Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) 2024 UBS Global Technology and AI Conference December 3, 2024 12:55 PM ET
Company Participants
Bill Gartner – SVP and GM of Optical Systems and Optics Group
Conference Call Participants
David Vogt – UBS
David Vogt
Good. I guess it’s good morning still. I’m David Vogt from the UBS Hardware and Networking team. Thank you again for joining UBS Global Tech Conference, and we’re excited to have with us today this morning, Cisco Systems. With us, we have Bill Gartner, SVP and GM of Optical Systems and Optics Group. Bill was kind enough to coming back again this year after subjecting himself to us last year. In the audience, we have IR, Sami Badri and Ryan Cui as well. So, please direct any questions to them later. If you have any other additional questions. One final note, we’re going to take questions from the audience through the app. So if anyone has a question, you could submit it to the app, it will show up on an iPad that we have up here. So, Bill, thank you again for joining.
Bill Gartner
Thank you for having me.
Question-and-Answer Session
Q – David Vogt
Bill, we were just making a joke that optics and optical is kind of the hot sector and kind of back in vogue. So maybe we can kind of just level set, obviously, you were here last year, you do a ton of presentations at OFC. You’re sort of the go-to guru at Cisco. So maybe just to lay it down for everyone kind of what your role is, what’s under your purview and kind of kind of your day-to-day strategic responsibilities?
Bill Gartner
Sure. Be happy to do that. But before I do, I have to — I got one job from Sami and I got to
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