Sramana Mitra: How many partners do you have? Florian Eggenschwiler: About 200 plus of various sizes. Sramana Mitra: Is it more of the smaller ones? Florian Eggenschwiler: I would say there is a slight skew towards the smaller companies. They tend to be locally focused and are quite flexible to react to local requirements.
Sramana Mitra: Is there an online-offline data overlay as well? You’re not trying to map that customer to a real customer in retail to be able to market to that person? Florian Eggenschwiler: When you’re online, you don’t tend to be anonymous. In our basic setup, you’re an anonymous dot with attributes like gender. Sramana
Sramana Mitra: Who are the buyers? Florian Eggenschwiler: It’s usually the airports. There are a number of stakeholders involved that get access to the data. It’s usually the airport that we work with directly. There are also the landlords. They’re the ones that install hardware into the ceiling. They usually tend to be open with
A fascinating conversation about how Xovis is applying AI to modeling human behavior in public spaces. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by giving our audience a bit of your background as well as the background of the company. Florian Eggenschwiler: I’m the Chief Product Officer at Xovis. Xovis is a Swiss-based company helping the world rethink