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Wendell Weeks

Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Corning Inc.

Search every verified Wendell Weeks interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Wendell Weeks, Chairman, President and CEO of Corning, appeared alongside AT&T CEO John Stankey to discuss their companies' $3 billion fiber agreement, part of AT&T's broader commitment to expand its fiber network to 60 million locations by 2030. Weeks stated that the deal provides Corning with multi-year committed demand, allowing the company to invest in the technology and capacity needed to serve its customers. He described Corning's role as building capacity and capability to meet demand from committed customers, noting that the company began preparing roughly five years ago to ensure it could meet future needs. During the conversation, Weeks addressed the growing demand for fiber infrastructure driven by AI and data consumption, framing AT&T's investment as future-proofing its network for high-bandwidth, low-latency applications such as AI glasses. He emphasized that Corning aims to avoid ever having to turn down orders from partners like AT&T, citing the importance of long-standing innovation partnerships in supporting the physical backbone of the AI boom.

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“As John would remind me it is our job to make sure. What we are doing is building capacity and capability to meet the demand for our committed customers. That is our job. We started on this about five years ago to have the right products, the right people and the right plans, to make sure we never have to say no to John.”

“It is one of the things John and I wanted to make sure we could do. If we look forward to the commitments from our customers, we would have really good line of sight and committed demand that goes multiple years. We wanted to make sure our long-standing innovation partners and people who built this technology originally had the runway they needed to put in the technology they needed to serve their customers and one.”

“The consensus has changed... the consensus shifted to we're going to do some form of industrial policy. Under Biden it was we're going to subsidize those things that we like, like clean energy.”

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