Episode 23: Envisioning the Office of the Future with Shashi Kiran

Shashi Kiran is the Chief Marketing Officer at Aryaka Networks, responsible for Aryaka’s global marketing, product management, and technology partnerships. He brings over 20 years of experience in the hi-tech industry across marketing, product management, business development, and partnerships.Shashi is a former marketing leader at Cisco, where he led worldwide product and solutions marketing teams for several multi-billion dollar portfolios spanning data center, cloud, security, and enterprise networking. From 2011-13 he also led Cisco's $15B+ combined switching portfolio. In addition, he was instrumental in launching the company’s SDN strategy and ramping up its application-centric infrastructure (ACI) offering. Additionally, Shashi was the CMO for Quali, a VC-backed firm focused on Cloud and DevOps automation.Currently, he serves on the advisory board of The Fabric – an early-stage VC firm, 8VC-backed Ushur and Frontdesk.ai  Shashi is a frequent industry speaker, blogger, and columnist for Forbes and Money Inc.In our interview today, Shahi shares the technological challenges and solutions of a hybrid workforce.Key Takeaways. Change management as a strategy to facilitate productivity within a hybrid workforce. Making an organization’s network and infrastructure more agile is good for workflow.How to ensure flawless connectivity in a global network.Investing in and supporting different modes of communication within an organization. Ensuring remote workers can easily and effectively connect or interact socially. Connect with ShashiLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/skiran/  Twitter - https://twitter.com/netkiran Learn more about Project Genetics at https://projectgenetics.com/