Cisco Design Chief: Great Collaboration Technology Should Disappear into the Experience, Podcast
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Cisco Design Chief: Great Collaboration Technology Should Disappear into the Experience, Podcast

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 8, 2026
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  • Technology

By Doug Green “If you notice the camera move, that’s our bad.” In this Technology Reseller News podcast recorded at WebexOne in Austin, Gavin Ivester, Vice President of Design at Cisco, discusses the thinking behind Cisco’s collaboration hardware, the new Cisco Ceiling Speaker Pro and why great meeting-room technology should feel almost invisible to the user. Cisco announced the Ceiling Speaker Pro at WebexOne as another piece of its AV-over-IP strategy for intelligent meeting rooms. Ivester says the real value comes from how Cisco’s room components work together. The...

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Hey everybody, it's Doug Green and I'm the publisher of Technology Reseller News and we're back here at Webex One in Austin, Texas. And I'm very pleased to have with me today Gavin Ivester, who's the Vice President of Design at Cisco.

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Gavin, thank you for joining me today. It's my pleasure. I'm looking forward to this conversation. So I don't mind sharing with everybody that we've had a very fine conversation.

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I very seldom get to meet anybody from any company that's actually concerned about the physical design, the physical appearance of the products that are on the shelf. So I'm very pleased to be able to offer this podcast and get some insight into the thinking that goes on at Cisco about the products we specifically see the phones, other devices,

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