What’s making beer got to do with Silicon Valley? AB InBev is finding out

Since its $105 billion acquisition of SABMiller in 2016, Anheuser-Busch InBev claims to produce close to one in every three beers brewed in the world today. But chief strategy and technology officer David Almeida says that until recently, the world’s biggest beermaker — founded in the mid-19th century — was a low-tech business at risk of being left behind the times.Since its $105 billion acquisition of SABMiller in 2016, Anheuser-Busch InBev claims to produce close to one in every three beers brewed in the world today. But chief strategy and technology officer David Almeida says that until recently, the world’s biggest beermaker — founded in the mid-19th century — was a low-tech business at risk of being left behind the times.