Real Estate Meets AI

A Conversation with Will O'Donnell from Prologis


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In this episode, Sandeep Ahuja sits down with Will O'Donnell, Managing Director and Head of Global Corporate Development and Growth at Prologis, and founder of Prologis Ventures, to explore how the world's largest logistics real estate company is evolving from four walls and a roof into an intelligent infrastructure platform.

Will shares what he's learned from 22 years inside Prologis and backing 53 startups through the venture arm, from why clean data became a company-wide mandate to how nearly the entire organization now uses AI on a daily basis. He breaks down what it actually takes to move from experimentation to enterprise-wide adoption — and why digitizing a bad process just gives you a digital bad process.

They dig into the strategic logic behind Prologis's $25 billion commitment to data centers, including a new partnership with Nvidia to explore micro data centers for distributed AI. The conversation also covers what's changing on the warehouse floor, where automation and computer vision are reshaping operations, and why change management remains the hardest part of any technology rollout.

Whether you're navigating AI strategy inside a large organization or investing in what's next for the built environment, this episode offers a grounded, practical perspective from someone with a front-row seat to the transformation.

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