live on c-span, c-span radio, and online at c-span.org. all starting next monday with chris christie and the keynote address. also, senator john mccain and jeb bush. the democratic convention speakers include the san antonio mayor of delivering the keynote address, please, michelle obama, and bill clinton. >> and now, a conversation on the impact in future of technology on the world. ranging from censorship and other countries to the use of twitter in the olympics. this aspen institute form is an hour and five minutes. -- forum is an hour and five minutes. >> thank you all and welcome. let me ask you to take your seats, it be made.

i want to thank the jerry murdoch and geena murdoch, the chairs of our gala event. [applause] on behalf of our chairman, bob steele and myself, will come to our summer gala event. we will have two conversations here. i will moderate the second. but on the theory that you have seen enough of me, zoey baird will moderate the first with padma warrior, an old friend and one of the great pioneers of the digital age. so let me turn it right over to the zoe baird and pat month -- and padma warrior. [applause] >> thank you. some of you know me as zoe

baird. [laughter] i've known walter long time. but we are here today to talk with padma warrior and not about me. she is the chief technology and strategy officer for cisco and formerly the chief engineer. she is a real scientist. one of the stories i can tell you to confirm that took place almost 20 years ago now when padma sent her wonderful husband, a former boarding school roommate of argent, to the grocery store to get a pregnancy test because she thought she was pregnant. he dutifully went off and came back with the pregnancy test. she took the test and she was positive. most of us would start celebrating, but not padma. to her, nothing can be the

truth unless it can be replicated so she sent him back to the store. so she got her wonderful child who is now 19 pin tell us very briefly -- who is now 19. tell us very briefly what is cisco. >> it deals with the equipment that makes the internet run. it is the backbone of the internet, the physical infrastructure that you don't see behind every time you see in -- you send a message or a tweet. it is a global company with about 50,000 to 60,000 employees on a worldwide basis, including our partners. about $40 billion in revenue. my job is to develop the strategy for the company.

about three weeks ago, i moved to where i run all m&a for cisco. it is a company that is made up of acquisitions. it is a 26-year-old company. we have acquired an integrated about 150 companies. so m&a is an extremely important part and i now run that. >> your background includes being a major force in the development of mobile technology when you were at motorola. you now have been with the company for a number of years. it has been a major force in creating the network that is the internet. as you look out at how profound those changes have been and you think about your strategy is going forward and what you see happening in the expansion and

explosion of data and the ability to network and connect data and the explosion of social networking and the unstructured data that is coming from social networking, do you think that this will be as profoundly impact fall on all of our lives and businesses and social interactions as the internet and mobile technology has been? if so, in what way? >> i started my career in the semiconductor industry making chips that went into building two-way communication devices that then led to the beginnings of the cell phone. i was with motorola before coming to cisco. and now motorola system -- motorola is part of google. and when the cell phone was first invented, it was meant to be a business persons device. the idea was the only business

person, a businessman at the time, right, would leave his office and he would feel a need to call back to the office. that is why the cell phone was invented. it took a life of its own. it is now probably about five times as many cell phone sold for every baby born. about every second five babies are born on earth. it is something we cannot live without. the internet has played a huge world and connecting person to person and is becoming a platform to connect the machines to machines. those two world are emerging. it is interesting to see what it will create. some interesting data point to think about, i think it will be a good opportunity. we are beginning to see the use

of video beyond conferences. by the year 2016, four years, we will see a huge amounts of video traffic on the network to the tune of about 1.2 million minutes of video content every second. at the same time we expect in four years the wireless data will exceed wireline data. what we are consuming on cell phone devices will far exceed that is being created on wire line construction. that tells us that mobil and the combination of what it means in the future will be huge. we just did a survey of about

5000 college students in 15 countries. it is interesting what the survey told us. two of every five people said they would take a lower-paid job than work for a company that does not allow them to bring their own device or have access to twitter and facebook. the freedom of be able to use the device of their choice is more important to them them what they get paid for doing their job. the other data point was a one out of three said the internet was as important to them as air, water, food. [laughter] it has just become such an important part. i look at the mobile device and how it was change. i was born in india.

when i go back to india and i see the cell phone everywhere, in very remote parts of rural india, everybody has a cell phone. they use is in very different ways. it is having a huge impact. where this will go in the next decade will also begin to see what people react to in the tech industry with machine to machine communicating. people communicating will see a lot of data being sent to the network. one will be media and those type of data. the other will be small bits of data. with starting to see that a web of power. it is being made better by having sensors that monitor the grid. the grid you can think of as a

set of protocols. >> do you think that can be integrated into the fact that everyone can walk around with one of these to create new kinds of jobs that people are not doing today? do you think about how to enable that not just that someone wants to bring their devices to work but rather that all of a sudden they can do new things to create ways of making a living that they had never done before? >> absolutely. we have 10,000 academies around the world where we bring in

people and train people to understand how the network work. we want people on social networks. they understand technology on a deeper level. at different levels you can think about job creation. one is just laying out the structures. even though we're seeing much more can activity, there is a lot of the world war connectivity is an issue. we need to get the right type of policy is driven. and that sort of the infrastructure being put in place. then there is the aspect of what happens when things that we're used to having in the physical world turns to another world. there is an article i was reading that talks about how our brain is now actually -- we have been habitual to using technology in a different way that changes the way our brain functions. what that means in the future is going to be an interesting

aspect. it takes 20 days for and actions to become a habit and 26 for to become a good habit. if you want to start climbing the stairs to have to do that for 26 days. think about how we use those devices constantly. they become habitual. it is a good habit or a bad habit. it is changing the way people's brains will function. that creates new source of innovation that will drive jobs to be different. there will be opportunity to drive different types of industries. you see this already with things like pinterest. it is a digital clipboard. you find a web site or a picture and you pin it. when i was a kid i used to cut out pictures of magazine put it on a bulletin board. now i do it digitally.

it will create new opportunities for us to share in work in a different way going forward. gaming is another thing. i was reading that today there are 7 billion hours of gaming in every week that happens on line. video games or online gaming. some of you may think that is insane. my son may be one of those people. the university of california and san francisco did research that says gaming can delay onset of dementia. it helps to be a focus. gamers are extremely focused people. they can stay focused for very long periods of time. i think we probably are figuring out what the future will be like.

it is exciting to be in technology. >> when you think about being one of 51 in a class of 250 at the very prestigious institutes at new delhi and you look at where you are now in the women around you, how do you feel that things have changed for women in engineering and sciences? i know you spent a lot of time encouraging women to develop in the fields. >> i did my studying at the institute of technology. it is known as the hot core engineering school.

there were only five women in my class of about 250. i went to college when i was 16. i thought i knew everything. i realized that i was around people that are much smarter than me. it was very intimidating. it was very intimidating. what helped me get through my curriculum was the fact that there were four other women who felt the same way that i did. we stuck together and became a community that helped each other. that experience stayed with me throughout my whole life. it is very important because there are very few women in technology to help and support each other. i do events at my home, where i bring --especially women entrepreneurs, connect them with other experience women. there is no media. there is no press.

it is an informal way to share experiences. it has changed. when i started working, just the notion that as a woman you can be yourself and be recognized and be a leader it accept a more now than it was when i started working 20 years ago when i started working in the technical industry we were told to dress a certain way, talk a certain way, you were told to stand up when you were speaking. there were certain behavior is that were imposed on me as a woman in the industry. hopefully, these days women can feel like they can be themselves. that is what i tell the men i mentor appeared the most important thing is to be who you are. if you love jewelry, wear jewelry. be yourself. >> 20 years ago i thought one

of america's great global competitive edges would be our ability to take advantage of the 50% of our population that was women and we would be able to draw on that talent in way that other countries have not. do you think that is true? is that a place where american has a competitive edge? do you think it is pretty much the same in other countries? >> we do have a competitive edge. the whole reason i came to the u.s. and state was for that reason. i came to go to grad school. i came to u.s. with $100 and a

one-way ticket. i felt like i could be successful here. my our regional plan was to finish my ph.d. and go back to teaching. i think in general that is true. both men and women can be competitive and can truly rely on their contributions. i just participated in research that we did for the congress. we are looking at university research and talking about is the american university research weakening? is the issue the administration or contribution by the federal government?

i do feel concerned that we ought to do more to maintain our edge in hire research. -- higher research in universities. that is still where we differ in shape from other countries. it serves as a magnet to get intelligence from the rest of the world. >> in addition to taking advantage of the talents of women now go this country and investing more in research, what else do you see as potentially competitive edge for this country as we compete with india and china and others? >> innovation is truly an edge here. even with in the u.s., the notion of a silicon valley is difficult to replicate.

there have been many studies done on can we can do that. we are seeing more pockets of innovation come up in new york and other parts of the country which is extremely important. i was on a state department sponsored trip to russia. russia is thinking about creating a effort to where they can encourage entrepreneurs to start companies. this is where the u.s. leads the world. we need to maintain that magic formula of creating great risk taking with great ideas that young people can come up with ideas and create companies that grow into big companies like google and others. that is what set apart from the rest of the world. we need to do everything to preserve that. >> well done.

>> here's the question when president obama was elected, he was interested in you been his chief technology officer. that was not the direction you went. have you taken the job, what would your priorities be? >> i'm not very qualified to answer. there is a lot that we can do. investing in big problems we need to solve whether it is alternative energies or new materials. we can understand the research that happens in universities. maybe i am biased. going back to trading a kind of things is important. i work at cisco now. it as important to look at the physical innovations we can derive as well as other innovations.

but we look at new materials, the government can really sponsored large-scale research projects looking at research universities. companies to benefit from that. we can create new types of industries. that is something i would feel whoever the president has to have. >> we will not get into the question of whether you can have it all. that has been talk here a lot. how is it you managed to keep fresh and to succeed in it all? you have a wonderful husband and child. you have an extraordinary career. you were hiking this morning. every day saturday morning you take a digital detox.

is that what enables you to have it all? >> every saturday morning and made a rule. i took a job to run all of our enterprises. i was working all the time. about 1.5 years ago i made a rule that on saturday mornings it is my time. i write haikus. i paint. this morning we went hiking. i want to do something that keeps me away from all devices. i really am disciplined about doing that. i am trying to make that a habit. i have done more than 66 days now. hopefully it is a good habit. there are occasions when i have to travel. i blow my own rule. by and large, i feel it is really important. in this article i talk about it

as being very good for my brain. sometimes things happening constantly, just like any exercise physically, you feel more energy. i feel when i meditate and paint or write poetry, the more clearly i think than if i am sending a nasty e-mail. at this is a disciplined way for me to think clearly. >> it is a great privilege for all of us to have you here. [applause] >> are we going to do hand held? thank you. while they are getting seated, we are honoring them for their service to technology.