Rakesh Reddy Kandula

Cisco new campus inaguaration

October 31st, 2007

Day 1: Visit of Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam (Former President of India) and John Chambers (CEO, Cisco Systems)

Dr. Kalam’s address to cisco’s employees can be seen here

Before Dr. Kalam’s speech, John was addressing us and we could see a live demo of 3-D telepresence (it was my first time…heard a lot abt it since I joined Cisco) . The only bad thing is that we could not be present in the auditorium physically but were only watching it in our IPTV’s in our cubicles .

Day 2: All-hands meeting with John Chambers

We had an all-hands meeting with John Chambers at KTPO, Whitefield. It was my first all-hands meeting and it was nice to see John addressing us and answering the employee’s questions.

Day 3: Cisco Career day and family day, Bollywood night (performance by sonu nigam, etc)

On the last day we had career day and family day wherein we can get our friends and family to show the campus. Also we had many events n lots of gifts as well. Managed to grab many free gifts and also won second prize in the mind games event .

In the evening we had the sonu nigam show…it was really gr88…and tht was the end of the 3 day celebrations

The conclusion is we had lots of fun for 3 days n many free gifts, t-shirts, etc

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