Bob Friday is vice president and chief technology officer at Juniper‘s AI-Driven Enterprise business unit that develops self-learning wireless networks using artificial intelligence. He was co-founder, vice president, and chief technology officer at Mist, which is part of Juniper Networks and develops self-learning wireless networks using artificial intelligence. He started his career in wireless at Metricom (Ricochet wireless network) developing and deploying wireless mesh networks across the country to connect the first generation of Internet browsers. Following Metricom, Bob co-founded Airespace, a start-up focused on helping enterprises manage the flood of employees bringing unlicensed WiFi technology into their businesses. Following Cisco’s acquisition of Airespace in 2005, Bob became the VP/CTO of Cisco enterprise mobility and drove mobility strategy and investments in the wireless business (e.g., Navini, Cognio, ThinkSmart, Phunware, Wilocity, Meraki). He also drove industry standards such as Hot Spot 2.0 and market efforts such as Cisco’s Connected Mobile Experience. He holds more than 15 patents.