Keynotes

Charles H. Giancarlo, Senior Vice-President and Chief Development Officer at Cisco and President, Cisco-Linksys, LLC will open the keynote session at Cisco Networkers 2007.

The overall event will be hosted by Phil Smith, Head of Technology & Corporate Marketing, European Markets, Cisco.

On day two, Ray Hammond, Europe's Most Experienced Futurologist will take the stage. We are delighted to have him present at Cisco Networkers.

Charles H. Giancarlo
Senior Vice-President and Chief Development Officer, Cisco
President, Cisco-Linksys, LLC

A twelve-year veteran of Cisco, Chief Development Officer Charles Giancarlo is responsible for the overall strategy and execution of Cisco technology development. Under his leadership, more than 16,000 engineers are innovating in many different areas to advance communications technology. The eight technology groups under Giancarlo's direction include routing, switching, security, IP communications, wireless networking, storage networking and network management. Cisco technology teams are developing solutions for the enterprise, service provider, small and medium business, and consumer market segments.

In another significant role, Giancarlo is President of Cisco-Linksys, LLC, an independent division of Cisco providing wired and wireless products for the high growth consumer and SOHO networking market. Cisco-Linksys is the home networking leader, with revenues of close to $1 billion. Linksys is expanding its business internationally and among Service Providers, as well as continuing to build market share among the company's core users.

Giancarlo has co-chaired the Cisco Enterprise Business Council and also run the Cisco Service Provider Council, developing and executing Cisco's business strategies for these important customer segments.

Earlier at Cisco, Giancarlo ran the Commercial Line of Business, developing leading-edge high volume networking products and driving Cisco brand awareness among companies of all sizes. During his tenure, Cisco's stackable switching and access routing revenue and market share grew significantly and Cisco led the industry with award-winning wireless LAN and stackable Layer 3 Ethernet switch introductions.

Giancarlo's first assignment at Cisco was Vice President of Business Development, where he successfully developed Cisco's merger and acquisition strategy and practice. In this position he played an instrumental role in Cisco's first 18 acquisitions and 20 investments. He then moved on to become Senior Vice President of Global Alliances, building the organization responsible for developing an ecosystem of strategic alliances with companies such as IBM, Accenture, Microsoft and Sprint to enable the Internet industry worldwide.

Giancarlo came to Cisco through the acquisition of Kalpana, Inc., the pioneer in Ethernet switching, where he was Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development. He was also a cofounder and Vice President of Marketing for Adaptive Corporation, which developed the industry's first Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) product for the LAN market.

Previously, Giancarlo founded four companies in communications equipment, successfully selling two of them to larger companies. He was an early developer of both ATM and Switched Ethernet technologies which now represent a market exceeding $15 billion annually. He also holds multiple patents in the areas of ATM and voice technologies. In 2006, he was named to Network World's list of the "Top 50 Most Powerful People in Networking" for the third year in a row.

Giancarlo holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Brown University and the University of California at Berkeley, respectively, and an MBA from Harvard.

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Phil Smith
Head of Technology & Corporate Marketing, European Markets, Cisco.

Phil Smith is Head of Technology & Corporate Marketing for Cisco's European Markets. In this role he sits on the European board and is responsible for all marketing functions in Europe including technology corporate marketing, PR, analyst relations, market intelligence and segment based marketing. A key focus is the continued growth of Cisco's advanced technologies (a set of new markets and technology areas which Cisco are expanding into) many of which are approaching $1Bn businesses in their own right and are vital to the continued growth and success of Cisco.

Phil's previous role was Managing Director of BT Operations at Cisco Systems. The extremely extensive relationship between Cisco and BT grew significantly under his leadership where he drove sales, channel, and other partnering activities in the UK and world wide.

Phil joined Cisco Systems in 1994 in a technical consulting role, working with some of the company's largest customers, from banks through to service providers. He moved away from consulting to become the first technical director for Cisco in the UK where he was responsible for technical operations. In 1998 Phil was appointed Director of Business Development and Marketing, giving him responsibility for market development, commercial and technical strategy. The role covered a wide range of areas including marketing, partner programs and running emerging technology sales teams, as well as responsibility for areas as diverse as Corporate Social Responsibility, local acquisition and investment and government relations.

Phil has been a frequent public speaker on issues ranging from the Internet and e-business to corporate strategy, and until recently, was a regular spokesperson on the expert panel for the Sunday Times Enterprise Network feature. He is also a member of the Board of the Thames Valley Economic Partnership and a board member of Young Enterprise. With his vast experience in business and technology, Phil's strength lies in being able to humanise technology in order to provide customers with a clear understanding of how technology can improve their business.

Before joining Cisco, Phil spent nine years working in a senior architecture role for IBM, with responsibility for IBM's customer and internal networks. Previous to his role at IBM, he worked for Philips Electronics gaining experience in programming, network support and design and implementation.

Phil is a graduate of Glasgow University and currently lives in Stratford with his wife and four children. In his spare time, Phil enjoys playing the guitar.

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Ray Hammond
Europe's Most Experienced Futurologist

Ray Hammond is Europe's most experienced and most widely published futurologist. For over 25 years he has researched, written and spoken about how future trends will affect society and business. He is the author of 15 books which have been translated into 32 languages. He is a visiting lecturer at the City University Business School, London, a Fellow of ACE Lab, University of Nottingham and a Cont. Editor, University of Maryland, USA.

Before becoming a futurologist, Ray founded and led highly successful magazine publishing and advertising businesses in the UK, Europe and the USA before selling them advantageously. He is now a globally published novelist (Macmillan) whose four recent high-tech futuristic novels have won world-wide critical acclaim. His latest book "The Cloud" (published March 2006) is a dazzling vision of life set in the year 2065.

For the last 25 years he has written and spoken about the future.

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