PODCAST | AI That Works – Lessons from Failure with Saint-Gobain’s Global CDAO Benoit Lepetit

What does it really take to embed AI in a 350-year-old global enterprise? In this episode, we close out our three-part series with Benoit Lepetit, Group Chief Data & Analytics Officer at Saint-Gobain, in conversation with Julian Schirmer, Co-Founder of OAO.

Lepetit gets candid about:

🔷Why embracing failure is essential to innovation

🔷How Saint-Gobain restructured 150+ data professionals into business-aligned service lines

🔷The critical role of translators in bridging data science and business outcomes

🔷Why perfection is the enemy of progress in AI

🔷The mindset shift from POCs to profit-driving projects

Whether you're a CDO, aspiring leader, or data practitioner – this episode is packed with insight on how to scale AI with purpose.

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