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Tech Chats: EY’s Des O’Connor on digital selling and the opportunities for startups

EY interview with Des

I spoke to Des O’Connor about digital selling and the opportunities and challenges for technology startups in the UK.

Just to start off, and to give the interview a little bit of context, can you tell me a little bit more about what you do at EY?

Yeah, sure. So, I sit within the strategy team and our advisory practice. At the moment, I’m the EY Wavespace lead.

EY Wavespace is a new, global initiative of 16 innovation centres based in the hottest cities throughout the world and I’m here in London looking after our London centre, which is the focus for customer experience and innovation.

The idea behind Wavespace is that we can co-create new solutions with our clients and leverage off the strength of our network and each centre focuses on a different area of disruptive technology such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, data analytics....