Nearshoring Meets AI | S5 E49

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Walk the floor at Web Summit without leaving your headphones. We sit down with Jo Smets, founder of BluePanda and president of the Portuguese Belgian Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce, to unpack how nearshoring and AI are reshaping CRM, marketing, and team delivery across Europe.

We start with clarity on nearshoring: why time zone, culture, and communication speed beat cost alone, and how that proximity pays off when you’re wiring AI into daily work. Jo shares how BluePanda applies AI beyond demos—recruitment, performance, and operations—then translates those lessons into client...