Vanessa Sulikowski is a Distinguished Architect and has been working in the ICT industry for over 30 years. Vanessa joined Cisco in 2000 and pursued a specialisation in Collaboration Technology and is considered a Trusted Advisor for many organisations across the Asia Pacific region.

Vanessa is an evangelist for workforce experience and workplace transformation working with customers on their transformation projects as well as presenting at Workplace and Technology focused events WorkTech, Flexible Working, Digital Workplace Summit, Future WorkTech, CoreNet and Real Property. This focus now including cognitive interactions through AI technology.

Vanessa has presented at Cisco Live internationally and she was inducted into the Distinguished Speaker Hall of Fame. She has also presented at many other industry events such as Microsoft TechEd, JuiceIT, IBM Think, Wainhouse Summit, QuestNet, and Imagine.

Vanessa holds a Bachelor of Computer Science (Hons) degree from the University of Newcastle and has achieved Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert (CCIE) Voice.