{"id":8877,"date":"2023-11-18T13:15:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T13:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afiniti.com\/?p=8877"},"modified":"2025-04-08T18:03:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T18:03:19","slug":"mike-fries-and-tom-inskip-discuss-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.afiniti.com\/mike-fries-and-tom-inskip-discuss-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireside chat: Mike Fries and Tom Inskip discuss artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Afiniti President Thomas Inskip moderated a fireside chat hosted by Mike Fries, Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of Liberty Global, and Balan Nair, Chief Executive Officer of Liberty Latin America, at Afiniti\u2019s Senior Leadership offsite in October.<\/h6>\n<p>Mike shared insights about Liberty Global\u2019s 30-year growth history, the group\u2019s international expansion and the synergies between its different consumer brands that include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virginmedia.com\/broadband\">Virgin Media<\/a> O2 in the UK, Telenet in Belgium, Sunrise in Switzerland and Virgin Media in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Mike, Balan and Tom had an engaging discussion about the future of the global telco industry, and about how artificial intelligence will revolutionize the telecom and cable space. Mike, Balan and Tom spoke about Liberty Global\u2019s and Afiniti\u2019s commitment to innovation and their investments in cutting-edge technology through new products, services and partnerships. Mike and Tom agreed that all artificial intelligence strategies should place the customer at the center and aim to drive incremental growth alongside traditional marketing and sales methods.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to continuing our strong partnership with Liberty Global!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afiniti President Thomas Inskip moderated a fireside chat hosted by Mike Fries, Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of Liberty Global, and Balan Nair, Chief Executive Officer of Liberty Latin America, at Afiniti\u2019s Senior Leadership offsite in October. Mike shared insights about Liberty Global\u2019s 30-year growth history, the group\u2019s international expansion and the synergies between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-8877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-company-news","tag-latest-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.afiniti.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.afiniti.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.afiniti.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.afiniti.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.afiniti.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8877"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/staging.afiniti.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11945,"href":"https:\/\/staging.afiniti.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8877\/revisions\/11945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.afiniti.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/13084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.afiniti.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.afiniti.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.afiniti.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}