Cisco Podcast Network

Our best friend (and career coach) Sammy Brenner is back with a new role, a new language to learn, and approximately six months before she’s ready to teach any of it to us (her words).

Sammy and Kat share what it’s really like to start over in a new part of the business: drinking from the fire hose, rebuilding trust, and reminding yourself that you were hired for a reason, even when doubts creep in.

They also get into how to know when it’s time for a change, why networking should start long before you need a new job, and how to advocate for yourself without feeling like a professional kiss-up.

Sammy shares her best advice for building genuine relationships, creating an “About Me” deck, and approaching your first few months with equal parts curiosity and blind optimism. Meanwhile, Ian bravely attempts to lighten the mood with a story about his Chrome tabs and learns no one cares.

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In this episode Robin Olds interviews Tom Footitt, Cisco Senior Director of Product Management for Crosswork Assurance, about how AI — especially agentic systems and faster LLMs — is changing network traffic patterns and why observability and assurance are critical.

They discuss new KPIs like time-to-first-token and inter-token latency, passive behavioral analysis of encrypted traffic, predictive AIOps, and the importance of security, sovereignty, and performance for service providers offering AI services.

This episode explores how AI agents, network sensors, and cloud-managed Meraki solutions are transforming workplaces across industries—from stadiums and events to critical infrastructure.

Leaders share real-world use cases on security, hybrid work, real-time visibility, and practical deployments that balance automation with human oversight.

Across Cisco's partner ecosystem, AI adoption isn't new — it's already happening at scale. So how do partners turn that momentum into trusted, real-world outcomes for their customers? 

In this episode of Scaling AI in the Enterprise, we bring together an all-star partner panel featuring Trace3, Worldwide Technology (WWT), and Presidio to tackle the real challenges of scaling AI: the shift from dashboards to semantic layers, the discipline of clean data and governance, the balance between automation and human judgment, and why adoption is as much about culture and trust as it is about technology.  

Host: Emma Carpenter, SVP Recurring Revenue Acceleration, Cisco Customer Experience   

Guests:  

Josh Lindstrom, Sr. Director, Data and Analytics, Trace3  

Surbhi Kaul, VP CX Product Management, Cisco Customer Experience    

Kevin Corace, SVP Software and Services Lifecycle, Presidio   

Laura Kuehner, VP Customer Experience, WWT   

Learn more about Cisco Customer Experience; read our blogs and visit Cisco.com.

Deal registration isn’t paperwork. It’s partnership—and a powerful lever for growth.
In this episode of Shift Happens, Jeff Edwards is joined by Tim Coogan, Gary DePreta, and Raminder Mann, CEO of ANM, Cisco’s 2025 Security Partner of the Year, for a candid look at what happens when Cisco and partners stop competing with each other and start competing together.
From a $10M+ opportunity closed in under two weeks to $25M in competitive takeouts, hear how registering early creates the trust, investment and shared focus needed to win—and unlock what comes next: adoption, expansion and renewal.

Why listen?
🎯 See deal reg differently: It’s not about protecting a deal—it’s about creating a foundation for mutual investment and customer value.
💰 Hear the real-world impact: Get inside the deals where partnership helped turn stalled opportunities into wins and competitive takeouts into future growth.
🚀 Think beyond the PO: Discover why the biggest value may come after the deal, when Cisco and partners have the resources and trust to drive adoption, expansion and long-term success.

Because when you sell together, you don’t just win the deal—you build what comes next.
🎧 Tune in to the latest episode and let’s make shift happen. #CiscoShiftHappensPodcast