as you can. Space is limited!)

The ENCC and SCAZT exams, part of our new Multicloud Specialist Certifications, are now available for testing. Take advantage of the chance to save on your exam this week—it’s a great way to validate your skills, get recertified, and create a memory you won’t forget—all for less.

Even if you just want to preview the exam or go through a test-run, you never know: you just might become one of the first to become a Cisco Certified Specialist in Multicloud technologies. Before you take on the challenge, visit Cisco Multicloud Certifications to learn more and dive into the exam topics. You can also download the exam topics for all of our Cisco certification exams on the Cisco Learning Network.

If you are actively Cisco Certified, you can reset your recertification deadline another three years by passing exams at the same level—or higher. Here’s a breakdown of how it works: View Cisco Recertification Policy

Learn and Earn Continuing Education (CE) Credits

Cisco Live offers CE credits for eligible Cisco Live technical sessions, including:

Technical Breakouts (BRK): Learn about highly technical topics on a specific Cisco solution, product, or technology.
DevNet Workshops (DEWKS): Explore the newest Cisco API platforms.
Instructor-led Labs (LTR): Get hands-on experience with pre-designed scenarios.
Technical Seminars (TEC): Listen to an expert-led seminar on Cisco technology.

Visit Cisco Continuing Education to find out how many CE credits you can earn. Then, make sure you register for CE-eligible sessions before you attend.

Highlighted sessions (eligible for CE credits!)

Monday, February 5, 2024

2:15 PM – 6:45 PM CET | Session Room D404DevNet Expert Techtorial – TECCRT-3778
Joe Clarke, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco Systems, Inc.Distinguished SpeakerRamses Smeyes, Distinguished Engineer – Data Center, Cisco Systems, Inc.Distinguished SpeakerHank Preston, Principal Engineer, Cisco Systems, Inc.Distinguished Speaker

View session

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

11:45 AM – 1:15 PM CET | Session Room A15Multicloud Enablers in CCNP Certifications – BRKCRT-2679
Yusuf Bhaiji, Director, Global Certifications, Cisco Systems, IncDistinguished Speaker

View session

8:30 AM – 12:30 PM CET | Lab 4 – E107CCNP Enterprise Hands-On Troubleshooting v2.0 – LTRCRT-2002John Capobianco, Developer Advocate, Cisco Systems, Inc.Distinguished Speaker
Patrick Gargano, Lead Content Advocate, Cisco Systems, Inc.Distinguished Speaker

View session

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

1:45 PM – 3:15 PM CET | Session Room A8The All-Access Guide to Prep for Your CCNA – BRKCRT-1001
Bikram Gandhok, Exam Program Manager, Cisco Systems, Inc.

View session

Thursday, February 8, 2024

8:30 AM – 12:30 PM CET | Lab 3 – E105Building Python Applications for DevNet Professional and Expert Candidates – LTRCRT-3100
Hank Preston, Principal Engineer, Cisco Systems, Inc.Distinguished SpeakerAkhila Pumukuntla, Software Engineer, Cisco Systems, Inc.

View session

NEW: Earning Continuing Education credits is now a fully automated experience. All you need to do is sign log in to the CE portal and accept the terms and conditions of the Continuing Education User Agreement. Next, make sure you sign/badge in to your CE-eligible session at Cisco Live, and we’ll take care of the rest. Learn more

Capture the Flag (CTF) to earn even more CE credits

In addition to earning CE credits for attending qualifying Cisco Live learning and teaching sessions, you can now earn CE credits for completing Capture the Flag missions. Capture the Flag missions focus on specific Technology Tracks, including Enterprise Networking, Data Center and Cloud, Security, Meraki, and Collaboration.

These missions are a fun way to test your skills with real lab challenges utilizing a variety of Cisco solutions as you collaborate with your innovative peers. Visit The HUB to get started! Learn more

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