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Neil Davies

Neil Davies

Actor

Sep 7, 2026

5:57
Yeah.
5:58
Um, the problem being is there's no annual shortage of rain in the UK.
6:02
It's just when and where we get our rain is changed to what it used to be a while back.
6:08
So I think what we're facing is the, um, Tree planting on most development schemes is often an afterthought.
6:18
It's put in as a box ticking exercise to comply with the planning consent or some kind of BNG or natural capital or one of those other targets that were applied to consents.
6:29
And because it's an afterthought, it's not often given the correct design parameters, I don't feel.
6:37
An example a colleague of mine used was if you had an highways engineer putting in a lamp column next to an A road.
7:37
so then as
7:37
What can you expect when you're selling Beyond or you're offering it to a customer? What are the key differences?
7:43
Okay.
7:44
So the overall ship generally is pretty much the same as it's because it's belonged to the same class of ship.
7:53
But Celebrity Edge and Celebrity Apex were the first two.
7:57
And then Celebrity Beyond was the third in the Edge series ships.
8:02
So she's a little bit bigger.
8:05
So she's 20 metres longer and she's also got an extra deck.

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16:27
time to start looking ahead isn't it
7:31
For anybody that perhaps doesn't know the differences between Beyond and Apex, what can you expect when you're selling Beyond or you're offering it to a customer? What are the key differences?
7:43
Okay, so, um, the overall ship generally is pretty much the same, um, as it's, because it's belonged to the same, uh, class of ship.
7:53
But, um, Celebrity Edge and Celebrity Apex were the first two, and then Celebrity Beyond was, uh, the third in the Edge series ships.
8:02
So she's a little bit bigger, uh, so she's 20 meters longer, and she's also got an extra deck, so, um, she's a little bit taller.
8:11
Um, she's 11,000 tons larger than, uh, Apex, and she carries an extra 350 passengers, um, with an extra 179 staterooms and suites.
8:24
So she's, um, on the numbers, she's, um, the bigger sister with- within the, um, within the fleet of, uh, Edge series ships.
8:33
Um, some of the key areas.

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16:26
But it's time to start looking ahead, isn't it?
23:06
Is there any concern in your mind that AI may eventually replace the TA function?
23:12
I don't think it's going to replace the TA function, but it's going to change the work that the TA function does.
23:18
So Scheduling is, is a no brainer.
23:22
Someone explained to me who spent their time scheduling that it's like Tetris, like playing Tetris with people, you know, and schedules and it's, it's, it's actually difficult to do.
23:31
Again, AI is ideally suited to that and it doesn't, it doesn't present any risk.
23:38
There's some operational risk, obviously, but there's no selection risk associated with it.
23:44
So for someone who wants to adopt AI, it's actually a really sensible place to start and to sort of cut your teeth on that kind of work.
27:29
Where would you start at looking at some tech stack that could support a TA function that hasn't already started looking at it?

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