Cisco Global Advocate Awards 2024
Join us as we celebrate excellence in customer advocacy and innovation.
About the awards
The Cisco Global Advocate Awards celebrates Cisco's passionate and innovative customer advocates who go above and beyond in demonstrating thought leadership and supporting Cisco through success stories, speaking engagements, product reviews, and more.
We're planning two exclusive events that will coincide with Cisco Live conferences in Amsterdam and Las Vegas in 2024. We hope you'll join us as we recognize our customer advocates by region for actively supporting Cisco. You won't want to miss it.
Cisco Global Advocate Awards
EMEA Shortlisted Candidates 2024
| Award Name | Customer Advocate Name | Company |
| Hybrid Work Hero | André Lienhard | SICK AG |
| Stevie Doogan | Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service | |
| Unified Experiences Trailblazer | Markus Moses | Ravensburger |
| Dr. Helmut Leopold | Enso eCommerce GmbH | |
| Ryan Evans | Kings College University Hospital, NHS | |
| Prof. Dr. M. Farshad, MPH, FACS | Balgrist University Hospital | |
| Mohamed Alhenawy | BT-Group & CTELECOMS | |
| Reimagine Applications Visionary | Dr. Tobias Klug | Landeshauptstadt München |
| Andrea Moneta | Pirelli | |
| Tim Davies | Coca Cola Europacific Partners | |
| Cybersecurity Defender of the Year | Giulia Moschini | Leroy Merlin Italy |
| Jeremy Couture | Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Committee | |
| Magnus Jägevall | Volvo Cars | |
| Stuart Perkins | Vodafone | |
| Sustainability Changemaker Award | Rainer Karcher | Allianz Technology |
| Simon Billington | Wrexham Country Borough Council | |
| Vladimir Ester | ClusterPower | |
| Simon Watkins | Prosperity 24/7 | |
| Industry Excellence Award | AUDI IT and the EC4P Team | Audi |
| Matthias Morath | Liebherr | |
| René Niedermowe & Martin Schirrmacher | Airbus | |
| CX Ambassador of the Year | John Pell | ServiceNow |
| Damian Erni | Swisscom | |
| Ricardo Pinheiro | IKEA Industry | |
| Magnus Fisch | Region Kalmar län | |
| Zeljko Smetko | Commerzbank | |
| Christophe Gros | Eduservices | |
| EMEA Customer Advocate of the Year | Damian Erni | Swisscom |
| Matt Dugdale | NHS | |
| Sandra Huber | Adidas |
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EMEA winners 2024
Americas winners 2023
Congratulations to our winners in the Americas region, and to all of our short-listed nominees.
We applaud each of you for your passion, innovation, and support for Cisco’s advocacy initiatives.
Americas Customer Advocate of the Year
Jeremy Shupick
Network Administrator
Wyoming Machinery Company
Americas Executive Advocate of the Year
Shival Seth
Chief Technology Officer
Grand River Hospital
Industry Excellence Award
J.D. Whitlock
Chief Information Officer
Dayton Children’s Hospital
Excellence in Storytelling
Bryan Laszlo
Manager, Application Performance
Carhartt
CX Ambassador of the Year
Laurence Persing
Unified Communications Team Lead
Stifel Nicolaus
Hybrid Work Hero
Joshua Baever
Senior Systems Reliability Engineer
T-Mobile
Transformation Trailblazer
Daniel Kelcher
Solutions Architect
IP Fabric
Reimagine Applications Visionary
Brad Welsh
Program Manager - APM
Office of Technology, State of Indiana
Innovation Champion
Amit Gumber
Senior Consultant
HCL America
Cybersecurity Defender of the Year
Dr. Christopher Mitchell
Chief Information Officer
City of Houston
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“What an event. I’m humbled to have been awarded the EMEA Customer Advocate of the Year award at the Cisco Global Advocate Awards 2023. Congratulations to all winners and nominees.”
Joacim Wicander, Senior Data Center Engineer, Conscia Sweden AB
