Have you noticed something different about customer service calls lately? Maybe even something...delightful? Perhaps the service rep not only anticipated your question but had the perfect suggestion? That could be AI working behind the scenes, supporting those

call center employees and making life a little smoother for you. It’s just one way technology is shaping our everyday lives and changing how businesses serve customers—and interact with their workforce. All this change is happening at breakneck speed—so how

can businesses get ready for a new kind of connection with customers and the world? And how might those connections create new ways of working—and new kinds of value?

To find out, our hosts Femi Oke and Lizzie O’Leary are joined by Kris Narayanan, Chief Digital Officer at Verizon Business. Then, Matt Wood, PwC’s Global and US Commercial Technology and Innovation Officer, tells us what leaders need to do to drive the AI revolution

in a time of technological and cultural change.

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Throughout this special series, we’ve been exploring what happens to business and society when people try to do things differently. But without the funding to pay for that change, real progress can stall. In this episode, we’ll look at the way projects are financed and how it’s unlocking innovation and new partnerships across industries.

Hosts Femi Oke and Lizzie O’Leary are following the money into the world of data centers—massive investments requiring trillions of dollars—to uncover how this backbone of our digital lives is built and paid for. We’ll hear from Udhay Mathialagan, Managing Partner in Brookfield’s Infrastructure Group and the CEO of their Global Data Center Group, about why the company’s focusing on the infrastructure that runs AI systems. Plus: Eric Janson, Global Private Equity and Principal Investors Leader, PwC US, helps us dig into creative financing models, the evolving role of financial services, and why capital is the quiet force reshaping entire industries.

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Making all the items we need and use in our everyday lives requires an intricate network of producers, suppliers, and distributors. But intricacy can have consequences: supply chains today are frequently disrupted, even as new technologies are changing everything we thought we knew about manufacturing. Long-standing processes are being revamped to try to make them more efficient, and that means a radical rethinking of the way we make things.

In this special episode of Take on Tomorrow, hosts Lizzie O’Leary and Femi Oke talk with Kiva Allgood, Head of the Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chains at the World Economic Forum, about the impact of automation on the workforce. Meanwhile, Cara Haffey, Leader of Industry for Industrial Manufacturing and Services at PwC UK, unpacks the opportunities this shift brings for new types of businesses.

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