Brian, so you're leading Cisco social impact initiatives, which are even more challenging in an AI-powered era, right? So how does Cisco ensure that the push for innovation in this AI era does not leave the vulnerable behind?

Yeah, I love the question because certainly if employed the wrong way, AI and these new technologies can threaten to even widen divides even more than they are today.

And so we're super conscious about our responsibility to leverage this momentum to bridge divides rather than widen them.

And so our approach is to invest, to invest people, our personnel, our technology, but also our financial resources to organizations like World Central Kitchen to help those partners leverage the technology, leverage the AI in a way that makes them or allows them to deepen their impact to be able to scale additionally.

We were just talking, Chef and I, about some of the AI implementations that World Central Kitchen is embarking upon to do what they do, to do it faster, to do it less expensive with less resources.

And so we see this great opportunity through AI to help our partners like WCK increase their efficiency and scale their work, but also to deploy technology in a way that's responsible and ethical and with an eye towards security.

We know the nonprofit community and underrepresented communities around the world that they are serving are some of the most vulnerable in terms of cyber.

What do we do with our technology that really gives us the ability to restore connectivity that acts as a catalyst for other humanitarian efforts?

Brian, so you're leading Cisco social impact initiatives, which are even more challenging in an AI-powered era, right? So how does Cisco ensure that the push for innovation in this AI era does not leave the vulnerable behind?

Yeah, I love the question because certainly if employed the wrong way, AI and these new technologies can threaten to even widen divides even more than they are today.

And so we're super conscious about our responsibility to leverage this momentum to bridge divides rather than widen them.

And so our approach is to invest, to invest people, our personnel, our technology, but also our financial resources to organizations like World Central Kitchen to help those partners leverage the technology, leverage the AI in a way that makes them or allows them to deepen their impact to be able to scale additionally.

We were just talking, Chef and I, about some of the AI implementations that World Central Kitchen is embarking upon to do what they do, to do it faster, to do it less expensive with less resources.

And so we see this great opportunity through AI to help our partners like WCK increase their efficiency and scale their work, but also to deploy technology in a way that's responsible and ethical and with an eye towards security.

We know the nonprofit community and underrepresented communities around the world that they are serving are some of the most vulnerable in terms of cyber.

What do we do with our technology that really gives us the ability to restore connectivity that acts as a catalyst for other humanitarian efforts?

If we were to ask you broad or narrow, where do you fall out on what your title means and what's your day-to-day, quarter-to-quarter, year-to-year type of duties that fall under your two very important titles?

Sure.

Thank you for that opportunity.

So I'll tell you again, it's only been about three years that I've been at Cisco.

I've spent that long career with various companies, with Intel, with HP, always in purpose-driven roles for the majority of my career, focusing on inclusion, on engagement, on impact, on foundation.

I spent some time as the chief sustainability officer.

So I'd spent time in various different roles of You want to call it CSR or Communities Affairs or ESG, as those titles have changed over the years.

Talk a little bit about how social impact can actually accelerate purpose-driven work and can accelerate then innovation and actually a business strategy, and it doesn't actually get in the way of business strategy.