Welcome to the 8th Annual Global Cisco Partner Innovation Challenge!

The Cisco Partner Innovation Challenge drives ecosystem growth, skills evolution, and value creation by empowering partners to expand Cisco's tech impact, shift to software expertise, and unlock new revenue streams. Focused on innovation with emerging technologies like AI, it helps solve customer challenges and enhances Cisco’s platform value using APIs.

Since inception, this global competition has awarded over $4M. For 2025, we're raising the grand prize to $250,000, reinstating the $200,000 AI innovation prize, and continuing our Partnering for Purpose (P4P) collaboration. Thank you for participating—good luck!