Cisco began as a love story. Two engineers at Stanford, working in separate buildings, built a way to stay connected. That same instinct, to make communication possible, reliable, and secure, continues to drive the company today.
In this episode of Tech-à-Tech, Chris Gow, Senior Director for EU Public Policy and Head of Cisco’s Brussels Office, explains how that founding spirit has evolved into a mission to strengthen the digital foundations on which Europe increasingly depends.
From the security of power grids in Ukraine to the next generation of AI data centres and a continent-wide push on digital skills, Cisco is helping Europe prepare for the challenges ahead. And those challenges are significant: according to Cisco’s latest AI Readiness Index, only 8% of European organizations feel fully ready for AI today.
What does it take to close that gap? This conversation sets out the scale of the challenge and what must happen next.