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This year’s Big Ride raised a record-breaking €1 million for Street Child. 🏆 Over 800 participants cycled, ran or walked over two days in Belgium to raise a record-breaking €1 million to support Street Child's mission of ensuring all children are safe, in school, and learning. Thank you to everyone who participated or volunteered, making this our most successful Big Ride to date. A special thank you to the Street Child team, our co-hosts Telenet, and headline sponsor Infosys for their support. Check out the highlights of the #BigRide2024, featuring our CEO Mike Fries, and Street Child Founders Tom & Lucinda Dannatt.

Teams that collaborate, innovate. Our Strategy team held their annual conference where attendees from across the Liberty Global family came together to unpack success stories within our OpCos, cross-pollinate and workshop ideas, and discuss the immense innovation unfolding in the TMT industry. Watch for key takeaways from Jim Ryan, Anne Nguyen, Dr. Stefan Fuchs, Severina Pascu, Erik Van den Enden and Tony Hanway. #strategy #collaboration #TMT #innovation

In Europe, AI regulation not only protects consumers but also empowers businesses to adopt the technology within a clear and secure framework, enabling innovation to flourish beyond just the major players. This was the key takeaway from our panel event held this week at The Nine, Brussels. Moderated by Javier Espinoza from the Financial Times, panelists included Nirali Patel, VP AI and Data Strategy at Liberty Global, Ansgar Koene, Global AI Ethics and Regulatory Leader at EY, and Hungarian MEP Katalin Cseh from ReNew Europe. They provided invaluable insights into the diverse challenges and opportunities in AI, from #regulation and #ethics to #innovation and #sustainability. Key discussion points included: 💡 AI and Copyright: If AI mimics your voice, who owns the resulting audio? Is it you, the creator of the soundbite, or the AI system? The AI Act aims to navigate these issues, ensuring clear guidelines and protections for all parties involved in AI-generated works, but frameworks are still evolving. 💡 Sustainability and Smaller Language Models (SLMs): Smaller models require less computational power and resources, leading to lower energy consumption and carbon footprints. By optimizing data processing and storage, SLMs can support environmentally-friendly AI practices. 💡 Human Bias in AI: The EU AI Act emphasizes the importance of mitigating human biases in AI systems and advocates for built-in bias detection and correction mechanisms, ensuring that AI applications are fair, transparent, and aligned with ethical standards. It was an insightful afternoon filled with rich discussions and forward-thinking perspectives. Read our ‘Wired for AI’ report here: https://bit.ly/3W96lwf

Great to see this sharing agreement between Virgin Media O2 and Vodafone. This partnership will mean a better experience for millions of UK customers.

Engines Ready 🏍️     Our friends at Ziggo Sport have extended their exclusive #broadcasting rights for MotoGP™ for an additional five years. This deal ensures fans in the Netherlands can continue to enjoy unparalleled coverage of #MotoGP events including MotoGP, Moto2, and Moto3 until 2029.   This weekend, Ziggo Sport was excited to broadcast the Motul TT Assen, the pinnacle event of the Dutch #motorsport calendar. The live broadcast showcased every moment of the action from training sessions to expert in-depth analysis and updates.   In addition, Ziggo Sport has partnered with rising Dutch star Collin Veijer, offering fans exclusive access to his journey in Moto3.   Read the full release here: https://lnkd.in/eNJ-_5zA (Photos: ProShots)

Who's calling? Now you'll know! 📞   Our friends at Virgin Media O2 have launched their new feature Brand ID, a caller identification technology designed to provide O2 customers with greater confidence and certainty about incoming calls.   Powered by voice security leader Hiya Inc., this technology verifies caller information, reducing unknown and potentially fraudulent calls.   Research from Hiya shows that 46% of unidentified calls are ignored, and 92% of people suspect them to be scams. Brand ID, rolling out to millions of O2 pay-monthly and business customers, will help address this issue.   Learn more about O2's commitment to customer safety: https://lnkd.in/e6uZmv8S

That’s a wrap for this year’s Big Ride. 🏁   An incredible 800 participants cycled, ran and walked over two days to raise funds for our NGO partner, Street Child.   Employees from Liberty Global and our operating companies joined forces with colleagues from Infosys, Plume Design, Inc, Accenture, Deloitte, and more, making this our biggest Big Ride ever.   Thank you to Telenet for being a great co-host and to our partners Infosys, who were the event's main sponsors.    See you next year. 👋 #BigRide2024 #fundraisingevent #charitypartner

Big smiles for the Big Ride 🤳 We’ve just finished Day One of the Big Ride, our annual fundraising event for our charity partner, Street Child. We’re in sunny Beloeil, Belgium, where our employees and partners are cycling, running and walking to raise funds to ensure every child has access to a decent education. The Big Ride is a highlight in our calendar and this year we have a record number of over 800 people taking part across two days. Good luck to everyone taking part on Day Two. 🏃♂️🚴

1.4m premises now have access to Virgin Media Ireland's superfast broadband. That's thanks to a deal with National Broadband Ireland National (NBI), which will bring Virgin Media's internet and TV services to an additional 254,000 premises across the country, meaning more competition, value, and choice for consumers and businesses. Tony Hanway, CEO of Virgin Media Ireland, said: “This announcement with NBI brings our ultrafast broadband and TV services to even more premises across Ireland, enabling homes, businesses, communities and regions nationwide to further prosper and grow.” Read more: https://bit.ly/45tdHOq

It was all about #AI at our latest Tech Connect event. Hundreds of colleagues tuned in to hear some of our top leaders outlining our strategy and looking at how AI is transforming our business. Our CTO Enrique Rodriguez was joined by Nirali Patel, VP Data & AI Strategy, Tina Rodriguez, VP Customer Experience, and Francesco Faustinella, Quality Director, in the session moderated by Vihra Toneva. Key areas of discussion included: ➡️How we're streamlining operations using AI, enhancing #productivity and #efficiency ➡️How AI-driven tools are being used in customer service and smart home technologies to simplify daily interactions ➡️How we're ensuring that everything we do in this area aligns with the AI Act ➡️How we're focused on creating specific, smaller language models for targeted applications, allowing for more precise and effective use of AI in various contexts