Alison Vincent

CTO , Cisco UK & Ireland

Dr Alison Vincent is the Chief Technology Officer for Cisco in the UK and Ireland.

She is a senior technical executive with 25 years experience in international leadership of software projects. In numerous organizations she has introduced Agile methodologies, transforming software engineering to focus on customer value and improved time to market.

She is an Ambassador for Women In Science and Engineering (WISE) and Science Technology Engineering and Maths (STEMnet) ensuring on-going technical talent in the workforce.

Alison joined Cisco in 2012 as a result of the NDS acquisition and was responsible for Innovation, Global Process improvement programs, Open Source policy and Intellectual Property Rights Management in the Video Business. Prior to NDS she held senior positions in both IBM and Micro Focus Ltd. Her roles span experience in Research and Development, Strategy Execution, Product Management, Business Development and Mergers and Acquisitions.

She has a PhD in Cryptography and a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science, both from London University.

Articles

Digital Transformation
TechTalk: 9 ways we should embrace the Game of Drones

3 min read
Alison Vincent - March 18, 2016 - 2 Comments

For the latest in my TechTalk blog series, I wanted to explore some of the more interesting (and rather useful) use cases for drones. Let’s go beyond the toy you
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Partners
Natural History Museum hackathon with Digital Catapult

2 min read
Alison Vincent - March 17, 2016 - 4 Comments

How do you go about digitising every single species, artefact and paper record at the Natural History Museum’s archives? As part of a hackathon we hosted with Digital Catapult, we’re
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Digital Transformation
TechTalk: We’re on the road to driverless cars

5 min read
Alison Vincent - January 25, 2016 - 0 Comments

This year’s CES in Las Vegas was more car showcase, than consumer technology show. On the flip side, the Detroit Car show was all about technology. Every single car manufacturer is
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Cisco UKI
TechTalk: virtual and augmented reality is about to change your world

4 min read
Alison Vincent - January 4, 2016 - 10 Comments

I am really excited about virtual reality (VR) – the impact this technology is going to have on our world over the next few years is immense. It’s estimated to
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Security
The importance of securing the smart cities of the future

3 min read
Alison Vincent - December 11, 2015 - 1 Comment

In our latest media partnership with Vice Media’s Motherboard, a panel explores the pros and perceived cons of the Bristol is Open smart city experiment.
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Cisco UKI
Bringing gender equality to the front of the queue

3 min read
Alison Vincent - December 4, 2015 - 0 Comments

Imagine a dark server room filled with blue collared engineers, or a life behind a desk coding, arguably not every girls dream job, but unfortunately a perception many still hold
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Cisco UKI
TechTalk: Artificial Intelligence – the computers are getting a whole lot smarter

4 min read
Alison Vincent - November 4, 2015 - 1 Comment

Welcome to our inaugural Tech Talk blog – where each month I’ll be dissecting some of the biggest technology trends in the industry today. To kick things off, I’m starting
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Cisco UKI
Who will inspire the next generation if we don’t?

1 min read
Alison Vincent - October 19, 2015 - 0 Comments

This week I’m at the Grace Hopper Celebration event. You can see my previous two blogs on this fantastic initiative here and here. In spite of significant efforts from multiple initiatives the
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Cisco UKI
Transforming the face of Technology – one Leader at a time

1 min read
Alison Vincent - October 16, 2015 - 0 Comments

It seems to be a trend for me at the moment to grab every opportunity I can to be digitised, this week especially! For example at the Grace Hopper Celebration
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Cisco UKI
Computer Heroines and Our Time to Lead

1 min read
Alison Vincent - October 14, 2015 - 2 Comments

The day after Ada Lovelace Day I find myself on my way to the Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) of Women in Computing. Look at that! Two Heroines of computer Science
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