Name: Scaling Employee Participation for Exponential Community Impact- Unlocking Engagement Through Data and Purpose
Start: 2025-03-20T18:04:00Z
End: 2025-03-20T18:04:32.000Z
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Social Impact brings together the full power and innovation of Cisco's technology, teams, resources, and extensive ecosystem to drive positive change in global communities with a focus on measurable impact. Together, we're fulfilling Cisco's purpose to power an inclusive future for all by addressing root causes of inequity, eliminating barriers, and driving innovative solutions to some of the world's greatest challenges.

Join us for an inspiring 30-minute webinar illustrating Cisco’s commitment to leveraging technology for good through its transformative partnership with Denmark Technical College. Dr. Willie Todd, President of Denmark Tech, will share the remarkable journey of how this collaboration has empowered students from underserved communities to excel in cybersecurity.

Discover how Cisco's innovative initiatives—including the launch of the Cisco Cyber Academy, scholarships, and infrastructure enhancements—are addressing the talent shortage in cybersecurity while fostering an inclusive future for all.
This session will leave you inspired by the power of partnerships and how businesses can drive meaningful change by investing in education and opportunity.

Key Takeaways:
• How Cisco’s Cyber Academy is equipping students for cybersecurity careers.
• Insights into the benefits of aligning corporate resources with educational institutions.
• Practical lessons on building partnerships for lasting community impact.

Tech for Good: Bridging the Cybersecurity Gap in Education

The NERV mobile communication vehicle integrates Cisco tech to aid in responding to emergencies across the country.

Cisco's Crisis Response Team

In rural, low-income communities worldwide, the absence of basic infrastructure often means that essential services and destinations remain out of reach, perpetuating cycles of poverty. Addressing this challenge requires innovative technology that can pinpoint where access interventions, such as bridges, can have the most significant impact. Enter Fika Map—a groundbreaking suite of remote analysis tools leveraging machine learning to identify and address these critical gaps in infrastructure.

Fika Map is not just another mapping tool; it's a scalable, impactful solution designed to enhance rural access by utilizing publicly available data and advanced AI models. Our webinar will explore how Fika Map is closing the data equity gap, especially in regions where data is unavailable or unreliable. We will also showcase our revolutionary waterways detection model, which has outperformed existing datasets by accurately predicting the locations of unmapped rivers—key information for planning infrastructure and ensuring climate resilience.

Through a combination of satellite data, community-driven needs assessments, and AI technology, Fika Map is reshaping how we understand and address rural infrastructure challenges. Join us to learn how this innovative tool is enabling governments, NGOs, and other stakeholders to make informed, cost-effective decisions that will drive sustainable development and transform the lives of millions.

Closing the Data Gap: How Fika Map is Transforming Rural Access using AI and Geospatial Technology

The delivery of humanitarian aid and nonprofit services has become increasingly digital. Non-profits rely on technology to manage all aspects of their operations, including the programmatic delivery of vital aid to vulnerable communities. Yet the NGO sector is the second most targeted by cybercriminals globally. These organizations typically lack the resources or technical expertise to combat these threats, leaving their information – and that of their beneficiaries – vulnerable to attacks. 

Join Cisco Crisis Response and Talos for a conversation on today’s top security threats, strategies for addressing risk in your organization and Cisco’s AI-powered cybersecurity solutions, from cloud security to anti-malware, threat intelligence and cloud analytics – and how these solutions protect the critical data and integrity of our nonprofit partners.

How Cisco’s Solutions Protect Non-profit Organizations From Threat Actors

In 2016, Cisco set an ambitious ten-year goal for our social impact grants and Cisco Networking Academy programs-–One Billion Lives Positively Impacted–by 2025. We exceeded our goal in 2023, more than one year early.

In this session, Cisco’s Chief Social Impact Officer, Brian Tippens, along with Cisco’s Global Innovation Officer, Guy Diedrich, will discuss how businesses can impact global growth of digital skills, eliminate barriers for the unconnected, and scale tech-based solutions to positively impact vulnerable, underserved communities around the world. Learn how Cisco is bringing together its ecosystem of customers, partners, and suppliers to drive positive change.

You will leave with a new perspective on the impact that purpose-driven initiatives can have on organizations of any size — which at scale, will help power an inclusive future for all.

How an Innovative Approach Changed One Billion Lives for the Better

The Cisco Crisis Response Community works together to deliver a meaningful impact to communities in need. Hear about how the program works, our global community of hundreds of trained Cisco employee volunteers, the partner agencies and NGOs that we support, our capabilities, and the technology we use (Cisco Meraki, Cisco Spaces, Cisco Collaboration, URWB, etc) to deliver secure connectivity in the field to emergency first responders, aid workers, and communities of people in need. We’ll also cover some examples of recent crisis response engagements, including how we supported the communities impacted by the Maui wildfires in August 2023.

How Cisco's Crisis Response Community Delivers Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Relief

Learn how Cisco is addressing critical global issues such as digital inclusion, economic empowerment, and environmental stewardship. Learn how we have been responding to critical human needs during multiple global crises and how Cisco partners can get involved through our Partnering for Purpose initiative.

Doing Good is Good for Business: Partnering for Purpose

Companies have a unique role to play in applying their people, products, and resources to global crises. Learn how Cisco is lending its technology, expertise, and funding to lay the foundation for longer term recovery.

Digital Lifelines - Stories of Disaster Response and Resilience

At Cisco, our commitment to a better world – to do what’s right, protect our planet, and to show up in times of need – is reflected in the impact we’re having in communities around the world. Key to our success is the way we invest in developing and scaling tech-based solutions to the greatest challenges facing vulnerable, underserved communities. Join Brian Tippens, Cisco’s Chief Social Impact Officer and Charu Adesnik, Director of the Cisco Foundation for a dynamic conversation on the power of investing in – and incubating – innovative technical solutions from the start. You’ll learn how our framework for innovation creates new possibilities for empowering global non-profit partners. You’ll leave with ideas, inspiration, and proven practices for driving impact at scale – now and for generations to come.

Scaling Technology for Impact: How Funding Early-Stage Technology is Creating a Better World

Food for Education provides access to affordable and nutritious food to as many children as possible in public primary schools in Kenya. Food for Education currently leverages highly efficient cooking technology, economies of scale and innovative payments technology, Tap2Eat, to feed 140,000 children across Kenya every day. Cisco's support will enable Food for Education to implement biometric authentication technology on Tap2Eat, increasing inclusion, data accuracy, and security to scale the school feeding program efficiently in Kenya, reaching more children with affordable and nutritious meals every day.

Food for Education: Biometric Integration of Tap2Eat

Empowering marginalized youth in Ghana, the Chorkor Digital Lab leverages expert-led instruction in Cisco technologies within BASICS International's facility to catalyze socio-economic change and digital empowerment in the Chorkor community.

BASICS International - Chorkor Digital Lab

A tech-enabled platform facilitates food donations by connecting organizations with surplus food to communities facing food insecurity.

Food Donation Tech Platform Feeds Millions

Technology is best when it connects people to each other and to opportunities. See how technology is helping to build bridges to end rural isolation and poverty.

AI Mapping Tool Helps Build Bridges and Communities That Thrive

With the rise of AI, shouldn't every student have an opportunity to learn the language of code—and the ethical use of technology?

AI and Coding: Opportunities for Every Student to Learn

Unlock the future of employee engagement. Cisco & the Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose (CECP) nonprofit share how data, technology, and purpose create exponential impact. Learn from Cisco's '80% Blueprint' and CECP's 'Giving in Numbers' to transform your approach to workplace giving.

Scaling Employee Participation for Exponential Community Impact- Unlocking Engagement Through Data and Purpose

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