Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) RBC Capital Markets Global Technology, Internet, Media and Telecommunications Conference November 20, 2024 11:20 AM ET
Company Participants
Scott Herren – Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Conference Call Participants
Matt Hedberg – RBC
Matt Hedberg
Please, I’ll sit over here. All right. I am, oh yes, I was looking forward to this conversation for a lot of reasons. Scott and I go way — in the way, way back — and that’s what I love about this business as you stick around long enough, and it’s a small world and you never know where friends are going to show up. And in this case, we’ve got friends at Cisco, multiple friends at Cisco now, including my good friend, Paul.
So yes, thanks for Scott for joining us. Scott Herren, CFO of Cisco; Sami, down here in IR in the front. I don’t know if there’s other people from…
Scott Herren
Yes. So Mark Patterson is our Chief Strategy Officer; and Derek Idemoto, who leads Corporate.
Question-and-Answer Session
Q – Matt Hedberg
Oh, nice. Thanks for coming, guys. Well, we’re going to try to keep this interactive. Towards the end, we’ll save time for some Q&A. So save up your questions now. We’ll prompt you when we get closer to that. But let’s talk — Scott and I were joking, like Cisco traditionally would be, as a software analyst, be a little outside of what I would look at, but increasingly, Cisco is for kind of a lot of obvious reasons, pivoting more towards software. It’s the growth engine of the business. It’s where all the innovation is. And if you look at the senior leadership, we had a bus tour in this summer to see you guys. And it’s like it’s incredible to see the software talent from a product perspective, from a president perspective, it’s really — it feels like a different company in a lot of regards?
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