Awards:

• 2025 HITEC 100 Awardee: Badge | Announcement | Press Release | Full List

• 2023 HITEC 100 Awardee: Badge | Announcement 1 | Announcement 2 | Full List

• Carlos Pignataro is Fast Company's Innovative Leader of the Year: Fast Company | Cisco Newsroom

• Stevie's Tech Innovator of the Year 2021

• theboardiQ Hall of Fame LatinX: Hispanic Exceptional Leaders

• Stevie Awards: Tech Innovator of the Year 2021 | Two Stevie American Business Awards winner

• 2021 HITEC 100 Awardee: Announcement | Full List

• Pignataro named Fellow of National Academy of Inventors: NCSU News 1 | News 2 | News 3

• IEEE Communications Society Industrial Innovation Award

Press Releases and Interviews:

• PRESS RELEASE: Tech Founder and Big Tech Exec Join CED Board of Directors

• Innovation & Technology: interview with Carlos Pignataro — Cisco

• Meet Distinguished Engineer Carlos Pignataro

• Distinguished engineer connects people through technology

Emerging Technologies:

• Podcast: What AI Startups Get Wrong | YouTube, Heavy Networking, Packet Pushers

• New AI Product from Duke Professors Tackles Information Discovery and Synthesis

• Cutting Edge Technology to Shape our Future

• Podcast: Demystifying Multicloud, Adele Trombetta and Carlos Pignataro

• Adopting Smart Operations to Scale in a 5G World

Environmental and Social Sustainability:

• AI and Environmental Sustainability: Risks, Opportunities, and What Comes Next, The Conference Board report, Governance & Sustainability Center

• Podcast: Green Networking with Carlos Pignataro, Environment Variables

• Podcast: How to do Good Tech & Tech for Good? Spreaker | Spotify | Apple Podcasts, Tech To The Rescue

• IEEE Sustainable Network Operations (SNO) SIG Announced

• IEEE/IFIP Network Ops & Mgmt Symposium: PS 2: Towards a More Sustainable Networking

Inclusive Innovation:

• How Code the Dream Is Building a More Inclusive Future

• Hispanic Heritage Month - Did You Know?

• Podcast: Innovation Through Passion and Purpose, “What Makes You Tech”, Tony Colon and Carlos Pignataro

• 20 Years of Conexión

• ERG Leadership Conference Keynote Announced

• The Power of Inclusive Innovation

• Podcast: Innovate Everywhere, Phil Wolfenden and Carlos Pignataro

• A Toast to Inventors: Cisco's 10th Annual Patent Awards Ceremony

• Career Innovation: Reinventing Yourself at Cisco

• Building Bonds While Building a School