Cisco Innovation Centers

Cisco Co-Innovation Center:
IDEALondon

Executive Sponsor

Jeff Sharritts, SVP, Americas

Key Staff Members

Nick Chrissos, Regional Director, EMEAR
Maria Hernandez, UKI Innovation Lead
Edward Beduh-Kumih, IDEALondon manager
Peter Shearman, Co-Innovation Lead
Myrofora Ioannidou, Demonstrations Lead
Julie O’Brien, Innovation Operations, EMEAR

Executive Summary

IDEALondon, located in London’s Tech City, an innovation ‘hot-house’ established by UCL (University College London) and partners Cisco and EDF Energy as the Innovation and Digital Enterprise Alliance (IDEA).

IDEALondon aims to support the growth of technology companies, in particular the most promising start-ups which have come to characterize the area known as Tech City. The facility hosts around 25 companies which will collectively employ around 100 people in TechCity, in addition to staff working in other locations across the country.

The facility – a unique alliance between a world-leading research institution, a world- class information technology provider and an international energy company – delivers on the partners’ commitments to support Tech City. It represents over £3.5m of investment by the three partners over the first three years of operation, with additional investment in individual businesses. Unlike typical business incubators and accelerators, IDEALondon supports companies who will be championed by one of the key partners. IDEA provides services to support and grow start-ups in the digital and media sectors which are clustered in the Shoreditch area, with each partner bringing their own strengths, existing relationships and expertise to the project.

Focus Verticals

Retail
Health
Energy
Transportation
Education
Manufacturing

Ecosystem Partners & Key Customers

Cisco
UCL
EDF

Key Wins & Reference Projects

Multiple successful startups: Wittos, Purple WiFi, Sparkl
SMLL: CAV Testbed in London
E-Flex: Energy market creation
5G Rural First: 5G deployment in Rural areas
Connected Together: Digital Services availability in deprived areas

Watch IDEALondon Power Innovation

Cisco Co-Innovation Center:
Mi-IDEA

Executive Sponsor

Jeff Sharritts, SVP, Americas

Key Staff Members

Nick Chrissos, Regional Director, EMEAR
Maria Hernandez, UKI Innovation Lead
Kate Theodorakopoulou, Mi-IDEA manager
Peter Shearman, Co-Innovation Lead
Myrofora Ioannidou, Demonstrations Lead
Julie O’Brien, Innovation Operations, EMEAR

Executive Summary

Mi-IDEA is a post-accelerator centre for #startups & #entrepreneurs to grow and expand their business in Manchester.

A philosophy of empowerment and enablement informs our carefully crafted Post-Accelerator programme. All the benefits of collaboration in a co-working space are enhanced by a tailored training programme that will address your business needs. Run by a compelling partnership between a global leader in IT and the UK’s largest science park operator with long-established ties into the North West’s science and technology fields, Mi-IDEA delivers a unique champion model where you are actively adopted and encouraged by one partner, but supported by both. As you drive for differentiation and navigate the path to secure funding, your dedicated mentors will bring with them invaluable tailored insights, contacts and considered opportunities, supporting your growth in confidence, size and capability.

Neither an accelerator nor a co-working space, Mi-IDEA runs a unique model where you are actively adopted on your startup journey as you develop your product, secure funding, acquire new customers and grow as a business.

Focus Verticals

Smart + Connected Cities
Digital Health
Energy
Transportation IoT

Ecosystem Partners & Key Customers

Cisco
MSP (Manchester Science Partnerships)

Key Solutions & Reference Projects

Cityverve: Smart City Demonstrator in Manchester
CitySpire: Transportation on Demand based on AI
CropDoc: Agriculture Technology

Cisco Co-Innovation Center:
Sydney

Executive Sponsor

Miyuki Suzuki, SVP, APJC
Ken Boal, VP, ANZ
Kevin Bloch, CTO, ANZ

Key Staff Members

Tom Goerke, ANZ Innovation Lead
Shwetha Srinivasan, Manager, ANZ
Stu Breslin, Program Manager, ANZ
John Judge, System Engineer, ANZ
Paul Vavich, Systems Engineer, ANZ

Executive Summary

Innovation Central Sydney is an industry and research collaboration Centre led by Cisco with partners Department of Primary Industries (DPI), UNSW, NSW Farmers and Data61.

The Centre co-innovates with end customers who have big expensive problems they can’t solve with traditional technology. We do this with the use of Design Thinking workshops, rapid proto typing and agile scrum delivery.

Focus Verticals

Transportation
5G
Smart Cities
Smart Agriculture

Ecosystem Partner & Key Customers

NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI)
UNSW
NSW Farmers
Data61

Key Solutions & Reference Projects

Farm Decision Platform – FDP
Mobility as a Service – MaaS

Cisco Co-Innovation Center:
Perth

Executive Sponsor

Miyuki Suzuki, SVP, APJC
Ken Boal, VP, ANZ
Kevin Bloch, CTO, ANZ

Key Staff Members

Tom Goerke, ANZ Innovation Lead
Bradley Holding, Senior Solution Engineer, ANZ
Nathan Jombwe, Solution Engineer, ANZ

Executive Summary

Innovation Central Perth is an industry and research collaboration Center led by Cisco with partners Woodside Energy, Curtin University & Data61.

The center co-innovates with government agencies, universities, customers and other industry experts to determine how to best utilize technology and research to achieve efficiencies and create new opportunities.

Key Focus Areas

Energy/ Oil & Gas
Transportation
Smart Cities

Ecosystem Partners & Key Customers

Woodside Energy
Curtin University
CSIRO’s Data61

Key Solutions & Reference Projects

Woodside Plant of the Future
Square Kilometre Array (SKA)
Smart Campus

Cisco Co-Innovation Center:
Toronto

Executive Sponsor

Jeff Sharritts, SVP, Americas
Rola Dagher, Vice President, Cisco Canada Sales

Staff Members

Wayne Cuervo, Business Lead
Justin Cohen, Innovation Engineer
Telma Fletcher, Project Manager
Felix Kaechele, Software Engineer

Executive Summary

Cisco Toronto Innovation Center is a hub for “Art of the Possible” discussion, technology and industry thought leadership, and proof of concept co-innovation to address customer, partner, and industry challenges all while fostering Canadian-based innovation.

The Center works with start-ups, established technology companies, government agencies and entire industries to explore what is possible with Cisco technology to drive business outcomes. At the Toronto Innovation Center, our goal is to help businesses experiment, test, and co-innovate solutions to solve real-world business challenges.

With access to our global networks of partners, researchers, and subject matter experts, we foster collaboration and empower organizations of all shapes and sizes to bring concepts to reality. From ideation and prototypes to go-to-market strategies.

Focus Verticals

Top Priorities:

Digital Buildings
Retail
Education
Healthcare
Smart Cities

Key Wins & Reference Projects

Oxford Properties Group
Solution Co-Innovation with Sensible Building Science
AI Using Computer ision

URLs

www.cisco.com/web/CA/about/torontoioe/index.html

Take a Look at Innovation in Toronto

Cisco Co-Innovation Center:
MEA IXC

Executive Sponsor

David Meads, VP of Middle East & Africa

Key Staff Members

Osama Alzoubi, CTO Middle East & Africa
Yaman Hakmi, Digital Innovation Architect
Eman Arabyat, Digital Innovation Engineer
Eman Altamimi, Digital Innovation Engineer
Haya Alzeer, Digital Innovation Engineer
Safiya Al-Badaai, Digital Innovation Engineer

Executive Summary

MEA IXC is the Middle East's and Africa's Innovation hub that reflects the latest advancement in Digitization and IT Solutions which provides:

Unique Individual experience for visitors through a tailored journey that reflects the relevant solutions and demos to their environment.
Industry Digitization by demoing the latest digital solution in IoT, Security, collaboration, Data Centre and Enterprise technologies
Incubation and programmability enablement through the R&D Facility, ThingQbator and DevNet Express Hub

Focus Verticals

Next-Gen Healthcare
Digital Education Platform
Intelligent Retail Branch
Hospitality
Digital Workplace
Banking of the future
Government Services
Connected Transportation

Ecosystem Partners & Key Customers

Customers

Alshaya
BMCEE Bank of Africa
Boeing
Aramex
King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre
Technical and Vocational Training Corporation
Etisalat
Atlantico
AI-Futtaim
Enppi
Noor Bank
Ministry of Defense
APTEC
DP World

Key Solutions & Reference Projects

Ava Robotics, integrated Cisco's Telepreacense and Webex with iRobot from AVA robotic.
Agreefy Application, integrated Cisco's Meraki and Wireless solutions with Agreefy's application.
ThingQbator, idea incubation

Cisco Co-Innovation Center:
openBerlin

Executive Sponsor

Uwe Peter, VP Germany

Key Staff Members

Alexandra Hils, Head of Innovation
Andre Diener, Technical Lead
Marwin Kunz, Program Manager
Wasim Aboalola, Software Engineer

Executive Summary

Driving success with co-innovation. Digitization is changing markets faster than ever before: Only companies who constantly reinvent themselves will have long-term success. But designing and driving innovation today is anything but easy. In the age of the Internet of Things, it is important to remain on top of comprehensive networking and the immense amounts of data resulting from it. In addition, the variety of possible applications and the technological complexity demand broad expertise. A single company alone is practically unable to do this.

In openBerlin we initiate and execute co-innovation projects by bringing customers and our partner ecosystem together. Based on IoT solutions we are creating innovations and new ideas.

Focus Verticals

Manufacturing
City
Building

Key Solutions & Reference Projects

Kinexon RTLS Solution based on Ultra Wideband
Smart City live installation and living lab
Manufacturing live showcase
Cyber Security in action
Smart Building – transform legacy systems into a digital experience

Step Inside the openBerlin Innovation Center

Cisco Co-Innovation Center:
Rio de Janeiro

Executive Sponsor

Jeff Sharritts, SVP Americas
Jordi Botifoll, SVP LatAm Theatre

Key Staff Members

Eugenio Pimenta, Business Lead, Brazil Transformation
Ana Lucia de Faria, Solutions Architect
Joao Peixoto, Solutions Architect
Edson Barbosa, Solutions Architect

Executive Summary

With state-of-the-art lab, data center, partner incubation, and collaboration rooms, as well as a business model focused on accelerating and creating transformational opportunities and on making Cisco a catalyst of innovation in the region, the Cisco Innovation Center Rio de Janeiro helps local and global organizations improve business outcomes using Cisco technologies. As an innovation center for customers, partners, startups, universities, and open communities, we're doing this in three ways:

Developing transformational opportunities by directly engaging with customers
Engaging in rapid solution and product prototyping along with interested local partners
Developing and integrating solutions leveraging DevNet platform
Creating and nurturing an ecosystem of partners and developers to improve Cisco market relevance
Demonstrating solutions applied to multiple verticals to solve business and public sector challenges

Focus Verticals

Health
Education
Smart Grid
Manufacturing
Retail
Smart+Connected Communities

Key Solutions & Reference Projects

Belo Horizonte City Smart Public Lighting (largest deployment in Brazil)
Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 (CECA - Cisco Events Correlation and Analytics platform)
Multivix College (energy management solution)

Transforming Brazil into a Digitized Country

Cisco Co-Innovation Center:
Barcelona

Executive Sponsor

Santiago Solanas, Vice President, France and Southern Europe

Key Staff Members

Xavier Azemar, Head of Barcelona Co-Innovation Center

Executive Summary

Driving success with co-innovation — In the digital world, innovators are redefining the landscape of business. Not by incrementally improving products already in the market, but by envisioning entirely new ideas and bringing them to life. That's the commitment of Cisco’s Barcelona Co-Innovation Center. At the heart of our strategy is identifying key disruptions and transforming them into sustainable opportunities. We know that no single company can do it alone. That's why the Barcelona Co-Innovation Center collaborates closely with regional and global customers, partners, governments, startups, academia, accelerators and developers to imagine and implement breakthroughs that deliver new business models, value propositions, solutions, and services.

Focus Verticals

Mobility
Transportation
Retail
Manufacturing
Healthcare
Smart Cities / Fog Computing
IoT

Ecosystem Partners & Key Customers

Barcelona Supercomputing Center
i2CAT
Barcelona City Council
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Key Solutions & Reference Projects

Barcelona Fog Computing

Fog Computing Makes Barcelona a Smart City

Cisco Co-Innovation Center:
PIRL

Executive Sponsor

David Goeckeler
Guillaume Sauvage de Saint Marc, Paris Innovation & Research Lab Director

Key Staff Members

Ghislain Bourgin, Paris Co-Innovation Center Lead
Gaetan Feige, Co-Innovation Manager
Carole Reynaud, Business Operations Manager
Thierry Gruszka, Senior Technology Manager
Olivier Maina Dama, Software Engineer
Nathalie Saintuma, Marketing Manager

Executive Summary

Opened in 2015, Cisco’s Paris Innovation and Research Lab (PIRL) powers France’s digitization journey in partnership with government. By building sustainable relationships with key industry leaders, PIRL acts as a powerful catalyst for innovation. The center fosters a vibrant ecosystem of technology experts co-developing groundbreaking solutions to solve strategic challenges.

From Smart Cities to internet protocols, the innovation center leverages programmable and collaborative tools to develop projects such as intelligent parking services, sensor fusion for Smart Cities, indoor location mapping, in-store shoppers’ self-checkout, virtual security gates, artificial intelligence, predictive maintenance, big data and team collaboration.

PIRL also offers an immersive demo lab – a room equipped with a state-of-the-art Telepresence screen, a floor-to-ceiling interactive video wall and a custom-built surround sound system. It allows innovators around the world to collaborate seamlessly and virtually on their projects.

Focus Verticals

Cybersecurity

Ecosystem Partners & Key Customers

Co-Innovation with fellow large corporations & public institutions
- Valeo
- Bouygues Construction
Startups & Entrepreneurship
- BigUpForStartUp
- Paris Region Entreprises
- Technion, Institute of Technology
Academic & Research Chairs
- Ecole Polytechnique
- Telecom ParisTech
- CESI
- SciencesPo
- Inria
South Region (French Riviera)
- Wilco
- Systematic
- Club des Directeurs de l’innovation

Key Solutions & Reference Projects

Place de la Nation
Valet Cyber Parking
Port of Le Havre Digitization
Virtual Security Gate
Cisco Intelligent Edge Video Analytics
Connected Worker – eXpert on demand

The Paris Innovation Center Re-Invents the Internet of Things

Cisco Co-Innovation Center:
Singapore

Executive Sponsor

Miyuki Suzuki, SVP, APJC
Naveen Menon, VP, ASEAN
Bee Kheng Tay, MD, SG

Key Staff Members

Michael Maltese, Innovation Director, APJC
Kok-Keong Lee, CTO, ASEAN
Choon Hon Goh, Sr Tech Lead, SG Co-Innovation Center

Executive Summary

The Singapore Co-Innovation Center launched in 2019, with support from the Singapore Government Economic Development Board.

Key Focus Areas

Internet of Things (IoT)
Cybersecurity
Blockchain
5G

Cisco Co-Innovation Center:
Italy: Digitaliani Program

Executive sponsor

Agostino Santoni

Key staff members

Enrico Mercadante, Leader Innovation Center Italy
Anna Testa, Sales Specialist Innovation
Cristian Perissinotto, Technical Solution Architect
Ilaria Sanvito, Digitization Innovation Marketing Manager

Executive summary

With Digitaliani Program (Country Digitization Acceleration program) Cisco Italy has started a fantastic adventure to create a network of people and locations where we could support and leverage the startups, the developers and the whole innovation ecosystem in Italy.

The Exchange is now driving Innovation and Digital Transformation with our customers as well as creating a solid digital skills based in our Country through our investments in developers, in education and research.

Focus verticals

Industry 4.0
Retail
Cyber Security
Smart City
Fog Computing
Energy Utilities
Manufacturing

Ecosystem Partners & Key Customers

Key Ecosystem Partners: Alleantia, Cloud4wi, Xensify, H-farm, Talent Garden, TIM #Wcap, Nanabianca, GSNET Italia, Swascan, Sofia Lock, Codemotion
Traditional Co-Innovation Partners: Italtel, Vargroup, VEM, Maticmind, Collabora
Key Customers: LaMarzocco, Paglieri, Brico, Poste Italiane , Marcegaglia, Intesa SanPaolo, Talent Garden, Leonardo, Dallara, Prada, Ferrovie dello Stato, Italtel, Vargroup, VEM, Maticmind

Key Solutions & Reference Projects

Alleantia

loud4Wic

Xensify

Cisco Co-Innovation Center:
Istanbul

Executive Sponsor

John L. Kern, SVP Supply Chain

Key Staff Members

Emre Ozbek, Business Lead
Alican Zerey, Business Development Manager
Ceyda Kasimoglu, Project Manager
Onur Evranos, Hardware Engineer
Verda Emiroglu, Consultant

Executive Summary

Cisco Innovation Center Istanbul is a joint investment between Global Supply Chain, Turkey Sales and CSIG, located right in the heart of the Turkish Innovation Ecosystem in Istanbul, at Istanbul Technical University (ITU) Teknopark facilities, housing over 250 innovation-oriented companies employing over 6,500 professionals.

Cisco Innovation Center Istanbul operates a co-innovation model, where the first leg is to focus on the Customer’s business problems, requirements and innovation vision and deliver appropriate solutions collaborating with startups, solution and channel partners and internal resources.

Then, the Center will look to play a substantial role in development of these solutions into globally marketable offerings through Cisco’s own Solutions Marketplace, contributing to the success of the solution partner.

Focus Verticals

Transportation
Logistics
Manufacturing
Energy

Ecosystem Partners & Key Customers

Istanbul Technical University and Istanbul ARI Teknopark Companies
Dogus Technology
Arkas Logistics

Key Solutions & Reference Projects

Energy Management Platform with Reengen
Location Services with Borda
Video Analytics with Vispera

Cisco Co-Innovation Center:
Tokyo

Executive Sponsors

Dave West, VP, Japan
Wayoh Suzuki, Chairman, Cisco Systems G.K.
Miyuki Suzuki, SVP, APJC

Key Staff Members

Toshihiro Imai, Manager, Japan Co-Innovation Center

Executive Summary

The Tokyo Co-innovation Center emerged from Cisco’s IoT Incubation Lab, which the company launched in Japan as a strategic initiative in 2012. Fittingly, Tokyo is one of the technology leaders of the world, with an established foundation for innovation and digital transformation across a range of industries. Co-innovation Center Tokyo complements these regional attributes, serving as an innovation platform to export local success and solutions to the global market. Co-innovation Center Tokyo focuses on solution co-innovation and ecosystem development to engage with customers to solve their business challenges. Together with its ecosystem, Cisco provides access to technology expertise, development equipment, investment funds, joint marketing and rapid prototyping.

Key Focus Areas

5G
Smart Factories
Service Providers
Automation

Key Solutions & Reference Projects

Kyoto Smart City
Manhole Monitoring Solution
The IIC Factory Operations Visibility & Intelligence
Asset Location Management Solution