AI won’t transform facility management with moonshots, it’ll transform it with thousands of tiny wins.McKesson’s Drew DePriest joins The Down Low with Joe to break down what AI actually looks like inside a Fortune 10 real estate organisation, far from the hype, and deeply rooted in the realities of FM, data, and operations.Most AI conversations in smart buildings revolve around flashy pilots, giant platforms, or “intelligent buildings” that never escape the pitch deck.Drew shares a very different viewpoint: the future is being shaped by incremental, practical AI adoption, small efficiency gains that compound across portfolios.In this live episode from NexusCon 2025, we dig into:How McKesson uses AI for everyday “roof shots,” not moonshotsWhy unstructured data (emails, decks, tribal knowledge) is the real bottleneckThe challenge of building an AI agent that understands both structured and unstructured dataWhy FM teams need consistency before they need “intelligence”How AI is already solving problems we never thought to automateThe fragmentation problem: why innovation in smart buildings moves slower than it shouldThe shift toward open-source tools, ontologies, and end-user configurabilityWhat the next 5 years of AI + smart buildings could realistically look likeAbout Drew DePriestDrew is the Director of Real Estate Operations Technology at McKesson, one of the world’s largest healthcare logistics organisations. With a background spanning startups, controls, workplace tech, and enterprise operations, he brings a rare, grounded perspective on how AI and smart building solutions succeed and fail in real-world environments.Watch if you are:A facility management or real estate leader navigating AI adoptionA smart building vendor trying to understand what enterprise buyers actually needA technologist interested in agentic AI, ontologies, and FM automationAnyone curious about how AI is changing the day-to-day reality of buildingsThe Climate Gap is powered by Element Six. Element Six specializes in addressing talent challenges across the built environment and climate technology sectors. Partnering with technology vendors and solutions providers delivering decarbonization solutions, helping them find the leaders and teams they need to scale.Decarbonizing the built environment takes bold ideas and brilliant people. Element Six brings them together. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.