Updated Army Guidance on Cisco LIVE! 2025 San Diego Conference Pass Requests
To Army GEMSS Community members interested in attending Cisco Live 2025 in San Diego, CA:
On behalf of Cisco Systems and World Wide Technology (WWT) you are cordially invited to Cisco LIVE! 2025 in San Diego, California, June 8-12, 2025. This event is Cisco Systems’ premier training and education event held annually with over 30,000 technologists from every industry and many attendees from academia, federal, state, and local governmental organizations.
Given the federal governments current restriction on TDY travel for civilian personnel (reference: Guidance on Use of Government Travel Charge Cards by Department of Defense Civilian Employees, 5 March 2025), WWT may provide Army Civilian personnel Cisco LIVE! 2025 Full Conference Passes for those individuals that will:
1. Self-fund all travel and lodging expenses for the event. In your application, all Army Civilian personnel must acknowledge that all travel and lodging will be self-paid prior to processing of Cisco LIVE passes, or,
2. Provide a GO/SES-level signed Exception to Policy memo for mission essential travel with available and approved TDY funding specifically for Cisco Live! 2025 conference participation. E-mail your GO / SES-signed Exception to Policy memo to usarmyciscogemss@wwt.com
For Army military personnel, WWT may provide Cisco LIVE 2025 Full Conference or IT Leadership passes and must acknowledge:
1. Availability of organizational TDY Funds, and
2. Commander approval for travel to Cisco LIVE! 2025
Please see this link to complete a Cisco LIVE! 2025 registration request. Army GEMSS Cisco LIVE! 2025 Request Form Once your submission has been received, WWT will provide your request to the Army GEMSS Contracting Officers Representative for final validation and approval to process registration requests.
Thank you for your support in this process. WWT looks forward to seeing you at Cisco LIVE! 2025 and visit the WWT Exhibit (Booth #3319) for our daily “Meet Your Army GEMSS Experts” from 2:00pm-4:00pm PST.
Cordially,
The Army GEMSS Team