Today's EVM briefing: employee insight, AI and connected care
WEDNESDAY 14 OCTOBER 2026
Today's briefing
The stories worth knowing and the questions worth taking into your next conversation. Today: employee listening, operational AI, health-tech adoption and the infrastructure behind growth.
THE LEAD · PEOPLE & INSIGHT
WorkBuzz buys Hive. What changes for employee listening?
WorkBuzz’s acquisition brings two UK employee-feedback businesses together. The meaningful test will be continuity, confidentiality and whether employees can see their input influencing decisions—not simply a wider menu of tools.
TECHNOLOGY
Telecom AI moves closer to live operations
Software Mind’s Telco Days on 6 November will explore agentic AI, fraud and network operations. For operators, the useful questions concern bounded authority, reversible actions and measurable customer outcomes.
HEALTH
Taiwan’s health-tech exporters face the US adoption test
The Dallas healthcare pavilion highlighted a familiar gap between promising technology and routine use. Diverse validation data, workflow fit and dependable local support will matter alongside regulatory progress.
BUSINESS
KeySIM secures NatWest backing for connectivity growth
The Stockport IoT provider says a new finance facility will support expansion and network investment. For buyers, its resilience proposition should be tested against the operational cost of devices dropping offline.
WORK & TECHNOLOGY
A sharper buying brief for HR AI
UNLEASH Paris puts HR technology purchasing in focus. Before committing budget, leaders need to name the workflow being changed, establish a baseline and agree who can challenge or override a recommendation.
INFRASTRUCTURE
PDG recognition highlights hyperscale delivery pressures
Frost & Sullivan’s award for Princeton Digital Group draws attention to customer-led data-centre design. Power, cooling and delivery flexibility remain questions for project-specific due diligence, not assumptions settled by an award.
A question to take into your next meeting
What evidence would persuade us that this technology improves a real decision or experience - and who remains accountable when it does not?
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Expert View Media · Research-led perspective on business, technology and health. This edition draws on announcement-led reporting and EVM analysis. Illustrative lead photograph: Dylan Gillis / Unsplash.
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