Our Connected World | How AI Is Accelerating Change in Infrastructure

What happens when innovation cycles shrink from years to months and the systems behind our digital world are pushed further than ever before?

In this episode of Our Connected World, Vishwas Rao, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Digital Data Networks at TE Connectivity, joins the conversation to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating the pace of change across industries and infrastructure.

From ultra high speed data and power demands at the edge of physics to shrinking platform lifecycles and growing system complexity, this discussion looks at what it really takes to design, scale, and support the connected world. Vishwas shares how engineers, organizations, and ecosystems are adapting as AI reshapes how we live and work.

Here’s what you’ll learn
00:06 – Introduction and why AI feels everywhere today
00:52 – Vishwas Rao’s engineering and leadership journey
02:27 – How AI is driving rapid growth in infrastructure and data centers
03:26 – New engineering challenges at unprecedented scale
04:42 – Why complexity is increasing across systems
06:19 – How innovation cycles have shrunk to 18 months
07:56 – The forces driving massive data center scaling
10:19 – How we can prepare for what’s next
11:34 – TE Connectivity’s role in enabling AI infrastructure
13:51 – Advice for staying curious, agile, and adaptable

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Full series: TE.com/OurConnectedWorld