PwC’s Dan Priest on Moving Beyond AI Pilots: Lessons from Client Zero

BrandPost By PwC
Oct 20, 20251 min

Two years into a $1 billion AI investment, PwC can teach organizations a thing or two about artificial intelligence.

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Dan Priest, Chief AI Officer at PwC, is on the front line of “how to do AI right.” Two years after PwC invested $1 billion in AI technologies – with PwC serving as “client zero” – both AI and genAI are starting to deliver real business value.

Lucas Marian, senior writer with Computerworld, recently sat down with Dan to talk about what PwC learned as client zero, and how CIOs can build the right AI strategy to move from pilot phase to enterprise-wide transformation. Dan also offered his views on how organizations can evolve their tech stack to support AI, what new opportunities AI agents will present, how organizations can prepare for the shift, and much more.

Watch the video.