Adele Every

Managing Director, Public Sector
Cisco UK & Ireland

Adele is the Managing Director for Public Sector at Cisco. Focused on driving sustainable business growth through her sales and specialist teams bringing value to government. Adele drives operational excellence and rigour with a focus on account strategy and planning activities to drive targeted sales and marketing campaigns. Prior to joining Cisco, Adele spent 17 years at Capgemini. As Vice President she led a high performing cross functional team to deliver on their largest global account which was circa £1bn per annum to fulfil programmes of national importance including BREXIT and COVID 19 support packages. She has also established and sat on innovation programme boards within the public sector focused on bringing a broad ecosystem of partner offers to support the transformation and SME agenda. She has a mature network across government, connecting MPs, lobby groups, SME tech partners and start ups and has featured in many tech publications including, Technology Record, IT Pro Journal and the New Statesman.

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Celebrating our customers at Cisco Connect 2025 UK & Ireland

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Adele Every - June 25, 2025 - 0 Comments

This year’s awards brought together an impressive group of senior IT leaders from a wide range of organisations across the UK and Ireland. The forward-thinking approaches and impact that these
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Public Sector
Building Trustworthy AI: Cisco supports LASR’s Open Call for Secure Innovation

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Adele Every - June 19, 2025 - 0 Comments

The LASR Opportunity Call invites startups and SMEs at the forefront of AI and cybersecurity to join our growing ecosystem dedicated to secure AI innovation. Participants will gain access to
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Public Sector
Strengthening AI Security: Cisco Named First Technology of UK’s Laboratory for AI Security Research

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Adele Every - May 15, 2025 - 0 Comments

Following the recent announcement at CYBERUKthat we’ve become the first technology company to be part of the Laboratory for AI Security Research (LASR), we’re excited to have…
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Cisco UKI
Innovating for a Sustainable, Healthier Future: Join Our Third GM LINK Programme in Greater Manchester

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Adele Every - January 20, 2025 - 0 Comments

At Cisco, we believe in the power of innovation to tackle pressing challenges. As part of our commitment to fostering a brighter, more sustainable future we are…
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Start-up Hub
Building a Brighter Future: GM LINK Seeks Health and Climate Tech Startups

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Adele Every - August 5, 2024 - 0 Comments

Cisco and Greater Manchester launch the GM LINK Programme (Leading Innovation, Nurturing Knowledge), a series of programmes to deliver social impact for the region by equipping local startups with the
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Cisco UKI
Leading Innovation, Nurturing Knowledge – incubating social innovation in Greater Manchester

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Adele Every - April 26, 2024 - 0 Comments

The UK has long been a global technology hub, and while much attention has been focused on London, the capital doesn’t have a monopoly on talent, and deep expertise exists…
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Cisco UKI
Cisco signs MOU with Crown Commercial Service to Support Secure, Sustainable Digital Citizen Services

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Adele Every - October 18, 2023 - 0 Comments

Agreement will see Cisco deepen its relationship as a key supplier to the UK Government and wider public sector Flexible bundles will be made available at standardised prices within…
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Cisco UKI
A royally sustainable Coronation, supported by Cisco and BT

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Adele Every - June 21, 2023 - 0 Comments

A landmark event in history, the King’s Coronation was the most watched broadcast of the year with over 20 million people watching it play out on their screens….
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Public Sector
Creating a Cyber-Savvy Digital City Region

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Adele Every - May 25, 2023 - 0 Comments

Today we’re announcing that we are joining the Greater Manchester Digital Security Hub (DiSH). We’ll be working with the founding partners of the centre to support their ambitions to be
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Digital Transformation
Digitising public services needs to go hand in hand with digital inclusion

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Adele Every - December 21, 2022 - 0 Comments

A fully inclusive digital society – where every UK citizen is connected, has digital skills and can benefit from fully digitised public services and industries – can add £168 billion
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