Gonzalo Salgueiro is a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco. He is an established subject matter expert and industry thought leader in Collaboration technologies, multimedia communications protocols and architectures as well as network design and deployment of real-time voice/video/data over IP. Recently, Gonzalo has been focusing on various emerging technologies and the Services opportunities they offer. Current areas of focus are WebRTC, Cloud and IoT.

As a Distinguished Engineer in the Office of the CTO in Customer Experience (CX) Gonzalo helps shape technical and organizational strategies, leads innovation & automation initiatives, and drives engineering excellence. Gonzalo also provides architectural guidance, technical best practices and design recommendations to many of Cisco’s largest and most critical customers in support of their digital transformation goals.

Gonzalo is an established member of numerous industry organizations and is a regular presenter and distinguished speaker at a variety of technical industry conferences and Cisco events around the world. He currently holds (or has held) various industry leadership roles, including serving on the Board of Directors of both the SIP Forum and the International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP), serving as co-chair for numerous IETF Working Groups and SIP Forum Task Groups, and is a member of several IETF Directorates. He is an active contributor to various industry organizations and standardization activities in the IETF, ITU, IEEE, SIP Forum, etc.

After 24+ years of work in networking and real-time communications, Gonzalo has co-authored 4 books, 25 IETF RFCs, numerous industry standards, white papers and academic research papers on various technical topics. He is also co-inventor of 140+ patents (issued & pending) and has contributed to various interoperability and open source development efforts.