Giovanna Carofiglio

Dr. Giovanna Carofiglio leads incubation and innovation at Cisco Outshift (Cisco Incubation engine), currently focusing on AI/ agentic applications to network management and on agentic observability and evaluation. With Cisco Systems since 2015, as Distinguished Engineer and Senior Director in various cross-company innovation organizations, she has driven technology and product innovation projects in collaboration with product divisions, academic and business partners and customers. With more than 70 publications and 60 patents, her area of expertise throughout the years has spanned over content-networking, network mobility, real-time communications, application quality of experience inference, cloud observability and cybersecurity. Previously, between 2008 and 2015 she has been with Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs as research scientist and head of the research department on content networking, pioneering research work on Information-Centric Networking. She received her MS in EE and CS from P