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PwC and Esri expand alliance for AI-powered geospatial insights. NEW YORK - PwC and Esri today announced an expanded alliance to bring geospatial insights to the intelligent enterprise, helping energy and infrastructure organizations connect strategy, operations, and technology through AI and rich location intelligence. As part of this new collaboration, PwC becomes the first of a small group of select system integrators (SI) that have demonstrated sustained excellence in GIS implementation and client delivery to collaborate with Esri at the highest levels of both business and technology engagements. The designation reflects PwC's deep systems integration expertise and its commitment to scaling AI solutions that geo-enable the intelligent enterprise, with a focused emphasis on the energy and infrastructure markets. The Esri Partner Network (EPN) helps customers around the world utilize the benefits of the ArcGIS enterprise platform to enhance their planning, design and operations with location intelligence. For over 50 years, the Esri Partner Network has supported users with business solutions, implementation services, and dynamic content by leveraging GIS technology across industries - and PwC's expanded strategic alliance with Esri reflects a shared focus on expanding the future value of GIS for energy and infrastructure organizations. "Esri is excited to collaborate with PwC as the first premier SI to enter into this new level of strategic relationship," said Brian Cross, Esri Corporate Director of Services. "We are proud to recognize PwC's commitment to advancing the impact of ArcGIS, and we look forward to deepening our collaboration to bring AI and geospatial capabilities to the intelligent enterprise for our mutual customers across energy and infrastructure. We see this as an important step in scaling the impact of GIS to more of the world's most pressing challenges." Bringing AI development expertise to the GIS industry. PwC is bringing its AI development capabilities to the GIS industry, building and deploying AI-enabled solutions on top of ArcGIS to help clients extract more value from spatial data and scale intelligent decision-making across the enterprise. The Platinum designation reflects PwC's commitment to scaling these AI geospatial solutions as a core part of how it helps clients geo-enable the intelligent enterprise. Geo-enabling the intelligent enterprise for energy and infrastructure sectors. PwC and Esri are helping energy and infrastructure organizations connect strategy, technology, operations, and governance into a single geo-enabled system, turning location intelligence into a driver of the intelligent enterprise. PwC's Platinum designation reflects a shared focus with Esri on advancing the intelligent enterprise specifically for energy and infrastructure customers, where connecting spatial data to operational decision-making carries outsized value. "We're excited to build on our relationship with Esri as we step into Esri's Platinum tier for systems integrators," said Imran Ilyas, PwC US Business & Supply Chain Operations Platform Principal. "Together with Esri, we're bringing geospatial capabilities to the intelligent enterprise - pairing PwC's AI development expertise with ArcGIS to help clients connect strategy, operations, and technology through location intelligence and turn that intelligence into business results." Scaling systems integration and utility network delivery. For more than 14 years, PwC's GIS team has provided geospatial strategy, spatial data analytics, network information management system implementations (utility network), and enterprise system integration for a wide range of customers. That track record of systems integration delivery, now paired with PwC's AI development expertise, is what positions PwC to advance the industry and help clients realize the most value out of their ArcGIS investments. About esri. Esri, the global market leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, location intelligence, and mapping, helps customers unlock the full potential of data to improve operational and business results. Founded in 1969 in Redlands, California, USA, Esri software is deployed in hundreds of thousands of organizations globally, including Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, nonprofit institutions, and universities. Esri has regional offices, international distributors, and partners providing local support in over 100 countries on six continents. With its pioneering commitment to geospatial technology and analytics, Esri engineers the most innovative solutions that leverage a geographic approach to solving some of the world's most complex problems by placing them in the crucial context of location. Visit us at esri.com. About PwC. At PwC, we help clients build trust and reinvent so they can turn complexity into competitive advantage. We're a tech-forward, people-empowered network with more than 364,000 people in 136 countries and 137 territories. Across audit and assurance, tax and legal, deals and consulting, we help clients build, accelerate, and sustain momentum. Find out more at www.pwc.com.

PwC and Cohere announce a global alliance to accelerate secure and trusted enterprise AI adoption. Oct 05, 2026, 08:02 ET Strategic partnership pairs Cohere's secure enterprise-grade AI platform and solutions with PwC's transformation expertise, launching first in Canada. TORONTO, Oct. 5, 2026 /CNW/ - PwC and Cohere, the world's leading sovereign AI company, today announced a global alliance, starting with Canada, to help organizations deploy secure enterprise AI and turn AI investment into measurable business value. The alliance combines Cohere's security-first, sovereign enterprise AI platform and models with PwC's deep industry, risk, regulatory, technology and transformation expertise to help clients apply AI securely and responsibly in complex enterprise environments. Many organizations have tested AI but struggle to move from isolated pilots to scaled adoption and measurable returns. They need to identify where AI can have the greatest impact, connect it securely to trusted data and systems, and understand the regulatory, risk, privacy, cyber and governance requirements that determine where and how AI can be used responsibly. PwC and Cohere will help clients address these challenges while meeting the security, compliance and data sovereignty requirements of regulated industries. "AI has the potential to reshape how organizations operate and create value, but realizing that potential requires more than technology," said Domenic Marino, Senior Partner and CEO, PwC Canada. "By combining PwC's industry, transformation and risk expertise with Cohere's secure enterprise AI capabilities, we can help clients move from experimentation to measurable outcomes, particularly in regulated industries where trust and data sovereignty are essential." Bringing trust and business context to enterprise AI Cohere will provide the secure AI foundation, including its North agentic AI platform, enterprise models and search and retrieval capabilities. PwC will help clients identify high-value uses, assess risk and regulatory requirements, redesign workflows, establish governance and controls, connect the technology to enterprise data and systems, and support implementation at scale. Together, the companies will help clients improve current operations while preparing for broader business reinvention. "Enterprises need AI that can deliver real capability without forcing them to give up control of their data, infrastructure or security," said Aidan Gomez, co-founder and CEO at Cohere. "Cohere is built for that environment, with cutting-edge foundation models and end-to-end AI products designed to run where organizations need them and work with the data that powers their business. Together with PwC, we can help companies move from promising use cases to AI that is securely deployed at production scale, deeply integrated and delivering real value." Clients will be able to apply AI to immediate needs such as enterprise search, knowledge access, deep research, decision support and task automation. For larger transformation opportunities, PwC will help organizations determine where AI can improve or automate existing workflows, where human judgment remains essential, and how performance, accountability and controls should be defined. "Building trust in AI starts with ensuring it operates securely within an organization's own technology and data environments, with clear governance, explainability, and human oversight built in from the start," said Annie Veillet, Chief Technology Officer, PwC Canada. "Cohere's flexible, sovereign deployment options, combined with PwC's implementation and AI risk management capabilities, enable clients to connect AI to the systems and knowledge that power their business without compromising control, transparency, or accountability." What the alliance will enable * Deploy secure enterprise search, knowledge access, content generation, decision support and task automation. * Connect AI to enterprise data, knowledge and core business systems so outputs are grounded in organizational context. * Redesign workflows while defining appropriate roles for automation, human judgment, governance and accountability. * Support private-cloud, on-premises and air-gapped deployments that give organizations greater control over sensitive data and infrastructure. * Scale successful uses over time and measure outcomes against business priorities, including productivity, cost, service delivery and decision-making. About PwC Canada At PwC Canada, we help clients build trust and reinvent so they can turn complexity into competitive advantage. We're a tech-forward, people-empowered network with more than 6,500 partners and staff in offices across the country. Across audit and assurance, tax and legal, deals and consulting, we help build, accelerate and sustain momentum. PwC refers to the Canadian member firm and may sometimes refer to the PwC network. Each member firm is a separate legal entity. Please see www.pwc.com/structure for further details. Find out more by visiting us at: http://www.pwc.com/ca (C) 2026 PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an Ontario limited liability partnership. All rights reserved. About Cohere Cohere, founded in 2019, is the world's leading sovereign AI company building foundation models and end-to-end AI products to solve real-world business problems. We partner with organizations to deliver seamless integration, deep customization, and user-friendly solutions. Our all-in-one platform provides maximum security, privacy, and deployment flexibility across clouds, private on-premises environments, and even fully air-gapped settings. Headquartered globally in Toronto, San Francisco, and Germany, Cohere operates additional offices in London, New York, Montreal, Paris, and Seoul, serving customers worldwide. The company has raised ~$1.6BUSD from strategic tech investors (Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Oracle, Cisco), institutional investors (Radical Ventures, Inovia Capital, PSP Investments, HOOPP, BDC, Nexxus), and AI pioneers including Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, Pieter Abbeel, and Raquel Urtasun. For more information, visit cohere.com. SOURCE PwC Management Services LP Media contacts: PwC Canada, Anuja Kale-Agarwal, National Communications Director, PwC Canada, Email: [email protected]; Cohere, Patrick Allen, Communications Manager, Canada, Email: [email protected]