We simply wrapped up a tremendous few days in Miami Beach at Cisco Partner Summit 2023, the place we had the chance to attach, study, and have a good time the entire superb issues our companions are doing to assist our mutual prospects obtain their enterprise transformation targets.
There had been so many moments final week that stood out to me, from spending time with different advertising and marketing leaders to the entire keynotes. Here are my key takeaways from Cisco Partner Summit 2023:
Marketing Velocity Executive Exchange
On Monday, November 6, I had the glory of internet hosting about 50 different advertising and marketing executives from our companions on the Marketing Velocity Executive Exchange. Not solely was it a good way to kick off Partner Summit, it was a wonderful alternative to study from each other, alternate greatest practices and insights, and be open and weak concerning the challenges and alternatives we’re all dealing with as advertising and marketing leaders right now.
Rodney Clark Announced As the New Partner Leader
While it’s bittersweet to say goodbye to Oliver Tuszik because the chief of Global Partner Routes to Market and Sales, it was extremely thrilling to have Rodney Clark introduced on November 6, as Senior Vice President, Partnerships and Small & Medium Business. Even extra thrilling was seeing Rodney launched to our companion group on major stage by Jeff Sharritts and Oliver throughout the Day 1 Global Insight Session, and having the chance to listen to from him and study extra about why he selected to hitch Cisco and his imaginative and prescient for transferring ahead.
Amazing One on Ones
Partner Summit is one in all my favourite occasions as a result of it provides me the prospect to fulfill and communicate with our companions. Over the course of the week, I had the chance to fulfill, study from, and alternate concepts with so a lot of our valued companions. Your suggestions is invaluable and vitally essential, and each single dialog and one on one has energized and impressed me.
Key Messages from Mainstage Global Insight Sessions
As common, the mainstage Global Insight Sessions from Cisco Partner Summit had been filled with inspiring messages, launches, bulletins, and photo-worthy moments. Chuck Robbins reiterated Cisco’s dedication to Powering an Inclusive Future for All and mirrored on the superb issues our Partnering for Purpose initiative has completed because it was launched ultimately yr’s Partner Summit. On Wednesday Jonathan Davidson dug into Cisco’s—and our companions’—dedication to sustainability, and Jeetu Patel highlighted how Cisco is main the best way on the subject of hybrid work with new Webex improvements.
Focus on SMB
So many instances over the course of the week I heard companions speaking about SMB and the way it’s a precedence for them. Cisco is absolutely dedicated to SMB, which was reiterated not solely throughout the Day 2 Global Insight Session chat between Jeff Sharrits, Andrew Sage, Alexandra Zagury, and Jose Van Dijk; but in addition throughout enterprise impression periods, conversations, one on ones, press and analyst periods, and extra.
I hope you all loved Cisco Partner Summit 2023 as a lot as I did, and I can’t wait to see you all subsequent yr at Cisco Partner Summit 2024.
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