Cisco Canada’s Innovation Centre strategy with Wayne Cuervo [Podcast]

Wayne Cuervo, head of Cisco’s Toronto innovation centre

Cisco’s network of Innovation Centres may be one of its best-kept secrets for its channel partners. In locations around the world — including at Cisco Canada headquarters in downtown Toronto — the networking giant works with ISVs and other solution partners to craft cutting edge new ideas to address the digital transformation agendas of today and tomorrow in a variety of industries.

In this edition of the ChannelBuzz.ca Podcast, we get in depth with Wayne Cuervo, the man who heads up the Toronto Innovation Centre.

We discuss:

the history of the Innovation Centre network at Cisco;
how the Innovation Centres work;
with whom the Centres crafts its solutions offerings;
some examples of the current offerings being shown off at the Toronto Innovation Centre around digital campus for higher learning.
how the Innovation Centres connect Cisco ISV and other solution partners with its channel community;
how Cisco channel partners who are crafting their own intellectual property for repeatable solutions can get a boost from the Innovation Centres; and
what’s coming up next for the Toronto Innovation Centre.

All that and more in this edition of the ChannelBuzz.ca Podcast.