The CX Podcast

Welcome to a new show! Wallmart no longer needs Google to fight Amazon, Facebook keeps on growing but is criticized after paying kids for data access, Volvo will test its driverless concept car on Swedish roads and Disney’s streaming service is in for a though ride.

Welcome to a new Stevens’s Week! Lots of exciting tech news: Microsoft will be using its AI assistant Cortana to support Amazon and Google, Waymo openly shares the flaws of its self-driving vehicle services, Amazon launches delivery robots while Boeing presents a flying car and Netflix announced it will invest even more in original content in 2019. Enjoy!

Welcome to the new update! In this episode: AT&T and Magic Leap create business solutions with augmented reality together, half of the robots were fired in a Japanese robot hotel, Caper designed smart carts to take cashier-less stores to the next level, Chinese tech company ByteDance made a social app to challenge WeChat and Nike presented self-lacing smart sneakers just like in Back To The Fu...

Happy 2019 everyone! Welcome to the first show of the year, featuring Apple’s move to make iTunes available for Samsung, an Audi and Disney partnership that wants to bring VR into your car, AI algorithms that detect shared Netflix or Spotify accounts and Amazon Go stores keep on booming.

Welcome to the last episode of Steven’s Week this year! The topics: the movie screenplay about Snapchat is number one on the Hollywood blacklist, Starbucks is partnering up with Alibaba Group and Uber Eats, meeting apps are adding features to improve appearances, Elon Musk launched his boring company and Google Lens can now identify over one billion products.

10 predictions for customer experience in 2019

Welcome to a new update! In this episode: Nvidia created an entire racing game background using AI, Amazon takes cashier-free stores to airports, Taylor Swift uses face recognition for concert security, we watched about 60 billion hours of gaming footage in 2018 and a 7-year-old boy is the king of YouTube.

In this episode of Steven’s Week: Microsoft closed a huge HoloLens deal with the US army, Ali Baba seals a partnership with El Corte Inglés, Marriott’s data leak raises security questions, WhatsApp wants to start payment services in India and China wants all electric car users to share their data. Enjoy!

8 tech announcements of 2018 that define the future of customer experience

Welcome to a new Steven’s Week! In this episode: UPS wants to use AI to predict the weather and avoid delivery issues, Amazon launches developers’ tool RoboMaker, Apple Pay is coming to Belgium while Spotify is going to India, WeChat teams up with Japanese social platform Line and Amazon wants Alexa in our cars. Enjoy!

Welcome to a new Steven’s Week! In this week’s show: AI made it possible to create a master fingerprint, Snapchat keeps on looking for partners to develop cool new AR features, LinkedIn is testing its own version of Stories and YouTube broadcasts the full Lego movie for free on Black Friday!

Welcome to the new weekly, now also available through iTunes and Spotify! Big news from Alibaba, that will open its first European logistics hub in Belgium, Walmart is creating in-store AI labs, Starbucks is experimenting with mobile delivery in China and Snapchat moves into personalised e-commerce with emoji merchandise.

Welcome to another Steven’s Week! Knight Rider is becoming reality thanks to Tesla’s ‘summon your car’ function, the Chinese Baidu smart speaker is doing spectacularly well, Walmart’s online sales is beating Amazon, but meanwhile Amazon is investing massively in its own deliveries and the Amazon Go cashierless stores are showing some impressive results.

Welcome to another Steven’s week! Apple will attack Netflix and Amazon Prime with its own streaming service, Skydio launched a drone you can control with your Apple Watch, teenagers are still crazy about Snapchat, Walmart is pushing same-day deliveries while Uber has plans to launch a drone delivery service, great financial results for Tesla and Amazon is experimenting with an offline pop-up store

I had the chance to talk to Simon Mainwaring, about the social impact that successful brands could - and should - have on their customers and the rest of the world.

I had the pleasure of meeting David Li, he is the founder of the Shenzhen open innovation lab. He can describe the chinese innovation scene in a great way. We also talked about the situation in Europe and why Europe is not as innovative anymore. His answer was really insightful: Europe and the US have run out of problems to solve. Check out the entire conversation to learn more about innovation in...

I had the pleasure of meeting Jeffrey Kang, he is the founder and CEO of IngDan, which is the largest IoT platform in the world. Jeffrey Kang has a impressive story. His vision, his ambition, his success is just incredible. I felt very honored to meet him and wanted to share some of his insights with you in this short interview.

Mickey McManus is brilliant. He is a research fellow at Autodesk and is creating the future of that company. I shared my ideas and concepts from my latest book, customers the day after tomorrow, and wanted to have Mickey's ideas on that. I LOVED this conversation. Hope you will as well.

Davy Kestens is the founder/CEO of customer experience software company Sparkcentral. We've been working together for more than 5 years now. I really enjoyed to see the growth of his fantastic company. His vision on the future customer experience is really interesting. Enjoy our conversation.

Welcome to a new Steven’s Week! Rolls-Royce and Intell are close to building fully autonomous ships, MIT university in Boston is building an AI college, Uber is entering the stock market, China and Google’s talks about a censored search engine raises questions and General Motors is tracking the in-car listening behavior of their customers.