Cisco companions drive innovation by means of Function

The revolutionary methods Cisco and our companions are coming collectively to energy an inclusive future for all had been on full show throughout this years’ Associate Summit.

Final yr, we introduced Partnering for Function, a brand new platform designed to make it straightforward for companions to leverage the work Cisco and our companions are doing to positively affect communities all over the world and the planet.

This yr, we had been excited to introduce a brand new Partnering for Function class in our sixth annual world Associate Innovation Problem. The brand new class awards $25K (USD) prizes to companions that greatest showcase how they’re integrating innovation with objective inside 4 areas of focus:

Digital Inclusion
Worker Expertise and Financial Empowerment
Local weather Change and Environmental Stewardship
Disaster Response and Crucial Human Wants

The winners of this yr’s Partnering for Function class are:

Lengthy View Methods, Canada

Lengthy View Methods, a Gold companion in Canada, developed a sustainable and clever buildings options using machine studying. The answer delivers continuous enchancment on business constructing administration techniques to offer even higher price reductions, higher consumer expertise and improved environmental affect that may be metered and measured and utilized within the drive to attain organizational ESG targets.

KIW, Spain

KIW, one in every of our Environmental Sustainability Specialised companions in Spain, developed a complete centralized, automated and real-time infrastructure administration answer that can allow organisations have the information they should make vitality consumption evaluation to attain important vitality price reductions and meet their zero emissions objectives.

Join Skilled Companies, Egypt

Join Skilled Companies, a techniques integrator in Egypt, is increasing entry to healthcare to distant areas and reimaging the affected person expertise in Center East and North Africa. The answer contains digitization of well being information and well being techniques and leveraging synthetic intelligence for affected person self-triage and symptom evaluation.

LiteScape Applied sciences, United States

LiteScape Applied sciences within the US, developed an answer that gives higher entry to visitation rights in correctional services, lowering the burden of price, time, distance and different restrictions in making certain members of the family can keep related regardless of the separation. The visitation portal gives scale and the flexibility for officers to securely arrange calls on demand in addition to monitor a number of conferences directly on a single gadget.

These inspiring submissions not solely spotlight the ingenuity and revolutionary spirit of Cisco’s companions, but additionally present how doing good for the world is sweet for enterprise. This new class additionally helped to drive a 68% improve in companion submissions on this yr’s competitors, exemplifying the deep alignment between Cisco and our companions to attain enterprise objectives whereas supporting and driving social and environmental transformation.

Congratulations to all this yr’s winners. I’m excited to see how our companions mix innovation with objective for the Partnering for Function class in 2024.

Study extra in regards to the Associate Innovation Problem on SalesConnect and browse the weblog saying the 2023 Associate Innovation Problem winners.

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