SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) will host its 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders on Monday, December 9, 2024, beginning at 8:00 a.m. PST via audio webcast. Participants will include Cisco Chair and CEO Chuck Robbins.

What: 2024 Cisco Virtual Annual Meeting of Stockholders

When: Monday, December 9, 2024, 8:00 a.m. PST

Listen and Watch: A live audio (including closed captioning) webcast of the meeting with synchronized slides will be available online. Cisco stockholders of record as of October 10, 2024, can vote and ask questions online during the meeting. Visit www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/CSCO2024 to attend.

In partnership with Cisco, OneTen offers an inside look at how the employer's skills-first talent management approach promotes measurable business impact, organizational agility, and inclusion

NEW YORK, Nov. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- OneTen, a coalition of leading companies committed to unlocking career opportunities for talent without four-year degrees, today released, "Cisco's Skills-First Success: A Powerful Playbook for the Private Sector" – an in-depth study that examines Cisco's groundbreaking efforts to adopt a skills-first hiring approach, yielding impressive business results and a more inclusive and resilient workforce. 

SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Cisco today announced that it will host and/or participate in the following events with the financial community in December:

No new financial information will be discussed at these events

2024 UBS Global Technology and AI ConferenceTuesday, December 3, 20249:55 – 10:25 am PTCisco Speaker: Bill Gartner, SVP & GM Optical Systems and Optics Group

Second annual report shows the race to get AI right is on, with a critical focus on networking infrastructure

 News Summary:

Leaders feel the pressure; 98% report increased urgency to deliver on AI and 85% believe they have less than 18 months to act. Networks are not equipped to meet AI workloads; only 21% of companies report having the necessary GPUs to meet current and future AI demands.Only 13% say they are fully ready to capture AI's potential – down from 14% last year.

SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), the worldwide leader in networking and security, today announced the findings from the second annual AI Readiness Index. The report explores how prepared organizations are to invest in, deploy and use AI. Nearly eight thousand organizations took part in the report.

SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Cisco today announced that it will participate in the following event with the financial community. This session will be via webcast. Interested parties can register and view these events on Cisco's Investor Relations website at https://investor.cisco.com.

No new financial information will be discussed on this conference call.

Cisco at the 2024 RBC Capital Markets Global TMIT ConferenceNov 20, 20248:20 a.m. PT / 11:20 a.m. ET

SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- 

News Summary:

Broad-based acceleration in product orders reflecting normalizing demandProduct orders up 20% year over year; up 9% year over year excluding SplunkRevenue of $13.8 billion in Q1, at the high end of our guidance rangeStrong profitability:GAAP gross margin of 65.9% and non-GAAP gross margin of 69.3%, above our guidance rangeGAAP EPS of $0.68 and non-GAAP EPS of $0.91, above our guidance rangeQ1 FY 2025 Results:Revenue: $13.8 billionDecrease of 6% year over yearEarnings per Share: GAAP: $0.68; Non-GAAP: $0.91GAAP EPS decreased 24% year over yearNon-GAAP EPS decreased 18% year over yearQ2 FY 2025 Guidance:   Revenue: $13.75 billion to $13.95 billionEarnings per Share: GAAP: $0.51 to $0.56; Non-GAAP: $0.89 to $0.91FY 2025 Guidance:Revenue: $55.3 billion to $56.3 billionEarnings per Share: GAAP: $2.26 to $2.38; Non-GAAP: $3.60 to $3.66

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LTIMindtree will leverage Cisco Secure Access as its new security service edge (SSE) solution to protect its 80,000 hybrid workers with secure internet access, advanced zero trust network access and embedded AI.Extending its networking partnership with Cisco, LTIMindtree now offers next-generation SSE to its global clients via Cisco Secure Access.Clients can work jointly with both companies to adopt a broad set of cloud security functions in a single, easy-to-use dashboard with Cisco Secure Access.

A leap forward in wireless: AI-native, self-configuring and built for resilient, secure connections

News Summary:

Cisco introduces Wi-Fi 7 access points, with the intelligence, security and assurance of Cisco's advanced networking portfolio.New AI-native wireless is location-aware, instantly adapts to any environment and continuously optimizes—with the power of Cisco Spaces built in to create smart workplaces.Unified subscription and hardware give Cisco customers ultimate flexibility by offering a seamless wireless management experience across cloud, on-premises and hybrid networks.

Pioneering research into the risks and benefits of digital life to help society prepare for the AI-era and beyond

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Cisco and the OECD launch the Digital Well-being Hub to holistically study technology's impact on well-being and shape inclusive digital policies.The Hub explores the effects of digital transformation on people's well-being by crowdsourcing insights including life satisfaction, mental health, AI tools and ethics, digital skills, cyber safety, civic engagement, climate consciousness and social connections. It also presents visitors with OECD data across several well-being dimensions.The collaboration with the OECD is part of Cisco's Country Digital Acceleration program, a global co-innovation platform that is helping power inclusive communities and resilient economies.

New solutions with NVIDIA are highly adaptive and scalable for the evolving AI demands of enterprises

News Summary: 

Cisco introduces plug-and-play use case and industry-specific AI PODs, making it easier for partners to sell and customers to deploy AI infrastructureCompany also expands UCS portfolio with new AI server family for NVIDIA accelerated computingWith an upgraded portfolio, powered by new 800G switches, Cisco highlights strategy to accelerate enterprise AI adoption by offering open, scalable and simplified path to AI infrastructure