>> From San Francisco, it's theCube, covering Girls in Tech Catalyst Conference, brought to you by Girls in Tech.. >> Hey, welcome back everybody. Jeff Rick here with theCUBE. We're in downtown San Francisco at the Girls in Tech Catalyst Conference 2018. About 700 mainly women, a few men, and they just brought in a busload of kids to come in and hear inspirational stories, really of women in technical leadership positions for the last two days. It's a really great event. We're excited to be back for a second time, and our next guest who's been travelin' just as much as theCube team, all the way back from Cisco Live, which we were at yesterday. Shubha Govil, she's the director of product management from Cisco. Welcome. >> Thank you. >> So how was Cisco Live? >> Cisco Live was awesome. Yes, we had very different audience there. Percentage of women, as you can imagine, sometimes in the networking industry, is not as much as we would like to see, but that's why we are here. >> That's why you're here. >> And we are really trying to bring in lot more women in our product teams within Cisco. Again, it comes down to having the 50/50 voice, so this is a great place to be to meet other like-minded women, in industry, and trying to get some talent. >> Well, good for you for making the trip, 'cause I'm sure you guys are wiped out. When it's your own show you work harder than any other show, but it really begs a question. How long has Cisco been involved in Girls in Tech, and, again, what is it that this gives you that's so different than a big conference? >> Correct, so Cisco has been involved for last few years for Girls in Tech, and just like we have been involved with several other organizations in the industry, really it comes down to being out there and spotting the talent. Big part of that is being at the events, and networking with the talent, and understanding their needs. This comes down to really finding the right perspective, as well as the cultural fit for people that we bring in. The best part about the Girls in Tech events is that they're a lot more hands-on training that they are doing, in terms of as part of Cisco's DevNet environment. So I'm part of Cisco's DevNet team, and we are driving Cisco's developer program, to build more on top of Cisco's APIs, and in that role, always looking for people who are ready to go hands on, and build cool solutions on top of Cisco API, so this is a great place to have been doing a lot of coding camps, and other formal boot camps where girls can come in, and be part of this ecosystem, be ready for the next opportunity that comes. >> It's interesting because you can't just do what you could do in the past, which is just go do the campus recruiting, and kind of the things that we think of as everyday HR pipeline, because you need more, and you need more diverse. So to be active in all these various organizations that have very strong focuses in diversity, whether it be women or unrepresented populations, et cetera. So, pretty interesting investment that you guys are making there, with time, money, and people. >> Absolutely, absolutely. It is key. It is totally the key for Cisco, and for every single technology company out there to be out there and finding the diverse opinion. It really comes down to technologies not made just for men, and 50% of female population, there's not a lot of thinking that goes in in designing the technology as to how different people will use it, and big part of it is bringing the people who can think from that perspective, and that's kind of where we are out there, making sure that we can bring in that opinion. >> And the culture's such a bit thing, and you guys had such a big culture change with the new CEO shift, because there's such strong personalities, and now you guys have moved onto a new CEO. We keep hearing about culture over and over again, and how important it is to bring that up. So how important is it from the cultural aspect to be involved, and get these diversity of opinion? >> It is huge. So really, Chuck Robbins has been bringing a very humble culture, people really trying to be there for everyone, each other. And as a committee, you are really building the talent, not just for doing the right jobs, and bringing the right perspective, but also culturally bringing those opinions, as well as bringing the thinking that's going to change the culture moving forward. The technology disruption that's around us has to do a lot with how, culturally, things are changing. There is amalgamation of people coming from all over the world, and in that mode, when you're designing a technology, or when you are from networking perspective, as we think about Cisco's networking culture, network engineers are evolving too, and they are becoming more part of programmable network, and that culture shift goes along with it, which is to bring in the right people culture, and part of it is being out at the events, and meeting people coming from different places, and bringing those opinions. >> It's interesting we're at Bespoke, because I think it was last year we were here with the Cisco DevNet Team, and really a different kind of point of view coming out of Cisco, led by Susie Wee and the team, in terms of reaching out for developers, not a closed system, really trying to engage with the developer community. >> And that's part of it. Cisco's DevNet Committee is, we recently crossed a milestone of 500,000 developers. >> Oh, so I heard that was the big celebration at the party, right? Half a million, very good. >> Big celebration at Cisco Live. >> Congratulations. >> And DevNet Create was an attempt in that direction as well, to really bring the application developer, and that thinking about network engineers who have been changing the way each application works, how the internet of things is going to further drive the growth of internet, in that world, we also need a lot of application developers coming in, and that was the attempt for DevNet Create Conference, and that's where Girls in Tech and other such events are very important. >> Right, and only going to be more crazy when 5G comes online in a couple years. The demand for networking is, and the bandwidth is not slowing down anytime soon. >> It's not. (laughs) >> All right, Shubha, well thank you for spending a few times, I'm sure you are tired after the long event, so hopefully you get through this and you can take it easy this weekend. >> Thanks, Jeff. It was good to talk to you. >> All right, thanks for stopping by. I'm Jeff, and you're watching theCUBE from Girls in Tech Conference 2018. Thanks for watching. (laid-back electronic music)

>> From San Francisco, it's theCube, covering Girls in Tech Catalyst Conference, brought to you by Girls in Tech.. >> Hey, welcome back everybody. Jeff Rick here with theCUBE. We're in downtown San Francisco at the Girls in Tech Catalyst Conference 2018. About 700 mainly women, a few men, and they just brought in a busload of kids to come in and hear inspirational stories, really of women in technical leadership positions for the last two days. It's a really great event. We're excited to be back for a second time, and our next guest who's been travelin' just as much as theCube team, all the way back from Cisco Live, which we were at yesterday. Shubha Govil, she's the director of product management from Cisco. Welcome. >> Thank you. >> So how was Cisco Live? >> Cisco Live was awesome. Yes, we had very different audience there. Percentage of women, as you can imagine, sometimes in the networking industry, is not as much as we would like to see, but that's why we are here. >> That's why you're here. >> And we are really trying to bring in lot more women in our product teams within Cisco. Again, it comes down to having the 50/50 voice, so this is a great place to be to meet other like-minded women, in industry, and trying to get some talent. >> Well, good for you for making the trip, 'cause I'm sure you guys are wiped out. When it's your own show you work harder than any other show, but it really begs a question. How long has Cisco been involved in Girls in Tech, and, again, what is it that this gives you that's so different than a big conference? >> Correct, so Cisco has been involved for last few years for Girls in Tech, and just like we have been involved with several other organizations in the industry, really it comes down to being out there and spotting the talent. Big part of that is being at the events, and networking with the talent, and understanding their needs. This comes down to really finding the right perspective, as well as the cultural fit for people that we bring in. The best part about the Girls in Tech events is that they're a lot more hands-on training that they are doing, in terms of as part of Cisco's DevNet environment. So I'm part of Cisco's DevNet team, and we are driving Cisco's developer program, to build more on top of Cisco's APIs, and in that role, always looking for people who are ready to go hands on, and build cool solutions on top of Cisco API, so this is a great place to have been doing a lot of coding camps, and other formal boot camps where girls can come in, and be part of this ecosystem, be ready for the next opportunity that comes. >> It's interesting because you can't just do what you could do in the past, which is just go do the campus recruiting, and kind of the things that we think of as everyday HR pipeline, because you need more, and you need more diverse. So to be active in all these various organizations that have very strong focuses in diversity, whether it be women or unrepresented populations, et cetera. So, pretty interesting investment that you guys are making there, with time, money, and people. >> Absolutely, absolutely. It is key. It is totally the key for Cisco, and for every single technology company out there to be out there and finding the diverse opinion. It really comes down to technologies not made just for men, and 50% of female population, there's not a lot of thinking that goes in in designing the technology as to how different people will use it, and big part of it is bringing the people who can think from that perspective, and that's kind of where we are out there, making sure that we can bring in that opinion. >> And the culture's such a bit thing, and you guys had such a big culture change with the new CEO shift, because there's such strong personalities, and now you guys have moved onto a new CEO. We keep hearing about culture over and over again, and how important it is to bring that up. So how important is it from the cultural aspect to be involved, and get these diversity of opinion? >> It is huge. So really, Chuck Robbins has been bringing a very humble culture, people really trying to be there for everyone, each other. And as a committee, you are really building the talent, not just for doing the right jobs, and bringing the right perspective, but also culturally bringing those opinions, as well as bringing the thinking that's going to change the culture moving forward. The technology disruption that's around us has to do a lot with how, culturally, things are changing. There is amalgamation of people coming from all over the world, and in that mode, when you're designing a technology, or when you are from networking perspective, as we think about Cisco's networking culture, network engineers are evolving too, and they are becoming more part of programmable network, and that culture shift goes along with it, which is to bring in the right people culture, and part of it is being out at the events, and meeting people coming from different places, and bringing those opinions. >> It's interesting we're at Bespoke, because I think it was last year we were here with the Cisco DevNet Team, and really a different kind of point of view coming out of Cisco, led by Susie Wee and the team, in terms of reaching out for developers, not a closed system, really trying to engage with the developer community. >> And that's part of it. Cisco's DevNet Committee is, we recently crossed a milestone of 500,000 developers. >> Oh, so I heard that was the big celebration at the party, right? Half a million, very good. >> Big celebration at Cisco Live. >> Congratulations. >> And DevNet Create was an attempt in that direction as well, to really bring the application developer, and that thinking about network engineers who have been changing the way each application works, how the internet of things is going to further drive the growth of internet, in that world, we also need a lot of application developers coming in, and that was the attempt for DevNet Create Conference, and that's where Girls in Tech and other such events are very important. >> Right, and only going to be more crazy when 5G comes online in a couple years. The demand for networking is, and the bandwidth is not slowing down anytime soon. >> It's not. (laughs) >> All right, Shubha, well thank you for spending a few times, I'm sure you are tired after the long event, so hopefully you get through this and you can take it easy this weekend. >> Thanks, Jeff. It was good to talk to you. >> All right, thanks for stopping by. I'm Jeff, and you're watching theCUBE from Girls in Tech Conference 2018. Thanks for watching. (laid-back electronic music)