{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/652e6e3b2681ee0012ea47f0/691c52ef589629f7d6bece0c?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Smart Building Reality Check: how AI is really showing up in FM, and what’s changing across real estate ops with Drew DePriest","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/652e6e3b2681ee0012ea47f0/1764934389525-7163fad9-318e-4e4b-95d0-0b12cfae1808.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>AI won’t transform facility management with moonshots, it’ll transform it with thousands of tiny wins.</p><p><br></p><p>McKesson’s Drew DePriest joins The Down Low with Joe to break down what AI actually looks like inside a Fortune 10 real estate organisation, far from the hype, and deeply rooted in the realities of FM, data, and operations.</p><p><br></p><p>Most AI conversations in smart buildings revolve around flashy pilots, giant platforms, or “intelligent buildings” that never escape the pitch deck.</p><p><br></p><p>Drew shares a very different viewpoint: the future is being shaped by incremental, practical AI adoption, small efficiency gains that compound across portfolios.</p><p><br></p><p>In this live episode from NexusCon 2025, we dig into:</p><ul><li>How McKesson uses AI for everyday “roof shots,” not moonshots</li><li>Why unstructured data (emails, decks, tribal knowledge) is the real bottleneck</li><li>The challenge of building an AI agent that understands both structured and unstructured data</li><li>Why FM teams need consistency before they need “intelligence”</li><li>How AI is already solving problems we never thought to automate</li><li>The fragmentation problem: why innovation in smart buildings moves slower than it should</li><li>The shift toward open-source tools, ontologies, and end-user configurability</li><li>What the next 5 years of AI + smart buildings could realistically look like</li></ul><p><br></p><h3>About Drew DePriest</h3><p>Drew is the Director of Real Estate Operations Technology at McKesson, one of the world’s largest healthcare logistics organisations. With a background spanning startups, controls, workplace tech, and enterprise operations, he brings a rare, grounded perspective on how AI and smart building solutions succeed and fail in real-world environments.</p><p><br></p><h3>Watch if you are:</h3><ul><li>A facility management or real estate leader navigating AI adoption</li><li>A smart building vendor trying to understand what enterprise buyers actually need</li><li>A technologist interested in agentic AI, ontologies, and FM automation</li><li>Anyone curious about how AI is changing the day-to-day reality of buildings</li></ul>","author_name":"Powered by Element Six"}