Artificial intelligence is now taking a central place in business processes, reshaping organizations, redefining roles, and upending work habits. But between rhetoric and on-the-ground reality there is often a gap that only hands-on experience can close.
That’s precisely what this Dawn Liphardt morning offers: four professionals who chose to act, to experiment, to learn, and who come to share what that journey has taught them.
Four Speakers, Four Realities, One Shared Conviction
They come from radically different backgrounds—a global industrial group, a decentralized mutual bank, a HR tech scale-up, a public employment service—but they have led their organizations into AI-driven transformation, and they have practical insights to share about what this means for an IT manager.
Fouad Maach – Head of Architecture, Engineering and Expertise, Veolia Group IS&T
At Veolia, agentive AI is no longer a pilot project. It is an operational reality, deployed globally on a unified platform capable of orchestrating internal agents and external ones: Amazon Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, Google VertexAI. Fouad Maach poses a question that should prompt every IT architect or manager: are your APIs truly ready for the era of agents? His experience in revamping Veolia’s technical strategy—unified MCP, “glocal” governance, security by design—will provide concrete keys to build foundations worthy of your ambitions.
Florence Bauprey – Head of Projects, Datalab & AI Factory, Crédit Agricole
Transforming AI into real value within a decentralized group as large as Crédit Agricole starts with solving a fundamental question: how can high-quality data be shared across dozens of entities with the governance and traceability that a banking actor requires? Florence Bauprey will pull back the curtain on a progressive and demanding transformation—from the Group Data Marketplace to shared AI accelerators, including the first client-facing conversational agents expected by 2026. A valuable testimony for anyone seeking to reconcile AI ambition with organizational reality.
Louis Allain – VP Product, Welcome to the Jungle
What if the secret to a successful AI transformation is not doing too much? Louis Allain advocates a pragmatic approach: move fast, experiment without overinvesting, and keep a focus on business value rather than technology. His AI Champions program is designed around team needs, supported by ongoing coaching and an explicit allowance for error. He’ll share what worked, what was adjusted, and his vision for the next phase: rethinking organizations around the capabilities of AI agents.
Aurélien Fenard – Director of Digital Transformation & HR Data, France Travail
Leading AI in a public employment service means facing expectations that few organizations encounter: a direct impact on users’ lives, heightened ethical obligations, a transparency imperative. Aurélien Fenard will defend beliefs shaped on the ground for several years: keeping humans at the center, hard skills as the condition for effective supervision, ethics as a foundation rather than a constraint. His view of the employee who “trains” their own AI agents offers a concrete perspective on how roles and organizations can evolve.
What This Morning Will Bring You
If you are an IT manager, CIO, architect, or head of digital transformation, you know the questions are plentiful: where to start? How to persuade the business units? Should you move quickly or take the time to do things right? How to maintain control without stifling innovation?
These four speakers do not have all the answers; no one does. But they have something more valuable: real experiences, admitted mistakes, documented successes, and a willingness to share them with an audience facing the same challenges.
Come with your questions. Leave with convictions.
Register here:
https://www.silicon-events.fr/matinale_silicon_juin26/registration/register
