Ah, technology. To quote Steve Jobs, arguably the most famous disruptor of our time, "we have no idea how far it's going to go". Whether you're the savviest techy around or a complete tech-dummy or somewhere in between, join Carla Santos, a journalist eager to learn more about tech-related matters, and Christopher Rossa, who continuously seeks to demystify technology, during their monthly conversations with specialists from different industries, who share their knowledge on hot topics such as cybersecurity, cloud, and artificial intelligence.
Very often, we hear on the news about a cyber-attack, where malicious hackers worked to disable a security system to either take it down or to steal information, usually to get a ransom.
But hacking …
The term "Process Mining" was first coined in a research proposal written by the Dutch computer scientist Wil van der Aalst, known as the Godfather of Process mining. This is how this new field of re…
The procurement function is currently changing, like most if not all business functions and operations, due to digital technology. Organisations are looking for solutions to advance procurement, whic…
In the last episode of Season 4, get to know TechTalk’s team a little better. They have inverted their roles from interviewers to interviewees and accepted the challenge to answer some of the intrigu…
Every two years, we put together with the Institut Luxembourgeois des Administrateurs (ILA) the ILA/PwC Fund Survey to assess the governance trends. For those who participated in the survey, cybersec…
We’ve all had some bad experiences as customers: waiting on hold for far too long, being bounced from one agent to another and another, looking for information on the website only to be left without …
Social media manager, Blogger, App Designer, Cloud Services Specialist, Big Data Analyst...these jobs barely existed 10 years ago. What’s coming next? A smart design home manager, algorithm bias audi…
The concept of the Experience Economy was first used by B. Joseph Pine II and James H. Gilmore in an article in 1998. While it has been around for a while, it is in the last five years that customer …
In today’s digital sphere, competition is fierce and people are constantly receiving information from every front. So, how can your organisation reach its audience more efficiently? Using corporate d…
An increasing number of businesses are turning to the cloud to save costs and drive efficiencies, a trend reinforced by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this episode of TechTalk, we speak with Stéphane Zema…
Customer experience, user experience...and the list goes on and on. In fact, “experience” has become a sort of suffix to which we add different types of actors, depending on the idea we want to conve…
In this episode of TechTalk, we speak with Kurt Fields, Director in Emerging Technology Advisory at PwC, about automating trust, one of the six technology convergences that PwC has isolated. But can …
Imagine a future where everything has a twin, but that twin only exists in the digital world, like a simulation of reality that allows us to uncover new insights and test scenarios. Can you imagine t…
Some years ago, PwC, after a thorough assessment process, came up with the Essential 8 technologies for business.
In this episode of TechTalk, we speak with Scott Likens, Emerging Technology Leader f…
While we’ve come a long way when it comes to gender parity, and progress has been made in a number of industries, others remain behind. Such is the case of technology, where women occupy less than 7%…
Can you imagine what’s like to shift from 4,000 daily remote workers to 35,000 over just one weekend? In this episode of TechTalk, we speak with Ken Ducatel, IT Security Director at the European Comm…
Sustainable Finance and ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance), arguably on the path to become a business paradigm, have taken a hold of the market and are moving from niche to mainstream by now.…
In this episode of TechTalk, we’ve invited Andreas Braun to join us to explain to us, in a simple way, what robo-advisors are and how they work. Andreas is a Senior Expert on Biometrics & AI at PwC L…
Prototyping isn’t new. Humans have been prototyping for centuries. With digital technology influencing almost every single sphere of our lives, it has become even more important.
In this episode, we …
Imagine you live in a world where every action, interaction and movement is rated and each citizen has a score. Well, to some this might sound like a Black Mirror’s episode, but this world isn’t that…