John Apostolopoulos is VP & CTO of Cisco’s Intent Based Networking Group (IBNG), which is Cisco’s largest business covering enterprise networking, data center networking, and Internet of Things (IoT). As CTO he drives the technology and architecture direction in strategic areas for the business. Towards these goals he works closely with groups across Cisco, and partners, customers, academia, and standardization organizations.

He also founded Cisco’s Innovation Labs, whose mission is to drive technology innovation aligned with Cisco’s strategic directions. This covers the broad Cisco portfolio including Intent-Based Networking (IBN), Internet of Things, wireless (ranging from Wi-Fi, OpenRoaming, 5G for enterprise use cases, private 5G), cloud networking, application-aware networking, multimedia networking, indoor-location-based services, connected car, trustworthy systems, machine learning and AI applied to the aforementioned areas, and deep learning for visual analytics.