Hugues De Pra

Chief Technology & Transformation Officer
BeLux

Hugues is Chief Technology & Transformation at Cisco Belux. He is the driving force behind Cisco's innovation strategy for the sub, with the annual Cisco Belux Innovation Challenge as a real catalyst for design-thinking and collective intelligence. In this perspective he's also responsible for emerging markets like smart buildings, IT/OT convergence, 5G & wireless technologies. As one of the first Green Ambassadors at Cisco BeLux, he is dedicated to areas such as innovation, sustainability, and skills development too. Before his role as CTTO, Hugues was Architecture, Data Centre and Virtualization Lead. Hugues started his career at Cisco in 1999 in pre-sales. Hugues holds a Master in Civil Engineering, and an Executive MBA from Solvay Business School.

Articles

Belux Partners
Cisco BeLux Partner Awards 2023

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Hugues De Pra - November 23, 2023 - 0 Comments

Last Tuesday, November 21st, we gathered about a 100 industry leaders and innovators at our annual Cisco BeLux Partner Awards. It is a fantastic platform to reward their stellar contributions
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Digital Life
River Cleanup wins fourth Cisco Innovation Challenge

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Hugues De Pra - April 4, 2023 - 0 Comments

River Cleanup is the grand winner of our fourth Cisco Belux Innovation Challenge and the first non-profit organisation to go home with the top prize.
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Digital Life
AI solution to predict waste container fill level wins Innovation Challenge 2022

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Hugues De Pra - May 20, 2022 - 0 Comments

Stronger and better. The pitches of this year’s Innovation Challenge were extremely convincing: concrete, well-articulated and substantiated. And it’s the team of CILE and Intradel, supported by their partners NTT
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Belux Partners
Op zoek naar het grootste IT-talent van het land

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Hugues De Pra - April 26, 2022 - 0 Comments

Samen met NTT, spotit en EditX organiseert Cisco Belux de IT Young Potential Challenge, een wedstrijd voor studenten computerwetenschappen en IT’ers tot en met 31 jaar in België en Luxemburg.
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Digital Life
Cisco Belux lanceert derde Innovation Challenge

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Hugues De Pra - March 28, 2022 - 0 Comments

Op 4 mei gaan we van start met de derde versie van onze ‘Innovation Challenge’, een hackathon met zes klantenteams. Het thema van de editie van dit jaar is mobiliteit
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Digital Life
2022: innovatie versnelt, maar moet duurzamer en inclusiever

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Hugues De Pra - March 10, 2022 - 0 Comments

De snelheid van digitalisering en innovatie was nog nooit zo hoog als in de voorbije twee jaar. Wat komt er nog op ons af de komende maanden?
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Social Responsibility
Sneller klimaatneutraal

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Hugues De Pra - December 24, 2021 - 0 Comments

2021 werd gekenmerkt door enkele klimaatrampen, die ook ons land troffen. Er kon geen duidelijker teken zijn van de dringende noodzaak om klimaatverandering aan te pakken. Cisco legt zich op
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Collaboration
Het Centre Médical Héliporté blijft in de lucht tijdens de pandemie

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Hugues De Pra - January 7, 2021 - 0 Comments

Ook het Centre Médical Héliporté in Lierneux heeft zich met telewerk aangepast aan de huidige pandemie. Het CMH en Cisco vonden een snelle en voordelige telewerkoplossing met een jaarlicentie op
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Digital Life
Service Public de Wallonie wins our Innovation Challenge 2020

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Hugues De Pra - October 20, 2020 - 0 Comments

Last week, the 2020 edition of our Cisco Belux Innovation Challenge took place, for the first time in an all-virtual mode. Congratulations to all participants and especially to our overall
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Digital Life
Cisco Belux Innovation Challenge 2020 reshaped to face the next normal

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Hugues De Pra - October 5, 2020 - 0 Comments

Never before have we seen digitisation accelerate so quickly as the past few months. The current period has opened a window of opportunity to transform business processes and it is
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