Chris Lapp is a Sr. Specialist Solutions Engineer in Cisco’s Cloud and AI Infrastructure (CAI) group for the America’s. Chris’ primary focus is on the Media and Entertainment Vertical, covering broadcasters, live entertainment venues, Sports, and next generation entertainment customers, including esports.

Chris provides thought leadership to Cisco Sales teams, Product Business units, and Engineering, helping cisco enhance and create its products and offerings. Chris is also well known in the Industry, not only for being one of the top media networking engineers, but for being a customer advocate, and helping customers realize their business outcomes and goals through Cisco Technology.

He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to Cisco from past experience in the broadcast industry with operations, engineering, manufacturing, and system integration.

Chris is heavily involved in the creation of next generation technology for the for the media industry, this includes standards development, as well as open-source contributions like Media Streaming Mesh, which is a service mesh developed specifically to handle the complexities of Media workflows in cloud native architecture for Private, Public, and Hybrid cloud.