Robert Barton is a Cisco Distinguished AI Engineer with Cisco's AI Software Engineering Group. A graduate of the University of British Columbia in Engineering Physics, he has extensive expertise in networking, cybersecurity, and AI. Rob has authored books on AI, Wi-Fi networks, quality of service, and the Internet of Things (IoT). He has also co-authored numerous peer-reviewed research papers and holds patents in areas such as cybersecurity, cloud networking, and AI/machine learning. As the leader of Cisco's AI research program, which collaborates with top universities around the globe, Rob is helping drive both research and innovation for academia and industry. He is also a sought-after public speaker at international AI and computer networking conferences and events.

Jerome Henry is a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco Systems. A lead researcher in the CTO group, he started embracing AI and generative AI when they were conversation topics only between likeminded peer researchers, in years when access to powerful-enough GPUs was available only to elite groups. By developing new techniques to make AI applicable to several fields of physics and communications, Jerome has contributed to making AI and GenAI mainstream. He holds more than 500 patents, many of them in innovative AI and GenAI schemes, and has authored multiple books on topics ranging from networking, to IoT, to AI. He is based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.