Highlight on Success: EMEA Prospects Recognised at Cisco Stay Amsterdam 2025

We’re thrilled to have hosted the Cisco World Buyer Awards: EMEA 2025 at Cisco Stay Amsterdam yesterday! Now in its sixth 12 months, this program celebrates the Cisco clients who’ve gone above and past in demonstrating technological innovation and trade thought management. 

The awards introduced collectively an excellent crowd of IT specialists and senior leaders. We celebrated distinctive clients from throughout EMEA, recognising distinguished winners throughout numerous award classes. 

We obtained greater than 60 buyer nominations and of these, 26 have been shortlisted. We relied on the experience of 25 judges – a mixture of Cisco leaders, engineers, and technical specialists – to shortlist our nominees and decide the winners.   

Let’s check out this 12 months’s winners from the Cisco World Buyer Awards: EMEA 2025!  

Cybersecurity Defender  

The 2025 EMEA Cybersecurity Defender award went to SAP for his or her progressive strategy to cybersecurity. By implementing a complete future-ready safety answer, SAP has ensured their digital infrastructure stays resilient and safe, setting a benchmark for others within the trade. Their dedication to advancing safety know-how exemplifies their function as leaders in cybersecurity. 

Congratulations to the shortlisted nominees: 

• Constancy Worldwide 
• Paris 2024 Olympic Committee 
• Royal Faculty of Surgeons in Eire (RCSI)

Office Warrior

The 2025 EMEA Office Warrior of the Future is awarded to BBVA for his or her distinctive hybrid work technique. Their funding in progressive collaboration instruments and worker gadget safety fosters flexibility and productiveness, setting a excessive commonplace for the way forward for work. BBVA’s dedication to enhancing the work setting displays their management in office innovation. 

Congratulations to the shortlisted nominees: 

• adidas 
• The British Military (Ministry of Protection) 
• Iberdrola 
• Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. KG
  

Synthetic Intelligence Pioneer  

The 2025 EMEA Synthetic Intelligence Pioneer award recognises Core42 for his or her pioneering AI infrastructure options. Their safe, AI-ready information facilities emphasise high quality and operational ease, driving important enterprise transformation. Core42’s forward-thinking strategy to AI integration showcases their function as trailblazers within the AI panorama. 

Annie Hardy, Cisco World AI Architect and one among our judges for this class, highlighted, “When most individuals take into consideration AI, they’re fascinated by ChatGPT and DeepSeek. However the community’s necessities are basically totally different. Core42 invested in a imaginative and prescient for AI’s future, constructing a service to rapidly and effectively spin up new concepts. They’ve turn into an AI-ready useful resource for the UAE.” 

Congratulations to the opposite shortlisted nominee: 

Sustainability Changemaker  

Celebrating dedication to environmental sustainability, the 2025 EMEA Sustainability Changemaker award is offered to adidas for advancing environmental sustainability with Cisco options, adidas receives the Sustainability Changemaker Award – recognising a dedication to vitality effectivity and carbon discount. As Colin Seward, Expertise and Information Lead for Cisco’s Chief Sustainability Workplace (CSO), and a part of our judging panel for this class, praised, “an excellent collection of finalists – they’re all superb tales!!”. 

Congratulations to the shortlisted nominees: 

• Related Conservation Basis 
• COP29 
• Garanti BBVA 
• NatWest 
• Pink Sea World
  

Trade Innovator  

The 2025 EMEA Trade Innovator award is offered to Bosch Rexroth for his or her excellent use of Cisco and Splunk options. Their strategy to enhancing resilience and leveraging vitality administration units a brand new trade commonplace, showcasing how innovation can sort out widespread trade challenges. Bosch Rexroth’s achievements spotlight their management in technological development. 

Congratulations to the shortlisted nominees: 

• SAMSØE SAMSØE 
• Saudi Electrical energy Firm 
• Tergooi Medical Heart
  

Cisco Insider of the Yr 

I’m happy to share that Damian Erni from Swisscom has been recognised because the 2025 EMEA Cisco Insider of the Yr for his outstanding contributions to the higher Cisco Insider neighborhood. His management and dedication have frequently enriched neighborhood engagement and sparked vibrant discussions, inspiring others to attach and collaborate. Damian’s affect inside the neighborhood underscores his essential function in advancing the success of each his organisation and trade friends.  

The passion of my fellow judges for this award was palpable! Jenny Hooks, Director, Buyer Lifecycle Engagement Advertising, shared, “This award celebrates our clients that actually step as much as share their experiences and experience, tirelessly advocating for Cisco all year long… It was actually arduous to evaluate!”. Equally, Lucas Betés, Director, Buyer Lifecycle Journey Advertising, echoed this sentiment, saying “I can’t imagine how a lot these Insiders do for Cisco!”.  

Congratulations to our shortlisted nominees, who’ve all demonstrated excellent dedication this 12 months. As Todd Shimizu, VP, Buyer Lifecycle Advertising and one other fellow choose for this class, remarked, “These are all superb… Tremendous heartening to see this sort of advocacy for us.”  

• Irmtraud Lorenz, Kotányi 
• Joacim Wicander, Conscia Sverige AB 
• Jyrki Halonen, Netox 
• Wouter Hindriks, Avit Group
  

Congratulations to all our 2025 EMEA award winners and shortlisted nominees! We applaud your ardour for innovation and worthwhile contributions to trade thought management. Right here’s to continued success and groundbreaking developments!  

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