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PODCAST | How Verizon Is Governing AI, Scaling Cloud Data & Driving an AI-First Culture
Written by: CDO Magazine
Updated 8:00 AM EDT, October 10, 2025
In Part 2 of our three-part series, we continue our deep dive into Verizon’s AI journey. Mano Mannoochahr, Chief Data Analytics & AI Officer at Verizon, joins Jeff Burlin, Senior Director at Twilio, to discuss:
- Why AI governance starts at the C-suite with an AI council
- How the One Verizon data program is migrating one of the world’s largest datasets to the cloud
- A hybrid strategy to build, buy, and partner for AI adoption
- Embedding AI into workflows, with over 100K employees using Google Gemini
- Why Verizon measures AI with the same metrics that drive its business
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