Inclusion and collaboration The practice of diversity and inclusion is constantly evolving. Years ago, businesses focused primarily on diversity—or ensuring representation of a wide range of individuals. Later, organizations shifted to diversity and inclusion, striving to create belonging and better understand diverse communities and meet their needs. At Cisco, we have taken this a step further. As a company that builds collaboration tools, we are intent on removing barriers to connection and leveraging technology to enable people to participate from anywhere, anytime. Today, our focus on inclusion and collaboration allows us to engage across the full spectrum of diversity with initiatives powered by our collaboration technology. But our work is far from over. The inclusion challenges that persist in our society have driven Cisco to shift yet again in our practices and approaches to this work. To move beyond transactional and toward transformational change, we must accelerate, integrate, and scale fairness and equity across Cisco. We will achieve this by both evolving our existing inclusion solutions and developing new ones. For all solutions, technology will play an important role, from data that informs future innovations to digitization that allows concepts to scale through always-on online access to resources and solutions. In the summer of 2020, in the face of growing awareness of systemic racial injustice, oppression, and inequality, Cisco reached a tipping point in our commitment to inclusion and collaboration. The moment was calling for something compelling, substantive, and impactful. It led us to establish our Social Justice Beliefs and launch 12 subsequent Actions. While our Beliefs and Actions began as a show of support and solidarity with the Black community, they provide a blueprint for how we respond to injustice and address inequity for any community. Our Actions are enterprisewide, global priorities. While we have written goals and metrics for each of our Actions, these goals may evolve as community needs change. We created the Inclusive Future Action Office, led by a dedicated team with cross-functional business expertise, to respond to these needs and accelerate Cisco priorities. The Action Office has developed an Action Strategy for each Action, as well as assembled an Action Team and assigned one or more executive sponsors. Our Action Office will help us be relentless in our progress and support teams with the thought partnership and resources necessary to expand impact. Cisco’s Social Justice Actions Action 1: Influence the ecosystem Action 2: Increase representation Action 3: Expand pay parity Action 4: Increase Board diversity Action 5: Deliver anti-discrimination education Action 6: Connect leaders and employees Action 7: Supplier engagement Action 8: Commit to HBCUs Action 9: Support Black-owned companies Action 10: Diversify partner ecosystem Action 11: Invest in innovation Action 12: Human rights in technology solutions FUTURE INTRO POWER INCLUSIVE