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Tim Gregory

Tim Gregory

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Jun 16, 2026

11:19
But like with what Kevin and John shared about the complexity, the challenges with prior vendors, like what were some of the specific problems at the moment when you were introduced to Wings as a solution that Delta was specifically trying to solve to deliver better value to the business and to your customers?
11:38
Well, at the time, I mean, it was pretty fundamental sorts of things.
11:41
I mean, we had a pretty archaic sort of system set up where some of it was paper-based, some of it was a lot of spreadsheets.
11:48
And certainly by the standards, we started that project, I want to say 2023, was that? It's been about a couple of years now.
11:54
But when we started that, it was nowhere near where it needed to be.
11:57
Anybody who's a digital native coming in and working there, this would seem quite archaic.
12:02
So the employee experience was suffering tremendously.

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18:15
How are you thinking about how, as you look at the Wings roadmap, the vendor roadmap, you know, as part of the ecosystem, how does that continue to evolve into, you know, other AI automation capabilities that you are going to leverage and drive business value going forward as well?
15:27
Yeah.
15:27
But not, not the kind of experiment that you would want to do intentionally, but, but nonetheless, it's a useful test case.
15:32
And of all of the cancers for which there was an increase following Chernobyl, the only one that had a statistical excess was the thyroid cancers, okay? Thyroid cancers are interesting, and they were caused specifically by a radioactive isotope that you find in nuclear fallout called iodine-131.
15:51
Now, in just the same way that your bones take in calcium and your hair takes in zinc when you eat it in your food, um, the thyroid takes in iodine, okay? It's a very, very iodine rich part of your body.
16:03
It's this kind of little organ just kind of there in your neck and, and the radioactive iodine rained down over Ukraine, Belarus, and parts of Russia, and because the Soviets tried to cover Chernobyl up, their response was very slow, okay? It was very delayed, and that, that first few days is really crucial because it's when the iodine is its most active.
16:22
It actually decays away pretty quickly in just a matter of weeks or months, but those first few days, it's, it's ...
16:27
We would say it's bouncing in our lab because it's really kicking out a lot of radiation.

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119:43
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