This year’s Cisco Live was virtual, given the current circumstances our world is in with the pandemic. Even though we couldn’t all travel and meet in person, Charles and I still enjoyed participating this year and wanted to share some of our highlights over the past couple of days. 

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One presentation I attended on the first day of Cisco Live was Chuck Robbins’ Keynote. During his presentation, he made some wonderful points, and identified 6 Strategic Objectives:

1. Secure, Agile Networks
2. Optimized Application Experiences
3. Future of Work
4. Internet for the Future
5. Capabilities at the Edge
6. End-to-End Security

Chuck also shared a powerful question to reflect on during his presentation: “What kind of future do you want to see?” 

The following day, I attended a great “A License to Design” session covering CCDE. Here were the big takeaways from this session:

• No implementation questions
• Think like a designer, not an engineer
• Extends your mindset & skillset
• New written & practical exams Nov. 2, 2021
• CCDEv3 practical exam will be moving to the same sites a the CCIE labs

I thoroughly enjoyed attending Cisco Live virtually this year and engaging with everyone online, but I also look forward to the day that we can all meet in person again.

Until next time, take care.

Kevin Wallace