Image Gallery: Cisco Partner Summit 2018

Another year, another partner conference – right? Not quite.

Cisco Partner Summit – with the theme “Leading Together” – the vendor presented strong messaging about its transition strategy from its hardware roots to software. The 2,000 partners in attendance got to meet some new additions to the Cisco family and heard from some old familiar ones. Others, like Wendy Bahr, former channel lead, were gone.

Oliver Tuszik, the company’s new senior vice president, global partner organization, made his event debut with partners, introducing himself and a strategic 12-month road map for partners.

Attendees also learned about a reworking of the company’s sales and marketing organization; a new go-to-market strategy including a significant and comprehensive customer experience (CX) strategy; and new campaign — The Bridge to Possible.

There were also new product introductions: an end-to-end, secure SD-WAN platform; new Catalyst 9000 switches; and the beefing up of Cisco’s collaboration portfolio.

There also were the Partner Hub for networking, the Ecosystem Showcase and Cisco demos.

Click through our gallery below for pictures and a recap.