PwC's Tech While You Trek is a podcast series talking about all things tech such as AI, augmented reality, virtual reality, automation, data visualization, design thinking, agile and beyond. Learn how these emerging technologies and trends are solving problems for individual consumers, businesses, and society in 15 minutes or less.
PwC's Tech While You Trek: Tech Equity
Tune in to our season finale of Tech While You Trek to hear a frank discussion with PwC’s new Technology Impact Officer Mitra Best about the Digital Divide, why women and other minorities are not equally represented in the tech industry and how to close the gap.
6/28/2021 • 13 minutes, 34 seconds
PwC's Tech While You Trek: Drone Analytics
Tune into another episode of Tech While You Trek to hear PwC Director Kumar Satyam talk about how drones are helping various industries collect data in a smarter, faster way and risk-free.
6/14/2021 • 11 minutes, 54 seconds
PwC's Tech While You Trek: Systems Thinking
Tune into another episode of Tech While You Trek to hear PwC Director Lyle Wallis discuss using systems thinking and simulations to solve problems. This approach aims to see a situation more holistically, recognize the relationships behind it, and uses simulation tools to experiment with solutions.
5/18/2021 • 13 minutes, 26 seconds
PwC's Tech While You Trek: Telehealth Trends
Tune into another episode of Tech While You Trek to hear PwC Managing Director Ben Isgur discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the evolution of healthcare technology, resulting in an increase in telehealth visits.
5/3/2021 • 13 minutes, 50 seconds
PwC's Tech While You Trek: Conversational AI
Tune into another episode of Tech While You Trek to hear PwC Senior Managers Skylar Versage and Ernesto Valdes discuss Conversational AI as it refers to solutions like chat bots and voice assistants. Users that want to interact with products and services, using natural language as a form of communication, seek to utilize conversational AI.
4/19/2021 • 13 minutes, 24 seconds
PwC's Tech While You Trek: Immersive Interfaces
Tune into another episode of Tech While You Trek to hear PwC Senior Manager Shaz Hoda and Senior Associate Justin Hromalik discuss how immersive technologies utilize human attributes such as touch and emotion to bring users closer to the digital world.
4/5/2021 • 11 minutes, 29 seconds
PwC's Tech While You Trek: Responsible AI
Tune into another episode of Tech While You Trek to hear PwC Director Ilana Golbin on the importance of taking a step back and responsibly developing artificial intelligence (AI) to mitigate risks and reduce bias, as well as preparing for the future. PwC recently published the AI Predictions report to share the top five AI trends that businesses are facing.
3/22/2021 • 13 minutes, 52 seconds
PwC's Tech While You Trek: Tech Innovation for Accessibility and Inclusive Design
Tune into another episode of Tech While You Trek to hear PwC Managing Director Ramona Pierson and Director Thomas Hawkins talk about how they are using artificial intelligence to create more inclusive and accessible technology products.
3/8/2021 • 13 minutes, 56 seconds
PwC's Tech While You Trek: Hyperconnected Networks
Tune into another episode of Tech While You Trek to hear PwC Director Vijay Ujjain and Managers Antoinette Young and Paul-Marc Schweitzer talk about the emerging technology convergence theme of hyperconnected networks. Billions of IoT-connected endpoints, combined with the cloud, 5G and mesh networking are creating stable, high-speed, low-latency networks that serve as the backbones of larger-scale infrastructure, making connectivity ubiquitous.
2/22/2021 • 13 minutes, 31 seconds
PwC's Tech While You Trek: Fast Tracking Digital Finance Transformation
Tune into another episode of Tech While You Trek to hear PwC Principal Michelle Wilkes share how PwC has upskilled their entire workforce and built more than 6,500 automations to optimize their processes, and why they are now offering some of these automations to clients to help them in their digital transformation through the Digital on Demand marketplace.
2/8/2021 • 10 minutes, 5 seconds
PwC's Tech While You Trek: Working Autonomy
Tune into another episode of Tech While You Trek to hear PwC Director Joseph Voyles talk about how working autonomy will unlock the immense value created when automation, robotics and intelligent systems operate in unison. Autonomous systems gather large amounts of previously inaccessible data from IoT sensors, transaction histories, machine data, human input and many other sources for analytics and feedback, resulting in better predictive maintenance and intelligence.
1/15/2021 • 10 minutes, 46 seconds
PwC's Tech While You Trek: Revolutionizing the Way We Upskill
Tune into another episode of Tech While You Trek to hear PwC Partner Suneet Dua and Director Kristy Lizarraga talk about PwC’s digital story, including the new ProEdge product. ProEdge is a cloud-based platform that helps companies and their employees get the digital skills needed to drive innovation and inspire continuous learning.
12/7/2020 • 12 minutes, 48 seconds
PwC's Tech While You Trek: Digital Reflection
Tune into another episode of Tech While You Trek to hear PwC Partner Anand Rao and Senior Manager Sindy Ma talk about an emerging technology convergence theme called digital reflection. Digital reflection is a virtual representation of complex and interdependent physical processes and interactions that can be tested against real-time scenarios in order to predict an immediate outcome or inform business decisions. Digital reflection can include emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Blockchain, Drones, IoT, and Virtual Reality.
11/23/2020 • 13 minutes, 39 seconds
PwC's Tech While You Trek: Data Visualization
Data visualizations aren’t just about the data. Tune into another episode of Tech While You Trek to hear PwC Senior Managers Heather Bradbury and Shupeng Han speak about how important it is to use human-centered design and a cross functional-team to develop a problem statement for the story you’re trying to tell with your data.
11/16/2020 • 5 minutes, 50 seconds
PwC's Tech While You Trek: Tips for Working Remotely
Tune into another episode of Tech While You Trek to hear PwC Director Joe Lalley and Senior Manager David Ulonska talk about communicating, collaborating and learning while working remotely and the importance of using virtual collaboration tools.
11/9/2020 • 13 minutes, 28 seconds
PwC's Tech While You Trek: 3D Printing
3D printing has disrupted manufacturing, healthcare and even the food industry by providing a way to print new shapes, textures and features. Tune into this episode of Tech While You Trek to learn more about 3D printing from Miguel Smart, PwC partner in the industrial products practice, Kareem Elwakil, PwC director in the pharmaceutical life sciences advisory practice and Amelia Bauer, PwC manager in the emerging technology lab.
11/2/2020 • 20 minutes, 17 seconds
PwC's Tech While You Trek: Creative Computing Program
Tune into this episode of Tech While You Trek to hear the National Co-Lead for Access Your Potential’s Creative Computing program Brittany Ryan discuss how PwC is teaching the skills of the future to fourth and fifth graders in underserved and diverse communities, and also starting a new coding program called NextGen for young girls.
10/19/2020 • 11 minutes, 13 seconds
PwC's Tech While You Trek: Business-Led Innovation
Tune into another episode of Tech While You Trek to hear PwC Emerging Technology Lab Director Tom Foth discuss the importance of business-led innovation and by using design thinking and systems thinking how to bring valuable ideas to the marketplace.
10/12/2020 • 10 minutes, 8 seconds
PwC's Tech While You Trek: Extended Reality
Tune into another episode of Tech While You Trek to hear PwC Emerging Technology Managing Director Daniel Eckert and PwC Emerging Technology Manager Andrea Mower discuss Extended Reality (XR), which often uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) in its applications and is experienced through Internet of Things (IoT) headsets or mobile devices, enabling workers to practice even risky tasks in a safe, realistic way. They also share the results of PwC's enterprise study on the effectiveness of using Virtual Reality to train leadership development skills compared to traditional learning delivery modalities.
10/5/2020 • 14 minutes, 36 seconds
PwC's Tech While You Trek: Agile Metrics
How do organizations know if their Agile transformations are successful and fit for the future? Tune into this episode of Tech While You Trek to hear PwC Partner Zach Sachen talk about how PwC is consulting with clients to develop metrics for their Agile transformations.
9/28/2020 • 10 minutes, 59 seconds
PwC's Tech While You Trek: Artificial Intelligence + Human Intelligence
Tune into this episode of Tech While You Trek to hear PwC Tax Emerging Technology Director David Resseguie, PwC Tax Emerging Technology Manager Amber McKenzie and IFS PwC Intelligence Technology Director Brad Blanchard discuss how fusing Artificial Intelligence with Human Intelligence is expanding intelligence beyond what either can do on their own.
9/21/2020 • 13 minutes, 48 seconds
PwC's Tech While You Trek: Automating Trust
Tune into another episode of Tech While You Trek to hear three PwC staff members who work in the emerging technology space: Kurt Fields, Jen Hanania and Matt Earl. They'll discuss how emerging technologies like blockchain, the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) automate trust by working together to ensure the authenticity of data while verifying identities and enabling secure multi-party transactions.
9/14/2020 • 13 minutes, 2 seconds
PwC's Tech While You Trek: Design Thinking
Think you need to be a designer to use design thinking methodology? Tune into this episode of Tech While You Trek to hear Lindsay Engelbert, a strategist from our PwC Experience Center, and Joe Lalley, PwC's Your Tomorrow digital experience leader, debunk this myth. Learn about the five phase approach to design thinking to understand your clients’ problems, understand their pain points and then leverage technology to solve them.
9/7/2020 • 11 minutes, 35 seconds
PwC's Tech While You Trek: Emerging Tech Convergence Themes
Tune into this episode of Tech While You Trek to hear PwC Emerging Technology Leader Scott Likens and PwC Emerging Technology Research Lead Tony Anderson talk about the convergence themes of the essential eight emerging technologies: automating trust, hyperconnected networks, extended reality, immersive interfaces, digital reflection, and working autonomy. Together these technologies yield powerful business solutions that are greater than the sum of their parts.
8/28/2020 • 12 minutes, 57 seconds
PwC's Tech While You Trek: Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality
Imagine peering at your lightbulb through your phone and the light bulb turns on. Seem unrealistic? Listen to this episode of Tech While You Trek to hear Tim Marco of PwC’s Emerging Tech Lab share the work PwC is doing with Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) and how they’re making that very idea a reality.
8/24/2020 • 11 minutes, 18 seconds
PwC's Tech While You Trek: PwC’s Digital Upskilling Journey
Tune into this pilot episode of the Tech While You Trek podcast series to hear PwC's Vice Chair, Chief Products and Technology Officer Joe Atkinson and Digital Talent Leader Sarah McEneaney share PwC's digital transformation journey and what they've learned along the way.
8/14/2020 • 15 minutes, 26 seconds
PwC Tech While You Trek: User-Centered Design
The user should be at the heart of every project design. In this episode of Tech While You Trek, PwC Learning and Development Innovation Manager Jill Kirtland and PwC Your Tomorrow Experienced Design Leads Nicole Norton and Greg Smith share why the user is so integral to every project.
7/6/2020 • 14 minutes, 58 seconds
PwC's Tech While You Trek: Artificial Intelligence Lab
PwC is becoming a leader in artificial intelligence (AI) by creating an Artificial Intelligence Lab that makes it easier to access AI models our data scientists are creating. In this episode, PwC AI Lab Leader James Larmer and PwC Data Scientist Judy Zhu describe how we’re enabling AI within PwC and consulting with clients about structuring successful data scientist teams.
7/6/2020 • 10 minutes, 20 seconds
PwC's Tech While You Trek: Business, Experience & Technology (BXT)
Tune into this episode of Tech While You Trek to hear Director Raj Dharan and Senior Manager Ariel Hammer of the New York PwC Experience Center talk about how they use Business, Experience and Technology (BXT) methodologies to help their clients understand their customer, employee and user needs to deliver transformative experiences that meet those needs.
7/6/2020 • 13 minutes, 44 seconds
PwC's Tech While You Trek: New Ventures (SaaS)
March 8 is International Women’s Day. Tune into this episode of Tech While You Trek to hear PwC Global and US New Ventures Leader Vicki Huff Eckert, and PwC Director of Product Experience Devin Henkel discuss how PwC is developing software as a service (SaaS) in New Ventures and how the team is embracing diversity and empowering women in technology.
7/6/2020 • 11 minutes, 27 seconds
PwC's Tech While You Trek: Agile Scrum Teams
Tune into this episode of Tech While You Trek to listen to PwC's Advisory Senior Manager James Seduski to discuss the roles on a Scrum team, how managing an Agile Scrum team is different than managing other project teams and how we’re helping companies switch to Agile and overcome any barriers.