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Maribel Lopez

Founder and Principal Analyst at Lopez Research LLC

Mount Pleasant, United States

I'm a technology industry analyst, speaker, podcaster and author at Lopez Research focused on AI, mobile, future of work technology (collaboration, CCaaS etc). I'm the author of a John Wiley & Sons book called Right-time Experience and contributor to Forbes.com. My podcasts are AI with Maribel Lopez and Reimagine Technology at Work.

Available For: Speaking
Travels From: Charleston SC
Speaking Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Future of Work, Customer and Employee Experience

Maribel Lopez Points
Academic 0
Author 718
Influencer 119
Speaker 42
Entrepreneur 20
Total 899

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Thought Leader Profile

Portfolio Mix

Company Information

Company Type: Individual
Minimum Project Size: N/A
Average Hourly Rate: N/A
Number of Employees: 1-10
Company Founded Date: Undisclosed
Media Experience: 25 years
Last Media Training: 02/03/2020
Last Media Interview: 08/24/2023

Areas of Expertise

5G 31.78
AI 36.51
Analytics 39.08
Big Data 31.01
Business Strategy 30.10
Cloud 31.29
COVID19 30.80
CRM 30.08
Customer Experience 30.43
Customer Loyalty
Cybersecurity 30.25
Data Center 30.17
Digital Disruption 30.29
Digital Transformation 36.24
Diversity and Inclusion 30.17
Emerging Technology 39.71
ERP 30.02
Future of Work 34.78
Generative AI 30.15
HealthTech
Innovation 36.51
IoT 30.10
Leadership 30.33
Marketing 30.08
Metaverse 30.58
Mobility 48.67
Quantum Computing 34.39
Retail 30.07
RPA 30.27
Sustainability 30.34
Telecom 31.47

Industry Experience

Publications & Experience

49 Article/Blogs
The Privacy Paradox: Navigating Ethical AI Implementation in the Age of Data
Linkedln
April 01, 2025
AI ethics and privacy have become critical concerns as artificial intelligence transforms businesses worldwide. With increasing regulatory scrutiny and consumer awareness, organizations must balance innovation with responsible AI practices. This article discusses AI privacy frameworks, ethical considerations, and implementation strategies.

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Tags: AI, Digital Transformation, Future of Work

Five9 Elevates Genius AI Suite With Knowledge Integration
Forbes
August 08, 2024
Five9 updated its Genius AI suite with a new knowledge feature, shared its 4 step process for leveraging generative AI and acquired Acqueon to broaden its CX portfolio.

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Tags: AI, Cloud, Mobility

Exploring AI Governance With IBM's Heather Gentile
LinkedIn
March 28, 2024
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), governance has emerged as a critical imperative for organizations worldwide. As AI technologies continue to proliferate across industries, the need for responsible, transparent, and explainable AI has never been greater. In a recent LinkedIn Live session, I sat down with Heather Gentile, Director of watson.X.Governance at IBM, to explore the frontiers of AI governance and its implications for businesses in 2024. (You can view the conversation

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Tags: AI, Digital Transformation, Future of Work

Lopez Research Analyst Perspective: AI and Growth Drive HPE’s Strategic Acquisition of Juniper, But It’s Too Early to Declare Victory
Linkedln
January 11, 2024
The new year is off with a bang, with the first of what I predict will be many acquisitions in 2024, with HPE acquiring Juniper Networks for $14 billion. Industry analysts sometimes feel rushed to share commentary on an acquisition because of its news. However, one of the benefits of being an analyst is that you can contemplate a story for more time if necessary. In this case, it was required. Indeed, I’ve gone back and forth on whether the HPE-Juniper deal will achieve its promises.

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Tags: Analytics, Digital Transformation, Future of Work

Apple Targets AI And Gaming With Turbocharged M3 Chips And New Macs
Forbes
October 30, 2023
After years of record sales and supply chain shortages that kept demand high, computing vendors found themselves on the offensive. The past several financial quarters have been rough for computing manufacturers, with many tech vendors experiencing double digital declines of 20 percent or more. Despite weak sales, market leaders continue to invest in innovation as software and gaming performance demands continue to push the need for more efficient and performant architectures.

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Tags: Cloud, Mobility, Generative AI

Samsung’s Foldable Line Gets Two Major Improvements
Forbes
July 26, 2023
Samsung bigger cover screen on the Z Flip 5 and a zero gap hinge offer much desired improvements to the foldable portfolio.

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Tags: AI, Mobility, 5G

T-Mobile Bolsters Its Edge Computing Offering With Google Cloud Deal
Forbes
July 07, 2023
Partnerships between cloud computing and telecom companies, such as T-Mobile and Google Cloud, are needed to help enterprises deliver AI-drive business applications.

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Tags: 5G, Mobility, Telecom

Four Google Cloud Customers Share How They Use AI To Deliver Value
Forbes
July 06, 2023
Google Cloud customers shared how they are combining search, chat and LLMS to create content, synthesize data, automate processes, and build new customer experiences.

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Tags: AI, Cloud, Mobility

Five Microsoft AI Advances That Business Leaders Should Know About
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June 28, 2023
Microsoft announced developer tools, analytics solutions, Windows and Edge upgrades to help companies add generative AI into applications.

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Tags: Customer Experience, Digital Transformation, Emerging Technology

HPE Dives Into Supercomputing As-A-Service With GreenLake For AI LLMs
Forbes
June 28, 2023
HPE teamed up with Aleph Alpha, an AI startup, to offer ready-to-use large language models (LLMs) as part of its on-demand, multi-tenant supercomputing cloud service.

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Tags: AI, Digital Transformation, Mobility

Managing Multicloud: A Conversation With VMware
LinkedIn
January 23, 2023
Companies of all sizes embraced cloud computing, with organizations deploying workloads and applications across a mixture of private infrastructure and public clouds. The terms multi-cloud and hybrid cloud are part of today’s technology lexicon. Multi-cloud refers to using multiple cloud computing services from different vendors in a hybrid infrastructure. Instead of relying on a single vendor for all its cloud computing needs, a business may use multiple clouds to access best-of-breed cloud services, diversify infrastructure risk and minimize vendor lock-in.

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Tags: Cloud

Wendy's Cooks Up New Experiences With AI, Cloud And Edge Computing
Forbes
January 12, 2023
Wendy's new restaurant design standard, Global Next Gen, use AI, edge computing and a new optimized layout to deliver more convenience, speed, and accuracy for its customers and delivery partners.

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Tags: AI, Digital Transformation

Making Employee Resource Groups And ESG Work Better Delivers Business Value
Forbes
October 10, 2022
Companies are increasingly working to address significant workplace and global challenges through wellness, environmental and social governance (ESG) programs. Many organizations have signed up for wide scale ESG goals. Others recognize the difficulties of creating engagement and culture in a distributed environment. In boardrooms across the globe, companies are posing the question of how they will execute, measure, and monitor progress. To find out how companies were addressing this challenge, I interviewed Susan Hunt Stevens, the CEO of WeSpire.

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Tags: AI, Sustainability, Leadership

AI And CCaaS Help Marshall McLennan And McKesson Build Business Efficiencies
Forbes
September 08, 2022
Firms have a pressing need to enhance their digital sales and support solutions to address new customer demands. Businesses look to AI and CCaaS to support these efforts.

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Tags: AI, Digital Transformation, Mobility

Honeywell Shrinks The Industrial Skills Gap With AI
Forbes
August 22, 2022
Massive labor shortages will require companies to rethink how technology can help their clients thrive in such an untenable position.

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Tags: AI, Mobility, RPA

Microsoft’s Viva Sales Opens Up CRM Prospects By Easing Sales Woes
Forbes
June 23, 2022
Microsoft's Viva Sales aims to eliminate CRM data siloes for salespeople. The companion app integrates with Microsoft solutions and will support third-party CRM suites.

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Tags: Cloud, Mobility, CRM

The Data and Culture Transformation Imperative
linkedin
May 06, 2022
In 2022, every IT leader Lopez Research speaks with has embraced digital business concepts for at least part of their workloads. Today, these leaders understand that being digital isn't enough. We're moving beyond digital transformation to an environment where companies need to accelerate their ability put data its data into action. Companies also need insights to help them proactively support the business. I call this the digital acceleration era.

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Tags: Cloud, Digital Transformation, Sustainability

Tech Offerings Aim To Help Businesses Realize Sustainability Goals
LinkedIn
April 07, 2022
Over the past five years, it's become vogue for companies to sign up for aggressive climate change goals. There are some simple methods that companies have adopted to demonstrate progress, such as cutting back on travel, switching to virtual conferences, and allowing employees to participate in hybrid work. However, these shifts were driven more by the pandemic than robust sustainability plans.

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Tags: Cloud, Digital Transformation, Sustainability

Delivering the Right Retail Experience Requires an Edge Strategy That Connects to the Cloud
LinkedIn
April 06, 2022
It’s clear that market expectations have changed for retailers in the past several years. Many retail experiences can’t fulfill today’s changing customer expectations. Retailers must reimagine and evolve digital and in-person experiences to create what Lopez Research calls right-time experiences. An RTE delivers the right information to the right person at the right time. These experiences are contextual, learning, predictive and prescriptive. To enable new experiences, retailers need to create a distributed infrastructure that supports analytics from the edge to the cloud. The architecture must be high-performing, resilient, and scalable – even at the edge.

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Tags: Cloud, Digital Transformation, Retail

New Tech Offerings Aim To Help Businesses Realize Sustainability Goals
Forbes
February 15, 2022
Over the past five years, it's become vogue for companies to sign up for aggressive climate change goals. There are some simple methods that companies have adopted to demonstrate progress, such as cutting back on travel, switching to virtual conferences, and allowing employees to participate in hybrid work. However, these shifts were driven more by the pandemic than robust sustainability plans.

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Tags: Cloud, Mobility, Sustainability

NVIDIA Broadens Focus On Women In STEM At GTC
Forbes
October 25, 2021
Diversity and inclusion strategies remain a hot topic in board rooms across the globe. Over the past several years, technology companies have been heavily criticized for the low representation of women and minorities in technical and leadership roles. Many of these companies have since created hiring metrics and programs to recruit new talent. However, this isn’t a problem that can be fixed overnight. While women comprise nearly half the workforce, they hold only 28% of the jobs in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), according to the National Girls Collaborative Project.

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Tags: AI, Digital Transformation, Diversity and Inclusion

Re:connection - Creating a world of opportunities with video
LinkedIn
July 21, 2021
The emergence of touch interfaces in a smartphone was a breakthrough that took mobile computing to the next level. Today, we’re experiencing another breakthrough with the near-ubiquitous availability and adoption of video. Whether it’s TikTok to share a personal experience or your favorite video collaboration tool at the office, people engage with each other in new and highly visual ways.

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Tags: Customer Experience, Digital Transformation, Emerging Technology

Dell Bets On APEX As-A-Service Model To Drive Growth
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May 12, 2021
Dell Technologies shared its progress in delivering APEX, a set of private, hybrid cloud, and as-a-service solutions from Dell. The services will compete with hyperscalers and HPE.

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Tags: Customer Experience, Digital Transformation, Emerging Technology

Taking Touchless Interactions To The Next Level With Millimeter Wave
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May 11, 2021
Organizations across the globe are enabling touchless solutions with a wide range of existing radio technologies, such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Near Field Communications NFC and Bluetooth, to fulfill the need for touchless solutions.

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Tags: Customer Experience, Digital Transformation, Emerging Technology

Customer Stories Showcase Traction For Microsoft’s Business Apps Division
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May 10, 2021
Part of this success reflects a multi-year journey where Microsoft embarked on integrating its business applications into a more comprehensive suite and adding extensions to Teams and the Power Platform.

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Tags: Customer Experience, Digital Transformation, Emerging Technology

1 Book
Right-Time Experiences: Driving Revenue with Mobile and Big Data
Amazon
October 06, 2014
Grasp how mobile, big data, and analytics are combining to change business processes
Right Experience, Right Results: Improving Profits, Margin, and Engagement with Mobile and Big Data illustrates how businesses can use mobility, big data, and analytics to enhance or change business processes, improve margins through better insight, transform customer experiences, empower employees with real-time, actionable insight, and more. The book depicts how companies can create competitive differentiation using mobile, cloud computing big data, and analytics to improve commerce, customer service, and communications with employees and consumers.

In the past, the technologies used to deliver personalized and contextual services were either unavailable, unaffordable, or reserved solely for the consumer market. Today, however, the next wave of computing—mobile, cloud computing. big data, and analytics—has provided the foundation for businesses to create adaptive, personalized applications and services. Delivered point-of-need, these smarter services allow enterprise products and services to meet the burgeoning demand for always-connected, accurate, and real-time information. Right Experience, Right Results: Improving Profits, Margin, and Engagement with Mobile and Big Data is your guide to the new way of doing things. The book includes:

Real world examples that illustrate how companies across various industries are creating better business processes by integrating new technologies
A three step action plan for getting started and overcoming obstacles
An electronic checklist with numerous actions that help get you up and running with incorporating mobile, big data, and analytics
A guide to drawing insight from mobile, social, and other sources to create richer experiences
If you're a CEO, chief marketing officer, marketing director, or business manager, Right Experience, Right Results gives you everything you need to harness technology to breathe new life into your business.

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Tags: Analytics, Big Data, Mobility

1 Founder
Lopez Research
Lopez Research
February 01, 2008
Lopez Research tracks trends for a wide range of technology topics including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, connected devices and A.I. Our clients range from start-ups to global firms, including 10 of the Fortune 30.

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Tags: AI, Cloud, Digital Transformation, Mobility

1 Influencer Award
Who’s Who in IIoT?
Onalytica
September 15, 2020
These Who’s Who lists are created using the Onalytica platform which has a curated database of over 1 million influencers. Our platform allows you to discover, validate and categorise influencers quickly and easily via keyword searches. The lists are made using carefully created Boolean queries which then rank influencers by resonance, relevance, reach and reference, meaning influencers are not only ranked by themselves, but also by how much other influencers are referring to them. The lists are then validated, and filters are used to split the influencers up into the categories that are seen in the list.

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Tags: IoT, Leadership

7 Media Interviews
Interact at Your Digital Edge
Equinix
November 02, 2022
Become demand driven. This session will discuss how building a digital presence alone is not enough to compete. Discover how they bridged the virtual and physical world by establishing a secure edge presence to build business relevant insights and transform the user experience - where business happens.

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Tags: AI, Digital Transformation, Leadership

Let's Talk Shop with Maribel Lopez | All About Edge Computing
YouTube
October 11, 2022
An exciting episode with a fellow analyst and researcher. Maribel is the "queen" of the edge! a can't miss episode. We discussed all things edge computing and even had some fun with the Metaverse. From theoretical to practical applications of the edge, this episode is packed with insights and real world information.

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Tags: AI, Quantum Computing, Metaverse

Apple Unveils New Watches, iPhones, and Airpods
Bloomberg Technology
September 07, 2022
Emily Chang speaks with Lopez Research's Maribel Lopez about new consumer products and features from Apple's iPhone 14 event.

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Tags: IoT, Mobility, 5G

What Cybersecurity Lessons Were Learned in 2021? Maribel Lopez Looks Back with Us | Intel Business
YouTube
January 07, 2022
What were the biggest cybersecurity topics of the past year? What can we learn from them? In this episode of Cyber Security Inside, Camille and Tom get into the biggest cybersecurity topics of the past year with Maribel Lopez, Founder and Principal Analyst at Lopez Research. You’ll learn about: The large scale attacks on infrastructure this year on a wide range of companies. Where the attacks were occurring to have the biggest impact on systems. The development of artificial intelligence and how far along we are in that area. Ways to convince companies and decision makers to focus on cybersecurity. And more! Check it out.

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Tags: Cybersecurity, Digital Disruption, Future of Work

Faster to the Future Episode 2: Pat Gelsinger with Maribel Lopez
Soundcloud
October 15, 2020
In episode 2 of the Faster to the Future podcast, industry analyst Maribel Lopez joins VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger. They discuss the business, culture and digital transformation needed to support the massive shift to remote work brought on by the pandemic.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Future of Work

IPhone 12 to Create a Good Quarter for Apple: Analyst
Bloomberg
October 13, 2020
Maribel Lopez, founder and analyst of Lopez Research, talks about Apple Inc.'s latest range of iPhones that support 5G. At a virtual event, the company showed off the iPhone 12 in black, red, blue, green and white with a 6.1-inch screen. It starts at $799. A smaller version, the iPhone 12 mini, costs $699. The phones use aluminum sides. There’s also an iPhone 12 Pro, starting at $999 and a iPhone 12 Pro Max that costs at least $1,099, both with stainless steel edges. Lopez speaks on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia." (Source: Bloomberg)

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Tags: Analytics, Marketing, 5G

Key Elements of Cyber Security You Can't Ignore
Cyber security Inside
September 10, 2020
Tom: In today's podcast we're going to explore the key elements of cyber security that you just can't ignore. And for that topic, we've got a guest I'm really excited about: Maribel Lopez. She is a founder and Principal Analyst at Lopez Research focused on digital transformation. Maribel Lopez founded the Emerging Technology Research Council, which is a community of business and technical leaders in Fortune 1000 companies focused on driving innovation and business value with mobile and other emerging technologies.

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Tags: Cybersecurity, Digital Transformation, Emerging Technology

152 Podcasts
Racing Against AI-Powered Fraudsters: How Experian Stays Ahead
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September 16, 2025
OverviewMaribel Lopez interviews Kathleen Peters, Experian's Chief Innovation Officer, about AI's evolution in fraud detection, the shift to generative and agentic AI, and balancing innovation with security in financial services.Key TopicsAI Evolution at Experian15-year AI journey: Using m

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Tags: AI, Digital Transformation, Future of Work

Ford Pro's Kevin Dunbar Shares How AI Transforms Fleet Management
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August 27, 2025
Episode SummaryKevin Dunbar joins Maribel Lopez to discuss how AI is revolutionizing commercial fleet management through Ford Pro Intelligence. With nearly two decades of experience at companies like Cisco and Palo Alto Networks, Kevin shares insights on how Ford's commercial division is proces

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Verint Executive Reveals: The 3 Best Starting Points for Enterprise Agentic AI Adoption
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August 20, 2025
Episode OverviewIn this episode, Maribel Lopez sits down with David Singer, Global Vice President and Go-To-Market Strategy at Verint, to explore the rapid evolution from generative AI to agentic AI and how organizations can successfully implement AI solutions that deliver real business outcomes.Key

Tags: AI, Digital Transformation, Future of Work

Cisco Live 2025: Jokel and Pandey on Enterprise AI Infrastructure and the Internet of Agents
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August 11, 2025
In this episode from Cisco Live, Maribel Lopez sits down with two Cisco executives, Vijoy Pandey, SVP of Outshift at Cisco and Nathan Jokel, SVP of Corporate Strategy and Alliances at Cisco, to discuss how AI is fundamentally changing enterprise infrastructure over the next year. The conversation ex

Tags: AI, Digital Transformation, Future of Work

From Chatbots To Digital Workers: Why NiCE’s AI Focuses On Execution
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June 19, 2025
NiCE is betting that AI agents that complete tasks—not just conversations—will separate winners from pretenders in the enterprise AI race The artificial intelligence hype cycle has reached peak saturation, with technology vendors scrambling to slap “AI-powered” labels on everything f

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Tags: 5G, AI, Digital Transformation

How Best Buy Uses AI to Transform Customer Experience
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June 18, 2025
The electronics retailer’s methodical approach to artificial intelligence in customer experience offers lessons for companies rushing to deploy the latest tools Best Buy Co. faced a daunting challenge that would sound familiar to many large corporations: multiple different software applications we

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Cisco’s Winning AI Formula: Real CX Problems, Practical Solutions
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June 17, 2025
Companies with the best customer experience focus on consistency, clarity, and a mindset of continual improvement. Most enterprise AI initiatives fail not because the technology doesn’t work but because companies chase broad or ill-defined use cases instead of addressing a real problem. For exampl

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AI in Retail: Best Buy's Journey from 93 Apps to One Solution
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June 04, 2025
Description: In this episode from Google Cloud Next 2025, we dive deep into Best Buy's AI transformation with Ashley Daniels, VP of Product Management. Discover how one of America's largest retailers approached AI implementation strategically, moving from 93 contact center applications to

Tags: AI, Digital Transformation, Future of Work

58. The AI Advantage With Liz Centoni: How Cisco is Making Customer Experience Hyper-Personal
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May 30, 2025
Guest ProfileLiz Centoni brings over 25 years of experience at Cisco where she currently leads a team of 20,000+ people dedicated to helping customers maximize the value of their technology investments. She also serves on the boards of Mercedes-Benz and Workday.Episode HighlightsCisco's Unique

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Microsoft Build 2025: Bridging the Gap Between AI POCs and Agentic AI Success
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May 29, 2025
The AI Acceleration Challenge The AI market has rapidly evolved from early chatbot failures to a landscape of simplified access to information driven by generative AI, with agentic AI coming soon. Yet, most organizations are still struggling to move beyond proof-of-concept projects to production dep

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Tags: 5G, AI, Digital Transformation

SAP Modernization Gains Momentum: Customer Success Stories From Sapphire
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May 21, 2025
For nearly two decades, Lopez Research has tracked SAP customers’ struggles when transitioning to standardized, cloud-based solutions. The reality of enterprise IT deployments is undeniable: SAP powers critical business operations—from finance and human resources to sales, marketing, and sup

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Tags: 5G, AI, Digital Transformation

Google Cloud’s Vertex And Models Advance Enterprise AI Agent Adoption
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May 20, 2025
New Reasoning Models and AI Agent Capabilities Promise To Transform Business Applications Enterprises need reliable platforms that combine powerful models with practical deployment capabilities. Google Cloud’s latest enhancements to Vertex AI and the Gemini model family offer businesses a comprehe

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Dell AI Factory Expands with 40+ Enhancements for Enterprise AI Deployment
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May 20, 2025
Dell's AI Factory evolution delivers hybrid enterprise AI with choice across AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, and key model providers like Cohere and Mistral for production workloads.
The post Dell AI Factory Expands with 40+ Enhancements for Enterprise AI Deployment appeared first on Maribel Lopez Research.

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AI Agents in Action: ServiceNow’s Knowledge 2025 Vision for Enterprise Workflow Transformation
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May 16, 2025
The AI industry evolved from Generative AI to the Agentic AI era at a breakneck pace. Are AI Agents fact or fiction? The reality is somewhere in between, and buyers remain skeptical. As technology leaders race to implement artificial intelligence across the enterprise, many organizations are experie

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Tags: 5G, AI, Digital Transformation

Securing AI: Strategies for Success with Cisco's CPO Jeetu Patel
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May 13, 2025
SummaryIn this conversation, Maribel Lopez and Jeetu Patel discuss the transformative potential of AI in business, the challenges organizations face in adopting AI, and the importance of security in AI applications. They explore the need for visibility, validation, and guardrails in securing AI, the

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From Concept to Value: The AI Journey With Tredence CEO Shub Bhowmick
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April 30, 2025
In this episode, Maribel speaks with  Shub Bhowmick, the CEO and Co-founder of Tredence on how its using AI internally and externally. Bhowmick also provides advice on what's important for enterprise buyers looking to leverage AI. TakeawaysThe shift from proof of concept to proof of value is

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Key Trends AI in Marketing and Communications
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April 18, 2025
Artificial intelligence, once only accessible to highly technical individuals, has evolved from an obscure to mainstream use across consumers and businesses. AI promises to deliver practical tools that will transform how marketing and communications professionals operate. Drawing insights from a rec

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Google Cloud’s Ironwood TPU Forges Better Enterprise AI
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April 16, 2025
Artificial intelligence infrastructure has emerged as the critical battleground for cloud computing dominance. At this year’s Google Cloud Next conference, the company demonstrated its intensified commitment to AI infrastructure, unveiling strategic investments, such as the Ironwood Tensor Pr

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Tags: 5G, AI, Digital Transformation

The Platform Play: Zoho's Enterprise Evolution and AI Integration Strategy
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April 15, 2025
In the category of better late than never, we found the missing recording file with Vijay. Enjoy!Show Notes:In this episode of "AI with Maribel Lopez," host Maribel Lopez sits down with Vijay Sundaram, Chief Strategy Officer at Zoho, at Zoho Day 25 in Austin, Texas. They discuss Zoho'

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Why Small AI Models Matter: The Business Case for Enterprise AI Efficiency
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April 01, 2025
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, business leaders face a critical decision: which AI models will deliver the most value to their organization? While much attention has focused on massive models with billions of parameters, there’s a compelling case for considering

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AI Transforms Marketing: Beyond the Magic Button With Tim Marklein
Youtube
March 25, 2025
Maribel Lopez speaks with Tim Marklein, CEO of Big Valley Marketing, about how AI is changing marketing and communications. The conversation explores the practical applications, limitations, and future of AI in the marketing landscape.

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Cisco Attacks AI Cybersecurity Threats With New AI Defense
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March 10, 2025
Companies need security solutions that protect against AI cybersecurity threats Over the past several years, the security landscape rapidly evolved with the introduction of AI, specifically generative AI. AI spawned numerous new categories of AI cyber threats, such as data inference, transfer learni

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AI with Maribel Lopez: IBM Granite Models with Kate Soule
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March 10, 2025
Episode SummaryIn this episode, Maribel Lopez interviews Kate Soule, Director of Technical Product Management for IBM's Granite products. They discuss IBM's third-generation AI models, their focus on efficiency and enterprise readiness, and the latest advancements including vision capabili

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Analyst Commentary on AI and the Customer Experience At Zoho Day 2025
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February 19, 2025
This conversation explores the transformative impact of AI on business, particularly focusing on Zoho's evolution as it aims to enhance its enterprise offerings. The speakers discuss the importance of understanding customer data, the global dynamics of AI adoption, and Zoho's unique cultur

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50: Analyst Commentary on AI and the Customer Experience At Zoho Day 2025
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February 19, 2025
This conversation explores the transformative impact of AI on business, particularly focusing on Zoho's evolution as it aims to enhance its enterprise offerings. The speakers discuss the importance of understanding customer data, the global dynamics of AI adoption, and Zoho's unique cultur

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Tags: 5G, AI, Digital Transformation

2 Speaking Engagements
On the Quest to Unify Data and Analytics
Data Defined
September 23, 2020
There’s so much data being generated, yet much of it remains untapped. Getting in the way of that value are too many platforms, a lack of collaboration, and an abundance of siloes. Why is it so hard to deploy a unified data and analytics strategy?



Join us for another episode of Data Defined where we dive into the past, present, and future of unifying data and analytics strategy. Our panel of industry experts will dive into:

Challenges organizations face when converging enterprise products
Solutions to make an end-to-end strategy possible
Benefits of unifying data management and analytics

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Tags: Analytics, Big Data, Digital Transformation

Bringing the Power of the Data Center to IoT & Edge AI | VB Transform 2020
Venture Beat
July 27, 2020
Bringing the Power of the Data Center to IoT & Edge AI

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Tags: AI, IoT, Mobility, Data Center

51 Videos
Winning In AI by Starting Small With Verint's David Singer
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August 28, 2025

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How Best Buy Transformed Customer Service with AI: From 93 Apps to A Seamless Solution
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June 04, 2025

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Securing AI: Strategies for Success with Cisco's President and CPO Jeetu Patel
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May 13, 2025

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LeadingTheShift LopezResearch Teaser Square
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May 02, 2025

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Transforming Networking with AI: Insights from Extreme Networks' Markus Nispel
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April 24, 2025

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Harnessing AI: The Balance of Privacy and Innovation with Wipro's Ivana Bartoletti
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April 01, 2025

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AI with Maribel Lopez: IBM Granite Models with Kate Soule
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March 11, 2025

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Analyst Commentary on AI and the Customer Experience At Zoho Day 2025
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February 19, 2025

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SAP Business Data Cloud: Marrying Evolution & Innovation
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February 14, 2025

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How Amazon Web Services Quicksight and AI Enhance GoDaddy's Business
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January 29, 2025

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AWS Re:Invent Announcement Highlights With Lopez Research and ZK Research
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January 22, 2025

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Wendy’s Serves Up AI to Enhance the Customer and Employee Experience
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January 15, 2025

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AWS Re:Invent Recap with Tim Crawford and Liz Miller
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January 08, 2025

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The Shifting Enterprise Security Landscape a Conversation with Cisco's Tom Gillis
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December 31, 2024

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Dell Technologies Chief AI Officer Shares Insight Delivering Successful AI Implementations
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The Environmental Cost of NLMs
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November 21, 2024

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This Simple AI Application Changes Everything
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November 21, 2024

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AI Is Not the Thing
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November 20, 2024

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Google's AI Tools: Unlocking Business Potential
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November 20, 2024

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How Cloud Computing Provides Flexible Options to Design Your AI Strategy
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November 19, 2024

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Ai in Healthcare
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November 02, 2024

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The Fax Problem
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November 02, 2024

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AI and Coordination
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November 01, 2024

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What is AI’s Place in Our Healthcare System?
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November 01, 2024

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Using AI to Improve Healthcare Operations
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October 31, 2024

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Jim Milesk, CIO UMass Amherst, talks about AI and networks at the Juniper Networks Enterprise Summit
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June 27, 2023

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Maribel Lopez and Liz Miller Discuss AI, Experience and Why the Right Time Is Now.
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April 26, 2023

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Reimagining File Storage and Data Recovery From Ransomeware Attacks With Nasuni's Dave Grant
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April 11, 2023

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A Conversation with Juniper Networks' Sally Bament on 5G, Networking, Telecom and MWC 2023
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February 25, 2023

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All CSPs will embrace AI but how will you thrive
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November 02, 2022

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Managing Multicloud: A Discussion with VMware
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October 27, 2022

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Evaluating Cloud Strategies in 2022 with Maribel Lopez, Jo Peterson and Craig Chvatal
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January 24, 2022

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Maribel's Market Moments in Tech
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September 11, 2020

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Maribel Lopez Live Stream from the Enterprise Transformation Show.
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May 05, 2017

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Internet of Things World 2016: Leaders Panel
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August 24, 2016

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2016 ET6 Executive End User Fireside Chat
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July 07, 2016

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Evaluating Cloud Strategies in 2022 with Maribel Lopez, Jo Peterson and Craig Chvatal
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December 01, 2021
In this video, I interview Intel's Craig Chvatal and Clarify360's Jo Peterson on trends in cloud computing and hybrid cloud.

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Edge Computing World; Unapologetically Ambitious: A Discussion on Talent & Diversity

Location: Online    Date : October 12, 2020 - October 12, 2020     Organizer: Top


CEOs the world over agree that there is a talent shortage. A high growth sector like edge computing needs to capitalize upon all available talent to maximize its pace & achieve its potential. But how? In conversation with leading tech analyst Maribel Lopez, Shellye Archambeau will discuss her own experiences, lessons learned, the challenges of our time, and why she believes that there’s never been a better time for female tech entrepreneurs.


There’s no one better to answer that question than Shellye Archambeau. Her new book, ”Unapologetically Ambitious,” is the inspiring story of how a woman of color beat the odds and became a Silicon Valley CEO. She now sits on the Board of four major companies – Verizon Communications Inc., Nordstrom Inc., Roper Technologies Inc., and Okta Inc. She was the first woman of color appointed to the Okta board, adding another “first” to a career that has been marked by being the first woman, woman of color, or person of color to achieve a given position.

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