This document discusses managing your career in the context of new cloud technologies. It provides an agenda for the presentation covering topics like managing your career, the impact of software disruption, new cloud technologies, and a use case for transforming your career. It recommends developing your career through education, experience, and exposure. Specific techniques mentioned include getting certifications, attending conferences, taking on new work assignments, networking, and public speaking. New cloud technologies discussed include automation, orchestration, and software abstraction. The presentation encourages attendees to continue their education by attending demonstrations, labs, and sessions at Cisco Live to learn about cloud topics.

1. Managing Your Career
Ken Owens – CTO, Cloud Infrastructure Services
Rob Boetticher – Sr. Director, Cloud Architectures
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• Introduction
• Managing Your Career
• Software Disruption Impact on Your
Career
• New Technologies in the Cloud World
• Use Case of Transforming Career
• Conclusion and Q&A
Agenda
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You Own Your Career
• Careers can be a seemingly
random series of steps
• You may have to step back to step
forward
• Establish your goals
• And options (what if you don’t
achieve your first goal)
• Recognize and seize opportunities
• Seek help

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The Three Es of Career Development
Education
• Classwork
• Certifications
• Conferences
• Self-paced learning
• Reading
Experience
• Work assignments
• X-functional project
• Shadow
• Mentoring
Exposure
• Networking
• Speaking engagements
• “Interview” potential
employers
• Share work product
(open source)
• Project leadership

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Choosing the Right Path
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• Research the role
• Inspect Yourself
• Seek feedback
• Build sponsorship
• Build your peer network

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Make Four Lists
• What do you like to
do?
• What are you good
at?
Strengths Areas to Avoid Aspirations Future Roles
• What do you NOT
like to do?
• What makes you
procrastinate?
• What do you want
to do?
• What are your
goals, professional
and personal?
• What job would
you like to have?
• Do you know
someone whose
role you’d like to
have some day?

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CCNA Cloud Certification
! Fundamentals of Cloud
infrastructure and deployment
models
! Introduction to Cloud
administration and support
CCNP Cloud Certification
! Private and hybrid cloud
design, cloud security design
! Advanced Cloud infrastructure
! ACI and APIC automation
! Private and hybrid cloud IaaS
provisioning and management
Deep-Dive Product Training
Grow technical Cloud Admins,
retrain IT employees for Cloud
Extract the most out of
Cloud tools and technologies
Address talent gap for Cloud
Architects and Engineers
! UCS Director: Cloud and DC
infrastructure management
! Prime Service Catalog: Cloud
service portal
! Intercloud Fabric: Hybrid cloud

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Cloud Technology
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Software Disruption Impact on Your Career
Technology Shifts Will Transform Your Career
• Network
• Security
• Cloud
• Customer Journey
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Every Enterprise Is Becoming a Software Company
• What is the impact of Software Defined on your Career
" Organizational Scrum
" Transformational Areas of Opportunity
• Areas to Grow

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New Technologies in the Cloud World
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Technologies of Interest
• Systems Engineer Approach to Services
• Silos/domains to Systems/Services
• Automation
• Orchestration
• Software Abstraction
Areas to Grow Your Knowledge
• Training
• Classes
• Online

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Continue Your Education
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• Demos in the Cisco campus
• Walk-in Self-Paced Labs
• Table Topics
• Meet the Engineer 1:1 meetings
• Related sessions

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Experience Cloud @ Cisco Live
Attend other
cloud breakout
sessions, visit the
Cloud Booth in
the Cisco
Campus (World
of Solutions), and
in the DevNet
Zone

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Breakout
Session
Title Date and Time
PSOCLD-1006
Cisco Cloud Architecture on OpenStack
Rohit Agarwalla, Technical Lead, OpenStack
Tues, Jun 9, 2:30 -
3:30 PM – 23C
Upper Level
BRKCLD-2003
Building Hybrid Cloud Applications with
Intercloud Fabric, Ben Del Vento
Wed, Jun 10,
8:00-10:00 AM 7A
Upper Lvl
DEVNET-1109
Cisco Executive Panel: All about the Cloud
Cisco's Executives Lew Tucker, Faiyaz
Shahpurwala and Ken Owens discuss the
current and future opportunities around public,
private and hybrid clouds.
Wed, Jun 10, 9:30 -
10:30 AM
DevNet Theater
PSOCLD-1004
Cisco OpenStack® Private Cloud (Formerly
Metacloud) Niki Acosta, Marketing Manager
Wed, Jun 10,
9:30-10:30 AM –
28D Upper Level
BRKCLD-2001
Building Scalable and Highly Available
Enterprise Applications on Cisco Cloud
Services: Chandra Venkatapathy, Ken
Schroeder, Technical Staff, CSG
Wed, Jun 10,
1:00-3:00 PM 25C
Upper Level
Cisco Live 2015 Cloud Breakout Sessions
Breakout
Session
Title Date and Time
BRKCLD-1004
End-to-end Cloud Management: A holistic
approach for developing and managing the
platform and service offerings that transform
IT: Ben Del Vento
Wed, Jun 10,
3:30-5:00 PM 24C
Upper Lvl
BRKCLD-1002
Cloud Onboarding - Jeff Minson; Abhi Sing,
Technical Solutions Architects, CMS
Thurs, Jun 11,
8:00-9:30 AM, 30E
Upper Lvl
BRKCLD-1828
Designing Hybrid Cloud operations with
ServiceGrid and Intercloud Fabric
Ben Del Vento
Thurs, Jun 11,
8:00-9:30 AM 25C
Upper Lvl
BRKCLD-1003
A Practical Introduction to DevOps Practices
and Tools: Christopher Jackson, Vallard
Benincosa
Thurs, Jun 11,
1:00-2:30 PM 28C
Upper Lvl
LTRCLD-2011
Intercloud Fabric - Configuring and Deploying
Hybrid Cloud Solutions: Chris Martin

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Cloud @ DevNet Sessions
Theater
Classroom

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