Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

In this episode of The Modern Tech POV, Dennis Woodside, CEO at Freshworks, sits down with Igor Collell, CIO at Seqens, a social housing provider in the Paris region that manages homes for more than 230,000 people across 310 municipalities. Seqens was formed in 2019 from a six-company merger and a simultaneous demerger — leaving Igor's team with something most CIOs never get: no legacy IT estate to drag forward. Most leaders in that situation talk about consolidation and harmonization. Igor's team destroyed their IT and rebuilt it.

What if your IT team could automate password resets, account unlocks, ticket creation, and employee support without writing a single line of code? In this video, you'll learn how to build an AI Agent for IT in just 5 minutes using Workativ AI Agent Studio. According to Moveworks, AI can handle up to 80% of IT support work while reducing resolution times by 25–40%. Instead of spending hours on repetitive requests, IT teams can use AI Agents to provide instant support, automate workflows, and resolve issues faster.

Knowledge connectors bring external content from tools like Confluence, SharePoint, Notion, Google Drive, websites, and more into Zendesk so AI agents and support teams can deliver faster, more accurate resolutions. When knowledge lives across disconnected systems, customers wait longer for answers and agents spend more time searching for information. Zendesk unifies external knowledge into one connected source of truth that powers self-service, AI responses, and support workflows — without complex integrations or custom coding.

Zendesk changes fast — and May 2026 was no exception. In this SMB User Group session, Brandon Tidd breaks down what's new and what it means for small businesses: The relaunched Zendesk Community, the incoming Spark rewards program, a major AI Agents packaging change rolling out across all suite plans, the new unified navigation, a security update admins need to know about, and AI-powered reporting in Analytics.

Zendesk’s new AI agent setup flow helps you start automating in just three quick steps. Connect knowledge sources, personalize your AI agent’s behavior and tone, then review and publish with confidence. Designed to simplify setup and accelerate time to value. Zendesk makes customer and employee service better. We build software to meet customer and employee needs, set your team up for success, and keep your business in sync.

Automation potential helps you discover which customer conversations are best suited for AI automation based on your real support data. Quickly uncover automatable topics, identify knowledge gaps, and preview how AI agents could respond using your existing help center content. With actionable insights and AI-generated article drafts, teams can improve self-service and expand automation with confidence.

Leaders can see when something's wrong, but understanding why means waiting on analysts. Agentic Analytics changes that. At the center is Analyst Copilot, an always-on AI analytics assistant powered by Context Graph, the system of compounding intelligence that gets smarter with every analysis. See how to go from question to decision in minutes. Zendesk makes customer and employee service better. We build software to meet customer and employee needs, set your team up for success, and keep your business in sync.