Chief Information & Customer Officer, Extreme Networks
Search every verified Anisha Vaswani interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Anisha Vaswani, Chief Information and Customer Officer at Extreme Networks, spoke at TiEcon 2025 about AI adoption and leadership. She described her role as overseeing both IT and customer experience at the networking company. Vaswani stated that AI adoption requires both executive leadership driving the initiative and a resurgence of early adopters among employees. She emphasized the need for AI literacy and education, citing risks related to data, brand, and reputation. Vaswani noted that the stakes are high for companies that adopt AI well, and that close partnership between CIOs and CMOs is essential. In earlier appearances, Vaswani discussed her career journey and personal experiences. She described being the youngest editor at 24 of two magazines and later founding a creative wedding consultancy. She stated that self-belief and resilience are important, and that networking is key to finding opportunities. In a TEDx talk, she recounted personal challenges, including her family's financial struggles and the demolition of their property, and said she turned to education and teaching as a path forward.
“I'm the CIO and the Chief Customer Officer at Extreme Networks, which is a networking company providing networking solutions and software.”
“It was great to get different perspectives — I heard Ji Bansal and his journey as an entrepreneur and his mindset about how you scale companies.”
“The CMO is just one of many customers we serve internally, so how do you balance those two perspectives when partnering across functions?”
“There's tremendous value to be tapped into with AI, and companies that do it well are going to succeed going forward — the stakes are high.”
“Unlike other adoption of technology, AI is all about a top-down approach — executives are supposed to know things first before you're even enabling it.”
“It's both: executive leadership driving AI and a resurgence in early AI adopters among employees who are excited to adopt.”
“As a CIO we need to think about how to drive AI literacy in general, because it's not without risks and downsides.”
“There are specific risks in terms of data risk, brand risk and reputation risk when adopting AI.”
“I think it's really important that there be a skilling or education component to this so we drive AI adoption successfully.”
“The experience was challenging at first because we needed to just understand the whole vision, but once we got Inventum Global on board they really helped us shape how our wedding would look like and it just turned out amazing — we're really happy with both of them.”
“Location for us has been a dream — we've traveled all over the world and we just fell in love with Roger the minute we saw it, and as for Lujo it ticked all our boxes: it was large enough to accommodate all our family and friends.”
“The service is great, the teams are amazing — it's such a modern contemporary hotel; it was amazing, magical.”
“Thank you to all the teams — thank you to Inventum Global, thank you to Inas community, thank you to the Lujo Hotel, thank you to the caterers, the food team, everybody that contributed; you made it so special for us.”
“Everyone contributed and made it so smooth and enjoyable not just for us but for all our guests, family and friends — it's been an incredible experience and memory.”
“You have to go out there and if you don't put yourself out there you're not going to know what you like and what you don't like so go through it all.”
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