Qualtrics CEO on How AI Agents Are Changing Experience Management
“What we’re finding is that greater customer experience is particularly critical when you have more uncertainty in any particular market,” explains Qualtrics CEO Zig Serafin to Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana, “What’s interesting is if you hone in on understating what drives your customer behavior, that usually brings more stability to uncertainty.” In this episode of Tech Disruptors, Serafin and Rana sit down to discuss Qualtrics’ history in customer experience (CX), autonomous AI agents in CX, and the data that underpins its AI-use cases.
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Google Code Assistant and Developer Workflows
From Microsoft to GitHub and now Google, Ryan J. Salva, who leads product management for developer tools and operations at Google Cloud, has spent over 20 years working in software development. He sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst Mandeep Singh to discuss the evolution of coding agents, Google’s coding assistant and how the new tools and capabilities could make it easy to migrate old code and change developers’ workflows.
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Google Cloud CTO on LLM Demand Surge, Use Cases
Since last year, Google has had 40x growth in Gemini use on its Vertex AI platform, highlighting the pace of demand in AI, says Will Grannis, chief technology officer of Google Cloud. In this episode of Tech Disruptors, Grannis sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst Mandeep Singh to talk about the variety of use cases with large-language-model deployments. They discuss the company’s Ironwood TPU launch to give an end-to-end stack perspective around inferencing workloads, and what it means for cloud demand.
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Microsoft on the Future of the Human-AI Agent Work Environment
“The average knowledge worker is interrupted every two minutes during work hours,” according to Microsoft Chief Marketing Officer Jared Spataro. “You’re getting an email, a meeting kind of request, a chat coming in, and if you do the math, that’s 275 times a day.” On this episode of Tech Disruptors, Spataro joins Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Technology Analyst Anurag Rana to discuss emerging trends in the way employees work and how AI is already changing the game. The two define the “Frontier Firm” and discuss why this is a big year for such organizations. They also talk about the introduction of new research and analyst AI agents and the future of head count and staffing needs.
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Gusto Scales Up HR-Payroll Software for SMBs
Helping small businesses manage all things human resources — payroll, benefits, tax compliance and employee onboarding — is Gusto’s central focus, which presents unique challenges given the fragmented customer base. Chief Technology Officer Mike Tria outlines the company’s product-portfolio suite and the evolution of the human-capital management industry over the past 10 years from a technology angle. In this Tech Disruptors podcast episode, BI analyst Niraj Patel sits down with Tria to discuss Gusto’s appeal across small and medium-sized business (SMBs), the leverage of its technology infrastructure (Ruby on Rails) to scale up for asynchronous workloads, the software ecosystem, its “Gus” AI solution and more.
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