CDW & CISCO Building a Strategic Network Roadmap

Location: The Stafford, Mayfair, London

Join us for an exclusive, invitation-only roundtable event at The Stafford, Mayfair - designed for a select group of 15 executives. Hosted by CDW (led by Rob Sims) in partnership with Cisco.

This private dinner offers a unique opportunity to engage in guided discussions with industry peers, sharing insights, experiences, and best practices in an open and collaborative setting. This intimate format is built to foster meaningful conversations and actionable takeaways around the most pressing networking and technology challenges facing organisations today.

Today’s organisations must optimise networking to keep pace with user growth, hybrid work demands, bandwidth requirements, and cloud expansion. They also need to prepare to address next-gen technologies like the convergence of Networking and Security into Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), Wi-Fi 7, Net Ops 2.0, IoT, AIOps, and Networking for AI. Building an automated, hyperconnected network fabric will be critical to creating the secure backbone of every organisation’s digital future.

What You'll Learn

This event will cover a host of topics around the following areas:

• Understand the importance of making the right decisions at the right time.

• Avoid technology lock-ins and dead-end paths by starting with the end in mind.

• Improve efficiency through Unified Operations.

• Tackle talent pool challenges.

• The role of the network digital twin. Our experience shows that most service impacts come during or following a change window. Building digital twins helps reduce outages and increase service levels.

• Building a Zero Trust Architecture. Cyber threats are escalating to critical levels. The network is one of the best lines of defence, and we need to accelerate zero-trust adoption.

• Exceptional and consistent user experience is king. Delivering the best experience for coworkers and customers is critical to unlocking talent and building customer loyalty.

Key Networking Challenges We’ll Address

• End-user working pattern shifts

• Platform approach versus best-of-breed

• Ever-increasing traffic demands

• Greater network complexity

• Delivering consistent experiences

• Intensifying cybersecurity concerns

• End-to-end network visibility demands

• Evolving and diverse application landscape

• IoT, Edge, and AI impacts on traffic patterns

• Decentralised perimeters increasing threat surface

Our Strategic Focus

We believe that tackling these challenges requires focus on four key areas of the networking ecosystem:

• Transparent Network – The transparent network, like electricity or water, is ubiquitous and just works.

• Zero Trust Architecture – Implementing a philosophy of Assumed Breach to secure every point, continuously.

• Multi-Cloud – Building multi-cloud networking strategies with secure connections that are fit for purpose.

• Operations & Observability – Create a self-aware, automated network to gain visibility and control.

Register below to express your interest in attending this exclusive event and secure your place at the table.