Dear AIM Utah Members:

Happy New Year!  Our next AIM General Membership Luncheon will be Thursday, January 14, and you are invited to participate!

This will be a Virtual Lunch Meeting and AIM will provide lunch via a $25 DoorDash gift card to the first 100 registrants!

The Virtual AIM Lunch will start at 11:45 am and we hope you can participate! We expect the meeting to last 60-90 minutes and many of your peers will be participating!

Registered participants will receive a separate email with the Meeting ID and password on the day before the event.

AIM will send a $25 DoorDash Gift Card to the first 100 participants who register before end of day Monday, January 11th.

This month's featured speaker is:

Sanjeev Mervana

Vice President, Products Operations

Emerging Technologies & Incubation

Cisco

Our Topic: Digital Dexterity

Digital dexterity with remote working and what’s next from here. Hybrid work models post pandemic and how does this necessitate rethinking the way we design infrastructure/WAN/LAN - access to applications and services.

As Vice President, Product Operations, Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ET&I), Sanjeev leads the team in sourcing, generating, screening, and managing new innovation and incubation ideas that ultimately fuel growth for the company. The ET&I team establishes and advances new technologies and business models, or “the Bold Bets” that can solve problems our customers face in the most agile, ambitious, and entrepreneurial way possible.

Sanjeev has as long history of accomplishments, specifically around product management, competitive differentiation and building successful global teams. Sanjeev is recognized as a proven business leader with a strategic, innovative, and collaborative lens in approaching business needs and requirements.

In his previous role as Senior Director, Cloud Infrastructure & Business Solutions Marketing, Sanjeev

was responsible for driving demand and positioning for Cisco products and solutions around Cloud, Data Center & Routing Infrastructure, SDN/NFV based Solutions. He managed a global team of product and technical marketing managers representing customer care-abouts, business cases, innovation, competitive differentiation, and market share management around Cisco's products & solutions.

Sanjeev has been with Cisco for over 14 years and has authored a Cisco Press Book “Design Principles of DSL Based Access Solutions.” With over 20 years of experience in networking, Sanjeev has held prominent roles leading innovative and architectures and solutions around SDN, Broadband Aggregation, IPTV Carrier Ethernet and Mobile IP RAN business within Cisco.

Sanjeev holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics from Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, University of Pune.

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We hope you can make it to this event!

Cheers,

The AIM Board