Annie Hardy

As a Global AI Architect at Cisco Systems, Annie Hardy fosters collaboration between colleagues, customers, and partners to realize the promise of artificial intelligence. As an inventor, entrepreneur, and trained qualitative futurist, she is passionate about casting a vision for a north star and reverse-engineering that into actions teams can take today. Prior to joining Cisco, Ms. Hardy founded zeet insights, a global market and design research agency focused on the technology sector. She sits on Cisco's Applied AI Patent Committee, Cisco's Responsible AI Champions team, the NIST US AI Safety Institute Consortium, and the Board of Directors of the non-profit Global Impact Initiative.