Virginia Teixeira is a Distinguished Solutions Engineer in Cisco's global mass scale infrastructure team, covering SP, web and large enterprise segments. Focused on technology innovation with a business purpose, Virginia is in the forefront of new technology analysis and architectures definition, covering diverse but intertwined areas of the network such as AI networking infrastructure, IP transport/xHaul, trusted and sovereign infrastructure. Virginia has over 20 years of experience in the international telecommunication market, having held various technical roles in which she contributed to critical market transitions.