KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Ed Kozel

Curriculum Vitae
Theme of the presentation

Edward R. Kozel
Senior Vice President, Corporate Development, Cisco Systems (United States)

 

CURRICULUM VITAE

Edward Kozel is Cisco Systems' Senior Vice President of Corporate Development. He has been with Cisco Systems since early 1989, and founded the Business Development group, which has been responsible for more than 22 technology acquisitions, and 25 minority investments. During this period he was also responsible for Cisco's Consulting Engineering group, and Educational
Market development. In April 1998 he stepped down as Chief Technology Officer and Sr. Vice President Business Development, and is currently on sabbatical leave in Europe.

He is a member of the Board of Directors for Cisco Systems, and is an active participant in the
executive management team.

Previous to joining Cisco Mr. Kozel worked at SRI International, where he participated in the early design and development of the Internetwork Protocol model (TCP/IP), and packet radio networks. He graduated from the University of California, Davis, with a degree in Electrical Engineering.

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THEME OF THE PRESENTATION

Mr Kozel's presentation will cover the impact of the Internet Revolution on learning, teaching, training in the 21st Century. Specifically, Mr Kozel will discuss how the Internet is changing the way education and training is provisioned and how the 'economics' of education are likely to change due to the impact of the Internet.

Incidently, Cisco has recently launched its Cisco Networking Academies programme in Europe and we would like to propose that part of the presentation covers the aims and objectives of this programme. The Cisco Networking Academies programme is a new venture between the education sector and Cisco. It brings into play the advantages of networked learning as education and training become self directed, individually paced, continuous and reflective.

This initiative, which was started in the U.S. over a year ago, has seen tremendous support from academic institutions worldwide and is an excellent example of how the network is the engine behind this new Internet-enabled world for education.
 

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