Hey Spark, How Is Cisco Partner Summit?

Cisco introduces Spark Assistant and Spark Room 70, and lays out its AI roadmap. Cisco this week is holding its annual reseller conference, Partner Summit, in Dallas. When Rowan Trollope, SVP & GM of IoT and Applications at Cisco, delivered his keynote today, the company unveiled its AI-powered voice assistant with the not so inventive name of "Cisco Spark Assistant." There is, of course, a veritable cornucopia of voice assistants out there, as we can ask Siri, Google, Alexa, Cortana or other popular AIs a question and get a prompt answer back. The reasons that communications and collaboration industry professionals should care is because the Spark AI is entirely focused on improving meetings.