Rob Barton
CTO, Cisco Systems
Rob Barton is the CTO for Cisco Canada and is a Cisco Distinguished Engineer. Rob Graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in Engineering Physics. Rob is a published author, with titles on Quality of Service (QoS), Wireless Communications, and IoT. Additionally, he has also co-authored many peer-reviewed research papers and leads Cisco’s academic research partnership program. Rob also holds numerous patents in the areas of wireless communications, network security, cloud networking, IoT, and Machine Learning. His current areas of work include wireless communications of all types, IT/OT convergence, network automation, and AI/ML in networking systems.