Reading time: 4 - 6 minutes
Video Time: 38 minutes 05 seconds
Cisco Systems’ CTO Padmasree Warrior is among the most-respected female leaders in technology today. In this keynote, given in 2009 at a “Women In The Forefront Luncheon” sponsored by The Chicago Network, Padmasree speaks about the evolution of technology in our daily lives (with a particular focus on media and communication) and where it’s going in the future.
By listening to today’s LunchLearning.com episode, you’ll learn insight as to where Cisco feels the future of communication is, and how their R&D efforts might affect how we interact with one another in the next 10+years. I really enjoyed Padmasree’s engaging style, and she provides some great innovation fodder for technology newbies as well as those already in the business. She also tosses out a brief mention of Twitter (she is @Padmasree on Twitter) and emphasizes how companies need to enable these new collaboration tools entering the marketplace.
Make sure you stick around to the end of this one, she’s got some really great secrets to somewhat obvious lessons, but the application of these secrets are gems!
Great talk. Here are a few things you’ll learn in this presentation:
- How millennials are already impacting the evolution of the “second” internet and the workplace in general
- Asychronous vs. sysnchronous communication
- Virtualization and cloud computing
- Building/creating content to consume as a community (neat idea!) and interactive television
- How countries are skipping the “fixed” internet and going directly to mobile communication and computing
- Short mentions of some of science and technology’s trail-blazing women, including Ada Lovelace, credited as the world’s very first computer programmer.
- What women need to do to continue to blaze trails using today’s technology AND old technology (communities), as well as the increasing role of listening, mentoring and transparency in life
From Padmasree’s Cisco bio: “Under Warrior’s leadership, Motorola was awarded the 2004 National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States, the first time the company had received this honor. Recently, the Economic Times ranked her as the 11th Most Influential Global Indian, and the United States Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce recognized her with its prestigious Excellence Award.
Warrior is also a strong and vocal advocate for women and minorities in math, science and engineering. In 2007, she was inducted into the Women in Information Technology International Hall of Fame, and received the YWCA Metropolitan Chicago Outstanding Woman of Achievement Award. She has been recognized as a role model by many organizations, including the Girl Scouts Illinois Crossroads Council, Notre Dame Girls High School, the South Asian Women Leadership Forum and as a Science Spectrum Trailblazer. In 2001 she was one of six women nationwide selected to receive the “Women Elevating Science and Technology” award from Working Woman magazine.”
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