Article: Cisco Blog
The Power of BOLD: Innovative Partnerships
by Sanjeev Mervana
Where ideas
become the
future
Welcome to Cisco’s Emerging Technologies and Incubation group. By turning Bold Bets into reality, we’re changing what’s possible in application networking, application security, and more.
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About the conference
We just completed KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference. Revisit the sessions to learn what the cloud native transformation has in store for your business, your challenges, and your goals.
Keynote by Vijoy Pandey: APIs, the Universe, and Everything
In this talk, we introduced APIClarity, a new open source project supported by Cisco that provides observability across all API calls made from a cloud native application.
Current Ventures
Ventures
Born as Bold Bets, our ventures are about addressing the challenges of the next decade and beyond.
Application Networking
AppNet enables discovery of, development on, and connection between APIs and services from multiple API providers in a zero-trust environment.
Get more informationApplication Security
For developers, AppSec provides answers to emerging security threats, and visibility to seamlessly meet compliance requirements.
Get more informationMAQY
Symphony Cerebrum
Symphony Cerebrum
Bridging the business, AI/ML, and data science worlds
Join our design partner communityGreat Bear
Agile Supply Chain
Agile Supply Chain
Dealing with supply chain exceptions in a seamless manner
Join our design partner communityAvenues of Innovation
Cisco Innovation Labs
Cisco Innovation Labs are hyperlocal teams that partner with customers, startups and universities to fuel the venture pipeline.
Learn moreDesign Partner Portal
Through our Design Partner Portal, we partner with external collaborators to explore solutions to their pain points and to test out our Bold Bet solutions.
Learn moreResearch
Cisco Research connects Cisco engineers with world-class academic researchers to explore strategically promising technologies.
Explore publicationsVentures
Our venture teams develop our Bold Bets from inception through go-to-market before handing off a full-fledged product to our business groups.
Learn moreOur Bold Bets Process
1. Ideate
Our Bold Bets portal gathers ideas from Cisco employees, Cisco partners, VC communities, and entrepreneurs.
2. Validate
We build a demo and validate it with potential customers.
3. Scope
We look at market needs and customer feedback to define a minimal viable product.
4. Incubate
We build, test, and iterate based on MVP design partner feedback, to establish go-to-market viability.
5. Scale
After confirming product-market fit, the project is transferred to a business group for productization and go-to-market.
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Cisco Research
Research
Cisco Research connects Cisco engineers with world-class academic researchers to explore strategically promising technologies.
View our publicationsSystems + networking
Networking is our core. We’re deeply interested in all related topics, as well as adjacencies that drive change in the way networks need to operate.
Security + privacy
We’re investigating new technologies to increase trust and address a broad range of the Internet’s security & privacy challenges.
Artificial intelligence
We explore machine learning, deep learning and algorithms to enrich and optimize the experience of our products and solutions.
Future of work
We’re addressing challenges in human-computer interaction, and investigating technologies and designs that will augment the collaborative experience for all.
Tech for healthcare
In this post-pandemic world, there’s a greater need for remote monitoring, diagnosis, and other forms of administering healthcare to patients that cannot be reached physically easily.
Quantum information
Quantum physics is making a paradigm shift in information processing: computing, communication, cryptography, and sensing.
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